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VOSS Insights for Microsoft

VOSS Insights for Microsoft – or Microsoft Teams Assurance – gives you access to actionable intelligence about your MS Teams collaboration platform, enabling you to visualize and actively manage the performance and quality of your Microsoft collaboration suite, across its lifecycle.

By integrating seamlessly with your Microsoft tools and applications, we empower you to resolve problems faster, make better more informed decisions, and improve service delivery through automation.

Assurance – Performance Management for Microsoft Teams

VOSS gives you advanced, actionable business collaboration performance intelligence for your Microsoft collaboration environment.Combine voice quality and service data with log analytics from any source before customizing alerts, thresholds and events into response procedures tailored to your business and processes, with integration into your ticketing system for end to end automation.VOSS Insights is extremely useful if you face the following challenges:

  • Your Microsoft collaboration tools generate a vast amount of data across your company, but you don’t know how to extract and analyze it
  • You’re having issues with certain collaboration tool performance and user experience due to poor tooling and resource management
  • Technologies are managed across multiple disparate systems that don’t talk to each other
  • You receive alerts but you can’t drill down to understand where the problem is, or how to respond, or how to fix the issue

VOSS Insights is a highly customized and scalable assurance product that just doesn’t just focus on alerting but combines all the data in your Microsoft collaboration environment giving you one source data to report or alert on. Our powerful correlation engine can extract your data from any source, correlate it and take action on multiple points within the collaboration and application ecosystem. This offers you and your customers to view and analyse overall health, quality and performance. VOSS Insights incorporates the ability to collect all data within your collaboration environment and index it under a single architecture through a single pane of glass.

VOSS Insights for Microsoft | Microsoft Teams direct routing supported SBC | Supported SBC Direct Routing with VOSS Insights

Analytics – Meaningful Insight into Microsoft Teams

VOSS Analytics for Microsoft gives powerful business context insights and visibility to drive efficiency and understanding. Integrate with your IT Ops applications with enriched data for intelligence to help you deepen your collaboration service quality, usage, and effectiveness. Drive improved productivity, save money, and support adoption through continual transformation.

Historically, gathering data about service usage, service adoption, user trends, and license consumption has been very challenging in a multi-application UC environment.

VOSS Analytics allows you to quickly retrieve information about users, devices, services, licenses and transactions, through an easy-to-use web-based portal. Administrators can access this single portal to view critical information about their collaboration services, drill down to the details, or export the data for external use with third party billing and analysis tools.

NetFlow – A Deep Network Understanding

NetFlow for Microsoft gives a deep network understanding across performance, usage and degradation areas . Combine with collaboration data across on-premises and cloud deployments for increased fault isolation, user experience, security vulnerabilities and network planning. Visibility across all network traffic and deep root cause analysis with proactive synthetic call flow testing.NetFlow takes streaming telemetry data from the core network devices and conducts packet analysis to give meaningful insight to the source IP, destination IP, port and protocols. With the power of VOSS Assurance’s call quality information, it will identify network congestion and capacity limitations.NetFlow helps you to understand the UC data flows during investigations, and will proactively spot issues with raptor running synthetic tests. Taking home-working, VPNs, cloud and complex on-premises network solutions into account, VOSS helps you understand your voice and your IP solutions, and enables you to speed up fault diagnostic and isolation.With VOSS, you can see traffic flows and types across all cloud, hosted, and enterprise services. By combining your insight into voice quality and experience with network performance, you can easily identify areas of degradation. VOSS empowers you to understand the cause of voice jitter, delay, and hops, in the context of a network. It also combines with raptor for passive call flow testing.

VOSS Insights for Microsoft | Microsoft Teams direct routing supported SBC | Supported SBC Direct Routing with VOSS Insights

Cloud – Extend On-Premises Capabilities to the Cloud

Access intelligence and insight for all your Microsoft voice and collaboration solutions. Gain actionable intelligence across quality, usage, and effectiveness for all vendors giving you the knowledge to drive adoption, optimize your deployments, and track your success.

VOSS Insights extends the on-premise capabilities to incorporate your cloud vendor technologies keeping all your assurance data in a single place across your traditional on-premise, hybrid and cloud environments.

With businesses moving more services to the cloud, offering greater flexibility to their employees and customers, there is an increase in the number of management portals.

VOSS Insights for Microsoft cloud collaboration saves operational costs and reduces complexity by consolidating all your technical and business reporting information in a single interface allowing you to combine and analyse end to end experience.

VOSS Insights for Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Monitoring

  • VOSS offers UC & collaboration monitoring of Microsoft Teams tools and applications, (e.g. CDRs, log monitoring, alerts) and integrates the data for a true single-pane-of-glass view.

Microsoft Teams Analytics

  • VOSS provides actionable business collaboration performance intelligence of your MS Teams platform. Combine voice quality and service data with log analytics from any source before customizing alerts, thresholds and events into response procedures tailored to your business and processes, with integration into your ticketing system for end to end automation

Microsoft Teams Analytics

  • VOSS gives powerful business context insights and visibility of your MSFT Teams environment, to drive efficiency and understanding. Integrate with your IT Ops applications with enriched data for intelligence to help you deepen your collaboration service quality, usage, and effectiveness. Drive improved productivity, save money, and support adoption through continual transformation.

Microsoft Teams Call Auality

  • Harness VOSS to understand your level of call quality and why, what is happening across the call path, what is the health of your network, and quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues.

Microsoft Teams Faults

  • VOSS takes care of fault identification and resolution by offering multi-threaded correlation to produce rich event monitoring. Corrective actions can be automated for self-healing.

Microsoft Teams Issues

  • With VOSS Assurance Suite for Microsoft, you can proactively identify service impacting issues, and report on service level agreements (SLAs), ensuring you continue to offer an excellent end user experience.

Microsoft Teams Adoption

  • VOSS tracks and reports on service usage and adoption, giving you a summary of users compared with their assigned services. This gives insight into whether services have been deployed as planned, and who is using them.

Microsoft Teams Reporting

  • VOSS gives detailed analytics and reporting that helps you track user adoption rates, per-site and per-user service usage statistics, deployment rates, scheduled reports, and provides executive dashboards.

Microsoft Teams Meetings Problems

  • Understand the number of Microsoft Teams meetings that takes place, and participants by location.

Microsoft Teams Troubleshooting

  • With VOSS, you can troubleshoot and resolve any issues and problems as they arise.

Microsoft Teams Direct Routing

  •  Integration of Microsoft Teams clients – which are registered with the Microsoft Phone System in the cloud – is through a Microsoft Teams supported technology called Direct Routing. This connects the Microsoft Phone System into the main Cisco communication service – providing robust voice calling, superior call control and break-out access to the Public Telephone Network. The Direct Routing connection is carried over the Internet and is terminated in the data centre on an approved SBC, which has been formally tested and supported by Microsoft. Read more.

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