14 DAY TRIAL // The global health crisis has pushed for a digital revolution all over the globe, with governments seeking solutions to get in touch with citizens using the power of the online world.
Taiwan is one of the countries where this massive transition to the WWW is happening as we speak, as the local authorities have decided to embrace Microsoft Teams for all its proceedings.
The country’s legislature will from now on rely on Microsoft Teams, the Redmond-based software giant announced this week, as the legislators will stay at home and use an advanced solution that combines Microsoft’s product with Power Platform.
“PowerApps are used to create sign-in forms with MFA as an extra layer of security. Once signed in, members enter their personal data and meeting information into the system. PowerApps uploads this data to the SQL server, using Power BI to visualize and plug data into Teams. This secure and thorough process allows all legislators access to all the latest information in real-time,” Microsoft says.
Global adoption skyrocketing
Microsoft Teams is one of the products whose adoption skyrocketed in the last few months, especially as the world was in lockdown and most employees started working from home.
The most recent statistics revealed that Microsoft reached a total of 75 million daily active users, an increase of no less than 70 percent. Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella himself praised Microsoft Teams during the company’s latest earning report.
“We saw more than 200 million meeting participants in a single day this month, generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes,” Nadella said on a call with analysts. “Teams now has more than 75 million daily active users, engaging in rich forms of communication and collaboration, and two thirds of them shared, collaborated, or interacted with files on Teams.”
Microsoft Teams is also improving at a fast pace with new capabilities, and Microsoft plans to add interoperability with Skype as well later this year.