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Introducing Adoption Score – helping customers get the most out of Microsoft 365

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James_Bell
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Aug 25, 2022

Today, we are pleased to introduce Adoption Score, a set of metrics and tools for Microsoft 365 admins and IT leaders to improve the everyday experiences of their workforce and to help organizations get the most out of their investment in Microsoft 365. Adoption Score will start rolling out today to replace the former Productivity Score dashboards and introduce new features, new controls, new guidelines, and new purpose. And importantly, Adoption Score is backed by Microsoft’s continued commitment to user-level privacy – meaning no one in a customer’s organization can use Adoption Score to access data about how an individual user is using apps and services in Microsoft 365.

 

The anonymized metrics in Adoption Score help IT admins understand and optimize Microsoft 365 usage patterns in support of their digital transformation journey. The new name reflects the new product truth and provides clearer differentiation from other solutions that offer insights for business leaders and managers. Over the coming months, we will be releasing additional new functionality to Adoption Score that aims to change how IT admins support their workforce and help their organizations to get more out of Microsoft 365, all while maintaining our commitment to user level privacy.

 

As part of this release, we are excited to announce Time Trends – a new feature for Adoption Score that helps IT admins understand historical information about aggregated insights across the organization. Time Trends is added to each people experience category across Content Collaboration, Meetings, Teamwork, Mobility and Communication, and extends organizational trend data from 28 days up to 180 days. IT admins can now understand how a particular behavior or insight, such as the response rate for new emails with @mentions, has evolved over the last 30, 90 or 180 days. This view can reveal trends over time or inform IT admins if recent workforce communications on using @mentions is delivering the desired outcome. Adoption Score is available as a capability within the Microsoft 365 admin center. Global admins must approve both Adoption Score and the people experiences category to see Time trend data.

 

We’re excited for the role Adoption Score will play in helping organizations get the most out of their investment in Microsoft 365. For more information on managing the Adoption Score experience, see the Microsoft Docs article: Microsoft Adoption Score - Microsoft 365 admin. For more information about Adoption Score, check out the Adoption Score overview video, and follow the latest updates in the Microsoft 365 community on Tech Community. 

 

Did you know? The Microsoft 365 Roadmap is where you can get the latest updates on productivity apps and intelligent cloud services. Check out what features are in development or coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap or, learn more about the Time trends roadmap item: Time trends for Adoption Score people experiences.

Updated Aug 25, 2022
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6 Comments

  • ashwin49's avatar
    ashwin49
    Copper Contributor

    Hi James_Bell How can we get API access to these scores? Realize that I am restarting the thread after an year. Any new announce in this area ?

  • anymann's avatar
    anymann
    Copper Contributor

    Hi James_Bell 
    I love the Adoption Score and now wanted to dig deeper on local level. I wonder, why we cannot see the "group level Aggregates Option" in Adoption Score. I am aware, that in the documentation this feature is described as "in preview" but does this mean, that this feature is no more available and have been withdrawn?
    Dokumentation:

    View in our tenant:

    Hope, you can help me. Kind regards, Daniel Schoppmann

  • Hi stan-is-love , thanks for the feedback. We're committed to helping organizations of all sizes do more with Adoption Score whilst maintaining our commitment to user-level privacy. Stay tuned for more information in the coming months that will help to address your questions and comments. 

  • stan-is-love's avatar
    stan-is-love
    Brass Contributor

    This is great! 
    but... for big corps with massive geography and number of users over 50k completely anonymized data makes all these insights too general. It's basically just a fancy picture and nothing else in that case because you can't tell whether you need a global wide adoption campaign (tons of money) or more efficient and cheaper local one to boost productivity of the least "educated" region.

    It's a challenge when it comes to similar analysis but with more granularity. How would you suggest to understand whether particular country or job level requires additional trainings?

    How does MS approaching this challenge? You have over 100k employees (probably most of them are M365 users in your own tenant). Are you looking at completely anonymized data to understand adoption level as well?


    Would be great to see some additional slices (AAD attributes?) in these dashboards in future. That would allow big companies to better understand where exactly they should focus their efforts to get the most out of M365 services.

  • Hi tatuseppala , no committed plans to date. The request is in our backlog and as soon as we have a committed timeline we'll announce it via the Microsoft 365 Public Roadmap. 

  • tatuseppala's avatar
    tatuseppala
    Copper Contributor

    Great stuff, thanks. Any plans on enabling API access (Graph or otherwise) to the underlying anonymized metrics so they could be leveraged as part of custom Power BI reports?