Timely Webinars from Repstor Will Provide Practical Advice on Compliant Microsoft Teams™ Rollouts

• Highly experienced Microsoft Office 365 practitioners will give best practice tips on how to maximize Teams’ collaboration capabilities, without risking loss of control over content
• The first 3 sessions feature a generic webinar for anyone deploying Teams, plus a Legal and Professional Services market-focused version

Belfast, November 20th , 2019 – Repstor, the ECM software and matter management specialist, has today announced the launch of a Microsoft Teams™ Webinar Series designed to help organizations get the best from this powerful platform, without introducing new risk around content management.

In the first three webinars (full details below), experienced Microsoft Teams’ practitioners, Fergus Wilson and Scott Brant will use Repstor technology and specific use cases to highlight the main risk factors if appropriate information governance policies and controls are not applied.

For each audience, Fergus and Scott will offer practical advice under 5 categories:

1. Governance/Team creation
2. Team naming conventions & Navigation
3. Content & Matter Management
4. Security & content sharing
5. Lifecycle management/Team classification

Announcing the timely webinar series, Fergus commented, “The soaring popularity of Microsoft Teams confirms the intuitive way people want to be able to collaborate today – on projects, ideas, problem-solving and decision-making. But without governance and control, Teams’ use can create new chaos for information and IT managers. In these three sessions we will equip those in charge with practical tips to get the best from this powerful platform, without introducing new risk around content management.”

The series kicks off on November 26th with a generic webinar targeting any company deploying Microsoft Teams and is followed by two sector specific webinars for Law Firms & In-house Legal Departments (December 3rd) and Professional Services (December 10th).

The 3 webinars are scheduled as follows:

1. 5 ways to maximize Microsoft Teams™ and avoid information compliance headaches
10:30 GMT & 9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET
26th, November 2019

2. Making Microsoft Teams™ work for Law Firms and In-House Legal Departments
10:30 GMT & 9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET
3rd December, 2019

3. Making Microsoft Teams™ work for Professional Services
10:30 GMT & 9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET
10th December 2019

Go here to register and receive reminders.

Over 13 million people use MS Teams daily, while 19 million people use it every week (1). These span more than 500,000 organizations around the world, including 91 per cent of the Fortune 100 (2).

Repstor, which comprehensively addresses Teams management through its Custodian product suite, has recently published 2 indispensable white papers exploring the practical considerations as more organizations default to MS Teams as their primary means of communication and collaboration:

5 Ways to Maximize Microsoft Teams & Avoid Information Compliance Headaches, aimed at CIOs & information compliance managers, targets common pain points as enterprise use of MS Teams proliferates. Download the paper here.

5 ways to keep control of matter management as Microsoft Teams becomes the default collaboration platform for legal professionals looks more specifically at implications for legal operations managers as law firms standardise on MS Teams for discussing and processing client matters. Download the paper here.

1. Microsoft Teams Reaches 13 Million Daily Users: Microsoft reveals daily user numbers for the first time, UC Today, July 2019
2. Microsoft Teams: Celebrating 2 Years of Continued Growth, Microsoft, March 2019


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About Repstor
Repstor, ranked in the Top 15 Deloitte Fast 50 companies in Ireland, provides embedded Microsoft Office 365/Outlook solutions that transform how information workers manage and share content wherever they are.

In this digital era, when teams are more dispersed than ever before, we solve the spiralling problem of information management governance - without demanding that users change the way they instinctively work. Better still we help them make full, compliant use of collaboration aids like SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

Pentland Brands, Value Retail, Boels Zanders Advocaten, Brose Group, ForFarmers, Eversheds Sutherland, gunnercooke are among the many organisations globally that enthusiastically use our products, which are cloud-hosted, affordable and very easy to deploy.

For more information, visit www.repstor.com or find us on Twitter at @Repstor1.

Media contact:
Carina Birt
Sarum PR for Repstor
carina@sarumpr.com
+44 7970 006624