Updates

We’ve been working hard to add the features you’ve been asking for to your Assistants. Here’s a quick rundown of the product updates coming your way this September. 1. Adaptive Card Designer We’ve added a new way to quickly and easily design Cards for your Assistant. Microsoft’s Adaptive Card designer is now available in Digital Assistant, so you can rapidly create and deploy custom Cards that can connect to any app or Postman connector of your choice. To create a new Adaptive Card, navigate to Your Card Hub inside the admin area, then select Add Adaptive Card from the Add…

We’ve improved the way you can manage your Cards in Digital Assistant. Now all types of Cards (Custom, Adaptive, From App Directory, QnA) are collected under one roof: Your Card Hub. The Card Hub is the new home for all your Cards, thus making it easier to add new ones or change existing Cards AI utterances or debug their connections. You can access the new Card Hub in the admin area.

For June we have released a few minor tweaks aimed to enhance the Digital Assistant experience. 1. Social Logins We’ve now added convenient sign ups to Digital Assistant which is supported by Microsoft products, Google or Github accounts. All you have to do is click on the service you’d like to use for authentication and your account will be authorized via the third party. Using Social logins is inherently safer since users do not have to store another password and can revoke Digital Assistant’s access anytime they want. Existing user accounts whose email address domains belong to Microsoft or Google…

We’ve overhauled our SharePoint Embed channel to be just one easy to install package for Office365. In this new version you get: You can enable the new SharePoint Embed Channel from your Digital Assistant admin area, and by following the installation instructions from our documentation. Let us know if this update improves your SharePoint experience in the comments below!

Today we have released a new version of our Chrome extension! With this new version you get: Existing users don’t have to do anything and will see the update roll out shortly. To get the Chrome extension, head over to the App Directory.

We’re excited to announce that Digital Assistant, our digital assistant for the modern enterprise, has received two awards from B2B software reviews website FinancesOnline for being a ‘Rising Star’ and for delivering a ‘Great User Experience’. In a thorough Digital Assistant features analysis conducted by FinancesOnline’s expert panel of reviewers, our software went up against some of the biggest names in B2B software, so we’re delighted and honored that Digital Assistant was well received by FinancesOnline’s expert panel of reviewers. We’ve spent the past few years intensively developing Digital Assistant and making sure that we always provide an excellent solution,…

At the recent Digital Workplace Experience 2018 conference, hosted in Chicago by CMSWire and Digital Workplace Group, our valued client Cisco was a runner up for the 2018 Digital Workplace of the Year award. Celebrating organizations and practitioners who have excelled in creating well-executed, high-performing digital workplace environments, this award highlights Cisco’s ongoing transformation and development towards a better way to work. Cisco’s innovative and bleeding-edge digital workplace showcased their commitment to digital transformation, including their strategy, business cases, governance framework, key features, user engagement and business impact. The judging panel, including digital transformation figureheads such as Paul Miller and Jed…

Microsoft Teams is rapidly picking up market share in the enterprise chat market, with over 200,000 organizations worldwide utilising teams as their chat collaboration tool of choice. But if you’re already using Teams, or considering transitioning towards it, you might be wondering whether you’re creating a holistic digital workplace environment for your workforce with Teams, or whether you’re just adding another app to the pile. How to add a Digital Workplace to Microsoft Teams One way to ensure that users find it fruitful to return to a new workplace application like Microsoft Teams is to ensure the app is adding value to their workday. Microsoft Teams makes this easy with the addition of ‘bots’…

Digital Assistant for Workplace by Facebook is on its way and coming to a Workplace near you! Supercharge your digital employee experience with direct access to your smart assistant from anywhere in your Workplace. The Digital Assistant enterprise chatbot platform for Workplace by Facebook transforms your existing Workplace, providing extra functionality and integration to your business apps and data without any extra effort. Connect your entire organization and create a seamless digital workplace experience by integrating your enterprise data and tools directly into your workplace. Digital Assistant helps you break down the barriers between collaboration and work smarter than ever before.…