Microsoft's Skype for Business Partners Must Shift Their Business Model to the New Microsoft Teams

Published: 11 January 2018

ID: G00343238

Analyst(s): Daniel O'Connell , Tom Eagle , Gyanee Dewnarain , Megan Fernandez

Summary

Microsoft Skype for Business partners must shift to Microsoft Teams partners. Technology product marketing leaders must adjust to Skype being only part of the composite Teams functionality, but should benefit long term as Microsoft Teams is natively built for Azure and, therefore, should scale well.

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