Polinode System Adds Features

I see that the Polinode system, which I have followed for some time, has added some interesting new features.   Much more at the link.

Five New Features Including an Integration with Office 365
By Andrew Pitts

A number of new features have recently gone live in Polinode so we wanted to pull them all together and summarize them for you. They are all designed to make organizational network analysis even easier and more powerful!

1. OFFICE 365 INTEGRATION

As a platform, Polinode allows you to conduct both active organizational network analysis (where you ask respondents questions like “who do you turn to for advice?”) as well as passive organizational network analysis (where you use communication data such as email metadata). For quite a few years, organizations have successfully used Polinode for both types of organisational network analysis. Typically, where the platform has been used for passive organizational network analysis, organizations have prepared their own communication data as networks and uploaded that prepared data to Polinode. With this new integration though it’s possible for an admin user to simply provide authorization for Polinode to access Office 365 metadata and the platform will then automatically collect and store this metadata on a rolling daily basis. This data is then available to run queries against with these queries then producing interactive networks, i.e. networks that a user can then calculate different measures of centrality, community detection and brokerage on. The screenshot below illustrates our new Office 365 add-on and how easy it is to connect (note that you can click on any of the images below for larger versions).    .... "