A new, mobile-first, cloud-first vision and roadmap for SharePoint was unveiled. Furthermore, the platform provides innovations that power people, teams and business organizations.
Over 200,000 organizations today use SharePoint and an extraordinary community of over 50,000 partners as well as 1 million developers make up $10 billion solutions around the business platform. The best is yet to come for SharePoint. Microsoft is on a mission of empowering every person and organization to achieve more.
THE LATEST WITH SHAREPOINT
A new cloud-first, mobile-first vision and roadmap for the platform was unveiled, together with innovations, which empower people, teams and companies to discover in an intelligent way, share and collaborate on content anywhere and on any device. The general availability of SharePoint Server 2016 was also announced, that includes new hybrid capabilities that allow on premise customers to tap into the innovation in Office 365.
As a major part of Office 365, SharePoint offers content management as well as collaboration capabilities, which are integrated seamlessly with other apps that people use on a daily basis to build and co-author documents, meet and work with teams, analyze, brainstorm as well as make decisions. SP also is integrated with powerful cross-suite Office 365 capabilities, including Office Graph, Office 365 Groups and governance control for privacy, security and compliance.
MOBILE AND INTELLIGENT INTRANET
The intranet is the nerve center of a lot of organizations. It provides content-centered collaborative environment that provides teams the resources needed to work together. It lets users, consumer and contribute information and news with team across a business. Furthermore, it managed knowledge and connect users to content via search and navigation. It hosts apps which support and automate the business processes.
Now, SharePoint is making the intranet more accessible on the go, more personalized, intelligent, based on activities across websites, people that one work’s with, content one works on and the business processes.
THE SHAREPOINT MOBILE APPLICATION
The SharePoint mobile app is an intranet in a pocket. The app is designed for Windows, Android and iOS, to put intranet in the pocket, with complete fidelity access to company announcement and news, websites, people, content and applications, regardless of the location. Moreover, the app integrates on-premises SharePoint websites too. The one-stop conference of Microsoft combined all other domestic technical events into one huge bowl of soup, the software giant has revealed interesting details of SP 2016.
SNAPSHOT OF THE CLOUD
Office 365 and SharePoint Online run SharePoint 2013, but at a multi-tenant, massive, global sort of scale. The product group develop new tests bug fixes, features and uncovers as well as fixes other conditions and issues while running the software in production for thousands of customers. What happens is the SharePoint 2013 + Office 365 fix pack and Premium Cloud Add-on amalgamation that is somewhat like the previous on –premise product version and a kind of cloud-specialized edition of a product.
SHAREPOINT 2016 DEPLOYMENTS
It is interesting to note that all deployments of SharePoint 2016 would be farms that consist of numerous servers or virtual machines as the case may be. Gone are the stand-alone deployments, even in the lab scenario. Updating and patching has been revamped significantly with the promise that with two MSIs per SharePoint core serve and one language pack, the services could be upgraded on production business hours without the need to take the service down.
THE FUTURE OF SHAREPOINT
It is great to see such a firm and solid commitment to deliver a truly valuable piece of on premise Microsoft software. This is not only a kind of ‘check the box’ release. If the plans push through, it will be a fully baked released that is worthy of the costs for upgrade. Microsoft also had in-depth session about how the internal IT department has decided to roll up all the SP deployments to Office 365 and SharePoint Online.
IMPROVED USER EXPERIENCE WITH APPLICATION LAUNCHER AND USER INTERFACE CHANGES
What is interesting with Office 365 is the growing focus on the user experience. It is such a massive topic today not only for vendors, but for clients as well, who are beginning to realize the big negative effect that a bad user experience could have on adoption. In line with the trends, SharePoint 2016 made a small but relevant UI change to the ribbon. Version 2016 now has updated the ribbon from SP 2013 to match the Office 365 ribbon. This means that if users are swapping between systems, there would be a consistent user experience. It seems simple and obvious, but it is a growing commitment to simplicity and user experience, something that the platform truly needs.
ENHANCED MOBILE TOUCH EXPERIENCE
SharePoint Server 2016 offers the latest standards and technologies for synchronization of mobile push and information. With deep investment in HTML5, Server 2016 provides IT designers and professionals with capabilities that allow device-specific targeting of content, a truly interesting feature taking into consideration that targeting and personalization are on people’s minds at present. Upgrades on SharePoint 2016 are truly catching up on the development trends these days.
