Today, Microsoft announced the availability of SharePoint 2016 and laid out the future direction of SharePoint and Office 365 as an organization ecosystem for driving productivity and empowering people, teams, and organizations to intelligently discover, share, and collaborate and achieve more.
Microsoft is delivering on its vision of a cloud platform that provides a powerful ecosystem with unified access, common group management, document and data sharing, all in a common user experience.
The addition of “Flow” as a new service for automating workflow between SharePoint and other Office 365 modules and third-party services and Power Apps (mobile apps) takes the platform to a new level. There is also much more and you can see details in the article, “The Future of SharePoint” by Jeff Teper, corporate vice president for OneDrive and SharePoint.
One Platform, One User Experience, Integrated Solutions On Any Device
As a cloud solutions partner that provides out-of-the-box business portals and applications built “natively” on Office 365 and SharePoint Online, we at SP Marketplace are excited at the new capabilities presented and how we can use them to deliver more powerful and easy to use solutions.
When SP Marketplace first built its portals and applications on SharePoint Online four years ago, they were very much separate from the rest of Office 365. The user interface, data, and even user groups were separate from other Office 365 components like Outlook, One Drive, and others. We had to use third-party tools to bring in data from third-party systems.
New SharePoint Page Example
Over time though, Microsoft has closed the gap between Office 365 modules. In the past year, however, Microsoft's Office 365 Ecosystem vision has become more clear, and they are delivering on it quickly. For SP Marketplace, it allows us to focus on building the business applications and portals and not on how we plug holes to make Office 365 seamless.
Unlike some Office 365 vendors that have coded their own user interfaces and architecture around SharePoint, SP Marketplace has stayed true to the “native” approach in architecture and design of our solutions. The result is now we and our customers will benefit big time.
We have been able to easily integrate powerful Office 365 services like Delve, Power BI and Office Graph to enhance our offerings. We already have plans for using PowerApps, Planner, and Flow to provide a next generation level of functionality in our intranet, portals, and business process applications to our customers.
Our solutions can take advantage of the new, easy to use, responsive user experience across Office 365. And, we can integrate services, data, documents and people that encompass all of Office 365, third party applications and connected services.
This go “native” strategy that leverages Office 365 rather than building (coding) around it has enabled us to offer solutions with three times the features at one-third the price of our “coding” competitors. It looks like it will only get better with more Office 365 and SharePoint features to leverage.
Thank you Microsoft!
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by Darrell Trimble via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community
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