Do You Know What Does SharePoint’s Future Hold?

As we are waiting for the availability of SharePoint 2016 next year, all the members of the product team, have already begin about vNext. Well, not as the features, but commenting on the reality that the company is going to offer an on-premises version of the platform as long as the market demand.

In the recent Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft Office GM Julia White mentioned in here keynote that Microsoft identifies that on-prem will be across for a long time if it is not in the form of hybrid environments.

What you can expect from vNext with SP2016 is just about to come in the market. Certainly, the upcoming version comes with advanced features and capabilities, extending something, steaming something else.

However, we also make some educated guesses. SharePoint’s safe and secure indicator is the Office 365 Roadmap – how Microsoft is adding to SharePoint online, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business and other related technologies.

Let’s give some thoughts on where SharePoint is going:

Security as well as fulfillment will continue to be vital to the long-term success of the platform in 2016 and beyond. Well, it is not the matter of attainment or surpassing equivalence between on-prem and online versions. When it comes to data concerned, we are living in a gradually more hostile world.

However, the company has got their work cut out for them. Some of the enhancements will happen behind the scenes to help reinforce the platform. Some others will be provided as an expanded toolset of managerial options. eDiscovery, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and improved encryption options are the best examples of this work and all can expect a constant flow of enhancements.

1. Microsoft offers a new vision of productivity and collaborations. Satya Nadella also talked about the revolution that happening around the company while his WPC keynote last month, just before handing off the microphone to Julia White, who offered a live demo of Project Gigjam.

• Lots of different ways are there in which this new collaboration paradigm could impact the SharePoint that we know and use these days.
• However, I am expecting to see some of these impacts within the next 12 to 18 months – first in Office 365 and the online experience and then with SharePoint vNext.

2. The company says that with the launch of Windows 10 last month, they are also opening to understand the vision of an integrated operating system. Now, say bye bye to OS versions – it’s now a unified personalized Windows experience, which offers seamless integration into office, Outlook, OneDrive and other business and personal productivity tools. May be you can imagine this same experience into the SharePoint land, where all the end users do not know that whether the information assets that he or she is accessing in the cloud or on a server in the next room. The company has initiated to see this reality inside Windows 10 and the integration of OneDrive.
3. The partnership space is growing constantly and the company is forced to rethink its strategy on a regular basis. CVP Jeff Teper is returning to the helm of SharePoint and OneDrive, helping in shaping the strategy and messaging in any case if you have missed the news.
4. Despite of where Microsoft takes the SharePoint platform and how much the partner ecosystem may change at the end of the day your business requirements. Well, it is a lot easier to catch in where the technology might be going, but the reality is that you may have a business to run today and workloads to be supported.
5. The space of partnership is growing constantly and the company is also forced to rethink its strategy on a regular basis. In any case, if you have missed the news, CVP Jeff Teper is returning to the tiller of SharePoint and OneDrive, serving shape, which strategy and messaging. Instead of where Microsoft is taking the SharePoint platform, and how much the partner ecology may change, at last, the technology must meet your business needs.
6. It is extremely easy to get caught where the technology is moving, but the truth is that you have a business to run today and workloads to be supported. On the practical side, the main approach to future planning is focusing on what the technology can do today, not on what may be coming.

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