SharePoint administrators will administer Microsoft Syntex SharePoint Advanced Management from the SharePoint Admin Centre. It should be noted that this is a Microsoft 365 add-on. While features are administered by SharePoint administrators, some of the features can be utilized by site owners. The suite of tools available through Microsoft Syntex SharePoint Advanced Management Setup will not only help enhance secured collaboration in Microsoft 356 but will help manage and govern SharePoint and OneDrive compliance.
Microsoft Syntex SharePoint Advanced Management Setup provides advanced policies for access, ensuring secure content collaboration and advanced lifecycle management of site content.
Advanced Access Policies: Secure Content Collaboration
The advanced access policies include:
Summary of Outcomes | |
Existing Label | Override with Library Default Label |
Manually applied, any priority | No |
Automatically applied, lower priority | Yes |
Automatically applied, higher priority | No |
Default label from policy, lower priority | Yes |
Default label from policy, higher priority | No |
Advanced Sites Content: Lifecycle Management
Advanced Lifecycle Management for site content includes:
Microsoft Syntex SharePoint Advanced Management Setup adds several more layers of security through sensitivity labels and policies addressing site and OneDrive restrictions, sensitive content access, blocking downloads, and group security. As an add-on, this suite of powerful features and tools provides seamless end-to-end compliance and security for additional content security and prevention of data loss.
As mentioned in our previous article Microsoft 365: Microsoft Syntex Updates Part 1, Microsoft continues to leverage AI and machine learning to develop and enhance an end-to-end Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution for its customers.
Previously, we reviewed Syntex updates for Content Assembly, Translation, Summarization, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Taxonomy Tagging, Image Tagging, and the new preview features for Pay-as-You-Go customers. In this article, we continue our journey of discovering the latest updates to Syntex with Intelligent Document Processing.
Intelligent Document Processing
As part of the IDP solution, Syntex integrates AI from Microsoft AI Builder, Microsoft Azure, and other Microsoft sources, to bring structure to content. Content can be tagged with extracted data, classified, and with the application of sensitivity and retention labels, can be secured. Content is seamlessly transformed into knowledge as the taxonomy tags and labels are integrated into Microsoft Viva Topics.
By understanding, categorizing, and tagging content, Document Processing encompasses the ability to analyze, navigate, and secure data through its data processing services. There are two model types in Microsoft Syntex including Custom Models and Prebuilt Models. Custom Models consist of Structured, Freeform, and Unstructured Document Processing. Prebuilt Models include Contract, Invoice, and Receipt processing.
Custom Models
There are three document processing services for custom models and the custom model that will be used is determined by the types of files that are used, the structure and format of the files, and where the model is to be applied. The Custom Models can be visualized in the image below:
The Custom Models include:
Prebuilt Models
What is a Prebuilt Model? A prebuilt document processing model has already been trained for specific structured documents and can be used when a Custom Model is not required. The Prebuilt Models can be visualized in the image below:
The Prebuilt Models include:
Content from these processes, as well as the ones discussed in Microsoft 365: Microsoft Syntex Updates Part 1, can be electronically reviewed and signed with Syntex eSignature alongside Adobe Acrobat Sign or DocuSign. Content remains within Microsoft 365, keeping it safe and secure.
Designed to connect your content and powered by AI and technology, Syntex will help users discover and reuse content through search, efficiently streamline business processes with its integration into workflows, manage content with taxonomies and document processes, and the prevention of data loss through compliance and the capabilities of eSignature. Microsoft Syntex innovates and raises the standard of Content AI technology.
Microsoft continues to leverage AI and machine learning to develop and enhance an end-to-end Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution for its customers. The solution is Microsoft Syntex and through its time of development, implementation, and dynamic responses to global organization requirements, it has been receiving upgrades and expanding in new directions for greater content understanding, compliance, and processing.
