Teams On Air

Meeting rooms of all shape and sizes have largely remained the same for as long as anyone can remember, yet with the acceleration of technology adoption the ways in which we conduct our meetings have evolved from audio calls on conference phones to purpose built video conferencing, to telepresence suites, to wireless presentations to cloud based collaboration services. In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman will be joined by VP of Unified Communications Strategies for Crestron, Ted Colton, to discuss what the next frontier holds. How will intelligent communications and Microsoft Teams shape our meetings experience for installers, IT administrators and most importantly all of us, the end users? 

Meeting rooms of all shape and sizes have largely remained the same for as long as anyone can remember, yet with the acceleration of technology adoption the ways in which we conduct our meetings have evolved from audio calls on conference phones to purpose built video conferencing, to telepresence suites, to wireless presentations to cloud based collaboration services. In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman will be joined by VP of Unified Communications Strategies for Crestron, Ted Colton, to discuss what the next frontier holds. How will intelligent communications and Microsoft Teams shape our meetings experience for installers, IT administrators and most importantly all of us, the end users? 

Making the decision to jump into the cloud can be daunting for enterprises large and small. In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, and Director of Program Management, Mahendra Sekaran, to discuss the history of Microsoft's Unified Communications, how it has evolved into the Microsoft Teams we know today and the benefits of moving to the cloud. Mahendra also discusses the transformation of the Mobile space and how the Teams Mobile app aims to provide a first-class experience for your meetings.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest technology topics in the industry today, yet it is also one of the least understood. In this podcast host, Delanda Coleman, brings on Principal Program Manager, Senthil Velayutham, to discuss the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and how Microsoft is using AI today. Senthil delves into how progress in AI has exploded in the last 3-5 years and the ways in which Microsoft Teams is leveraging AI to provide a better experience.  

In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, brings Principal Product Manager, Sandhya Rao, on the podcast to talk about commercial scenarios that AR/VR can bring to life. Mixed reality has the potential transform the way that employees meet, teams collaborate, companies train and much more.  Sandhya also discusses how AR/VR can extend into team workspaces like Microsoft Teams.

In this week's Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, will be joined by Sr. Program Manager, Jamie Stark, to explore the new portal to administer both Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business in Office 365. This new admin portal will provide a single place for administration, policy creation and management, and insights via the call analytics and call quality dashboard.

People’s work styles vary. Now, more than ever, IT leaders are beginning to recognize that if they hope to attain strong adoption of communications technology in the enterprise, they need to understand and consider user behavior, device preference and work style. With this in mind, Plantronics conducted an in-depth, global study of 4,000+ participants, in an effort to understand evolving needs and pain points as they apply to communication and communication device technologies. This work identified distinct working styles or “personas.” In this episode host, Delanda Coleman and the VP of Global Strategic Alliances from Plantronics, Boris Seibert will cover the topics that have stemmed from that research: the story that follows why People Matter, Devices Matter and Insights Matter when connecting the dots on adoption of a Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business deployment.

The age of Intelligent communications is here with the arrival of advanced voice services in Microsoft Teams.  However, vision aside you still need to make the right connection to leverage the promise of the future. Microsoft has devised a simple, yet powerful method to connect your current PSTN and voice enable Microsoft Teams.  In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, will be joined by the VP of Unified Communications from AudioCodes, Eric Bauer, to discuss how AudioCodes plays an instrumental role in the process and making the vision a reality. 

In this episode host, Delanda Coleman brings on the VP of product management from Jabra, Tero Tolonen, to talk about their communications device solutions. Customers experience the issue of having a huge mix of UC communication hardware. When IT Department wants to measure usage and adoption of a Teams/Skype deployment, the individual asset management system from each UC hardware manufacturer is required. Jabra therefore launched a comprehensive SDK to allow integration with existing 3rd Party Management solutions, making the life of the IT department easier, using only one unifying Management tool to manage and monitor the Teams/Skype deployment and audio devices.

In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman and Principal GM, Dan Stevenson, discuss the latest features in Microsoft Teams such as expire & renew teams, clone a team, deeper SharePoint integrations and more! Dan also talks about how to you can customize Microsoft Teams through app integration.