Sunday 1 November 2015

What is : Office 365 Groups, Yammer, Delve and Office Graph

I wrote a post last week about What’s coming Next with Office 365. The post was widely shared but i got a lot of e-mails about the confusion around Office 365 Groups, Yammer, Delve and Office Graph.
Office 365 Groups, Yammer, Office Graph, Delve
Office Groups integration with Yammer and Delve (Soon to be)
So let me start with very basic of What is : Office 365 Groups, Yammer, Delve and Office Graph.
Office Graph
Definition : The Office Graph represents a collection of content and activity, and the relationships between them that happen across the entire Office suite. From email, social conversations, and meetings, to documents in SharePoint and OneDrive, the Office Graph maps the relationships among people and information, and acts as the foundation for Office experiences that are more relevant and personalized to each individual.
How it woks – Office Graph is an intelligence where it uses machine learning to collect information (email, social conversations, and meetings, to documents) related to an individual user so it can present or display the most appropriate and relative info to the user to boost their work efficiency. You see.. 60% of an employees time is wasted in finding information, so to avoid that Office Graph helps user from behind the scene by connecting most appropriate dots relating to the user activity.
Office Graph Usage – For a single user Office graph intelligence impacts : Outlook (helps to remove clutters from inbox), Calendar (to get meeting info), Search in OneDrive, Groups (pulls in relative content from outside the group and lastly it also powers DELVE.
Delve
Definition : Delve is an App that Collects and presents Content from anywhere within the Office. As it is Powered by the Office Graph intelligence, the Content presented is usually is Videos, links, documents etc. related to an individual user. In simple words “Delve uses the Office Graph to deliver personalized views of the people and content.” Delve is expanding from personalized insights to provide organizational insights to individuals and teams soon. See more details What to expect “Next” from Office 365 : Microsoft Cloud Services
How it woks – Delve highlights key information of interest to you, based on what you are working on and the actions of people in your network. Delve is personalized and tailored to you. For example, what Delve shows me is different than what Delve shows anyone else in my team.
Delve Usage – Users can simply click on Delve in Office App popup to launch their Delve app.
Delve
Office 365 Groups
Definition : An Office 365 Group is a discussion group where you can invite colleagues to Collaborate on a single topic lets say a project using a dedicated Outlook (shared inbox), Calendar, File repository to share Documents and Notebook. The participants of the group can also start group chats or discussions, share documents via outlook or can also use group Skype to collaborate more..
How it woks – Office 365 Groups is an architectural element of Azure Active Directory that builds on the idea of user-created groups in Yammer that are open by default. Office 365 Groups can be thought of it as distribution groups but the problem with the conventional distribution groups was that if you’re not a member, you don’t get the information and when you join, you don’t gain access to previous discussions. Office 365 Group resolves this issue and it can be used like a regular distribution group and it also stores discussions for new members to discover when they join.
Microsoft will soon Integrate the much popular Yammer and Delve services with Office 365 Groups so it can give a better Organizational analytic views. Office 365 Groups “hub” will be added in Office Delve to produce Organization views in Delve.
Office 365 Groups Usage – You can create or join Groups from within Office 365 email, Calendar or OneDrive for Business. Simply navigate to the OneDrive and click on the groups from left navigation.
Office Groups
Yammer
Definition : Yammer is your company’s private social network that helps you and your teams stay on top of it all. Start conversations, collaborate on files, and organize around projects so you can go further—faster. Let’s say “Yammer is the immersive social platform\experience within Office 365″.
Yammer Usage – Yammer was added to SharePoint as an App but starting September 15th, 2015, the Yammer App for SharePoint has been discontinued. Yammer can now be Embed instead of using the Yammer app for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online.

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