Delve and Office Graph

Delve and Office Graph can help users discover relevant people and documents within their organization.

Capabilities and Limitations

Delve is a set of Office 365 features (sometimes called “Intelligent Search & Discovery”) that can help users discover people and documents in Office 365 and promote collaboration. Recent improvements bring Delve features to more parts of Office 365, and longer-term improvements could target information delivery via corporate portals.

The most visible Delve features are personalized feeds of documents and other activity that the user might find relevant or has marked as a favorite. The effect is like a Facebook or Yammer newsfeed, except that many of the entries are automatically generated from content produced by users rather than explicitly posted by the users themselves.

Mobile applications for Android and iOS provide quick access to Delve feeds and notifications of changes; a desktop Delve application for Windows 10 was discontinued in 2017, but users can access their Delve feed from delve.office.com. Users can also find documents in Delve through a search box on the Delve home page (delve.office.com) that delivers personally targeted results in card form. Delve is available through Web Parts that can be used in other applications.