Unveiling the Intranet Evolution: How AI is Transforming SharePoint Intranets?
by Ankit Shah SharePoint December 18, 2024Introduction
The intranet is essential for promoting cooperation, exchanging information, and increasing productivity in today’s remote and hybrid work contexts. The intranet is experiencing a metamorphosis in tandem with the spread of artificial intelligence, with the goal of becoming not only visually stunning and versatile but also intelligent. The fascinating advancements in intranet technology will be discussed in this blog post, with special attention to SharePoint and all of its amazing possibilities.
What’s Brewing in the World of Intranets? Let’s Dive In:
- Visual Transformation
The future intranet offers compelling and engaging experiences rather than just information. With its new image editor that offers sophisticated editing features like shape cropping, color modification, applying filters, and text overlay.
SharePoint is setting the standard for visual changes. The revised Stream web component supports single and multiple videos with folders and playlists, ensuring that you may stream any video inside your pages.
- Real-time Collaboration Magic
With Microsoft Loop, you can enter the era of real-time collaboration and revolutionize teamwork. Employees may work together on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations right within their SharePoint environment thanks to dynamic, synchronized editing capabilities.
- Microsoft Viva Integration
Strong capabilities like Viva Engage, Connections, and Amplify are included in Microsoft Viva to increase visibility and interaction for your SharePoint information. With Viva, Carlsberg and CBRE enhanced employee experiences and their SharePoint material.
- Robust Authoring Experiences
The process of creating content for your intranet ought to be easy and powerful. SharePoint is meeting this requirement by offering more powerful capabilities and tools for authors. Research indicates that companies that provide their employees with easy-to-use content creation tools see a forty percent boost in the frequency of content updates.
Latest information about artificial intelligence (AI) in SharePoint?
With Copilot’s assistance, you can now easily create captivating online content by merging your Microsoft Graph data with LLMs in SharePoint. Copilot simplifies the setup process by converting your descriptions into complete SharePoint sites and pages while upholding the stringent data security and privacy standards for businesses.
Enhancing site design across the board branding & theming, typography & fonts, grid & layout, video & photography, animations & motion is the goal of the new AI-powered SharePoint.
By cutting down on the amount of time spent configuring SharePoint sites, these cutting-edge capabilities make sure that your site makes the most of everything SharePoint has to offer.
Start building your website with Copilot. You can use it to create newsletters, event announcements, project tracking websites, trip reports, and brochure sites, among other types of templates.
Copilot creates a beginning site with just a quick prompt, gathers pertinent data from your company, and matches the design to your brand. For example, making a video page for your most recent town hall meeting is quite simple. When adjustments are needed, Copilot engages in dialogue with you to help you perfect aspects such as appearance, feel, and navigation.
Additionally, Copilot makes use of pre-existing content to assist SharePoint page authors in creating visually appealing pages. Copilot is your creative collaborator, converting your presentations or documents into pages featuring the newest web design elements. It can also help rework important sections to create the ideal atmosphere for holding the attention of your audience.
Furthermore, SharePoint introduced the ability to coauthor pages, facilitating teamwork on intranet sites. Simplified section comments and page sharing further improve the collaborative experience, linking SharePoint to more team-oriented requirements.
Content is king, particularly when it can be found while working. SharePoint helps with content development, user engagement, and organization audience targeting. Making connections between SharePoint and popular workflows like Teams, Viva, and email facilitates easy access to content.
Because of the interface with Copilot, SharePoint sites can now be browsed and emailed as whole news items. Page tracking lets you see all of your page readings for both Outlook and SharePoint at the same time. With Outlook open, readers can view SharePoint pages.
SharePoint pages can be connected to team channels so that content is always available in the hub for collaboration. Additionally, these pages can be posted to the team’s General channel and pinned as tabs. The hub for collaboration. Also, you have direct editing access to SharePoint pages. SharePoint usage within Teams has significantly increased as a result of the streamlined integration.
Developers are still important for integrating SharePoint into organizations. Because an embedded component appears on one in three SharePoint pages, developers may use site and page templating, UX-layer components, and plug-ins through the usage of the SharePoint Framework, guaranteeing ongoing enhancements even as user experiences change.
Integrate Copilot into your intranet to have a game-changing experience
Within the intranet environment, developers may write code with ease, supported by Copilot’s code snippet suggestions, documentation, and guidance on best practices. This raises the standard of the code overall and promotes a collaborative learning environment.
Copilot offers insightful recommendations to teams who are producing documentation or adding to the Intranet knowledge base, guaranteeing that the information is complete, correct, and current. This expedites the process of exchanging knowledge and makes it simpler for new team members to get started.
Copilot is a tool that attorneys can use to prepare documents and specify the data they require. Copilot helps in the creation of legally sound wording, the citation of pertinent case law, and document compliance. This increases overall efficiency and speeds up the Intranet’s document generation process.
Copilot helps teams interact with training content on your intranet by providing more examples, explanations, and exercises according to their pace and learning preferences. This adaptive learning methodology improves the onboarding experience and speeds up skill acquisition.
Businesses can expedite the process of finding content by utilizing intelligent search features and automatically labeling content according to user behaviour and context. Teams will get customized alerts and notifications to make sure they are aware of pertinent developments, due dates, and necessary actions.
The future of intranets is not just bright but also AI-ready, adaptable, and captivating. Webtual Global can help you with implementing a SharePoint intranet from scratch, transferring content from another platform, or improving the appearance and feel of your existing intranet!
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- What’s Brewing in the World of Intranets? Let’s Dive In:
- Latest information about artificial intelligence (AI) in SharePoint?
- Integrate Copilot into your intranet to have a game-changing experience
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