Grow your SMB business with Teams Essentials
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Get sales and technical resources to get started on Teams Essentials.
As of Dec 01, 2021, Microsoft has launched a new subscription known as Teams Essentials that brings the best of Teams at an affordable price. It is a standalone version of Teams that allows you and your customers to stay connected to learn, create and innovate together in your organization. As we move from an era of ‘remote everything’ into a hybrid model, the future of work is being shaped before our eyes.
Designed to transform the way people work and interact with each other, with collaboration firmly in mind, Microsoft Teams Essentials is for everyone. It is designed to help you connect naturally, stay organized, and bring ideas to life. Working together is easier with Teams Essentials.
Buy Now| Exchange Online Plan 1 / Plan 2 | Teams Essentials | Business Basic | Business Standard | Business Premium | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat cap | 300 | 300 | 300 | 300 | ||
| Core Teams Experience | Unlimited chat | • | • | • | • | |
| 1:1 calls/meetings and screen sharing | • | • | • | • | ||
| Group meetings (3+ attendees) | • | • | • | • | ||
| Group meeting participants | 300 | 300 | 300 | 300 | ||
| Meeting duration | 30 hrs. | 30 hrs. | 30 hrs. | 30 hrs. | ||
| 3rd Party Teams Integrations | • | • | • | • | ||
| Office | Web and mobile Microsoft 365 Apps | • | • | • | • | |
| Desktop Microsoft 365 Apps | • | • | ||||
| Productivity | File & document cloud storage (per user) | 10 GB | 1 TB | 1 TB | 1 TB | |
| 50 GB / Unlimited | • | • | • | |||
| Yammer, Planner, Stream | • | • | • | |||
| Security | Advanced Security (e.g. DLP, IP, CA) | • | ||||
| Add-ons | Ability to add-on offers like phone system | • | • | • | • | • |
We’re excited to announce a limited-time offer to jumpstart CSP partners with Microsoft Teams Essentials. Beginning March 9, 2022, Microsoft Teams Essentials will be on promotion through the CSP on NCE. This is the perfect opportunity for CSP partners to expand their new customer acquisition motions and use this promotion to drive demand, displace competitors, and/or fund marketing activities around Microsoft Teams in SMB.
30 Days Free of Teams Essential promotion - This is on net new monthly and current Microsoft NCE subscriptions with a minimum of 10 seats. All seats must stay with Ingram Micro for at least 12 months
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Meet, chat, and share video simply from everywhere. Empower every person to feel seen, heard, and included in the conversation.
With shared documents and files always available, you can create, share, and exchange ideas whenever you want and keep things moving forward together.
With all of the apps and features you need within reach, you can stay organized, focused, and do your best work instead of switching between apps to get things done.
Teams Essentials works seamlessly with On-Premises or Hosted Exchange so you’re your perpetual Office customers can get Teams in the cloud.
Teams Essentials delivers a full Teams experience without deploying the full Microsoft 365 suite, enabling new targeted motions for Teams Phone System and Calling Plans. If your customer is using Google Workspace, this could be the entry point that you imagined getting them in Microsoft Cloud ecosystem.
Teams Essentials enables the right scenarios at the right price point for your existing SMB customers to expand their coverage to all Frontline Workers.
Also, while partners are at it, they can now earn a rebate from Microsoft from anywhere between 13% to 23%* in front and back-end incentives if they transact Microsoft Teams Essentials as per Microsoft FY22 Incentives. In a nutshell, it means easier sell opportunities, more customers, and more profitability!
* Partner can earn on average 9%+ in front-end margins with Ingram Micro Cloud, plus 4% in Microsoft MW core incentives and an incremental 10% for new customer adds.
Today more than ever, organizations have more budgets put aside for hybrid workplace models and applications, making Teams Essentials an easier sell. Microsoft Teams Essentials unlocks various customer scenarios and provides integration with 3rd party email providers making customer adds an easy sell.
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