Microsoft Syntex repository services are open for private preview today. Click here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n Microsoft Syntex repository services deliver something unique: the ability for app developers to manage files and documents within their customers\u2019 individual Microsoft 365 tenants, rather than setting up a separate repository solution outside of tenant boundaries. The innovation behind this new capability is a special type of partition in the Microsoft 365 storage layer that we call repository containers. Repository containers are not accessible through regular Microsoft 365 UX but are instead completely controlled and managed by the app that creates them.<\/p>\n Repository containers create a new, horizontally scalable way of delivering file and document management capabilities, and are designed for use by customers, partners, and first-party Microsoft apps. My earlier blog on the Microsoft Loop preview<\/a> alludes to the fact that the Loop app is 100% powered by Syntex repository services, as are apps such as Edge Spaces and Designer.<\/p>\n For ISVs, this means you can use this same scalable and performant technology to deliver Microsoft 365 file and document management capabilities as part of every app you write, all accessible via the easy-to-use Microsoft Graph API. When you adopt Syntex repository services in your app, documents are managed within the end customer\u2019s tenant, meaning you now deliver a complete content management roadmap including global security and compliance, collaboration, and the many detailed features we\u2019ve built into the product over 20 years of engineering.<\/p>\n Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software<\/em> company, is working with Microsoft to enhance Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, a combination of enterprise systems spanning the end-to-end lifecycle and value chain of the world\u2019s infrastructure. Bentley Infrastructure Cloud leverages digital twin technologies, powered by iTwin, to become more fundamentally data centric while supporting critical file-based workflows. \u201cWe are collaborating with Microsoft to further enhance existing file-based, co-authoring workflows with Syntex repository services. We\u2019re removing IT barriers to adoption and increasing users\u2019 productivity with evergreen data that is easily shared and enriched throughout the project lifecycle,\u201d said\u00a0Lori\u00a0Hufford, VP, Engineering Collaboration with Bentley Systems.<\/p>\n In addition to security and compliance, apps powered by Syntex repository services also make it easy to deliver rich collaboration experiences for Office document types as part of your application. This includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and it supports apps built on the Fluid Framework.<\/p>\n Collaboration in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint delivers the features you know and love. This includes things like presence indicators, @ mentions in comments to draw attention and drive document sharing, real-time co-authoring, and more. Syntex repository services also lets you provide web access to all users, regardless of their Microsoft 365 subscription status.<\/p>\n The Fluid Framework is the real-time collaboration system behind Microsoft 365 apps including Office and Teams. Syntex repository services provide critical back-end support that makes it easy to use Fluid as part of any app, turning every business process into a multiplayer collaboration.<\/p>\n Syntex repository services helps turn your app into a collaboration hub for all users, both internal and external.<\/p>\n Peppermint Technology Limited, a global ISV provider of a law firm software solution delivering client engagement, case, and matter management, has partnered with Microsoft to integrate Syntex repository services with Peppermint CX365. “Adopting Syntex repository services enables us to offer a comprehensive document and records management system in our joint customers\u2019 Microsoft 365 tenants, including the rich collaboration capabilities of Office. Peppermint and our customers can now harness the power of Office and their Microsoft 365 security and compliance configuration right in our app. Peppermint already builds on top of Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and other core Microsoft 365 features required by law firms, and this is a natural extension of that architecture that streamlines customer productivity using Peppermint CX365.” says Mike Walker, CTO.<\/p>\n Microsoft customers around the world trust Microsoft 365 to store their most sensitive documents, uploading more than 200 petabytes of new data to Microsoft 365 every single month. Now, when you choose Syntex repository services to manage your files and documents, your customers can take full advantage of their security & compliance investments in Microsoft 365, including E3, E5, and any Purview advanced add-ons licensing.<\/p>\n This means that your app can do critical things like audit file level activity; run global e-discovery queries that work across all your repository containers in addition to SharePoint files, OneDrive files, emails and Teams chats; and query for specific user activity across all files as well. Customers can apply retention policies, harness data loss prevention policies (DLP), use sensitivity labels, enforce conditional access policies and a whole lot more.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re building an enterprise line of business app, this keeps all the documents you need to manage within your Microsoft 365 tenant but still isolated from the rest of your Microsoft 365 user experience. If you\u2019re an ISV, this lets you deliver incredible value that helps customers get the most of their Microsoft 365 security and compliance investment, all without having to develop it yourself.<\/p>\n AvePoint, a leading Microsoft Modern Work Solutions Partner that provides an advanced platform to optimize SaaS operations and secure collaboration in Microsoft 365, announced the private preview of the AvePoint Confide app, which is architected completely around Microsoft Syntex repository services. \u201cSyntex repository services helped us deliver a new version of AvePoint Confide and open up new markets,\u201d according to Marco Morsella, SVP, Head of Product at AvePoint.\u00a0\u201cWe originally created AvePoint Confide to provide organizations a secure virtual data room fully integrated with Microsoft 365 to protect merger & acquisition (M&A) collaboration.\u00a0Syntex repository services provides a new way to store data specific to organizations\u2019 business needs and can be customized across industries \u2013 especially regulated ones such as healthcare, government and financial services \u2013 for secure collaboration beyond M&A.\u00a0Now our customers can\u00a0isolate sensitive documents related to\u00a0all of their\u00a0critical business processes, like contract management, multiparty deal collaboration, and healthcare information, while still maintaining the Microsoft 365 security and compliance features that our customers demand.\u201d<\/p>\nSyntex repository services enable incredible new app capabilities, dramatically accelerating your content management roadmap<\/h2>\n
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