Microsoft announced SharePoint Server 2016 on May 4, 2016 at ‘Future of SharePoint’ event. New SharePoint boasts hybrid capabilities that allow on-premise customers to make use of latest features and functionalities of Office 365.
If one has to define SharePoint in one line then one can do it something like this - an enterprise platform that make simple things powerful and the powerful simple. The $10 billion solution ecosystem of SharePoint is being used to power teamwork, automate business processes, to create business applications and to build company-wide intranets. All of it takes the productivity to a new height and gives a new meaning to enterprise collaboration.
In the vision shared by Microsoft for SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server it has stressed on device agnostic file sharing and collaboration, mobile and smart intranet, open and connected platform and most importantly security, privacy and compliance across Office 365.
With this version of SharePoint Microsoft is clearly trying to marry on-premise environment with online applications for seamless experience. Before the closing of this calendar year Microsoft is going to roll out few more interesting features to SharePoint and Office 365 which will take this combination further for boosting organizational productivity. So stay tuned.
