![]() ![]() Groups themselves are a unifying construct, so their product truly brings together all the services that have been provisioned for the Group, so they can be navigated to easily. But as John point’s out, none of the individual UI’s display a navigation link to all services of a Group. If you’re in OneDrive, your different Group’s document libraries are listed in the side panel. ![]() If you’re in Outlook, the services are visible in the header. Microsoft’s approach has been to display the different services in and Office 365 Group, wherever you are. It isn’t published there automatically at this stage. There are some steps for an admin to publish tyGraph for Groups into the app launcher. This begins to answer the long-asked question, “where is the tile for Office 365 Groups in the app launcher.” But he has used tyGraph for Groups to simplify navigation of Groups. (I had to jump in and suggest he use Planner to organize chores around the house.) John said trying to explain the intricacies of Groups to his family was not appealing. There’s a family Group, one for selling his house. John has been using his MVP Office 365 tenant and creating Groups for his household. It’s a place to go to find Groups and go to other services provisioned for those Groups. TyGraph for Groups is first of all, a Groups landing page. “You don’t want people reinventing the wheel all the time. Ed remarked “They are so core to the Office 365 platform, you’re crippling the platform.” We see much of the direction with collaboration experiences and features all center around an Office 365 Group and the Active Directory object. ” There’s just enough control around the process to help organizations who may have chosen to turn Groups off, to turn them back on again and be in control. John says “you don’t want people reinventing the wheel all the time. Once the create button is pressed, it routes to a person for approval who can check if a Group like this already exists and suggest a similar Group, or approve the new Group for creation. You add and name a Group, you describe it and make some choices. The approach they wanted to take was to address a few needs, a lazy approval for Group creation. So tyGraph have tried to address these challenges to offer an easier user experience, with a little bit of governance. But they want better control and guidance around the management and provisioning. Some organizations see the value in user-provisioned collaboration tools. While there are measures you can take to restrict Group creation to a subset of users, it is difficult to find the balance. The same challenge is faced with Office 365 Groups. The advantages of user provisioned collaboration spaces are counterbalanced by the disadvantages of unbridled team site creation. We have seen in SharePoint history what happens when you allow people to create their own team sites. Since it’s release, there have been challenges around governance, visibility of what groups have been created and navigating the groups themselves. It’s goal was also one of democratizing in respect of user-provisioned collaboration and communication tools. It’s powerful platform “democratized BI”, making it more accessible and consumable to the regular information worker. Ed and John had an opportunity to get an early briefing on Power BI before it’s release. The analytics products have centered around using Power BI as the way to share and visualize the data. It is envisaged that the Office 365 and Yammer products will become one product further down the road. ![]() tyGraph for Office 365 gives more usage information at the platform level. While this product is not being actively promoted, it shows some interesting insights into the activity and engagement during events or TweetJam’s that use a hashtag. Then they have developed tyGraph for Twitter, analytics around use of a hashtag such as #sptechcon or #collabtalk. A little known fact is that the “ty” in tyGraph stands for “The Yammer” Graph. TyGraph has been in market since 2014, initially addressing the need for better analytics within Yammer at a user, group and network level. ![]()
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