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Discoverability it’s a game changer

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Discoverability refers to a piece of content's ability to be found. As the amount of online content grows, technologies that can surface high-priority, relevant content are important. Discoverability becomes more critical with digital workplaces and cloud storage. Technologies like Delve and Office Graph are helping to fulfill discoverability by automatically surfacing relevant content using machine learning. For discoverability to be effective, technologies must make it easy for users to access content through authorized methods rather than unintended workarounds.

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Discoverability: It’s a Game Changer
Discoverability is a term inherently connected to our modern time, so it only makes sense to start familiarizing ourselves with its definition. Paul Olenick, an expert in Discovery, SharePoint, Enterprise Search and Collaboration, shares his knowledge with us.
There’s an overwhelming amount of content available to most information workers. Any technology that can help prioritize or automatically surface high-priority, relevant content is a game changer. With technologies like Delve/Office Graph, machine learning and other innovations, we’re starting to see these come into fruition. Paul Olenick
Discoverability refers to a piece of content’s ability to be found. The concept of discoverability becomes critical with the increasing application of digital workplaces, online cloud storage and cross-platform usability. People gravitate toward software and online tools that simplify this process. According to Olenick, today’s digital workplaces must utilize design concepts, such as discoverability, to encourage user adoption.
One key tenet is that we must make it easy for users to ‘do the right thing.’ If we’re asking them to, for example, only share content externally in a particular way, it’s got to be easy for them or they’ll find a different way (for example [they] may use Dropbox or Google Drive instead of the company-authorized method for sharing files externally)… Technology should not be an obstacle, but rather a value-add. “ “
As we spend more time online, we have increased experiences interacting with well-designed online applications. According to Olenick, people are more exposed to high-quality, consumer-grade software, which has placed a high level of expectation on companies to offer the same quality of technology in their digital workplace.
Since technology is emerging rapidly our vocabulary continues to evolve with it. With past unrecognizable words like “the internet,” there’s no telling what future hot terms will be. It’s something we’ll all discover together.
Discoverability it’s a game changer

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Discoverability it’s a game changer

  • 2. Discoverability is a term inherently connected to our modern time, so it only makes sense to start familiarizing ourselves with its definition. Paul Olenick, an expert in Discovery, SharePoint, Enterprise Search and Collaboration, shares his knowledge with us.
  • 3. There’s an overwhelming amount of content available to most information workers. Any technology that can help prioritize or automatically surface high-priority, relevant content is a game changer. With technologies like Delve/Office Graph, machine learning and other innovations, we’re starting to see these come into fruition. Paul Olenick
  • 4. Discoverability refers to a piece of content’s ability to be found. The concept of discoverability becomes critical with the increasing application of digital workplaces, online cloud storage and cross-platform usability. People gravitate toward software and online tools that simplify this process. According to Olenick, today’s digital workplaces must utilize design concepts, such as discoverability, to encourage user adoption.
  • 5. One key tenet is that we must make it easy for users to ‘do the right thing.’ If we’re asking them to, for example, only share content externally in a particular way, it’s got to be easy for them or they’ll find a different way (for example [they] may use Dropbox or Google Drive instead of the company-authorized method for sharing files externally)… Technology should not be an obstacle, but rather a value-add. “ “
  • 6. As we spend more time online, we have increased experiences interacting with well-designed online applications. According to Olenick, people are more exposed to high-quality, consumer-grade software, which has placed a high level of expectation on companies to offer the same quality of technology in their digital workplace.
  • 7. Since technology is emerging rapidly our vocabulary continues to evolve with it. With past unrecognizable words like “the internet,” there’s no telling what future hot terms will be. It’s something we’ll all discover together.