ChatGPT: Advanced search now connects to SharePoint

A major evolution has just been announced by OpenAI: ChatGPT can now connect to SharePoint for in-depth research. This new feature, available in beta for users of the Plus, Pro and Team offers, opens up new perspectives for the exploitation of internal data in companies.

What is in-depth research?

Extensive research allows ChatGPT to read, reason, and respond based on internal documents, while respecting the access rights defined in the organization. Unlike a simple search, ChatGPT can synthesize content, identify links between different files, and produce contextualized, reasoned and sourced answers.

Why connect SharePoint to ChatGPT?

With SharePoint integration, ChatGPT can now access files stored on multiple SharePoint sites, allowing:

• of reduce the time spent looking for information,
• of centralize dispersed content,
• And of facilitate cross-team collaboration.

This feature is especially useful in organizations where knowledge is distributed across departments or document silos.

Concrete examples of use

Here are three possible use cases for business teams:

• Multi-department strategic summary
  “Summarizes this quarter's strategy based on documents shared by the Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Product teams.”
• Automatic creation of customer brief
  “Write an account card based on our internal notes in SharePoint and publicly available information.”
• Technical ticket analysis
  “Based on bash bug reports stored in SharePoint, what bugs are already referenced in GitHub and what are the possible next steps?”

Respect for confidentiality

Access to documents is strictly limited to the rights of users : ChatGPT only sees what the user is allowed to see. Furthermore, no data from professional products (SharePoint, OneDrive, etc.) is used to train models from OpenAI.

How to enable SharePoint integration

Activation is simply done from the ChatGPT interface, via the menu Settings > Connected apps. The feature is already available in beta for users Plus, Pro and Team. Support for organizations Enterprise will be coming soon.

In summary

The integration between ChatGPT and SharePoint marks an important step in the evolution of AI in business. It makes it possible to access information more quickly, to cross-reference internal data with intelligent queries, and to save precious time on a daily basis.

To be monitored closely for teams in charge of documentation, strategy, customer service, or technical support.