Zoom and Microsoft Teams: A Powerful Partnership for Modern Workflows

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At Zoom, we understand the value of integrating seamlessly with Microsoft’s tools to offer a unified, collaborative experience. Through the Zoom Workplace bundle, we provide powerful features that enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and increase employee engagement across Microsoft platforms. Our AI-driven platform also combines communication, employee engagement, and productivity into a single solution, elevating your collaboration capabilities and enhancing user workflows both within and beyond the Microsoft ecosystem.

Key Zoom-Microsoft Integrations:

1. Zoom for Teams and Outlook
   With the Zoom app in Microsoft Teams, users can initiate Zoom calls, check voicemails, use SMS, record calls and even create Zoom meetings directly within Teams. Integration with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook further streamlines workflows, allowing users to manage email, calendars and meetings without switching applications. Leveraging our AI Companion, users can now use Smart Compose to draft emails directly in the Zoom client.
2. Unified Document Collaboration
   Users can share and co-author Office 365 documents directly within Zoom meetings, empowering real-time collaboration on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. By assigning live editing rights to all meeting participants, teams can seamlessly brainstorm and edit documents, creating a faster and more productive workflow. No more sending files back and forth, just join a Zoom Meeting and everyone can co-author at the same time.
3. Whiteboard and Document Management
   Zoom Whiteboards integrate effortlessly with Teams, making it easy to share brainstorming sessions. With the new Zoom Docs, ongoing project documentation is consolidated into a single source of truth, accessible from Zoom, Teams, or Outlook.
4. Workvivo for Engagement
   Integrating seamlessly with Microsoft's productivity suite, Workvivo creates a unified space where communication, collaboration, and engagement are all connected. With this, users can easily start Teams chats from their Workvivo profiles and return to Teams with a quick click in the app bar, live Teams-hosted streams can be accessed directly within Workvivo and do cross-platform posting to reach employees wherever they are. With SharePoint integration, Workvivo enables quick searches across folders for documents, presentations and files, making retrieval fast and efficient.
5. Zoom Rooms and Workspace Reservations
   Zoom Rooms work smoothly with Microsoft Teams, letting users schedule, join and manage meetings from either platform. Workspace Reservations allow users to book desks and rooms via Outlook and get check-in reminders through Teams, bridging remote and in-office experiences for hybrid work. 

Through these integrations, Zoom offers an all-in-one collaboration platform, blending Zoom’s user-friendly interface with the essential tools of Microsoft. Our approach is simple: whether users prefer Zoom or Microsoft, they can work within one consistent framework, maximizing productivity and engagement.

We’re just getting started so watch out for even more innovations that make Zoom and Microsoft the perfect pairing for hybrid work.