How Delve is Transforming Personalized Content and Collaboration

By Jim Kane 1

What is Office Delve? Delve helps you discover the information that's likely to be most interesting to you right now—across Microsoft (MSFT) Office 365. You don't have to remember the title of a document or where it's stored. Delve shows you documents no matter where they're stored in OneDrive for Business or in Sites in Office 365.

Office Delve surfaces personalized content to you from across Office 365. Powered by the Office Graph, Delve shows you information based on what you're working on and what's trending around you.

Delve also lets you view your colleagues' profiles or edit your own. Your profile is like an electronic business card you share inside your organization. Delve never changes any permissions, so you'll only see documents that you already have access to. Other people will not see your private documents.

When you and your colleagues view, edit and share each other's documents, Delve learns from how you work and tailors the information on your personalized home page. So, what you see in Delve is different from what your colleagues see.

According to Microsoft, businesses are hungry to seize new opportunities using technologies such as machine learning and predictive analytics. Only when businesses create a culture that empowers everyone to have access to data and insight that drive action will they be positioned to truly transform.

Delve, ushering in a new age of personalized content and collaboration, is driving transformative information sharing. With Delve, Microsoft is becoming smarter about the files it has in an online, cloud-collaborative environment, such as SharePoint Online.

What's more, it lines up with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s widely stated vision for Microsoft as the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

Jim Kane is Director of Collaboration and Knowledge Management at Paragon Solutions.