M-Files IMPACT Global Conference 2025 – Day 2

The second day of the M-Files IMPACT Global Conference 2025 commenced at 9 am with a keynote session. On this occasion, the key note was entitled ‘Unlocking the Future of Business. The Future of AI: Unlocking New Opportunities and Navigating the Challenges Ahead’
The importance of AINO was emphasised, especially the automatic filling of metadata.

Keynote

Alan Pelz-Sharpe from Deep Analytics provided insights into the future of AI, exploring both the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. He provided a practical, actionable roadmap to help you navigate and thrive in the AI-powered era, allowing you to shape the future. He spoke about supporting and transforming Agentic AI business tasks and processes through AI & Agentic Process Automation.

Following a brief intermission, the second morning resumed with further sessions concentrating on the future of M-Files. The sessions are entitled “Shaping the Future: We are pleased to announce that the sessions will focus on two key topics: ‘Strategic Perspectives on Innovation and Product Vision’ and ‘Achieving Enterprise-Grade Scalability with M-Files’.
The main message of the sessions was that AI and cloud play a big role in the M-Files strategy, and that the strategy is based on the themes emphasised in yesterday’s session.

• Reduce the Friction of Putting Content “In Context”
• Offer a Horizontal Platform and Vertical Applications
• Automate Customer Workflows for Critical Business Use Cases
• Lead in Applied AI and Enable Customers to Generate Value from AI

The morning’s proceedings concluded with a panel discussion focused on customers in attendance at the M-Files conference.
Several companies from a variety of industries and sizes shared their experiences with M-Files and their implementation projects.

As on the first day, the agenda was divided into technical, development and business sessions. On this day, I had the honour of attending interesting sessions on “New M-Files Desktop”, “M-Files Admin Goes Web” and “Enabling M-Files capabilities with Microsoft 365”.

New M-Files Desktop

They are working to achieve WCAG 2.12 Level AA and Section 508 compliance in the new client. This initiative underlines the commitment to ensuring that digital content is accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. In addition, below is a list of upcoming features.

• In-app guidance
• Sharing center
• Global search
• AI search
• AI agents

To switch to the new M-Files Desktop Client, make sure that you are not using the Custom UI and that the gRPC protocol is enabled.

M-Files Admin Goes Web

First, they showed us a bit of the history and development of the M-Files Admin Client over time. From a standard Microsoft Windows application with limited configuration options to a tool that allows complete configuration of M-Files. For example, the latest version has 1600 configuration options in the Advanced Configuration section alone.

Enabling M-Files capabilities with Microsoft 365

Regarding the integration of M-Files and Microsoft 365. It is important to note that this is moving forward with a high level of focus from both sides. The fact that both companies are presenting together shows the close partnership between them.

Topics I would like to highlight include

• Enabling desktop co-authoring with M-Files
• M-Files for Outlook Pro
• M-Files for Microsoft Teams
• M-Files connector for Micrososft Copilot

See the screenshot below for the requirements to enable these features.

The second day was made even more memorable by an enjoyable dinner, in addition to the learning and insight into M-Files. I look forward to sharing this news with my colleagues at dbi services.