SharePoint stands out as the globe’s largest and most adaptable cloud content management platform. It forms the backbone of Microsoft 365, driving applications like OneDrive, Teams, Syntex, Viva, Loop, Stream, and the latest addition, Microsoft 365 Copilot. Beyond being a foundational source for Copilot experiences, SharePoint offers more than meets the eye.
Presenting SharePoint Premium, our cutting-edge content management and experiences platform, marking the next phase of Syntex evolution. This advanced offering integrates AI, automation, and enhanced security into your content experiences, processing, and governance. As part of this transition, services like SharePoint Advanced Management, currently under Syntex, will join the expanding suite of SharePoint services. Brace yourself for new, innovative content experiences with SharePoint Premium.
SharePoint Premium revolutionizes how you interact with crucial content, ensuring its seamless management and protection throughout its lifecycle. It equips you to elevate the value of your content through enhanced security and structure, gearing it for integration with Copilot for Microsoft 365, the groundbreaking AI assistant reshaping productivity.
Key Features:
- Content Experiences and Solutions: Enhance employee productivity, streamline business processes, and foster collaboration across various file types. Leverage AI to optimize critical document processes such as contracts, invoices, SOWs, ensuring heightened security and efficient workflows.
- Content Processing: Employ AI-driven automation to organize and maximize the value of your content. Effortlessly build, classify, and tag documents, preparing them for seamless integration with Copilot.
- Content Governance: Tackle oversharing and content sprawl proactively by managing the content lifecycle. Retain control over access through user-friendly yet robust tools, ensuring a secure and well-organized content environment.
Content Experiences
- Integrated File Viewer Enhancement:
- Collaborate seamlessly with over 400 file types.
- Add ink, comments, mentions, tasks, and more to any supported file type.
- Extends the power of Office collaboration beyond traditional documents.
- Business Documents App in Teams:
- Specialized app for working with critical documents like contracts, statements of work, orders, and invoices.
- Unified view for high-value documents with actionable insights.
- Create new contracts within Word using standard templates and AI-driven rules deviation engine for comparisons.

- SharePoint eSignature for Secure Approvals:
- Contracts can be routed for signature using SharePoint eSignature.
- Ensures information remains within the Microsoft 365 trust boundary.
- Facilitates secure engagement with external parties for signing and approval.
- AI-Driven Clause Analyzer:
- Automatically analyzes and distills high-risk contracts.
- Identifies contracts requiring attention and highlights associated risks.
- Enhances risk management and contract scrutiny.
- Document Portal for External Collaboration:
- Extend content collaboration to external suppliers, vendors, and customers.
- Set up an easily accessible external site with your organization’s branding.
- Integrated with consumer or organizational identities for confident collaboration on selected documents.
Content Processing
- AI-driven Document Enhancement:
- Utilize AI in Microsoft Syntex for document classification, tagging, and security.
- Automated templates ensure the creation of structured content at scale.
- SharePoint eSignature:
- Digitize document approval workflows securely.
- Rolling out through Q1 2024, starting with U.S. tenants.
- Adobe and DocuSign are launch partners for third-party integration.
- New Pay-as-You-Go Services (Available by Dec 2023):
- Translation for files and Stream video in multiple languages.
- AI-powered video cleanup for Stream recordings.
- Upcoming Features (First Half of 2024):
- Autofill columns dynamically add new columns using AI.
- PII detection flags files containing personally identifiable information.
- Multilabel classifier runs a single AI model for automatic content type determination.
- Redaction removes sensitive information like names and addresses.

- Microsoft Graph APIs for SharePoint Premium:
- Available for integration into custom apps.
- Enables seamless incorporation of document processing and content assembly.
- Availability and Pricing:
- Services available to all Microsoft 365 users on a pay-as-you-go basis.
- Soon to be consolidated under the SharePoint Premium brand.
- Pricing details here.
- Limited Time Promotion (Starting Jan 2024):
- Customers of pay-as-you-go content processing get a portion of monthly capacity free.
- Six-month promotional program to explore and experience enhanced content processing capabilities.
Content Governance
- Enhanced IT Controls:
- Extend traditional IT controls for content and access governance.
- Empower content owners and creators to manage content at scale throughout its lifecycle.

- Data Access Governance (DAG) Insights:
- Provide top-level views of potentially overshared sites filtered by sharing policy, Teams-connected sites, sensitivity labels, and privacy.
- Highlight high-value business content sites for more stringent policies and reviews.
- Trigger site access reviews with content owners for potentially at-risk content.

- Restricted Access Control Policy:
- Enable the new policy specifying security groups allowed access, regardless of direct file sharing.
- AI-Driven Policy Recommendations:
- Compare sites with well-governed access policies to others across the tenant.
- Semantically match and recommend optimal access policies.
- Content Event Insights:
- Identify “interesting” moments in the content lifecycle, such as high-volume sharing or large download volumes.
- Provide important context, including impacted users and specific files involved.

- AI Accelerating Admin Productivity:
- Use Copilot in the SharePoint admin center to find sites with issues like oversharing, missing classifications, or inactivity.
- Leverage Copilot to build the right policies for access, classification, and archiving.