Microsoft Ignite: Wrap Up
Microsoft Ignite returned this year for another round of new announcements, tools, apps, and services, and a few surprises.
It is the largest annual event for the tech giant, with technology professionals and developers worldwide in attendance. It has traditionally brought an average of 25,000 attendees, however, in the newer online format, it is reported that there have been attendance numbers in excess of 250,000!
Satya Nadella Full Keynote Microsoft Ignite 2022
Many updates, features & services were announced… which is always a highlight for many attendees who eagerly await advances in our digital world!
Below is a list of Microsoft’s programs, apps, services & more that featured:
Viva Goals
Microsoft Places
Microsoft Loop
Power Pages
Power Automate
Power Apps
Power BI
Teams Premium
Microsoft Stream
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Syntex
Azure Cognitive Services
Security & DevOps Security
Project Bonsai
Read below - as ISW’s Patrick Ige, highlights some of the new apps & features to watch out for.
Microsoft Loop
Microsoft Loop is a new app that combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that stay in sync and move freely across Microsoft 365 apps.
If you are already using Microsoft Teams, then you now have the chance to make the experience better by using Microsoft Loop.
Today's workforce is now hybrid that's why virtual collaboration is now a priority and integrating Microsoft Teams with Loop components has now taken virtual collaboration to another level.
Loop doesn't replace Microsoft Teams, but rather integrates with it. For example, a Loop component like a table could be sent into a Teams chat, while Teams chats could be accessible from within a Loop workspace.
Companies currently using Microsoft 365 for collaboration should begin to assess Loop to understand its applicability to current workflows and team collaboration scenarios.
It's likely that Loop will remove barriers to collaboration by integrating various tools into a common canvas, but success will require end-user training to overcome adoption complexity and identify metrics for evaluating success.
Loop component shared and updated across Teams, Outlook, Word for the web, and Microsoft Whiteboard
Microsoft Stream
Microsoft Stream paradigm has changed, and stream has now become an enterprise video platform - an integral part of Microsoft 365.
It is also now built on the same storage platform that all other content types use.
All videos are now stored in:
SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive just like your documents, presentations and spreadsheets.
Stream offers the same familiar experiences for sharing, searching, and commenting as the other apps in Microsoft 365.
Administrators no longer to deploy any different solution for videos that work differently from the rest of infrastructure. All videos are now regular files in SharePoint, the services and tools built to work with SharePoint and OneDrive now work with video.
You also get all core management capabilities that other file types in Microsoft 365 have, such as archiving and versions, eDiscovery, Legal Hold, Retention policies, audit logs, permissions and file life cycle, APIs, and analytics.
Microsoft Syntex
Microsoft Syntex helps you understand, tag, and secure information, integrating AI from Microsoft Azure, AI Builder, and other Microsoft sources.
As processes have become increasingly digitized during the past 10 years or so, a growing number of businesses have moved all their documents into the cloud.
Microsoft stated that an average of 1.6 billion documents are added to Microsoft 365 every day.
While moving toward a paperless society brought with it the promise of efficiency, the number of documents now being stored digitally has reached a critical point, meaning people are wasting vital time searching and sifting through digital files to find necessary information.
Furthermore, organizations are estimated to spend $46 billion a year storing and managing content from which they derive little value.
Looking at a product like Syntex it could help companies streamline how organizations work with their content.
Syntex now offers more capabilities.
Microsoft Syntex supports more than 300 different types of content and comprises 11 capabilities. These are:
Enhance: No-code AI that enhances your content to help you understand and structure information, simplifying your business workflows.
Document processing: Helps you understand, tag, and secure information, integrating AI from Microsoft Azure, AI Builder, and other Microsoft sources.
Summarization: Uses AI to generate summaries of content to distill key points, on demand.
Content assembly: Helps users automatically generate that document with templates and metadata using content assembly.
Images, audio, and video processing: Allows users to process and tag images with nearly 10,000 automatically recognized objects “out of the box” and extract text from images in SharePoint and Exchange using optical character recognition (OCR)
Connect: Helps users connect, discover and reuse content with AI-powered search
E-signature: One of the fastest growing type of content transactions is e-signature. You can send electronic signature requests using Syntex, Adobe Acrobat Sign, DocuSign or any of Microsoft's other e-signature partner solutions.
Search: Builds on top of Microsoft Search to provide powerful ways to query, shape, and discover the content and data embedded in your files.
Annotation: Use annotations—like ink, notes, redactions, stamps, and comments—to any content without modifying the original files.
Content rules processor: The Syntex content processor lets you build simple rules to trigger the next action in a sequence of tasks, such as a transaction, alert, or workflow.
Accelerators and templates: Microsoft is providing a range of application accelerators for common patterns and scenarios faced by organizations.
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