Asana Extends Collaboration With New Teams Integration

Asana and Microsoft converge to deliver seamless collaborative work management. Ribbon Communications introduced a new release of their network monitoring and analytics solution.

Asana Integrates its Work Management Platform with Microsoft Solutions

Asana is the latest company to integrate their collaboration services with those of Microsoft Teams to enable seamless collaborationOpens a new window , communication, and coordination between distributed teams and employees. And why not? Teams is after all one of the fastest growing collaboration tools in the world with a daily active user count of 75 millionOpens a new window (April).

With IT spending slated to increaseOpens a new window due to the global pandemic, it makes sense that vendors of some of the most popular collaboration tools are joining forces to leverage the new market opportunitiesOpens a new window . A spokesperson for Asana said, “54% of IT decision makers will increase their investment in collaboration applications as a response to COVID-19, despite overall budget decreases” which was sourced from 2020 IDC Collaboration Study: The Benefits EmergeOpens a new window .

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The latest integration of Asana and Microsoft Teams is supplemented by a new ‘suite of offerings’ for teams working remotelyOpens a new window . This includes Asana’s integration with several Microsoft solutions like:

1. Outlook: To harness the information out of emails for task creation and work tracking. Allows conversion of emails into ‘actionable work‘ as Asana puts it, for practical execution.
2. OneDrive: It also allows direct file attachments from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, and Microsoft Sharepoint to Asana tasks with the Microsoft OneDrive integration.
3. Power BI: A way to facilitate tailored report generation and insight visualization derived from data imported from Asana.
4. Power Automate: With Microsoft PowerAutomate, repetitive tasks like data collection, Microsoft app synchronization with Asana can be made more efficient.
5. Office 365 Connector: Track updates like creation, completion, conversations on project documents, and get notified over Outlook with the Office 365 connector.
6. Azure AD: Now integrates with Asana for easy identity and access management through options like single sign-on, account provisioning etc.

Ribbon’s Analytics Portfolio for Network Management Gets an Update

Ribbon Communications recently announced a new release of their Analytics portfolio for VoLTE network service providers. The new Ribbon Analytics release is generally available for market implementation.

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Ribbon Analytics is a 5G-ready tool for mobile network operators and service providers to gain end-to-end visibility into multiple VoLTE services like HD voice, video and messaging services, right from the network to the subscribers. It provisions network monitoringOpens a new window , wherein data collected at various networkOpens a new window levels is then correlated and key performance indicators are derived from collected data.

Charlotte Patrick, Senior Industry Analyst and Founder of Charlotte Patrick Consult said, “Today’s communications networks are extremely large and complex and will become even more so with the increased adoption and deployment of new 5G and IoT services. This will not only necessitate that service providers have the advanced analytics tool sets required to reduce operational costs and network complexities while improving the customer experience, but they must also leverage intelligent service assurance capabilities that allow them to quickly identify, isolate, diagnose and proactively resolve network issues before they escalate.”

Ribbon Analytics is useful for understanding the gaps in customer experienceOpens a new window , application performance, service quality, network health and interoperability through data-driven reporting. This entails discernibility into real time communications for voice as well as rich communication services, threat detection & identification, network management, and insights to minimize operational overheads.

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