We performed a comparison between Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Meetings solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Microsoft Teams is its UI...It is a stable solution."
"The mobile app really enabled us to connect meetings on the go from anywhere."
"The most valuable features are the messaging and the video calling, especially where you can add a background."
"I use the solution to chat with my team."
"The product has improved communication in our organization."
"Teams' most valuable feature is the ability to choose from multiple numbers to show when calling."
"The solution is stable."
"Microsoft Teams is a very good collaborative tool."
"Making calls and having meetings is easy."
"It saves trouble, and it saves us time."
"The GUI is very user-friendly."
"Desktop sharing is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are the history tracking which allows us to see who participated and who didn't in the meetings as well as the integration with Outlook."
"The deployment is very fast."
"The solution is scalable and is capable of working on every appliance on every operating system."
"I use the chat feature to communicate with my staff, which is very helpful."
"I think they can improve the all those segments for channel bulking. Also, some functionalities which migrated from Skype for Business to Teams, is not supported by Teams. We had used them in Skype for Business."
"There are some issues with stability."
"The solution's stability can be better."
"The future scalability can include the integration of planners, project management tools, SharePoint, and more applications that are used."
"The solution's feature for scheduling meetings could be faster for Android phones. It should work okay like its desktop version."
"They need to improve the scalability of Teams."
"This solution is not as popular for companies to use as other solutions making it a disadvantage."
"The solution's security features could be improved."
"I venture to say that 30% of the people using this solution at our company have had issues with stability, due to the volatility and crashes."
"The technical support from Microsoft needs to be improved."
"Skype for Business could improve by having a document channel or repository. Microsoft Teams has a better repository place for documents that you can share with your team. You can access it anywhere from any device."
"We have found that there is a lag because it cannot integrate with the internal landline."
"I am not familiar with all of the features or whether they can hold conferences because we use Zoom for that. But, in my opinion, if they can do something similar to what Zoom is doing, it will be a complete solution."
"The inability to integrate Skype with other products is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Sometimes Skype is slow, and we cannot use other elements of our devices while using the Skype solution."
"The video conferencing quality can be improved."
Microsoft Teams is ranked 5th in Virtual Meetings with 145 reviews while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 59 reviews. Microsoft Teams is rated 8.2, while Skype for Business is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Teams writes "Great for project planning and monitoring with easy communication capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skype for Business writes "Reliable, useful for remote work, and great but isn't as robust as Microsoft Teams". Microsoft Teams is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, SharePoint, Symphony, Loom and Chatter, whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, TeamViewer, GoToMeeting and Cisco Meeting Server. See our Microsoft Teams vs. Skype for Business report.
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