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Seit kurzem kann in Office 365 Tenants der sog. “Office Graph” aktiviert werden. Dieser ist derzeit als Preview in den Plänen Enterprise (Academic, Governmental) E1 bis E4 enthalten. Martina hat im TechNet Blog Delve und der Office Graph über die Aktivierung und die Details geschrieben. Hier ein kurzer Überblick, was der Office Graph ist: (https://www.youtube.com/embed/FV1Sc6UW8-o). About Delve and Office Graph Für Developer ist natürlich interessant, wie man den Office Graph selbst anzapfen und verwenden kann. Apropos, der Begriff “Delve” (das Webportal in Office 365) steht für “vertiefen”, die Bezeichnung “Office Graph” (das Service, das Informationen sammelt, verknüpft und bereitstellt) hat Microsoft wahrscheinlich in Anlehnung an andere Systeme gewählt. Facebook App-Developer kennen etwa die “Facebook Graph-API”, die nach erfolgter Authentifizierung einer bekannten App genauso Informationen über Mitglieder liefert. ...

It´s almost time for SharePoint and Project Conference Adriatcs 2014! In about two weeks, SPC Adriatcs Conference 2014 will be held from 15th to 16th October in Zagreb/Croatia. This will be the third SPC Adriatics organized by the three MVPs Nenad Trajkovski and Toni Frankola from Croatia and Adis Jugo from Bosnia and Herzegovina. What once started as an (smaller) IT conference just for the Adriatics region became an international recognized and well known conference with speakers from whole Europe and America and attendees from all over the region. ...

Wer kennt bereits “Delve”? Das ist der neue Name von “Oslo”. Ok, wer von “Oslo” noch nichts gehört hat: “Project Oslo” wurde im März auf der Microsoft SharePoint Conference vorgestellt. Damit wird der “Office Graph” innerhalb von Office 365 bezeichnet. Es handelt sich um ein Service im Unternehmensumfeld, welches Daten aus verschiedenen Datenquellen sammelt und dann Informationen über einen Benutzer liefern kann. Der Office Graph “lernt” von den Daten und Aktionen von Benutzern innerhalb von Office 365 und bietet eine Schnittstelle zur Suche und Analyse von aktuellen Daten innerhalb eines Office 365 Tenants. Delve ist den Enterprise (Academic, Governmental) Plänen Office 365 E1 bis E4 enthalten (https://www.youtube.com/embed/FV1Sc6UW8-o). ...

Nach dem (zu) kühlen Sommerwetter haben wir in der IT einen heißen Herbst vor uns. Im Microsoft Umfeld werden in den nächsten Monaten viele Produkte aktualisiert oder neu erscheinen und die MS-Community erwartet diese bereits mit Spannung. Auch gibt es eine Reihe von interessanten Veranstaltungen rund um Unternehmens-IT, auf die wir hier hinweisen wollen. Am 1. Oktober 2014 lädt Microsoft zum IT-Camp, siehe Einladung zum Exklusiven Microsoft IT-Camp – Umzug in die Hybrid Cloud mit Microsoft Azure & System Center ...

Last week the IT DevConnections conference took place in the cool location of Aria resort in Las Vegas with about 1.400 attendees. As every successful conference is also present in Social Media we collected data from Twitter and publish some summary statistic of the the event - as we did for devconnections 2013 last year. The timeframe of the reporting is Sun, 14th to 22th of September – so we covered the whole last (conference) week with hashtag #devconnections. So, here we go. Click on the graphics to enlarge them. ...

Last week we from atwork (@magrom and @atwork) have been part of IT DevConnections conference which took place in fabulous Las Vegas. It was our second year at DevConnections. Last year we´ve been in the developer track, this year we had two sessions in the SharePoint track. Since we´re deep in Office 365 consulting and development this conference is a great get-together - and, it was in hot and sunny Las Vegas! ...

This week the IT DevConnections conference takes place in fabolous Las Vegas. This is the second year where we from atwork were part of this great conference. Meeting experts and colleagues from all over the world makes this event exceptional – and, it´s in hot and sunny Las Vegas! Since we´re very deep in cloud services, our two session informed about or Top-10 list of Office 365 features and PowerBI with SharePoint Online. Here are the links to the session descriptions and to the slides on Slideshare.net. Here you find all links to more resources from our sessions. ...

Visualizations are important to understand context and size. Here are some samples of interesting data! Map Shows All The Devices In The World Connected To The Internet and… 6 maps that explain global supply chains …like this ones… Thx to the tweets of @magrom and @JohnBerry!

Bloggers who like to use their blog in a very simple way might be interested in https://blot.im/. “Blot is the simplest way to blog.” There´s no interface, just use Dropbox and upload text files. Blot uses these files and shows them in the web in a nice and clean web-interface. Depending on the audience and the formatting requirements Blot can be an alternative. Directly on the Blot website there´s a YouTube video embedded which shows how it works. ...

Probably you’ve seen a lot of photos and videos this week of celebrities and other well known business people dumping buckets of ice water over their heads. Here’s why and how we participated in it. The #IceBucketChallenge is about raising money and awareness for a disease called “ALS” (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) which is a motor neurone disease. The rules of the challenge: To accept a person has to dump a bucket of ice water over his head within the next 24 hours or donate money (usually $100) toward fighting ALS. Even if a person completes the challenge, they’re welcome to donate money too – actually everybody is most welcome to make a donation at https://www.alsa.org. After the ice water dumping nominate three other persons! ...