Microsoft Teams – Collaborate Without Boundaries

Microsoft Teams - Collaborate Without Boundaries

Cross-platform collaboration
for your team & your work

Move conversations out of email threads and siloed collaboration tools into your Microsoft Teams.

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Invite contacts
Invite contacts

Invite non-Teams contacts to your Teams

Share presence
Share presence

Share your presence status with your non-Teams colleagues

Send chat messages
Send chat messages

Exchange chat messages with rich texts, GIF, and emoji reactions.

Collaborate in Slack channels
Collaborate in Slack channels

Stay in Teams and participate in Slack channels

View profiles
View profiles

View your non-Teams profiles and contact information

Connect securely with outside organizations

Connect securely with outside organizations

  • Gain secure access to communicate and collaborate confidently with partner organizations.
  • Reduce your team’s exposure to email phishing and spam attacks that come with email.
  • Eliminate the need to buy expensive guest accounts for external collaboration
  • Keep your users on Microsoft Teams, boosting security and compliance
  • Enhance your users’ productivity by allowing your users and their external colleagues can stay on their preferred platforms

Over 400 companies use NextPlane to get work done

NextPlane transforms the way you work alongside your co-workers, partners, vendors, or customers by moving conversations out of siloed collaboration tools and into your Microsoft Teams.

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How to get started

It only takes a few clicks to start working closely with co-workers, vendors, customers, and more

Invite contacts
1. Add the NextPlane App

Add the NextPlane App to your Microsoft Teams.

Share presence
2. Send the Invite

In the NextPlane App message box, enter your non-Teams contact’s email address, and click Send

Send chat messages
3. Wait for Acceptance

The nextplane app will notify you when the non-Teams contact accepts your invitation to connect.

Collaborate in Slack channels
4. Send DM or Chat

Go to Chat > Recent and select the recently added non-Teams contact.

In the message box, compose your message and click Send