For the past 15 years, there's been a shift in how people work, where they work from and how they connect to "work". Employees are no longer tethered to headquarters, their offices or tied to slower complicated VPN services. Additionally, the way people work and where they work from has changed. Along with flexible work hours, employees want workplace flexibility. And with such a competitive job market, employers have to deliver! Flexible work environments offer tremendous benefits such as improved productivity and morale, reduced stress levels and better work-life balance which builds trust and commitment.

Office 365 Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) should be critical to every enterprise. Why? It's pretty clear that Microsoft Office 365 is winning it all when it comes to collaboration suites with more innovation, polish and features than other platforms.

With governments and businesses requiring workers to stay and work from home during this unprecedented global pandemic, enterprises are now more dependent than ever before on real time collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Cisco WebEx. IT staff within these organizations are under pressure to provide their Sr. Management a level of assurance that these tools are working well in this scenario. But with workers running devices IT doesn't own over networks they don't control means IT needs innovate quickly and find tools that can help them and help them fast.

Exoprise released its long awaited Teams Audio Video Conferencing sensor. This sensor fully tests Audio/Video end-to-end capacity, throughput, and network performance through the actual underlying Microsoft Teams and Azure infrastructure. The Teams AV sensor provides deep insight into a network's capability to handle the Teams/Skype Unified Communications (UC) platform. Desktop, Collaboration and Network administrators can now easily diagnose and proactively plan a Microsoft Teams rollout and migration.