From Barclays deploying Microsoft Teams and Avaya’s fight to survive to a new CEO at GoTo, here are extracts from popular news stories this week.
Barclays Bank Deploys Microsoft Teams Worldwide
Microsoft has announced that Barclays Bank will make Microsoft Teams the preferred collaboration platform for its employees globally.
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The British universal bank has entered into multi-year agreements with Microsoft, which represents one of the biggest Teams deployments in the financial sector.
Over 120,000 employees and service partners around the world will have access to Teams, which Microsoft believes will improve their connectivity. Teams will also be replacing a number of point solutions, helping to streamline communications and collaboration at Barclays.
Craig Bright, Global Chief Information Officer at Barclays, said: “Modern technology is essential to enabling our employees to deliver the highest level of service to our customers in a way that is resilient and sustainable.
“Microsoft Teams gives us an end-to-end collaboration platform that helps us connect our colleagues and enhance our business capabilities.”
In order to ensure employees are effectively connected across its business, Barclays and Microsoft have worked together to deploy Teams across the company.
Introducing Office Today: UC Today’s New Sister Title
Here at Today Digital, we commit day in and day out to sharing insights, news, and valuable content with readers across the globe.
Our publications are the go-to information hub for our communities in Unified Communications (UC Today), Extended Reality (XR Today), and Customer Experience (CX Today).
To reflect the boom in digital productivity and employee experience, we have launched our new publication, Office Today.
It will be dedicated to strategic thinkers and tech professionals involved in the Microsoft 365 application stack and ecosystem.
With over 270 million Microsoft Teams users worldwide — a 86% increase from the previous year — the Microsoft 365 landscape has emerged as the essential hub for education, business productivity, communication, and collaboration.
Rob Scott, the publisher at Today Digital, has outlined the new magazine’s objectives: “From a technology perspective, we’ll be focusing on the Microsoft 365 stack, in particular its Office apps, enterprise collaboration apps such as Microsoft Teams, task and project management tools, business apps such as my analytics and the power platform.
“And then as much as possible, the most relevant hardware devices that underpin the digital workplace such as Microsoft’s own Surface devices and of course the wider catalogue of 3rd party vendor solutions.
“We want to stay focused on adding value, rather than just adding to the Microsoft content already available on the internet nowadays, so we’ve identified a number of initial trends and topics, like employee experience, digital productivity, workflow automation and, of course, hybrid work, to get us started.
“These are getting lots of attention right now as companies continue to tackle the changing landscape of business in this post-pandemic world.”
Office Today will cover the Microsoft 365 landscape by hosting and sharing videos and interviews with notable figures from within the sector while keeping readers in the loop on the most significant events in the workplace calendar.
Can Avaya Survive a Second Time?
Avaya has endured a number of financial and internal upsets, which could spell the beginning of the end.
The communication and collaboration platform’s revenues have declined for the past year, dropping from $732 million to $577 million.
The news of Avaya’s struggling financial situation came at around the same time as the company’s decision to ‘remove’ CEO Jim Chirico.
The new CEO and President of Avaya, Alan Masarek, released a statement alongside the additional preliminary Q3 results, which said:
