GigJam https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/gigjam/feed.xml It's your gig. Work the way you want. Learn more at microsoft.com/gigjam Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:26:33 GMT en-US hourly 1 Update on the GigJam Preview https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/gigjam/update-on-gigjam-preview Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:00:45 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/gigjam/?p=115 Ambient Computing Team]]> GigJam expands support for interaction styles and content types https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/gigjam/gigjam-expands-support-for-interaction-styles-and-content-types Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:16:51 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/gigjam/?p=105 official announcement to learn more, or download the GigJam preview at aka.ms/gigjam. Vijay Mital, Corporate VP, Ambient Computing and Robotics]]> GigJam preview is now available for everyone https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/gigjam/gigjam-preview-is-now-available-for-everyone Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:00:16 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/gigjam/?p=95 official announcement to learn more, or download the GigJam preview at aka.ms/gigjam or from the iOS App Store. Vijay Mital, General Manager, Ambient Computing]]> Announcing the GigJam Invitation Preview: A New Way to Work https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/gigjam/announcing-the-gigjam-invitation-preview-a-new-way-to-work Thu, 12 May 2016 16:00:26 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/gigjam/?p=45 Private Preview of GigJam, a new product coming to Office 365 later this year that helps break down barriers between devices, apps and people. There has been a lot of progress since then, and we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding from the Private Preview to the GigJam Invitation Preview, which is now available to everyone who signed up for early access on the GigJam site. If you’ve already registered, you will receive an email shortly inviting you to download GigJam.

What is GigJam?

Today it’s hard to take what you’re working on and share just a portion of it momentarily with someone else. This means you miss opportunities to accelerate work, get spot input, or get instant closure on actions. For instance, you want the person across the table to help respond to an urgent customer email but you don’t want to hand over your phone in case she hits Send, navigates back or sees who is on the cc: line. Similarly, you can’t selectively reveal a few clauses in a contract without leaving the entire file behind. Finally, you can’t spontaneously take a couple of Salesforce orders and related Outlook emails, and have a vendor help you update the information directly in the forms, while not sending over sensitive pricing and customer details. GigJam helps you spontaneously and momentarily involve others in your work. You just summon all the live information you need, divvy it up by circling what you want to share and crossing out what you don’t, and control whether others can see or even co-work with you in real time. Now you can finally involve others inside and outside your organization to help you get work done in the moment. Here are just a few examples of how GigJam lets you change the way you work:
Getting instant help and closure on a customer email
Getting spot feedback on work-in-progress
Safely getting a partner's input

What’s next?

The Invitation Preview is available now for Windows and Mac OS X, with an iOS preview coming soon. When you receive your invitation, download GigJam and start using it with anyone, even those without an invite. If you haven’t yet signed up, please register here to receive an invitation. Over the coming weeks we will be working hard to act on your feedback. We are targeting general availability as part of Office 365 later this year, so please stay tuned! Vijay Mital, General Manager, Ambient Computing]]> GigJam: Unleashing the human process https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/gigjam/project-gigjam-unleashing-the-human-process Mon, 13 Jul 2015 06:02:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/gigjam/2015/07/13/project-gigjam-unleashing-the-human-process/
  • A user can select flights and hotels in a self-service travel booking app, but the app cannot know that the user wants to coordinate choices with colleagues also visiting the same customers.
  • A salesperson uses a clothing catalog app to assist customers, but the app cannot support a teenager’s need to get different friends inputting on different choices in real time, and then involve a parent to narrow down what fits the budget.
  • Executives use a talent management app to reward and reassign employees, but they go outside the app to involve other managers to explore and tweak various reward and org permutations.
    • What’s truly needed is a way for people to spontaneously divvy up the information and actions needed to get work done, to keep track of each part, and bring it all to closure with others. That’s why we are excited to announce GigJam, a breakthrough way for people to involve others in their business tasks. This is how the order reprioritization exercise looks with GigJam. [embed]https://gigswpcdemo.blob.core.windows.net/videos/website/Blog_Video_07122015.mp4[/embed] As you see in the video, GigJam is simple to use: you just summon the information you need, circle and cross to divvy up, and tap on people to involve them. Whether people are face to face, or available by phone, or busy at the moment, it doesn’t matter – each will get the information and tools they need, and their work will be synchronized. The heavy lifting is all under the covers:
    • The summoned information and associated actions come from the business’s existing applications and SaaS via REST APIs, with OAuth 1 and 2 authentication.
    • When a user divvies up and sends information to another person, it is in the spirit of screen sharing or casting, with the twist that each person can have a different view, and any field or row or even a UI affordance like a scroll button can be redacted. The recipient gets only the UI the sender intended, with information flown through a cloud proxy for the sender’s device.
    • The business’s overall process logic and security policies are thus honored.
    GigJam is designed for the emerging workforce that is more connected, more available and more social than ever before.  With GigJam, a business can expect a dramatic transformation of every process where humans have the potential to exercise discretion and work with others, colleagues as well as customers. In this vision, involving other people is so easy and secure that even when a task is traditionally meant for one person, now others can get involved for greater efficiency and effectiveness. In this vision:
    • A physical therapist who previously worked alone to create a rehab protocol now involves the patient and the patient’s family (each interacting from their own devices), all the while making sure that sensitive physician’s notes and the patient’s records are appropriately shielded.
    • An engineer assigned to inspect an aircraft fuselage can opportunistically accelerate the work by divvying up some of it for a couple of colleagues who happen to be nearby and free, while still maintaining personal responsibility through the ability to review the colleagues’ input before committing it.
    While so much of our industry is today focused on coming up with new forms of instant messaging and news ways to share documents, media content and links, GigJam takes on the next big challenge in productivity: task work. The way it does it: allowing people to extract and share the very molecules of work itself, and involve others in completing them. Not just talking, not just knowledge share, but getting work done. Darryl Rubin, Vijay Mital and the Ambient Computing Team]]>