The Future of Delve

Having noticed conversations popping up here and on Twitter about the future of Delve in Office 365 I’d like to put out a question to the Microsoft guys and girls on here about the future roadmap. The...

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Mark-Kashman
Jun 05, 2018
We certainly understand and know the pain point. We've been focused on enabling good authoring experience, feel we can offer a good team or executive (CxO) style blog with a dedicated communication site + news approach; esp with coming organizational news. But alas, the personal blog alludes explicit. One can publish news often in many locations (to a team site, to a comm site, to a hub site) and the feed of it goes out to people they are related to, even if the person is not active in the site where it gets published, the Microsoft Graph knows the relations and serves up as best a "feed" it can to each user - without requiring that person to "go to someone's blog." That said, the heads are noodling in these areas for sure. One thing you got me thinking about was a way to present all news someone publishes in all places they can, and seeing the feed through the eyes of what the person logged in has permissions to view. So you would see someone's "blog" but only have visibility to the content you're allowed to view. Just thinking out loud. let's loop in John_Sanders who is our news guru these days to review and possibly add some comments; plus Dave Cohen (US) who owns some of these pieces, too. :-)

John Wynne

Silver Contributor

Jan 26, 2018

Thanks Melanie, as always,for your thoughtful and considered reply..

I agree with your analysis on features yet this is exactly where I’ve been caught out and I suspect others have too. Both boards and blogs are features that need to be developed and roadmapped either inside or outside Delve in Office 365.

I’ve been genuinely impressed with the improvements in the Microsoft Graph of which Delve was most definitely the poster child. It is inevitable on an initiative as large as Office 365 that some ideas grow and others do not. I’d appreciate a mature response from Microsoft, as considered and insightful as yours, outlining their plans.

Delve shone brightly and helped shape Office 365. Let’s recognise that and retire the product in clear support of customers.