We are excited to share that we’re updating the section background feature in SharePoint Pages and News. With this feature, we’re enabling authors to create beautiful pages with featured sections.
SharePoint now lets you add an image or gradient color to the page sections from a new set of options. And lets you personalize the sections backgrounds with your own images.
A see-through overlay has been automatically added to make the text easier to read when you set an image or gradient color as section background.
We’ve added more settings like Fill mode, Overlay color, Overlay opacity to help you do more customization, and follow accessibility best practices and ensure that the.
Tip! How to create a smooth border between two sections in View mode: For the upper section (sky), choose Dark Gradient Overlay – Bottom to top – Set Opacity to 100; For the lower section (lake), pick Dark Gradient Overlay – Top to bottom – Set Opacity to 100.
We’ve enhanced the focal point setting experience. You will be able to set it when Fill mode of background is “Scale to fill”.
New experience to preview to see how the focal point affects the way your readers view your image across different screen sizes and aspect ratios.
Features and capabilities, mentioned in this blog post, are demonstrated in the following video with Yi Han (Microsoft) & Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft)
Frequently asked questions
When will this happen?
The first version of Section background (16 background options) is in 100% production already. of v1.1 will roll out to Targeted Release customers starting May 2024, and to all customers by the end of June.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 378647 and Roadmap ID 378648.
How will this affect your organization?
With this update, SharePoint Page and News authors can set section background color or image to make it an appealing experience.
What do you need to prepare?
There is nothing you need to do to prepare, but you can let your users know about this new experience and guide them to make beautiful pages with a few examples.
How does it look in emails?
Site theme colors will be used in place of section backgrounds that aren’t supported in email when you send a news post or a page as an email.
What is next?
Here’s a short list of the following roadmap items in our plans which were also discussed in the associated video discussion.
- We are planning to support animated images as background in the next release.
- We are considering adding an opt-out for this feature to turn it off on the site or tenant level.
Thanks for reading. Please enjoy making beautiful pages and let us know any feedback or questions in the comments.
Power Automate for desktop comes with new great additions in 2024 April’s release, including UI elements collections, Copilot for flow descriptions, multiple new actions in several modules, and more!
In the fast-paced world of marketing and sales, efficiency and agility are key. That’s why the Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) organization has embarked on an exciting journey to better understand internal processes by monitoring them, uncovering inefficiencies, and optimizing them to excellence. The threefold approach using combined capabilities of Power Automate, Process Mining and Copilot have become a staple, internally.
The Power Automate Process Mining solution helps the organization get the full lifecycle visibility into their processes, understand the inefficiencies and targeted improvements to drive via process alignments and automation. Microsoft’s Process Mining offering is easy to use with powerful features including rework detectors, root cause analysis, custom reporting, and seamless integration and automation. The power of Copilot and general ease of use of the platform allow the team to not only scale across all of its processes quickly, but also augments the products owner toolkit to drive process optimization as a critical lever for accelerating digital transformation.
Given the large coverage of the customer base, Marketing execution is inherently complex, involving multiple roles and activities. By focusing on the demand generation process step, the MCAPS team was able to delve into the nested processes and uncover areas for improvement.
By utilizing Power Automate Process Mining, the team gathered event log data, transformed it using Power Query, and completed data attribution. The resulting process map was then analyzed with the help of Copilot, which provided insights and identified bottlenecks that could be addressed through automation.
The analysis revealed that the average duration of this process component was ~60 days, with five different variants spanning across 33 activities. Notably, 20% of the cases required rework activities, indicating a significant area for potential optimization. Roles such as event lead marketing Operations and Integrated Marketing Manager were found to be the most involved in the process, contributing to 80% of the executional activities. By zooming in on individual activities, the team discovered that the intake for content creation averaged 8 days to complete, accounting for about 10% of the total time spent in the process.
