Supplement and Alternative for Microsoft Teams
Data protection, remote workers, and reliability - for these reasons, more and more companies are looking for a supplement and also an alternative to Microsoft Teams.
Security & privacy Mobile employee communication Fail-safety & emergency communication
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Company-Wide and Fail-Safe Communication
The Reasons for Adding Microsoft Teams
- Collaboration between mobile employees: Microsoft Teams does not adequately address the needs of mobile employees. With our intuitive and powerful Business Messenger, all their use cases can be covered, and their productivity can be increased.
- The ability to act in the context of cybersecurity: hacker attacks happen regularly, and outages of American cloud services such as Microsoft are not uncommon. To remain capable of acting as an organization, a fail-safe messenger such as Teamwire can act as a backup solution and ensure operations at all times.
- Emergency and crisis communication: Companies and authorities require special alerting and geolocation functions, for example, to coordinate and quickly manage crises and emergencies. Teamwire can fully meet such requirements.
Data Sovereignty and Data Protection
In Which Cases an Alternative to Microsoft Teams Is of Interest
- Data protection: Microsoft Teams’ compliance with European data protection law requirements has been repeatedly criticized. Several supervisory authorities have described Microsoft Teams as non-compliant with the GDPR. As a German company, Teamwire fully complies with the requirements of the GDPR and all European laws.
- Data sovereignty: Microsoft Teams cannot prevent access to data by US authorities, nor can it ensure that data is stored exclusively in the national territory. Teamwire, on the other hand, offers various hosting models for absolute data sovereignty – from the German cloud to on-premise deployment.
- Protection of confidential information: When it comes to encryption and the protection of sensitive data, Microsoft Teams is not the leader. However, many companies need to protect C-level communication or research and development knowledge in particular. Our business messenger offers strong encryption and security policies for complete control, monitoring, and deletion of data.
Including Crisis and Emergency Communication
Teamwire Covers All Mobile Use Cases
Companies and public authorities can use Teamwire to communicate and collaborate in real-time on various devices such as smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Our messenger also offers mobile or remote employees a comprehensive range of functions in an intuitive app:
- Best possible group communication: Topic-specific group chats, broadcasts with hundreds of participants, or distribution lists to quickly reach departments make collaboration with Teamwire very simple and efficient.
- Exchange digital content: send photos, videos, files, locations, voice messages, surveys, calendar appointments, etc. quickly and securely across the organization.
- Highlight announcements and notes to keep colleagues up to date with events, news, and announcements, just like a social intranet. Information distribution has never been easier.
- Critical alerts and emergency functions: If required, alarms (including acknowledgment) and “panic buttons” help to draw direct attention to emergencies and resolve a crisis immediately.
- Live locations, live voice, live images: Real-time information can be transmitted from any end device and any location. This makes communication and coordination much easier, especially in mission-critical cases.
Highest Security
Maximum Data Protection, Data Sovereignty, and Fail-Safety
Teamwire’s data protection and data security concept is not only GDPR-compliant and highly encrypted, but also offers absolute data sovereignty with maximum resilience:
- Maximum data sovereignty: You determine which data can be accessed, where data is stored when it is deleted and automatically removed from servers and end devices after a certain period of time.
- Data protection and data avoidance: Teamwire is fully GDPR-compliant. Our business messenger only accesses data when it is necessary for the provision of the service. Metadata is anonymized and avoided.
- Strong encryption: Teamwire uses multiple layers of security to protect confidential information: Encrypted transport, encrypted metadata, end-to-end message encryption, and encrypted storage.
- German cloud or on-premise hosting: Our Messenger is operated in highly available premium data centers in Germany. Alternatively, we offer scalable, private clouds and on-premise deployments.
- Maximum reliability: Teamwire has been developed for mission-critical communication and uses fail-safe cluster servers with comprehensive backup concepts. Our data centers are ISO 27001 and BSI-C5 certified.
