Webinar Recap | The State of the Digital Workspace 🛰️| The Future of Work with Microsoft’s Latest Innovations

 

 

Thanks for your interest in, “The State of the Digital Workspace | The Future of Work with Microsoft’s Latest Innovations.” If you were able to join us for the webinar, we thank you for being there.  We hope you found it as insightful and enjoyable as our speaker shared the latest Microsoft Innovations.

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This Session

Microsoft took center stage to unveil its ambitious vision for the next 5 years into the future of the digital workspace. The overarching theme revolves around optimizing employee productivity and seamlessly migrating towards modernized cloud services, supercharged with enhanced GPUs and limitless storage capacities.

 

 

Key Takeaways

Microsoft’s Vision

The future digital workspace aims to simplify day-to-day tasks through the integration of AI and Copilot. Microsoft announced two key features: Copilot Studio and Copilot for Outlook. Copilot’s ability to generate detailed meeting summaries and provide accurate AI-generated transcripts in Teams stands out. SharePoint Premium, formerly known as Syntex, is expected to revolutionize the information worker’s daily routine by automating tasks like auto-classification, tagging, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) , and more.

AI in Action

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, and it brings benefits to everyone in the organization. Copilot assists developers as the ultimate coding sidekick, helping with app building, process automation, and complex Power BI reports. In customer service, Copilot summarizes case information, which makes issue resolution more efficient. The constructive collaboration between AI and humans through Copilot is driving innovation and boosting productivity across industries.

Power Platform + Copilot

Microsoft has made significant improvements to its Power Platform tools by integrating Copilot, a low and no-code environment that simplifies UI design and formula creation. This integration has resulted in a more robust and efficient development experience, delivering more power from the power platform than ever before.

Transformation in Practice – Syntex and Content Intelligence

As a member of the Microsoft Content Intelligence Community, we could geek out on this topic all day! We shared our experience with Syntex (soon to be SharePoint Premium), which proved to be instrumental in building a robust AI document processing solution for a financial firm. The custom machine learning models within Syntex were specifically tailored to cater to the unique needs of the financial industry, enabling the solution to automate complex document processing tasks. This innovative solution paved the way for streamlined workflows and improved decision-making capabilities for the client. This project’s success is a testament to the power of innovation and how it can solve complex problems in the most efficient manner possible.

Copilot is set to revolutionize the digital workspace, enhancing collaboration, and productivity. Microsoft’s commitment to innovation and continuous improvement is evident in the upcoming features and developments discussed during the webinar.

 

About the speakers:

Eric Overfield 

Eric Overfield is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP, a PnP team member, and a leading expert in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Azure architecture, strategy, and development. Chief Product Officer of Creospark and Cloudspark, Eric has over 24 years of experience with web design best practices and techniques and over 18 years of experience with SharePoint and digital workplace architecture and implementation. Besides his in-depth knowledge of SharePoint’s capabilities, his expertise includes Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and Azure technology, design, and architecture along with custom solutions, TypeScript, JavaScript, and React.

He is a co-author of Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development (Apress 2013) and Black Magic Solutions for White Hat SharePoint (EUSP Press 2013). An engaged speaker and organizer of Microsoft 365 events as well as an active member of the PnP team.

Noorez Khamis

Noorez is a Microsoft MVP in SharePoint and Microsoft 365 Technologies. He has 15+ years of industry experience in consulting while having been directly involved in hundreds of project deliveries spanning the entire applications spectrum, from SMB to Enterprise: including line-of-business applications, reporting, databases, enterprise integration, workflows, collaboration, document management, records management, business process management as well as web and enterprise content management solutions.

As a Microsoft MVP, Noorez has a strong command of on-premises and cloud-based information solutions, making him capable of guiding clients to meet their IT needs. Noorez is also an active blogger, speaker, trainer, community contributor, and evangelist of Microsoft Solutions.

Jed Cawthorne

Jed is an expert in Information Management and Digital Workspace architecture. With decades of experience implementing SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft 365 for enterprises like Canadian Tire, BMO, and TD Bank, he leads our Modern Work practice at Creospark. When he’s not empowering organizations in their digital workplace journey, he’s busy geeking out on history, teaching Italian longsword fencing, or reenacting. You can connect with him on LinkedIn to learn more about his expertise and hobbies.

Cristall Amurao

Make sure to join us at our next webinar on February 29^th: Navigating Microsoft Copilot for Power Platform | AI Readiness & the Art of What’s Possible. Register here   Join us for a deep dive into Microsoft Copilot for the Power Platform, where we aim to demystify the unknown and empower you with the knowledge needed to confidently unleash its capabilities within your organization. Copilot is not just a tool; it is a meaningful change that revolutionizes the way you approach development, enabling your teams to build faster and more efficiently.