Microsoft Office documents and more than 120 different file types can be previewed natively in the browser. Office 365 co-authoring is supported and both have already integrated with Microsoft Teams.īox says policies can be set to prompt users to send content via a secure Box link rather than an email attachment.
All the Office 365 rich client products can access content directly from both and open files with a choice of the relevant rich client or cloud-based Microsoft tools when selected directly from their storage systems. In some cases, audit logs and file histories may be maintained longer with non-Microsoft data stores.īox and Dropbox both say their Microsoft integrations are frictionless.
One is that they have better support for non-Microsoft products such as Salesforce, Slack, Apple products and Linux. Firms will have selected these systems over Microsoft’s own storage for many reasons. Non-Microsoft storageīox, Dropbox, Google G-Drive and other storage services can be assigned as Office 365 Places. Microsoft also has a new collaboration product called Teams. Delve knows when multiple users are collaborating on the same document. Microsoft has exploited Graph itself with its new Delve search product, which shows documents to users relevant to their current activity.
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The Microsoft stores mapped by Graph include the various iterations of SharePoint (both on-premise and cloud-based), OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage service, Exchange, where documents are attached to emails and meeting invites, the Windows Server file system, and so on. Graph only indexes Microsoft’s own Office 365 data stores, not the other places where many organisations store data that can be processed within Office 365. Given the complex range of data stores Microsoft has accumulated, perhaps it had little choice but to provide such middleware. Graph is transparently designed to locate content for a user wherever they happen to be. It combines data from Microsoft’s 2012 Yammer acquisition, which had its own social graph (based on postings, connections, and so on), with Office 365 data (such as SharePoint activity, calendared meetings and email conversations). Office 365 Graph provides a mapping of data across different data stores based on user identity and activity. Users can readily be provisioned and deprovisioned from groups, like a single-sign-on system, with the addition of automated access to content. Groups can be linked back to Active Directory, which most organisations still use as a repository for identities. Office 365 Groups provides common access to applications and content to individuals working together on a project or in a team, not necessarily in the same organisation. To this end, the Office 365 platform has two capabilities at its core – Groups and Graph. Office 365 aims to improve collaboration between users and their access to content. This includes not just Microsoft products, but a broad range of third-party components from suppliers that have been attracted to the Office 365 platform.
These users are not licensing a single product, but various components of a broad suite of servers, tools and services, working in harmony, says Microsoft. We find out why.Ĭurrently, Microsoft claims it has more than 100 million active Office 365 business customers.
There are now over 100 million corporate users of Office 365, which provides a great developer opportunity. The Office 365 cloud-based productivity suite is Microsoft’s next strategic platform.
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