Teams Essentials: connect SMB client segments to the power of Microsoft

A new way for SMBs to communicate and collaborate.

Microsoft has launched a new, standalone offering to help small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) called Teams Essentials — and Pax8 has your first look. Join us for a peek into this exciting tool that drives efficient communication, collaboration, and productivity in ways only larger, enterprise clients could effectively access until now.

Unlocking New Client Segments

Teams Essentials provides a new entry point into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem for businesses with 300 or fewer employees, especially those specifically looking to upgrade their work experience. Built for easy implementation, it lets you deliver a full Teams experience to SMB clients without requiring them to deploy the entire Microsoft 365 suite. It works seamlessly with on-premises or hosted Exchange, integrates with a client’s existing email system, and allows for a single calendar view.

Connection that Drives Productivity and Efficiency

As we mentioned, Teams Essentials is a fully featured version of Teams built as a standalone solution. You can offer it to SMB clients as an easy, cost-effective entry point into the world of Microsoft productivity. It brings together the best of Teams with meetings, chat, calling, and collaboration, so users can connect naturally, stay organized, and bring ideas to life.

Teams Essentials includes access to cloud versions of Microsoft 365 apps and enables file and document sharing among users. It also includes per-user cloud storage for documents and files.

Teams Essentials At-a-Glance

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