Syntex is a new type of technology solution and is categorized as Content AI. Content AI not only automates workflows at scale but also empowers people using advancements in both cloud technology and AI. By combining both technologies and integrating them into the workflow of users, the creation, processing, and discoverability of content is transformed into a people-centric system making collaboration, knowledge, creativity, and sharing seamless and at everyone’s fingertips.
This fall, Microsoft announced many new updates to Syntex including Content Assembly, Translate Content, Summarization, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Taxonomy Tagging, Image Tagging, and new previews for Pay-as-You-Go users that include content queries and universal annotations. In our next article, Microsoft Syntex Updates Part 2, we will dive into the latest Intelligent Document Processing models. Syntex will help organizations enhance, connect, and manage their content at scale while providing users seamless, intuitive, and easy access to content.
Let’s review the announcements this fall of what is released and what is to come.
New Content Creation
Content Assembly
With Content Assembly, dynamic templates for a wide range of content can be created effortlessly. The format, whether it is invoices, letters, contracts, or statements of work, can be generated by existing documents and the data can be populated from a variety of sources. Microsoft Syntex can be leveraged to automatically generate repetitive and standard business documents, including contracts, agreements, letters of consent, etc. With these documents, modern templates with fewer errors can be used to generate accurate documents.
An existing document can be uploaded to create a modern template. This in turn can generate new content using SharePoint Lists as a data source or manual entries can be used.
Images, Audio, and Video Processing
One of the most common file types in Microsoft 365 is images. With close to 100,000 automatically recognized objects “out of the box”, images can now be processed and tagged.
Translation
Currently in Preview, content selected from single or multiple documents, or a folder, can be translated into one of a dozen languages that you specify.
Summarization
Important data and action items are summarized into key points by Syntex which leverages AI to generate these content summaries. This can be accomplished by the application of rules or on demand.
Syntex Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) provides easy access to a digital version of scanned text by extracting text lines, words, paragraphs, and text blocks. With Syntex OCR service, the extraction of printed or handwritten text from images, including product labels, drawings, posters, forms, invoices, articles, and reports can now be attained. The extracted information can be made for compliance features including data loss prevention (DLP) and will be indexed in search.
With OCR service enabled and images added to the document library, Syntex will automatically scan the image files. It will then extract the relevant text. Once extracted, it will make the text from the images available for indexing and searching, allowing users to quickly and accurately find keywords and phrases.
In addition to image-only files, it now includes TIFF and PDF, in SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Windows devices, and Teams messages. IT admins can secure these images across the platforms with DLP policies.
Syntex Taxonomy Tagging
Leveraging AI, Syntex Taxonomy Tagging labels and organized documents by automatically tagging them with descriptive keywords. These keywords are based on the taxonomy as defined in SharePoint. By enabling taxonomy tagging and applying a taxonomy column, documents are automatically tagged with keywords. These keywords are from the term store and assist with sorting, searching, filtering, and more. Categorizing, finding, and managing files in the document libraries is easier, more efficient, and labor-reducing.
Syntex Image Tagging
An AI-powered service, Syntex Image Tagging labels and organizes images with automatic tagging of descriptive keywords to the images. These tags are then stored as metadata which is then used to filter, optimize search, filter, and manage the images. Syntex Image Tagging allows faster categorization and search of a specific image.
New Features in Preview for Syntex Pay-As-You-Go Users
Available through June 30, 2024, Syntex Pay-As-You-Go Users will have access to all Syntex features that were previously only available to customers with the SharePoint Syntex seat license.
These Pay-As-You-Go user services include:
When there is content compliance, all content that is properly tagged and labeled will provide better compliance control with increased management and governance for all data, keeping it manageable and secure.
These new features are not only exciting but also set the path for Content AI. By combining technology and intelligent AI, Microsoft Syntex is creating a world of content management that is sleek, controllable, collaborative, and secure. Microsoft Syntex steps beyond the boundaries of content management with Intelligent Document Processing through the integration of AI, workflows, and knowledge as explained in our next article Microsoft Syntex Updates Part 2.