The Record - Issue 19: Winter 2020

15 Microsoft has also been recognised as a leader in the Gartner Content Services Platforms Magic Quadrant for 2020, for the fourth year in a row. Spataro says that Microsoft is using Gartner’s insights on emerging trends in the content services arena to fuel innovation in SharePoint. “We are investing more than ever to bring our customers innovative content collaboration and protection capabilities – increasingly powered by Microsoft artificial intelligence,” said Spataro. Microsoft’s latest investment is bringing content intelligence to users with Microsoft Search, SharePoint Syntex and Project Cortex Topics. SharePoint is a core part of Microsoft Search, using Graph-based content connectors to index data in over 130 remote locations. The new SharePoint Syntex uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing and transform content into knowledge. “And we are not done,” said Spataro. “Far from it. Over the last few years, we have invested in a new SharePoint storage, platform and experience architecture deployed across more than 60 regional data centres supporting millions of requests per second and exabytes of data. This new platform is enabling us to deliver innovations to you faster and you will see us bring to market many new SharePoint-powered experiences in collaboration, media, protection, intelligence, custom solutions and more in 2021.”