Microsoft 365 Community / Ignite 2021 announcement videos

The Visio team is constantly investing in the latest technologies and integrations to empower you to work visually and transform the way you use and visualize data anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Join the Visio team to learn more about the latest updates and new features coming to the Visio product roadmap, including @mentions support, organizational charts, and a host of new tools and capabilities to help enhance and personalize the diagramming experience in the Visio web app.

Presenters: Shilpa Goyal (Visio senior program manager) and Aakanksha Raj (Visio program manager)

Learn more about Microsoft Visio on the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/visio/ct-p/Visio

Read the related blog: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2021/06/09/bringing-visio-to-microsoft-365-diagramming-for-everyone/ by Seth Patton, GM at Microsoft

Originally published for Microsoft Ignite (Nov.2-4, 2021)

Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project are apps that help teams collaborate, assign tasks, manage work, and get projects done. In this session we'll take a look at how the apps are similar yet different and how they are used to manage work and projects. Then we'll look at the new features we plan to launch soon for these two apps. Approximate running time 15 mins.

Speaker: Cathy Harley (Senior program manager on the Project and Planner team at Microsoft)

Learn more about Microsoft Project: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/project/project-management-software

Learn more about Microsoft Planner: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/business/task-management-software

Read the related blog, "What's new in Microsoft’s work management apps: Planner and Project": https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/planner-blog/new-in-planner-and-project-microsoft-s-work-management-apps/ba-p/2875083

Published for Microsoft Ignite (Nov.2-4, 2021)

​With the shift to hybrid work comes the need for organizations to reinvent their business processes. Diagrams are one of the best ways to visualize these business processes, which is why we’re bringing the power of Microsoft Visio to all Microsoft 365 commercial license subscribers. The Visio web app in Microsoft 365 will offer general-purpose diagram templates—including basic flowcharts and process diagrams—to help you get started fast. And rich collaboration features and seamless integration with a variety of Microsoft apps, including Microsoft Teams, provide a collaborative diagramming experience from anywhere. Join us and learn more about the Visio web app coming to Microsoft 365—so everyone in your organization can try professional diagramming.

Presenters: Tripteesh Kaur (Visio program manager) and Fredric Morgan (Visio product marketing manager)

Learn more about Microsoft Visio on the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/visio/ct-p/Visio

Read the related blog: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2021/06/09/bringing-visio-to-microsoft-365-diagramming-for-everyone/ by Seth Patton, GM at Microsoft

Originally published for Microsoft Ignite (Nov.2-4, 2021)

Modern information workers need to find knowledge quickly and easily regardless of where the data resides. Intelligent search is more than just ”finding” information, it’s intelligent AND actionable. In this session, Bill shows you how Microsoft Search is more than just results - it’s answers, people, insights wherever you’re working providing consistent, great experiences across the apps and services you use everyday.

Speaker: Bill Baer, senior product manager

Learn more at the Microsoft Search resource center: https://resources.techcommunity.microsoft.com/microsoft-search/

​Putting employees at the center of work and creating a culture where they can thrive by sharing and building on knowledge and expertise, begins with great technology but there’s so much more to drive success. In this session, we’ll explore how customers and Microsoft itself have been implementing Viva Topics and walk through some of the practices for getting deployed, garnering adoption and scaling across organizations. This session will focus on lessons learned and considerations with pragmatic guidance on how People + AI comes together and sharing common use cases.

Speakers: Naomi Moneypenny (Principal GPM), CJ Tan (Principal PM Manager), Kerem Yuceturk (Principal PM), Maeneka Grewal (Program manager), and Eric Gradel (Principal PM).

Learn more about Microsoft Viva Topics: https://aka.ms/Viva/Topics

Read the related blog post, "Microsoft Viva Topics helps unleash collective knowledge with new features at Ignite - November 2021": https://aka.ms/Viva/Topics/IgniteF21

Published for Microsoft Ignite (Nov.2-4, 2021)

​Powered by the Microsoft Cloud, “Yorktown” brings your critical organizational content into the flow of work, driving decisions, transactions, and innovation for your business. Learn how we're building on the foundational content services f SharePoint and the automatic processing power of Syntex to create new solutions for content assembly, contract management, natural language search and transactional content management.

Speakers: Ankit Rastogi (Senior program manager) and Sugandha Jha (Principal PM manager).

To learn more about SharePoint Syntex: https://aka.ms/SharePointSyntex

Read the related blog, "Microsoft SharePoint Syntex product update - Ignite - November 2021": https://aka.ms/Syntex/IgniteF21

Published for Microsoft Ignite (Nov.2-4, 2021)