THE FUTURE OF SHAREPOINTSHAREPOINT ONLINE

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SHAREPOINT HOME

The new SharePoint home page in Office 365, rolling out this month (May, 2016), gives you unified access to all of your Sites — online and on-premises — and lets you navigate seamlessly through your intranet, as well as catch up with activity across your sites with just a glance.

MORDERN TEAM SITES

A modernised team site experience, with an engaging home page personalised by the intelligence of Office Graph.

A revitalised libraries and lists enable immediate productivity with an intuitive user experience and provide rich metadata, content management and functionality that can support sophisticated business processes.

Also a new page authoring and publishing experience that allows users to create beautiful, feature-rich pages that are responsive, mobile and easy to share with your team and the organization.

MORDERN TEAM SITES

Bringing the power of SharePoint team sites and Office 365 Groups together, giving every group a team site, and giving team sites the benefit of groups for simple management of membership across Office 365 services.

You can create a team site from the SharePoint home and provision a corresponding Office 365 Group in just seconds, with integrated information classification and compliance.

THE MOBILE AND INTELLIGENT INTRANET

Expected in 2nd quarter 2016:

o Modern document library experience o (currently rolling out to “First Release” tenants).

o Modern lists experience.

o SharePoint mobile app for iOS.

o SharePoint home in Office 365.

o Site activity and insights on the Site Contents page (from Graph)

And during calendar year 2016:

o SharePoint mobile app for Windows and Android.

o Integration of SharePoint sites and Office 365 Groups.

o Simple, fast site creation.

o Modern pages experience.

o Team and organisational news and announcements.

o PowerApps and Microsoft Flow integration with SharePoint.

SHAREPOINT MOBILE APP —YOUR INTRANET IN YOUR POCKET

SharePoint mobile app, designed for Windows, iOS and Android, to put your intranet in your pocket, with full-fidelity access to company news and announcements, people, sites, content and apps — no matter where you are.

The app will incorporate your on-premises SharePoint sites, as well.

SECURITY, PRIVACY AND COMPLIANCE

Currently and this quarter:

o Intelligently define access based on who you are, the app or device you are using and your network location.

o New tools to discover and protect content with data loss protection (DLP) policies, both in Office 365 and in SharePoint Server 2016.o 80 pre-built definitions of sensitive content, and

you can add your own custom policies

o Policies can be set once and applied across your tenant and into your on-premises farms. Classify a site so that policies are scoped to all content in a site.

o Detailed reporting and auditing for or compliance purposes.

o Introduced, earlier this year, Advanced eDiscovery integrates machine learning, predictive coding and text analytics to reduce the costs and challenges that come with sorting through large quantities of data.

o Whitelist and blacklist domains for external sharing.

SECURITY, PRIVACY AND COMPLIANCE

o New datacentres in Germany and Canada.

o Bring your own encryption key.

o Granular access controls.

o SharePoint site classification.

o Hybrid SharePoint Insights (preview).

MICROSOFT FLOW AND POWERAPPS INTEGRATION

In May, 2016, Microsoft Flow was announced as a new service for automating workflow across the growing number of apps and SaaS services.

Microsoft Flow includes connectors that enable you to exchange data between SharePoint and a variety of Microsoft and third-party services, and store and modify that data within SharePoint.

PowerApps is also being integrated directly into the modern team site, so you can create cross-platform PowerApps that utilize SharePoint lists and libraries as a data source.

THE MOBILE AND INTELLIGENT INTRANET

Later this year:

o Microsoft will release SharePoint Insights, a service which aggregates usage and compliance data from on-premises and cloud into the Office 365 Reporting Centre, so you can get a unified view across your entire organization.

And during calendar year 2016: