Enterprise search simplified: Microsoft rolls out Office Graph-powered Delve for Office 365

Microsoft said it will start integrating its Office Delve (previously codenamed ‘Oslo’) will begin rolling out to Office 365 business customers, starting January 2015.

Delve will be included in the Office 365 Enterprise E1 - E4 subscription plans (including the corresponding A2 - A4 and G1 - G4 plans for academic and government customers respectively).
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Delve will also be included in the Office 365 Business Essentials and Business Premium plans, Office 365 Small Business, Small Business Premium and Midsize Business plans.

“Delve will be rolled out to all customers that have one of the above subscriptions, both new and existing,” said Julia White, general manager of Office 365 Technical Product Management, said in a blog post.

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Microsoft said Delve will roll out to Office 365 customers in phases, first to customers that have elected to receive significant Office 365 service updates at first release, an opt-in program. Following that, Delve will roll out to all Office 365 customers over several months in standard release, the default option for Office 365 customers.

Unlike Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Delve offers content accumulation with an emphasis on relevancy. “Office Delve displays information that is most relevant for each person based on the work they are doing and the people with whom they are engaging.”

“With Delve, information finds you versus you having to find information,” White added.

It’s all part of the ‘Office Graph’ that underlies Delve, a technology Microsoft introduced in March.

“Delve knows what’s relevant to you based on insights delivered through Office Graph, which uses sophisticated machine learning techniques to map the relationships between people, content, and activity that occurs across Office 365.”

Office Graph currently incorporates content and signals from email, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online and Yammer. Over the coming months, the company plans to continue to integrate signals and content sources, such as email attachments, OneNote and Lync.