In this episode of UnplugIT, Stephen Rose explores the significance of SharePoint in today’s Copilot-driven world, featuring insights from AI expert and CTO Richard Harbridge. Dive into the evolving trends and challenges of AI integration, and discover how SharePoint Premium enhances document management through advanced capabilities.
Learn practical applications of SharePoint Premium for streamlining marketing campaigns, contract analysis, and policy compliance, and understand its role in bridging the gap between AI’s potential and its tangible benefits for businesses.
Episode overview
- The main trends and challenges in AI adoption: Stephen and Richard discuss some of the trends and challenges that they observe in the market, such as the technical and business readiness, the measurement of success, the productivity and quality gains, the risk mitigation, and the role of change champions.
- The difference between SharePoint and SharePoint Premium: Richard explains that SharePoint is the content services layer that powers Copilot, while SharePoint Premium is an add-on that provides document processing and advanced management capabilities, such as automation, extraction, analysis, and governance of documents.
- The use cases and benefits of SharePoint Premium: Richard demonstrates how SharePoint Premium can be used to create and fill columns in SharePoint libraries using natural language, and how this can help with scenarios like marketing campaigns, contract analysis, or policy compliance. He also argues that SharePoint Premium can bridge the gap between the promise and the reality of AI value, and make it more accessible and cost-effective for businesses.