Microsoft Teams continues its meteoric ascent, with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently revealing that the highly in-demand unified communications (UC) platform now has an incredible 145 million daily active users.
Although this statistic sounds (and is!) nothing short of extraordinary, representing almost a two-fold increase in user numbers over the course of the last year, it will come as no surprise to anyone who is familiar with Teams’ awesome productivity-boosting powers.
After all, it’s by no means an exaggeration to say that its instant messaging, online meetings, calling and web conferencing abilities are completely transforming the world of work as we know it.
But with enterprises of all sizes – in every vertical – rapidly accelerating their adoption of Teams to shift employee productivity into high gear, IT managers are gradually realizing that paying separately for each element of the corporate communications puzzle doesn’t really make much business sense.
Instead, they can clearly see the considerable advantages of accessing all the individual components that they need to get connected to Teams from one centralized, cloud-based location, such as Microsoft Azure.
This burst of activity to ensure the best possible UC experience for today’s enterprises has fired the starting gun on the race to cloud telephony underpinned by Teams – and AudioCodes has emerged right at the front of the pack with AudioCodes Live for Microsoft Teams.
AudioCodes Live is a portfolio of managed services that eliminates complexity from the integration of Teams collaboration, unified communications and enterprise telephony. Our experts drive your entire Teams migration project from start to finish, including planning the deployment, installing the hardware and overseeing every part of the solution on a day-to-day basis, with 24/7 support provided.
If you want to leverage the substantial benefits of Microsoft Direct Routing, so you can migrate to Teams while keeping your existing SIP trunk provider and retaining your current numbers and calling plans, Live Essentials on Azure is the only way to go.
Live Essentials is a full Direct Routing as a Service (DRaaS) solution that you can subscribe to – quite literally in a matter of minutes – from Azure Marketplace, Azure AppSource or your IT Azure portal.
All you need is your IT admin credentials and the details of your SIP trunk contract and you’re up and running.
To enhance the Teams experience even further, and to really push your enterprise’s productivity into another league, we have a wide range of carefully selected extras that perfectly complement the entire AudioCodes Live offering.
These include IP phones, video and audio room conferencing, call recording and our unique Meeting Insights solution for getting the most out of your meetings. Even better, all these goodies are available – like AudioCodes Live itself – on a per-user per-month subscription basis.
So, if you’re ready to start your UC journey with Microsoft Teams, why not take the controls right now and pilot Direct Routing as a Service today?
You definitely won’t look back.
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