Digital Workplace

Digital Workplace, Intranets

Having always been a popular Intranet platform, in recent years SharePoint has become ubiquitous. In part thanks to Viva Connections, a new set of features that improve employee engagement. Through Microsoft App Source, organizations find...

Comparisons, Digital Workplace

Viva Connections' dashboard is a fresh, new take on an intranet dashboard. Available both on SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, in a recent overhaul the dashboard has become even more central on the Viva homepage. ...

AI Chatbot, Intranets, Digital Workplace

Doing your kids' history homework, writing marketing plans and killing off Google – ChatGPT seems to single-handedly do it all. And it came almost out of nowhere. In this article we'll inspect whether Microsoft, having...

Digital Workplace

Zapier is the most popular business automation platform. It's main goal is to bridge gaps between applications by letting you push data from any of it's 5000 apps to another one. Once you setup such...

Digital Workplace

Viva Connections is the new gateway to other Viva services within Microsoft's new suite of employee experience tools and resources. The Dashboard, specifically, shows users little summaries of other Viva services as a way conveniently...

Digital Workplace

With tools that help you learn, share knowledge, maintain wellbeing, and more, Viva is the name for Microsoft's push into the employee experience space. Viva Connections, specifically, aims to be a gateway to all the...

Digital Workplace

We're working a lot with Adaptive Cards at Digital Assistant, and we're frequently find new features that even Microsoft isn't reporting about in their blog. So we've had an internal wiki page that lists all...

Digital Workplace

Adaptive Cards have become the pre-eminent way to make Cards. They're simple enough to build, yet interactive enough to be useful for almost any use case. You can read a full insider's guide about what...

Digital Workplace, Intranets

Just like you can see the weather by looking out the window for .3 seconds, most of us have the wish to get a complete view of our data 'situation' with just a glance at...

Digital Workplace

It's easy to switch off and lose focus during tedious, lengthy and repetitive tasks. Roles that require employees to perform tasks like this often report a reduction in workplace satisfaction, but also put your business...

Digital Workplace, Updates

We've been working hard on a new version of the Assistant webapp, especially designed for enhanced customizability.🚀 New SPA frontendWe've got a new front-end based on React, that is open-source and 100% brandable by the...

Digital Workplace

A simple Adaptive Card for your business takes less than 10 minutes to make. But as you start to make more sophisticated layouts you will usually run into common issues where the data you want...

AI Chatbot, Comparisons, Digital Workplace

1. Cloud storage + collaborationMany organizations still send attachments through emails instead of consistently using OneDrive or similar tools. However, with working from home, the pressure to innovate has had some incredible results where cloud...

Digital Workplace, Updates

You may have heard, but we're releasing exciting new features every month and May is no exception. Let's get straight into what's new. 🙌🚀 New app: ZendeskOne of the world's foremost helpdesk applications, Zendesk, is...

Digital Workplace, AI Chatbot, Intranets

We're very passionate about creating a digital workplace that delights users. Unsurprisingly for a software company, our websites are laden with features and technical specifics; such as APIs, AI chatbots or Adaptive Cards.But, at a...

Digital Workplace

We all know that feeling with certain workplace apps. The despair of too many clicks, everything loading so slowly... as if this app was actively designed to make your life harder. 🤨😩Even for modern apps...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

Modern marketers need to coordinate content and campaigns between a bewildering number of tools. Here are the most challenging obstacles and how a smart assistant for marketing can help:Challenge 1: Overwhelming report dataDigital marketing success...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

I bet you didn't know that SharePoint is used by over 200 million people worldwide, which gives its search engine a similar size to Google's US business. Given this size, it's surprising how many people...

AI Chatbot, Comparisons, Digital Workplace

We recently documented our own experiment to build an IBM Watson Assistant chatbot with Atlassian. If you're thinking about doing the same, you could benefit from the lessons we learned. 😉1. Docs can work against...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

Obviously most chatbots exist within a consumer context, say for customer service purposes; however for an enterprise chatbot the use for internal customers (i.e. your team) is top of mind.Put simply, an enterprise chatbot is...

Digital Workplace, Comparisons

A couple of years ago a bunch of acronyms seem to have defined the conversation, among them combinations like MEAP, MADP or MBaaS. What ever happened to these? Let's find out...MADP – The summary termShort...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

So you found that your SaaS app has API documentation, and now you wonder what you can do with it? In this article we clear up what APIs are, and show you useful next steps...

Digital Workplace, Updates

For our first update of the year we have rolled out some improvements to the Digital Assistant web app and Microsoft 365 integration.1. Web app improvementWe've redesigned the top header in Digital Assistant so it...

Digital Workplace

Since Gartner sees most AI trends are just about reaching the "plateau of disappointment" this year, I thought it would be a good opportunity to give you an overview over what the different genres of...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

Although first incepted in the 1990s, ambient intelligence has seen a recent resurgence in popularity thanks to a widespread adoption of IoT features in devices.In a nutshell, people speak of ambient computing when they mean...

