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Microsoft Office Delve is a data visualization and discovery tool that incorporates elements of social networking and machine learning with the search
2 capability of the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
Delve, which became available to Office 365 subscribers in March 2015, is also a collaboration tool that helps users find colleagues through profiles,
and it allows them to create, edit and share documents, PowerPoint presentations and more with other users. It works similarly to Microsoft Sway in
that it also allows users to embed documents, videos and images.
Delve was initially released as an Office 365 service in July 2014. Prior to release, it was known as codename Oslo.
People experiences. Delve users can curate their profiles to present information about themselves -- such as pictures, projects and skills -- to make
it easier for colleagues to find or connect with them. Delve users can also use the people search and discovery feature to locate a colleague.
Additionally, if authorized, users can review recent co-worker activity and communications, such as email through an Outlook account that's integrated
with Delve, or documents that a co-worker recently viewed or is working on for a project. Users can access the praise feature to recognize their co-
workers for good work.
Content cards. Documents in Delve are presented on content card displays, each of which includes a title, photo and most recent activity that help
users understand why a document is relevant to their needs. The top of the content card shows which user modified the document last, and the
bottom of the card records where the document is stored and the total views it has received. The picture on the card is extracted from the content of
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the document.
The Delve profile page includes several menus for locating previously accessed content. In addition to the
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There's also a trending function for content that's being frequently accessed by colleagues. With this feature in
Office Delve, the user does not need to remember where the relevant documents are stored or what they are
titled.
Boards. Users can also create boards to collect relevant or related documents to be accessed at a later time.
Users can create a board to organize documents related to a specific project, allowing access to everyone
What is Office Delve? involved in that project. This permits those additional users to see that board and contribute content cards to it.
Office Graph, which powers Delve, stores all Office 365 data items in a graph index. The Office Graph data is stored in the customer's partition of the
SharePoint Online and Exchange Online environments, and it has the same level of data protection and security as other types of customer data
stored in Microsoft cloud services.
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your workplace?
A key benefit of Delve is it can automatically populate content from integrated Microsoft products, such as documents from Microsoft Office or
Yammer conversations. For example, an employee who watched a PowerPoint presentation at a meeting scheduled through Outlook could later
review the presentation through Delve by clicking on the Presented to Me tab in the search area.
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