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Mark Cooper
Aug 22, 2016Brass Contributor
Advanced searches in Delve
What's up with the search in Delve? In pretty much all other Office products (e.g. SharePoint, Outlook, etc.) users can search using keywords/operators (AND and NOT) and quotes ("exact phrase") to he...
John Wynne
Sep 05, 2016Silver Contributor
I totally follow your reasoning here Mark but I'm not sure Microsoft would describe Delve as a search and discovery product. I see two other angles: It is very much a People tool. The most obvious benefit is finding others who are working on the same thing, something I'm sure is very relevant at BA.
The Office Graph, which drives Delve, is now weaving it's way through the rest of the Office 365 apps and services, Outlook, One Drive for Business and modern SharePoint as a few examples. The other angle I take is that Delve's proposition as an early driver for Office Graph has changed. With the notable exception of Delve Analytics (different parentage) I don't see the rapid change with Delve I expected and I link that back to the wider implementation of Office Graph.
I suspect we might hear more from the Ignite conference but a fresh positioning of Delve as a product and service from Microsoft would be valuable to us all.
I might be wrong just sharing my thoughts and insights! Regards.
The Office Graph, which drives Delve, is now weaving it's way through the rest of the Office 365 apps and services, Outlook, One Drive for Business and modern SharePoint as a few examples. The other angle I take is that Delve's proposition as an early driver for Office Graph has changed. With the notable exception of Delve Analytics (different parentage) I don't see the rapid change with Delve I expected and I link that back to the wider implementation of Office Graph.
I suspect we might hear more from the Ignite conference but a fresh positioning of Delve as a product and service from Microsoft would be valuable to us all.
I might be wrong just sharing my thoughts and insights! Regards.