Large Lists and Libraries
Architecture and user experience have been improved so
users can have much larger document libraries with metadata driven navigation to
help users go quickly to the content that is most important to them. Libraries
will scale to tens of millions and archives to hundreds of millions of
documents. This is a key investment for high-end document and records management
but also helps organizations with lots of smaller sites.
Enterprise Metadata
Content types and taxonomies can now cross server farms.
Metadata has been applied to both the SharePoint and Office client user
experience. The top-down taxonomy and bottoms-up social tagging (sometimes
called folksonomy) combine to help improve search, navigation and people
connections.
Document Sets
A new way to manage a collection of documents as a single
object for workflow, metadata, etc. within SharePoint 2016 and Office 365 so experience
more closely models your work product (e.g. a proposal that may contain a
presentation, budget, contract, etc.).
Web Publishing including Digital Asset Management
A number of key improvements were made to make it easier
to publish rich sites on the intranet or internet. A new browser ribbon and
editor were used for speed site customization, content authoring and publishing
tasks. New digital asset management features like thumbnails, metadata and
ratings for images as well as video streaming from SharePoint. Finally, content
deployment robustness was improved from authoring to production for larger scale
sites.
Governance and Records Management
Compliance is an increasingly important requirement for organizations. Records
Managements features were enhanced, building on
the scalable storage and enterprise metadata support described above. Governance
tools were improved in sophistication and flexibility. A few new features
include: location-based file plans, multi-stage dispositions, in-place records
and e-discovery.
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