MetaThe company formerly known as FacebookWednesday’s announcement by, announcing a partnership between Microsoft and Meta’s Workplace Enterprise Social Network Software. MicrosoftTeams.

This integration allows customers to access Workplace content from within the Teams app. Users can also view Teams videos in the Workplace App.

Meta and Microsoft are now partners in a joint venture that will bring together two competitors who compete for enterprise communication software. However, Teams and Workplace do not share the same core competencies. Teams is focused more on direct communication among workers than between coworkers. Workplace is more about companywide relationships.

Customers requested this integration, which included VodafoneAnd AccentureCNBC spoke with Ujwal Singh (Meta’s Head of Workplace),

Singh stated that customers will use it in a way that complements the other features. There are Workplace customers and there are Teams customers. These are for customers who use both.

Meta could benefit most from the partnership. The Workplace service is significantly behind the competition in terms of number users.

Workplace announces May hit 7 million paid subscribersThis is. Microsoft, July announcedThe Teams product boasts 250 million monthly active customers. Salesforce-owned Slack no longer breaks out user figures, but the company said it had 12 million daily active users in September 2019It reported this statistic the last time. The number of Slack customers who pay has increased by nearly 39% over the past year. June 2021To 169,000

Microsoft offers Yammer as an enterprise social network tool, which competes directly with Meta’s Workplace. In AugustMicrosoft claimed that Yammer had seen a double-digit increase in usage year after year and it has “tens of million active users per month.”

Workplace may be a good place for you to learn, but it is not the best. integrationsMicrosoft Office 365 SharePoint and Azure Active Directory are available with Microsoft. OneDriveSingh stated that there was no Yammer integration at all with Teams.

Singh stated that “I believe we are best in class regarding community, connection and people first, as well as serving all employees.” Singh stated that Team’s productivity is undoubtedly the best. This is why this product is truly two of the best-in class products, working together to address an employee experience problem.

 —CNBC Jordan NovetContributed to the report.