During the keynote at #SPC18 last week, the MS team re-assured the attendees that SharePoint is seen as a 'foundational service' for Office 365, along with OneDrive and Exchange. Microsoft has seen a 200% growth in SharePoint storage used in O365. Out of all active SharePoint seats – 70% of them are for SharePoint Online (as opposed to on-prem). Their strategy has 4 pillars that are defining the dev work they are doing day in and day out. Here's a summary of those pillars and what features we're seeing happen for each of them.
Although there is some overlap between them, each of these pillars tends to appeal to a different part of your platform's audience. I'm encouraging my clients to think about each of these 4 pillars when pondering their governance, adoption, and support plans. Figuring out how Microsoft's development strategy matches up to your own organization's growing needs can really help optimize the ROI, provided you craft your strategy to run parallel to it as much as possible and take advantage of it.
1. Content collaboration
The new http://Office.com start page includes a 'recommended' section that is powered by AI and the Office Graph. It aggregates files / folders / sites that should be most relevant to your day, items you've pinned for quick access previously, as well as things others have shared with you across OneDrive and SharePoint.
File usage metrics are now added to the file card and the details panel to help you figure out what is currently being worked on by others.
List / Library views now update in near real-time as others are working concurrently.
Teams tab views from SharePoint are becoming more functional like they are in the browser to encourage active use from the Teams client.
2. Inform and engage people
News now rolls up and pushes notifications on the SharePoint mobile app and in Teams.
Soon we'll see the ability to schedule news posts for future publication. (about time…)
New modern web parts, including maps and weather.
An out-of-the-box approval workflow that you can enable and then customize using Flow.
Content targeting with audiences that compile based on user profile properties in near real-time.
Site designs that can be fired automatically fired when a site joins one of the new ‘hub sites’ to provide consistent elements and experience throughout the family of sites grouped around the hub.
SharePoint Spaces – the new VR / MR feature that allows immersive experiences to be built without significant dev work based on templates that take care of a lot of the complex bits that stitch things together (theme, background, spatial geometry...). Build something here, and it works either with a HoloLens headset or with a traditional monitor. If you want to play with it, apply for the preview athttps://aka.ms/SharePoint-Spaces.
3. Harness collective knowledge
Soon we’ll see an Office 365 Training site that we can add to our own SharePoint intranet where MS will feed training content directly from their own Azure content repositories.
4. Transform business processes
Cognitive services are being tied into several no-code dev surfaces, including SharePoint lists, PowerApps, and Flow. These process text for sentiment, key phrases, translation, or even moderation purposes. They can then be used in a variety of ways – like: formatting rows, inferring meta-data, automatic Power BI insights on list data, and new ways to create lists (especially from existing lists that are tied to PowerApps and Flows already).
Some of these new and ‘coming soon’ items are pretty powerful and have a lot of potential to change the way we work and the solutions we build for others. If you're focused on solutions and adoption for SharePoint and Office 365, there was a lot to start playing with and look forward to.
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Organizations use Microsoft SharePoint to create websites. You can use it as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from any device. All you need is a web browser, such as Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Firefox.
What are the core functions of SharePoint? ›
The basic functions of SharePoint include document management, content collaboration, site creation, permission management, version control, search capabilities, workflow automation, and integration with other Microsoft 365 services.
What are SharePoint lists used for? ›
SharePoint lists are designed to help you track and manage data and records in multiple ways, allowing for the use of different formatting, workflows, and access controls. Microsoft offers templates to help you create the most popular list formats: Asset manager. Content Schedule.
What are the 6 pillars approach? ›
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What are the six pillar? ›
The six pillars are: Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring and Citizenship.
What is the primary function of SharePoint? ›
With Microsoft SharePoint on your PC, Mac, or mobile device, you can: Build intranet sites and create pages, document libraries, and lists. Add web parts to customize your content. Show important visuals, news, and updates with a team or communication site.
What are the pros and cons of Microsoft SharePoint? ›
New SharePoint pros and cons
- Con: missing features.
- Pro: modern design, collaboration, and document management.
- Con: expensive & time-consuming upgrade process.
- Pro: document management & collaboration capabilities.
Manage site access. Train local site users. Participate in SharePoint Users Group. This includes sharing solutions to the more difficult problems you've encountered and helping guide institutional best practices.
How to make SharePoint more interactive? ›
Another way to make SharePoint more interactive is to add comments to shared documents. This feature is very practical for collaboration on a specific subject and sharing ideas effectively. Additionally, you can use @ to get the attention of a specific collaborator.
A SharePoint developer should have a good understanding of all its features, syntax, operatives, variables, strings, etc. CSS and HTML. These languages are required to develop features that users interact with when using web applications.
What are the two types of SharePoint? ›
Foundationally, SharePoint has two different types of sites in the modern experience - communication sites and team sites. Each type of site has it's own set of templates that contain pre-populated content, pages, and web parts that can be customized to fit the needs of your organization.
What is SharePoint best used for? ›
Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based application used for document sharing, business intelligence, advanced search, content collaboration, and much more. The benefits of Microsoft SharePoint are compelling enough that more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies, including Viacom and Windex, use this software (Issuu).
How important is SharePoint? ›
SharePoint streamlines project management by providing centralized document storage, task tracking, Gantt charts for visualizing project timelines, project site templates, integration with Outlook for task synchronization, and reporting tools for project analysis.
Why use SharePoint instead of Excel? ›
You can maintain data integrity more effectively using a SharePoint list than an Excel spreadsheet due to the mix of rights, forms, targeting, and data validation control sets. Make an audit trail of every item on the list. Every item in the SharePoint list includes an edit history and a version history.
What are the columns in SharePoint? ›
A column represents an attribute, or piece of metadata, that the user wants to manage for the items in the list or content type to which they added the column. Users can add columns to list, library and sites and even reference them in content types.
What are the 5 zones in SharePoint? ›
default zone in SharePoint
A web application can support up to five Default Zones. The available zone names are Default, Extranet, Intranet, Internet, and Custom. One particular zone name can be used per web application.
What is the hierarchy of SharePoint? ›
SharePoint Site Hierarchy:
At the top is the site collection, which acts as the container for multiple sites. Within a site collection, there can be multiple subsites, forming a hierarchical tree-like structure. The parent site is the top-level site within a site collection, and subsites can be created beneath it.
During the keynote at #SPC18 last week, the MS team re-assured the attendees that SharePoint is seen as a 'foundational service' for Office 365, along with OneDrive and Exchange. Microsoft has seen a 200% growth in SharePoint storage used in O365. Out of all active SharePoint seats – 70% of them are for SharePoint Online (as opposed to on-prem). Their strategy has 4 pillars that are defining the dev work they are doing day in and day out. Here's a summary of those pillars and what features we're seeing happen for each of them.