Connecting Remote Teams: Asana Brings Clarity to Distributed Work Through Microsoft Teams Integration
Asana expands portfolio of offerings with Asana for Microsoft Teams
Asana, a leading work management platform for teams, announced Asana for Microsoft Teams, enabling conversations in Teams to integrate seamlessly with Asana projects. With Asana for Microsoft Teams, customers can stay connected and organized, no matter where they’re working.
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Announcing Asana for @MicrosoftTeams! Enhance your project management capabilities by effortlessly receiving and customizing automated notifications about your tasks directly in #MicrosoftTeams.
According to IDC, 54% of IT decision makers will increase their investment in collaboration applications as a response to COVID-19, despite overall budget decreases. At the same time, 76% of organizations agree that having collaboration tools in place helps them recruit and hire top talent.1 With these global trends accelerating tech adoption across sectors, organizations are adapting to new ways of working together.
“Insights from Asana’s Anatomy of Work: Remote Teams index show that nearly two-thirds of workers have increased their use of collaboration tools since moving to remote and distributed work, with one in five using these tools for the first time,” said Alex Hood, Head of Product at Asana. “At a time when teams around the world are physically apart, a shared sense of clarity, transparency, and accountability is needed now more than ever. We’re thrilled to deepen our integration with Microsoft to deliver tools that streamline and automate workflows, empowering teams to stay connected and achieve their most important initiatives.”
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Asana for Microsoft Teams makes it easy to:
- Instantly create the plan of record on who is doing what by when, that’s always clear and never out of date, by turning conversations in Teams into trackable, actionable tasks in Asana in one click
- Receive and customize automated notifications about important Asana task and project changes directly in Teams via bot technology
- Easily signal task status and progression by giving teammates more context and visibility into Asana tasks within the Teams UI
- Find and share Asana tasks, projects, and portfolios with your teammates directly in Microsoft Teams
“During this period of remote work, more of our customers are turning to Microsoft Teams to connect with their teammates and clients,” said Mike Ammerlaan, Director of Microsoft 365 Ecosystem marketing at Microsoft Corp. “Building on our collaboration with Asana, we’re pleased to see these enhancements to Asana for Microsoft Teams, helping our customers with the tools they need to securely collaborate, communicate, and coordinate their work, no matter where they’re located.”