Teams Workspaces: 4 week implementation

Workspaces is a dashboard on top of Microsoft Teams, integrated as an app in Microsoft Teams, providing a single point of entry to a user’s collaborative workspaces. It is providing self-service capabilities, while at the same time enforcing organizational governance via contextualized workspaces, business rules and template-based workspace creation and lifecycle management.

The key capabilities of the standard version of Workspaces are:

• Type-based workspaces with corresponding contextual information
• Dashboards with free text search and filtering capabilities
• Creation wizard with customer-specific contextual help, automated naming convention and similar workspaces detection
• Workspace creation based on predefined template
• Automated lifecycle management with notifications

The premium version of Workspaces extends the standard version with the below capabilities:

• Creation approval workflow
• Workspace creation based on user-defined template
• Owners/members allow security groups and related automated management
• Automated application of access reviews
• Automated checking if at least owner is always active, doing guest clean up if not logged in for specific period
• User management actions supporting new employee, change of department, etc. scenario’s
• Multilingual

The key benefits Workspaces brings are:

• Increased team efficiency and productivity
• Reduced IT operational costs through business self-service
• Business enablement
• Easy Microsoft Teams roll-out through integrated and automated governance