SharePoint Server 2016: New Upcoming Enterprise Collaboration Platform!

Everyone is eager to gain more information about the upcoming cloud enabled enterprise collaboration platform. It is due to be released in the month of September 2015. This next version ofSharePoint will also be displayed at the Ignite conference being organized from 4th to 8th May this year in Chicago. 

SP16 --- On-Premises Version of SharePoint

The new version of SharePoint referred to as SharePoint Server 2016 actually draws from SharePoint Online and has been developed with Microsoft SaaS (Software as a Service) at its core.

SharePoint 2016 gives your enterprise access to productive and robust On-premises functionalities while also enabling Office 365 experiences and capabilities to all the on-premise customers.

Office 365 capabilities comprise of Delve for enterprise search, sharing of content in a secure environment, social experience by Yammer, which integrates with multiple platforms such as DynamicsCRM etc. 

New Features in SP16 you can look forward to ---

1. Delve:  It is a dashboard like interface which uses artificial intelligence (with Office Graph) for displaying important information for you and those in your network. Delve can index e-mails, contacts, social networks and meetings and portray such information as cards.

2. Video Portal: You will be able to discover, upload and store videos --- all in a secure environment.

3. Mobile: You can now count on superior rendering on PDAs including Android devices and iOS. SharePoint will come with more mobile features, a responsive interface, UI designed for a touch interface and above all scaled down page views.

4. Yammer: Yammer comes with new capabilities for enhanced conversation and productivity.

5. Inline Social: Users can have conversations right inside their documents.

6. Insights: Insights allows you to search the web while inside the document.

SharePoint Server 2016 complements and supports the hybrid cloud implementations which are mobile-friendly, can be managed easily due to simple IT requirements, deliver data and apps to customers across diverse devices and yes, build a platform comprising of datacenters and cloud. Look out for midyear roll out of SP16!

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