Breathing life into an old favourite, Microsoft have brought new features and licensing options to SharePoint Online – partly by wrapping SharePoint Syntex into the new offering. New features include:
- Contract renewal alerts
- Document portal for external partners/customers
- SharePoint eSignature
- Translation for files & videos
- Personal Information detection
- Redaction
- Document governance and control
Licensing
There will be 2 licensing models for SharePoint Premium (which can be used simultaneously as needed) , depending on the features you require.
Those coming from Syntex such as:
- document processing
- eSignature
- PII detection
- autofill columns
- content assembly
- translation
- image processing
will be available on a Pay As You Go (PAYG) basis on top of most Microsoft 365 plans.
New features such as:
- Business Documents app
- Documents Hub
- Enhanced File viewer
will be available as add-on licenses on top of Microsoft 365 plans – further increasing the number of additional licenses to choose from. Pricing for these will be announced at General Availability in 2024.
Microsoft also talk about “SharePoint Advanced Management” (SAM) which covers content governance and is currently available as an add-on license to:
Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Business Standard/Business Premium/F1/F3/E3/A3/G3/E5/A5/G5; Office 365 F3/E1/A1/E3/A3/G3/E5/A5/G5; SharePoint Online
You can see the Microsoft announcement here – https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint-premium-blog/introducing-sharepoint-premium-the-future-of-ai-powered-content/ba-p/3981076
Cloudy with a chance of Licensing 