Updated: July 15, 2020 (September 15, 2014)

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Delve Recommendations and Search

Rob Helm by
Rob Helm

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration services and client software. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s... more

The Delve content recommendation and search application (formerly code-named Oslo) will help Office 365 users discover and search for relevant content and other users. The application uses the new Office Graph service, a machine learning component that analyzes user activity history and content across Exchange, SharePoint, and Yammer to infer relationships among users and content.

A preview version of the Delve Windows Modern application is shown here, as demonstrated at the Mar. 2014 SharePoint Conference. At the bottom is a set of documents recommended to the user. Above, navigation buttons enable the user to filter recommendations further. For example, the “Trending around me” button brings up items based on activity of the user’s colleagues. Keyword searches (entered in the barely visible “Find…” box at upper left) use Office Graph data for result filtering.

Delve began rolling out to Office 365 business customers in Sept. 2014. Microsoft plans additional mobile applications and application features that use Office Graph data, and it will make Office Graph APIs available to developers to build applications or integrate new content types.

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