Over 200,000 organizations today use SharePoint and an extraordinary community of over 50,000 partners as well as 1 million developers make up $10 billion solutions around the business platform. The best is yet to come for SharePoint. Microsoft is on a mission of empowering every person and organization to achieve more.
THE LATEST WITH SHAREPOINT
A new cloud-first, mobile-first vision and roadmap for the platform was unveiled, together with innovations, which empower people, teams and companies to discover in an intelligent way, share and collaborate on content anywhere and on any device. The general availability of SharePoint Server 2016 was also announced, that includes new hybrid capabilities that allow on premise customers to tap into the innovation in Office 365.
As a major part of Office 365, SharePoint offers content management as well as collaboration capabilities, which are integrated seamlessly with other apps that people use on a daily basis to build and co-author documents, meet and work with teams, analyze, brainstorm as well as make decisions. SP also is integrated with powerful cross-suite Office 365 capabilities, including Office Graph, Office 365 Groups and governance control for privacy, security and compliance.
MOBILE AND INTELLIGENT INTRANET
The intranet is the nerve center of a lot of organizations. It provides content-centered collaborative environment that provides teams the resources needed to work together. It lets users, consumer and contribute information and news with team across a business. Furthermore, it managed knowledge and connect users to content via search and navigation. It hosts apps which support and automate the business processes.
Now, SharePoint is making the intranet more accessible on the go, more personalized, intelligent, based on activities across websites, people that one work’s with, content one works on and the business processes.
THE SHAREPOINT MOBILE APPLICATION
The SharePoint mobile app is an intranet in a pocket. The app is designed for Windows, Android and iOS, to put intranet in the pocket, with complete fidelity access to company announcement and news, websites, people, content and applications, regardless of the location. Moreover, the app integrates on-premises SharePoint websites too. The one-stop conference of Microsoft combined all other domestic technical events into one huge bowl of soup, the software giant has revealed interesting details of SP 2016.
SNAPSHOT OF THE CLOUD
Office 365 and SharePoint Online run SharePoint 2013, but at a multi-tenant, massive, global sort of scale. The product group develop new tests bug fixes, features and uncovers as well as fixes other conditions and issues while running the software in production for thousands of customers. What happens is the SharePoint 2013 + Office 365 fix pack and Premium Cloud Add-on amalgamation that is somewhat like the previous on –premise product version and a kind of cloud-specialized edition of a product.
SHAREPOINT 2016 DEPLOYMENTS
It is interesting to note that all deployments of SharePoint 2016 would be farms that consist of numerous servers or virtual machines as the case may be. Gone are the stand-alone deployments, even in the lab scenario. Updating and patching has been revamped significantly with the promise that with two MSIs per SharePoint core serve and one language pack, the services could be upgraded on production business hours without the need to take the service down.
THE FUTURE OF SHAREPOINT
It is great to see such a firm and solid commitment to deliver a truly valuable piece of on premise Microsoft software. This is not only a kind of ‘check the box’ release. If the plans push through, it will be a fully baked released that is worthy of the costs for upgrade. Microsoft also had in-depth session about how the internal IT department has decided to roll up all the SP deployments to Office 365 and SharePoint Online.
IMPROVED USER EXPERIENCE WITH APPLICATION LAUNCHER AND USER INTERFACE CHANGES
What is interesting with Office 365 is the growing focus on the user experience. It is such a massive topic today not only for vendors, but for clients as well, who are beginning to realize the big negative effect that a bad user experience could have on adoption. In line with the trends, SharePoint 2016 made a small but relevant UI change to the ribbon. Version 2016 now has updated the ribbon from SP 2013 to match the Office 365 ribbon. This means that if users are swapping between systems, there would be a consistent user experience. It seems simple and obvious, but it is a growing commitment to simplicity and user experience, something that the platform truly needs.
ENHANCED MOBILE TOUCH EXPERIENCE
SharePoint Server 2016 offers the latest standards and technologies for synchronization of mobile push and information. With deep investment in HTML5, Server 2016 provides IT designers and professionals with capabilities that allow device-specific targeting of content, a truly interesting feature taking into consideration that targeting and personalization are on people’s minds at present. Upgrades on SharePoint 2016 are truly catching up on the development trends these days.
