Microsoft Ignite 2022 has opened its doors presenting the main novelties of those of Redmond for companies and professionals. On this occasion, its new proposals focus above all on encouraging organizations and professionals to have more functions and tools to improve efficiency and productivity, with the main focus on the cloud. In total, more than a hundred proposals related to Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft 365, the world of developers, cloud services and security.
Among them is the expansion of the Microsoft Intelligent Data platform, which has been joined by a dozen partners. The geographic availability, scalability, and distribution of the Azure Cosmos DB distributed database has also increased; and there is new distributed database support for PostgreSQL.
Azure also has a new feature for deploying Azure Kubernetes Service on-premises or at the edge using Azure Arc. Azure OpenAI Service will offer invite access to the DALL-E 2 model, which allows you to generate custom images from images or text. Also related to AI, Power Automate will simplify workflows by applying Artificial Intelligence to everyday natural language, allowing those workflows to be created in the cloud by making the request out loud and in a natural way.
Another novelty of Ignite 2022 is Microsoft Syntex. It is a solution that integrates Microsoft cloud services, from Microsoft 365 to Azure, through Power Platform or Microsoft Purview. Its goal is to automatically tag and index large amounts of content, then plug it into its proper context. Thus, it will be able to be located in searches and applications. But also classify as general knowledge. In any case, it will be identified to be reused when necessary. On the other hand, Conversation Intelligence for Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise and for Viva Sales becomes free.
Microsoft Ignite 2022: news for the new work models
Another of the main novelties of Ignite 2022 is Microsoft Places, an application that optimizes the use of physical space in the work environment, and specially designed for hybrid work. With Places, employees and companies can know when they are going to the office and who is going, which allows workers to know when they are going to meet others. Also consider which meetings are more suitable to have in person.
Another novelty for the new work formats is Intelligent Recap, a feature that uses Artificial Intelligence to assign tasks in meetings, automatically generate breakouts in a meeting, and share personalized information from your recording. In this way, users can access information that is truly relevant to them. It will be offered as part of the new Teams Premium add-on, among other features.
Also to optimize the work, the package of improvements Microsoft Edge Workspaces, made up of various Edge browser tabs where workgroups can see the same websites and the latest files in one place. In this way, the members of a team will be able to see in the same tab or group of tabs the relevant files and links for their members. In addition, these are updated in real time.
Improvements for the security of professionals and companies
Microsoft has launched its security tool at its Ignite event Defender for DevOps, which addresses the problems of writing code without security in mind. With this new tool, companies can protect applications as they are developed by giving developers the assurance that when using external code or employing large application teams they can deliver more secure solutions.
also new, Microsoft Power Platform Managed Environments is responsible for spreading low-code development across organizations. All while administrators maintain the ability to govern and manage the security of low-code deployments.
Microsoft Enter is responsible for offering identity and access management solutions designed to work securely on various cloud platforms. Microsoft Enters Identity Governance helps ensure that only the people who need to have access to the resources they need, and when they need it.
Within this solution, Workload Identity is responsible for controlling and protecting the identities of digital workloads. Among them are applications and services. It also deals with controlling user access to cloud resources. On the other hand, certificate-based authentication allows adopting an authentication mechanism resistant to identity theft, characterized by its simple deployment.
