Episode 242 – Microsoft Teams apps ecosystem with Rima Reyes

In Episode 242, Ben and Scott sit down with Rima Reyes, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Teams Engineering, to chat about Microsoft Teams, apps across industry clouds, and how to express customer empathy in engineering to build a vibrant partner ecosystem. Sponsors Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox ShareGate - ShareGate's industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show notes Microsoft Teams apps Microsoft Teams apps - AppSource Microsoft Teams store validation guidelines Guides and tools to design your Microsoft Teams app effectively Publish your app to the Microsoft Teams store Maintain your published Microsoft Teams app Cloud Governance is Now Available as a Microsoft Teams App Microsoft Cloud for Government Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services About our guest Rima Reyes is currently a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft Teams Engineering, being a part of the Teams Platform Ecosystem team with a focus on Partner app dev for Healthcare, Legal & WW Gov. Prior to her start in Teams Engineering in 2018, Rima had spent the first 13 years of her career building solutions in SharePoint while working at Northrop Grumman IT, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft Federal Consulting Services. She was also one of the founding members of the Women in SharePoint DC user group and previously worked at the White House Situation Room for 6+ years. Rima currently resides in the Washington, DC area with her Goldendoodle, Levi, and is passionate about using Virtual Reality for both fitness and work productivity. You can find her on LinkedIn and Twitter @rimazima. About the sponsors Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.