New Delhi, May 19 (TIWN) The nationwide lockdown has made CEOs and CXOs, who were earlier against video calling, comfortable with Microsoft Teams in not just conferencing with customers but also doing actual collaborations and integrating business processes within the solution, a top Microsoft India executive has stressed.

In a session with Aarthi Subramanian, Group Chief Digital Officer for Tata Sons, Maheshwari said: "I've seen people move from just the need for video conference to collaborate, to actually get work done, to integrate business processes inside the solution".

For him, Teams is a huge canvas, a huge enabler because it goes way beyond video conferencing.

Going forward, "data and analytics will become really critical".

"There will be a lot of understanding of what data and analytics says. Companies and people will also say, I want to be more productive, so I need more data and more analytics coming to me as tool kits," he mentioned.