With the insights provided by Copilot, the team identified the review loop as the longest-running activity and a major bottleneck. But Copilot didn’t stop there; it went a step further by leveraging Power Automate to automate the process steps, providing improvement suggestions along the way.
The team chose to create digital process flows, and Copilot seamlessly handed it off to Power Automate with a prompt to build the automation. As the flows were built out, Power Automate Copilot continued to refine then until they were ready to be published.
Through iterative process mining and the acceleration provided by Copilot’s automation recommendations, the team projects an outcome of reducing the timeline from 12 weeks to 8 weeks.
“With the recommendations using Power Automate with Process Mining, we project accelerated time in our demand generation process from twelve to eight weeks. Copilot has given us a lot of confidence as it allows us to scale process simplification as the tip of the spear for our digital transformation!”, says Sandeep Bhanot, Corporate Vice President within Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions.
This case study is just one example that showcases the power of AI in transforming organizational processes. Within Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions organization, process mining is being scaled to all business-critical sales processes to realize accelerated efficiencies through process simplification, improved seller productivity, increased compliance and accelerated time to value for Microsoft and our Customers. The team is projecting at least $20 million+ labor productivity improvement across these process areas.
By embracing Process Mining with AI-powered Copilots, businesses can achieve greater efficiency and agility, paving the way for innovation and success.
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How can businesses streamline their processes and optimize their performance with process mining? Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions organization has been using Power Automate Process Mining with Copilot to analyze, improve, and monitor their sales processes. The results have been impressive for their marketing demand generation process. Read on to learn how they did it, and how you can benefit from Power Automate Process Mining too.
The enterprise journey toward operational excellence is ongoing, and the adoption of hyperautomation has become a pivotal milestone. Microsoft Power Platform stands at the forefront of this movement, offering a suite of tools that transform the way businesses approach digital transformation at scale – and Microsoft Power Automate is a key accelerator.
Imagine a world where every repetitive task, every mundane process, and every time-consuming operation is transformed into a symphony of automated actions, working in perfect harmony to deliver results at lightning speed. This isn’t just a fantasy; it’s a reality that Power Automate can bring, and it’s revolutionizing the way enterprises operate on a global scale.
Below you will learn about a comprehensive scenario with a Center of Excellence (CoE) team, using many of the capabilities in Power Automate, such as Microsoft Copilot, process mining, digital and robotic process automation (RPA), AI models, and more across Power Platform.
Watch the following overview video or continue reading for more details!
Optimizing with precision
Take, for example, a large insurance company bogged down by the weight of its claims process. With the magic of Copilot and process mining in Power Automate, data is ingested from Microsoft Azure Data Lake. The data is analyzed, insights are provided, bottlenecks are identified, and recommendations from Copilot to create an app or automation moves you to action.
Watch the video below to go deeper or continue reading!
Leveraging the power of AI
But why stop there? Power Automate doesn’t just automate; it hyperautomates. It takes the data from process mining and help crafts a late payment prediction AI model that can foresee issues before they arise. This predictive prowess is akin to having foresight, enabling better decision-making and resource allocation that can save time and money.
Watch the video below to go deeper or continue reading!
The approval symphony
And let’s not forget the settlement approval process, often a maze of documentation, is now simplified with task mining. Power Automate, with its task mining capabilities, records each step and transforms them into a process map that’s as clear as day. It then guides the creation of an automation that uses AI, RPA, and API-based automation together to connect data to SAP.
Watch the video below to go deeper or continue reading!
Deploying solutions at scale
Now we move from proof of concept (POC) to enterprise-wide deployment, where IT is empowered with robust Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) that extends across Power Platform. With custom dashboards, automation, apps, and more you can visually track and act on the transformative impact of hyperautomation.
Watch the video below to go deeper or continue reading!
Embrace the future of productivity
Hyperautomation with Power Automate is not just about adopting new technology; it’s about embracing a future where efficiency and productivity are paramount. Let’s embark on this journey together, leveraging the power of hyperautomation to achieve a new standard of excellence.
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