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EACE PARKS FOUNDATION ,

P a leader in transfrontier conservation across southern Africa , is now using Microsoft Teams to communicate internally as well as with its many resources situated in remote locations across the globe .

Peace Parks is transforming the way in which conservation has historically been managed by using technology to accelerate and augment traditional conservation work . The solution deployed by Argantic has allowed Peace Parks to start standardising its communications strategy and provides the perfect platform for better first line support .
There was a host of different solutions and applications prior to Teams and it was extremely difficult to manage the environment . With Teams , Peace Parks no longer has to deal with disparate systems and can create standard deployment images for all new PCs .
Peace Parks ’ ICT Systems Engineer , Jeanine van Eyssen , said the challenge was to have a single integrated means to communicate not only with video but also voice and chat .
She said : “ We also required a repository for project documentation .”
Argantic Director Garry Ackerman said Microsoft Teams is the hub for team collaboration in Microsoft 365 that integrates the people , content and tools teams need to be more engaged and effective .
Van Eyssen said one of the key benefits of Microsoft Teams is that it is a single integrated cloud-based communications platform .
She said : “ It enables all our head office staff to operate as if we were sitting in the office . We can also make and receive calls to and from suppliers through this business system easily , whereas before we implemented

IT ENABLES ALL OUR HEAD OFFICE STAFF TO OPERATE AS IF WE WERE SITTING IN THE OFFICE .
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