The Big Picture

WebEx Teams is a secure, online space for Locus/Syntax people to collaborate and work on projects, whether they are together or apart. WebEx Teams provides combining tools like video meetings, messaging, calling, file sharing, and white boarding. In and of itself, Webex Teams is pretty instinctive, much like Slack. However, there are very cool features that frankly make Webex Teams such a powerful collaboration platform. Understanding these in the context of your daily work will better prepare you to quickly become productive.

At its core, Webex Teams is like the hub of a wheel, coordinating the activities associated with collaboration through the use of software and hardware that is tightly integrated. As a result, the user experience (that’s us!) is simple and straightforward, and everything and everyone are seamlessly interconnected. The short video to the left (a little glossy to be sure!) describes the Webex Teams user experience from 10,000 feet. It’s a pretty good overview of the software in motion.

Use Cases

We defined a number of important use cases that were identified to be central to the Locus/Syntax experience that are delivered to you by Webex Teams throughout the collaboration process. The diagram to the left articulates these use cases. This diagram illustrates the role of Webex Teams as the intersection point between the things that we do in working with one another. We invoked some of the Locus Orange logo in this picture in order to show with familiarity the colorful breadth of resources that Webex Teams provides in applying these use cases in our setting.

Learning about these use cases from a how-to perspective is what these web pages are all about. You can navigate among them and explore each in detail by using the menu to the right. This menu is “sticky” — that is, it appears in the same place on the right side of each page. Each of these provides links and videos that you can use to learn — either comprehensively or cafeteria style — about Webex Teams as well as other technologies that are introduced at Locus/Syntax from time to time.

Getting Help

If you have any burning questions about anything at all, just email techhelp@locus.co. We’ll endeavor to reach out to you as soon as possible. Also, we’ll shortly be creating a space called TechHelp as a sort of technology related support blog that is searchable.

Getting Into The Weeds

The video on the left is a great start in summarizing each major Webex Teams feature associated with Locus/Syntax’s use cases. Later in these web pages, you’ll be able to drill down on these features with more how-to detail addressed. Keep in mind that Webex Teams provides great flexibility in its use, so you can adapt it very nicely to the manner in which you work.