| | December 20166CIOReviewSharePoint has today clawed its way back into the modern business world, being the most indispensible corporate collaboration tool for enterprises worldwide. According to Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, it is primarily due to the advanced capabilities and features that the multi-dimensional collaboration tool possesses "to make business productivity more collaborative, intelligent, mobile, and trustworthy."Bringing incredible enhancements, the most recent SharePoint release promises significant value in cloud-inspired infrastructure and delivers enhanced user-experience. It has also add-on features like Data Loss Prevention (DLP), records management, and SharePoint insights that consolidate audit and compliance logs from on-premises and Office 365, alleviating many enterprise challenges. Today, every release of SharePoint focuses on bringing about a transformation in the mobile space. The SharePoint Mobile apps for Windows and Android devices help enterprises get rapid access to data across information management lifecycle; it works both with SharePoint Online and some on-premises versions of SharePoint Server. Microsoft is also making significant investments in the user-experience of SharePoint by building SharePoint Framework to help corporate IT or service integrators with broad access to SharePoint data. The Framework enables fully supported client-side development, easy integration with the Microsoft Graph, and support for open source tooling. Microsoft is leaving no stones unturned to make SharePoint as a universal collaboration platform. In the first half of 2017, the company is bringing out features such as improvements to the modern home page and publishing pages, which would help users easily upload content and create new sites. With these foundational SharePoint developments, the innovative tool wants to empower users to securely access relevant content, data, sites, and people across their organizations on any device, anywhere, anytime, helping them to reinvent collaboration and productivity. On that note, we present to you a special edition on 20 Most Promising SharePoint Solution Providers. The companies featured in this issue exhibit innovative strategies to assist your enterprises make the most out of SharePoint platform.Copyright © 2016 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewDECEMBER - 12 - 2016Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 DECEMBER - 12 - 2016, Vol 05 SE 125 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc.To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com SharePoint SpecialCIOReviewEditorial StaffSalesT: 510-565-7560Aaron PierceJem Elizabeth Joshua ParkerSara FernandesShiv ShankerVictor CookLawrence Tse lawrence@cioreview.comVisualizersMatt RyderVishal IssacManaging EditorJeevan GeorgeEditorialReinventing Collaboration and Productivity Jeevan George Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.com
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