Facebook (Meta) and Microsoft Announce Partnership to Integrate Workplace and Teams

• Meta formerly known as Facebook has announced a partnership with Microsoft to integrate Teams and Workplace

• The partnership between Meta and Microsoft will now allow customers to integrate both software

• The latest partnership will favor Meta by allowing it to be competitive in the social network space

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook has announced a partnership with Microsoft that will allow customers to integrate Teams and with Workplace.

The integration will allow customers to access Meta’s Workplace on Microsoft’s Teams and vice versa.

The partnership brings the two rival giants into a collaboration rather than to solely compete in the enterprise communication software market.

Here’s what Meta’s head of Workplace, Ujjwal Singh had to say.

“The way our customers end up using it is customers use the complementary features, not the competing features,” Singh said. “There are customers that are just Workplace shops, and then there are customers that are just Teams shops. This is really for those customers that use both.”

The partnership is expected to prove more beneficial to Meta as its users are severely lacking compared to that of rivals.

While Meta’s Workplace announced that it had hit 7 million subscribers in May, Microsoft disclosed that its Teams product now has 250 million active users.

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Although Slack owned by Salesforce no longer reports active users, in the last report in September 2019, the platform had 12 million daily users.

Apart from Teams, Microsoft also offers Yammer, a product that allows companywide connections.

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