Digital Workplace

Most applications, be it Facebook or a business app, make at least some of their data available for other applications to consume. The type of API architecture a service provides has a big impact on...

Digital Workplace, Intranets

Adaptive Cards are a standardized UX for business use cases, such as displaying Adaptive Cards in SharePoint, or to build a chatbot with Adaptive Cards. With the wide range of input types and the flexible...

Digital Workplace, Intranets

Adaptive Cards are a standardized "recipe" for writing a Card in Microsoft Teams or other Microsoft products. However, oddly SharePoint does not directly let you embed Adaptive Cards from within their UI.In this tutorial, I...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace, Intranets

Offices around the globe are slowing reopening following weeks of uncertainty. As colleagues are returning to work, they may feel stressed or anxious over how their workplace has changed.So as an internal comms rep you...

Digital Workplace

Digital transformation is uniquely affecting every facet of HR operations, be it recruiting digital natives, offering digital services to employees or ensuring an engaged workforce and digital culture. What challenges do HR ops face in...

Digital Workplace

Microsoft Teams is bound to dominate as this analysis showsNearly every organization today is somewhere along the path to transitioning to Office 365 and Microsoft Teams. SharePoint was already powering 70% of all Intranets before,...

Digital Workplace

It's tough times for internal comms folks. More and more tools have gone into the Cloud, making it harder to get through to the user with a single, consistent voice. Tool hopping has been rampant...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

If you're interested in creating a chatbot solution for your workplace, you will often find yourself considering primarily customer-facing platforms. In this guide we help you find evaluation criteria that help you decide which solution...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

It's easy to find AI chatbot ideas for consumer or customer-facing applications, like shopping assistants, customer service or flight booking bots – almost any service can be reincarnated as a chatbot.But if you're looking to...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

Botpress is an unusual offering in the landscape of AI chatbots; it's free, and it's open-source, which immediately puts it at the top of the list for many people. Not only that, but it can...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

Just like the Alexa in your kitchen, smart office devices exist to make your day-to-day job easier. Gartner predicts that 25% of workers will use digital assistants every day by 2021, and it's no surprise...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

Even though most chatbot projects are customer-facing, it is estimated that up to 26% of chatbots are operations focused. Google's Dialogflow is a popular platform for building and deploying chatbots as it's easy to setup...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

Building a chatbot has become relatively easy with many dedicated tools, but to make an internal chatbot for work can be a tall order. Of course it needs to be 'smart' and personalized, but crucially...

Digital Workplace, Intranets

Let an admin dream 💭Like many SharePoint admins you can probably clearly picture a modern, digital workplace. One that gets you everything you need, lets you breeze through tasks in just a few clicks, all...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace, Intranets

When SharePoint Online first started all the way back in 2013, there wasn't much of an ecosystem around add-ons. But over the years this has changed as the default SharePoint option is now seen to...

Digital Workplace, Updates

Unless you're fortunate enough to be a remote worker, commuting is an unfortunate but necessary part of the daily grind. And the odds are that you probably drive to work, on your own, for almost...

Comparisons, Digital Workplace

So you're thinking about starting a project with Oracle's Digital Assistant, but came across this site for adenin Digital Assistant. In this article we have compared them both, and found similarities and differences that could...

Digital Workplace, Intranets

Intranet innovativeness is stagnating. With the ubiquity (and market share) of intranet software like SharePoint, it feels as though intranets have reached their 'end game' - the same old features, the same-look-but-a-different-colour-feel, and the bad...

AI Chatbot, Comparisons, Digital Workplace

There are two types of opportunities for smart speakers to create a better digital workplace:Create a smart office where employees can use voice commands for certain actionsSupport working from home setups for you or your...

Digital Workplace, Intranets

Does your organization employ a knowledge management strategy? If not, you could be in for a shock: read our infographic to learn how poor knowledge management can impact your company, and how you can turn...

Digital Workplace

What is Adaptive Cards?Adaptive Cards is a universal Card UI framework released by Microsoft in 2017 which aims to standardize the layouting of Cards independent of the host platform.The goal is to define a Card...

Digital Workplace

With working from home becoming more widespread in 2020, there is an increased requirement for organizations to deliver on strong digital workplaces. Whilst requirements differ from company to company, we start to see some patterns...

AI Chatbot, Digital Workplace

Did you know that speech recognition tools have been around for six decades? In 1952 Bell Labs built AUDREY, the world’s first speech recognition tool - a six-foot high relay rack capable of recognizing digitals with 97-99%...

Digital Workplace

Being in charge of a corporate digital employee initiative is no picnic. The experience for the users should be fun and intuitive, which means for IT it's everything but that.A lot of APIs, authentication methods...

Intranets, Digital Workplace

With the year coming to an end, we've seen some hard-to-spot developments of interest to the smarter intranet manager in 2023. Let's look at four up and coming trends for intranet software and digital employee...