Microsoft Teams Telephony

Microsoft Teams is also a phone. It can replace your local PBX. Enhance your Office 365 environment with the Microsoft Team-based UMB direct routing service. UMB's carrier neutrality gives you a choice of national and international providers.

TPF is renewing its telephony and integrating it with modern collaboration tools

Mobility has been the existential basis of the Transports publics fribourgeois (TPF) since 1868. Today, it covers the entire canton of Fribourg with its trains, regional buses, and urban local transport. In 2020, TPF decided to modernise its office communications. UMB installed its new unified…

WKS KV Bildung Digitizes Its Communication Channels

The Corona crisis has created challenges for many education organizations: Remote teaching, technical rearrangements, work away from the classroom, and difficult communication due to the home office situation. WKS KV Bildung in Bern therefore converted its operations over to digital and made its…

Microsoft Viva: Long Live the Integrated Digital Employee Platform.

The pandemic has led to an unprecedented experiment in remote working, says Microsoft boss Satya Nadella. For those affected, this brought sometimes dramatic consequences. But it's not just employees who suddenly had to set up their workstations in their own homes and learn to adjust. The new…

Internet from Space for the Azure Cloud.

What do Microsoft's Azure cloud and Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink project have in common? The two enterprises enable data processing and data transport even in the most remote regions of the world. Thanks to Microsoft and Starlink, cloud computing can be brought to areas where no communications…

Why Home Office Upsets Corporate Strategy and Culture.

During the six-week lockdown, Swiss commuters spent 17 million hours less being stuck in rush-hour traffic. This represents 8,850 working years. Time gained that the market, businesses and particularly many employees no longer want to do without - and rightly so. Geographical proximity is no longer…

And Suddenly, You're Right In The Middle Of It.

The current situation around the coronavirus also affects UMB. Read in our blog how we deal with it, what measures we take, how we adapt our behavior. We use our organization, culture, and governance, combined with state-of-the-art technical tools, to be able to continue working efficiently.…

ESPC19: SharePoint Puts AI into Collaboration.

ESPC19, the annual SharePoint conference, is designed to provide expert content and contacts for SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure professionals. And of course there is always plenty of collaboration news. 2500 participants came to Prague this year to participate. For UMB our SharePoint expert Elvira…

Counteracting the Communication Paradox.

There are more communication possibilities today than ever before - and yet it is often not easy to reach team members at the right time to involve them in current business processes. This situation gives rise to the development of a whole range of products and services: unified communication and…