Office 365 gets Maps from Bing, Delve Analytics is now My Analytics, and more Office announcements from Ignite

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Published on September 26, 2016

published on September 26, 2016

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Microsoft has kicked out its Ignite 2016 conference today and the company already announced several new capabilities for Office 365, Cortana and Azure. The business productivity suite will leverage the cloud and Microsoft Graph to deliver more intelligent capabilities to its users and make them more productive.

Firstly, Word and Outlook will soon allow Office 365 business users to quickly add content from existing documents within their organizations into Word documents and emails. Powerpoint and Sway are also getting a new feature called “Quickstarter” which will make it easier to start creating presentations thanks to curated content about the topic of your choice. Additionally, Excel is getting a new chart type called Maps which will use the data from Bing Maps to create high-fidelity visualizations from geographic data.

Lastly, the Redmond giant also announced that Delve Analytics, a tool that leverages Microsoft Graph to give insights about how employees spend their time at work is being rebranded into Microsoft MyAnalytics. The company announced new capabilities as well including “insights to help find better ways of working together.” Stay tuned to WinBeta to follow all the news from Ignite 2016.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time). For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web. Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they're looking for.