Microsoft Office Delve
Office Delve and Office Graph “helps you discover the information that’s likely to be most interesting to you right now – across Office 365.” In a nutshell, Office Graph sits behind Delve and uses machine learning to gather personalised data based on a users’ identity and activity, while Delve is the interface in which the data is presented. It’s essentially a smart search engine with a visually appealing results view packed with lots of data at a glance.
Features
What’s great about Delve is it takes information from across Office 365 and puts it into one user interface that’s clearly laid out using cards, like Pinterest. Its key features are:
Routes to search: Microsoft understand that users need to search in different ways – what if you can’t remember the name of the document? Delve allows you to search by finding keywords within the title or the document itself but it also allows you to search by user, so if you can’t remember the name of the document but know who sent it, you can quickly find it.
Visual display: Delve uses card-display to present the data visually at a glance for better user experience. This display allows you to quickly see: recent activity, document title, the image extracted from the document (or cover page), the type of document, where it’s saved, how many times it has been viewed, who can see it and gives the ability to send via email, post on Yammer or add to a board. It makes such a nice change from just seeing a title!
Bringing Office 365 together: Delve searches multiple sources to gathers it’s content, including:
- SharePoint
- OneDrive
- Outlook
- Yammer
Security: You can only view documents and groups that you have access to, ensuring no users can view anything above their security permissions.
Apps: Delve is available to download as an app for Android and iOS to give a better mobile experience. It will also be coming to Windows Phone soon.
