“With easy search and discovery capabilities of Delve, you can learn about a coworker before a meeting, hit the ground running on your new assignment, and stay in the loop on the latest updates from your team,” Julia White, the general manager of the Office 365 team, wrote. Microsoft says it has mapped 6 billion of those actions to date, pulling in data from SharePoint, Office 365’s video content, and now email attachments. It’s predicated on what Microsoft calls the Office Graph, Microsoft’s maps of the actions and interactions you take within Office 365.

Microsoft also said that it is previewing Skype for Business (formerly called Lync) as well as providing its PowerBI preview to customers worldwide.ĭelve happens to be the one of the latest tools in what might be called Microsoft’s mashup generation: like Office Mix and Sway, the app pulls in data from Outlook, Yammer, PowerPoint, and Bing, collecting the documents, relationships, and information that it thinks might be most relevant. The latest member of Microsoft’s Office suite, Microsoft Delve, has begun rolling out to business, government, and education customers, bringing Microsoft’s relationship-building tool to your Office 365 workplace within the next few months.Īt its Convergence conference this week, Microsoft tipped the first capabilities of Office 2016, with a nod toward the business customers that the conference is addressing.

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