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Business Wire
01-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
M-Files and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership that Revolutionizes Document Management
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- M-Files, the leader in AI-powered document management, and Microsoft, today announced a strategic expansion of their long-standing partnership. M-Files will now use Microsoft 365 and its API-only service, SharePoint Embedded 1, to unlock native Microsoft 365 capabilities for M-Files AI-curated content, including agentic experiences delivered by Microsoft 365 Copilot and M-Files Aino 2. This deepened collaboration marks a fundamental shift in how customers manage enterprise content. This first-of-its-kind, unified offering from M-Files and Microsoft 365 addresses major pain points for both business and IT users. Unlike legacy document management tools that limit AI effectiveness due to poor content quality, fragment information governance, and create siloed systems that increase administrative burden, M-Files and Microsoft 365 now give customers a centralized, scalable environment to retrieve documents with high precision, manage content throughout its lifecycle, and utilize AI for critical business workflows. Documents are now easier to extract insights from, collaborate on and govern—boosting efficiency and effectiveness while reducing risk. Customers will realize significant benefits including: Confidence in generative AI results that are grounded in accurate, relevant, and trusted content: M-Files and Microsoft 365 deliver meticulously classified, high-value enterprise content. Microsoft 365 Copilot natively extends to M-Files AI-curated content, enhancing output and creating the foundation for broad AI adoption. Higher productivity via native Microsoft 365 co-authoring and collaboration capabilities for M-Files users: Customers avoid content silos and streamline end-user workflows across business processes and document lifecycles, including industry content such as client engagement deliverables, technical product specifications and asset management plans. Unified security & compliance, with built-in, automated content governance and permissions: M-Files secure content remains within the Microsoft 365 security boundary, applying additional organization-wide compliance and governance policies defined by Microsoft Purview 3. Maximized ROI for existing and future Microsoft 365 investments: For the first time ever, customers can select a best-of-breed document management solution without sacrificing standardization with Microsoft. By choosing M-Files as the pre-built solution for industry-specific use cases, organizations avoid costly custom development and benefit from future joint innovation with Microsoft. For customers, the benefits are already clear. "We chose M-Files because of their impressive technology and strong foundation for AI innovation and integrations with Microsoft 365,' said Adrian Logan, Head of Digital Transformation at PKF Francis Clark. 'The ability to use native Microsoft 365 capabilities in M-Files makes M-Files even more valuable to us now and in the future. We are confident that we made the right choice and will continue to use M-Files and Microsoft together to drive our business forward." 'M-Files brings tremendous value to the Microsoft ecosystem through deep industry expertise and purpose-built business use cases,' said Jeff Teper, President - Microsoft 365 Collaborative Apps and Platforms. 'This revolutionary offering, the first-of-its kind built on SharePoint Embedded, combines Microsoft's collaborative platform with M-Files' business-centric processes and scaled document management to deliver a solution that's greater than the sum of its parts. Together, we're unlocking the full potential of Microsoft 365 investments for our customers.' 'This partnership marks a pivotal moment for M-Files and the industry,' said Jay Bhatt, CEO of M-Files. 'As the first document management system to use both Microsoft 365 and its API-only service, SharePoint Embedded, we have fundamentally changed how enterprise content is managed and accessed at scale. This isn't just another integration—it's a native solution, built over months of collaboration, that combines M-Files' strengths in metadata-driven automation and AI with Microsoft's powerful collaboration, security, and Copilot capabilities. For organizations invested in Microsoft, M-Files is now the clear choice for document management.' The combined M-Files and Microsoft 365 offering is available today, bringing even greater value to enterprises that rely on the Microsoft ecosystem. For more information visit M-Files. 1 Microsoft SharePoint Embedded is a new API-only highly scalable content repository used by Microsoft Loop, Designer, and Copilot Pages. SharePoint Embedded does not provide a UI, keeping the M-Files user experience intact and maintaining all existing functionality. Microsoft also offers this technology to customers and partners to help develop applications that leverage native Microsoft 365 Copilot, collaboration, and compliance capabilities, keeping all content within the customer's secure Microsoft 365 tenant. 2 M-Files Aino ('I know') is the AI fabric of M-Files, leveraging agentic and generative AI to organize information, automate daily work, and unlock knowledge and insights with natural language. 3 Microsoft Purview provides organizations tools and solutions to govern, protect, and manage their data in Microsoft 365. About M-Files M-Files is redefining how work gets done. Our AI-powered document management system offers purpose-built business use cases—spanning universal and industry-specific workflows—to enable secure collaboration, automate processes, and ensure governance. Unlike traditional systems, M-Files organizes content around the context of your business, connecting documents to related people, projects, and transactions. With our unique metadata-driven architecture, organizations can model content in line with their business processes, unify information across silos, and apply AI at scale. The result is greater productivity, reduced risk, and smarter, faster decisions for over 6,000 customers in 100+ countries.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
CUNY professors union does 180 on plan to boycott Israel after supposed voting ‘irregularities'
A labor union of City University of New York professors repealed a controversial resolution supporting a boycott of Israel – as members cited voting 'irregularities' and fierce backlash. The 'boycott, divest and sanction' resolution passed last month last month focused on cutting off union reserves from the Jewish State and urging the teachers' pension system including professors to do the same. It passed in a narrow 73-70 and slammed Israel's bombing of Gaza and the killing of thousands of civilians. But amid a backlash from members who support Israel, leaders with the Professional Staff Congress said there were 'irregularities' with the initial Jan. 23 vote. The faculty union held a second vote on the BDS resolution Feb. 20 — and the divestment resolution was overwhelmingly defeated with 113 opposed, while only 63 votes in favor. 'The [PSC] Delegate Assembly chose to rescind the resolution because irregularities were identified in the January 23 vote. The irregularities were corrected and a revote was held on February 20,' confirmed PSC spokesman Francis Clark. 'The divestment resolution failed with a vote of 113 opposed, 63 in favor.' Pro-Israel professors claimed criticism of the anti-Israel resolution pressured the union to conduct a revote on it. Opponents claimed singling out the Jewish State for a boycott was antisemitic. For example, the statement made no mention of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel when Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 people in the Jewish State and took scores of hostages — triggering Israel's response and effectively ending the war. 'I am thrilled that the union – solely for its own survival—rescinded its hateful, illegal, and antisemitic resolution and I am hopeful that this is a trend that catches on nationally,' said CUNY law professor Jeffrey Lax, founder of Students, Alumni, and Faculty for Equality on Campus [S.A.F.E]. 'We have a long way to go to reform this union and make it a tolerant one for Jewish and all people.' It's not the first time that the PSC outraged professors with anti Israel actions. In June 2021, the CUNY professors' union passed a one-sided resolution rebuking Israel for attacks on Palestinians — indicating then it may support the BDS movement down the road. Scores of professors have quit the union over its hostility to Israel, Lax said. In 2022, professors at CUNY's Law School also passed a resolution in support of the BDS movement. Students, joined by some professors, disrupted and even vandalized some CUNY campuses with anti-Israel protests over the past year. An independent probe commissioned by Hochul and released last September found that CUNY needs a top-to-bottom overhaul to combat 'alarming'' antisemitism fanned by its own faculty and do-nothing higher-ups.
