UnlimitedViz: Building Intelligent Analytics for Office 365

The Office 365 user base reached 85 million last fall, and Microsoft’s latest numbers show that they have already surpassed the hundred million mark here in early 2017. Such explosive growth of Microsoft’s Office 365 platform has caused many organizations to rethink their adoption strategies. With every new deployment, companies focus on driving adoption–but knowing which levers to pull to drive that adoption, can only come with a deep understanding of the data analytics emanating from the Office 365 tenant space. Though the platform ships with some level of native analytics capability, many Microsoft customers reach out to the ISV partner community for assistance in building out more advanced measurements of their collaboration activities. One such partner is UnlimitedViz, an ISV dedicated to building intelligent analytics tools for the Microsoft Office 365 platform.

UnlimitedViz is the creator of tyGraph, a Software-as-a- Service (SaaS) solution that amplifies the signals and reduces the noise from the big data produced by an Office 365 tenant. “Our data analytics solution allows customers to focus on what is important so they are not distracted by extraneous details,” remarks Dean Swann, Director of Product at UnlimitedViz. “Take Yammer, for example. With millions of messages being created in the customer’s network, how can they know what’s important? tyGraph puts the crucial information right on the users’ dashboard so that they can focus on taking action instead of compiling data.”

What tyGraph can provide, in terms of deliverables, is the ability to aggregate large amounts of disparate data, and then create and present visualizations to key stakeholders in a way that allows them to take action. The tyGraph solution enables the user to overlay internal system data with their Office 365 data, deriving secondary and tertiary insights. “Oftentimes we get questions like: ‘How is my executive suite dealing with the digital transformation initiative?’” explains Ed Senez, President of UnlimitedViz. “How can one answer this empirically if there is no system of measurement in place? If we overlay the executive roles with the data from the Office 365 tenant, we can answer these kinds of questions with confidence.”

In one customer scenario, tyGraph was used to amplify network data with HR data, adding user roles, functional areas, organizational hierarchy, and regional data to each user profile.