Today, July 1, 2025 marks a new era in the document management industry, and a new chapter for SharePoint as the world's leading document management platform. Today we share the news that M-Files has announced that they are using SharePoint Embedded to natively store their customers' content in Microsoft 365.
By natively leveraging SharePoint Embedded, M-Files is enhancing its deep portfolio of solutions with the full richness of Microsoft 365, Purview, and Copilot. We are thrilled to deepen the long-standing partnership between M-Files and Microsoft for the benefit of our mutual customers beyond the existing integrations into Office, Teams, Dynamics, and more that M-Files provides. Let's take a look at what this means for the new era of document management...
M-Files has always been known for excelling in high value solutions for accounting, tax & audit, wealth management, consulting, engineering, energy & utilities, scientific research, insurance brokers and manufacturing. With deep integration into line of business systems commonly used in these sectors, and extensive metadata, business objects, and advanced document management capabilities, they have built formidable expertise in these verticals.
However, until today, when choosing another document management platform from a competitor, customers had to make the difficult choice to lose the benefits of Microsoft 365 as the content would be stored in a separate repository. Losing features such as fully native co-authoring, the best security and compliance in the industry with Microsoft Purview, and direct support with Copilot and the rest of the features of Microsoft 365 in order to get the deepest industry solutions and line of business system integration, was a painful choice.
Starting today, customers no longer have to choose. M-Files now leverages SharePoint Embedded as the storage layer for their platform. This means M-Files customers' content lives within the security boundary of Microsoft 365 with full Purview support. Everyone gets completely native co-authoring and sharing exactly like they do in OneDrive or SharePoint thanks to SharePoint Embedded. Microsoft Search can find and index the content without any connectors. Most importantly, Copilot can reason over the content in M-Files and a whole new generation of agents can be delivered with curated, AI-ready content that customers have long stored in M-Files.
Considering the vast amount of industry content that customers already store in M-Files, unlocking that for use with Copilot and being able to build new agents for professional services, manufacturing and energy & utilities and all of the other verticals that M-Files specializes in is an exciting new era for document management. Customers no longer have to choose between the "system of record" and the "system of engagement". The time to securely enable all this high value content for the AI-driven future has arrived.
At Microsoft our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We are proud to empower M-Files and all of their customers to achieve more in the era of AI by building on SharePoint Embedded!
To learn more about the partnership and capabilities available today from M-Files built on SharePoint Embedded, click here.
To learn more about SharePoint Embedded, the best way to store documents and build AI-focused applications, click here.
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