It’s just 2 days before we embrace a new year into our life. 2016 is around which implies most of my buddies in office and in social circle have started talking about their resolutions for the coming year. While having a discussion with one of my colleague, she talked about her resolutions for e.g. No pastries, Running 4 times a week and a hell lot other things. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I haven’t yet found any sync or rhythm with her resolutions. But I put myself in to contemplation mode for last 2 hours to discover one thing which I really want to do regularly in much awaited 2016. At last, I realized the only thing which comes close to be a resolution is – Having an uncluttered and properly managed system to make it easier for me to get access to important files and conversations. The moment I paste this resolution on my desk – Most of my friends are going to say that resolutions are meant for yourself not for your corporate life, you should think about work-life balance.
Truth be told, I have invested a lot of my time on multiple occasions to find out the relevant document and conversations. I have faced a rather embarrassing situation where I din’t find the document relevant to a meeting at appropriate time.
Uptil now, I was hell bent on embracing this resolution for 2016 but then the magic happened. As always folks in Office 365 division are redefining the term productivity and voila – This time it was Delve.
Originally launched in SharePoint conference in March 2014, Delve codenamed OSLO gives an entirely new perspective to efficiency of individuals within an organization. I was looking forward to it since the day of launch but right now I am astonished with vision of Delve. Imagine, the thought of finding what is relevant to your current work and meetings before you go actually and find it, well I don’t think I have to tell you why I am excited.
Delve is a new way to search and discover content and people across O365 based on personalized insights. These new insights are derived from each users’ behavior, their relationships to content, topics and one another. Delve determines what’s relevant to each individual based on who they work with, and what they and the people around them are working on. It helps people stay better connected and informed on topics and projects that matter most to them. Its is about search and discovery across Office 365, where search is used in instances when you’re looking for something you know exists, and discovery being about relevant information that is proactively surfaced to you based on the people and content that matter most to your work. At work, people share content with one another in a variety of ways, and interactions take place in multiple apps and tools across Office 365. Delve is a window into the content, activities and people that are most relevant to each individual.
What powers Delve is another amazing thing – Office Graphs. Office Graph is something really exciting and I am getting goosebumps even while writing about it. (I mean it! Seriously! I get excited talking about innovations which literally redefines our future)
Delve is built on the Office Graph, which maps interactions and relationships between content and people in Office 365. Office Graph analyzes these relationships and activities in real-time with machine learning principles to prioritize the most meaningful and strongest signals and content for each user. By tapping into Office Graph Delve makes calculations to determine which content is most relevant to each individual based on these new insights.
Now, a big query which will be making you a bit hesitant towards Delve is Privacy. Agree it or not, we all will be a bit uncomfortable if someone tells us that there is a service which will sneak into your files, meetings, conversations, emails, OneNote, OneDrive and tons of other things. Don’t worry – Users can only see content that they already have permission to access in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. Each content card in Delve includes the same visual cues that are used in OneDrive for Business to show who else can view that particular piece of content. Email attachments are only visible by you and the sender, and have visible lock signs on the cards. Delve will never change permissions on any documents. Because the information shown in Delve is personalized, users will only see content they already have permissions to. Also, other people cannot see others’ private activities, such as what documents they’ve read, emails they’ve sent and received, or Lync conversations they’ve been in.
You can learn more about privacy in Delve, here.
In case, you really want to take a test drive of what Delve offers to you and your organization – then I suggest you should check this link.
If you interested in reading more about Office Graphs and Group APIs – You can learn more about them through my earlier blog post - Productivity aka O365, Future Unleashed and My First Speaker Session.
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Thanks for reading this blog post and I hope I am going to honor my commitment of sharing things through this medium regularly.
P.S. In case – You haven’t noted down your resolutions, make sure you don’t include my previous one. Cheers! and Have a great day!
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