AI Interface
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a planned collaboration interface for using ASUME from conversations and workflows that already take place in Teams.
The interface is intended to work with the same maintained company understanding available through the ASUME application, rather than creating a separate representation of the company for Microsoft Teams.
Using ASUME from Microsoft Teams
ASUME in Microsoft Teams is intended to let authorised users interact with company understanding without moving every question or discussion back into the ASUME application.
Depending on the capabilities available when the interface is released, users may be able to ask ASUME about a company, bring relevant understanding into a conversation, and use objective-specific outputs from within Teams.
The purpose is not to reproduce the full ASUME application inside Microsoft Teams. It is to make relevant parts of ASUME available where collaboration is already happening.
One understanding across interfaces
Using ASUME from Microsoft Teams does not create a separate Teams version of a company.
A company can be explored in the ASUME application and later discussed through Microsoft Teams while both interfaces continue to work from the maintained understanding available to the workspace.
This allows teams to change where they interact with ASUME without fragmenting the company state ASUME maintains.
Interface, not source
An interface determines where ASUME is used. A source determines which information ASUME is allowed to use.
Microsoft Teams could eventually serve both roles, but they are separate product behaviours and require separate permissions.
Connecting Microsoft Teams as an interface does not automatically give ASUME permission to read chats, channels, files, meeting content, or other information stored in Teams. Likewise, allowing ASUME to use permitted Microsoft Teams information as a source does not necessarily make ASUME available as an interface inside Teams.
Access and permissions
Access through Microsoft Teams will remain subject to the permissions of the ASUME workspace and the Microsoft Teams environment.
A user should only be able to access company understanding and capabilities they are authorised to use. Connecting the interface should not expand a user's access to information simply because that information is available elsewhere in the workspace.
Because the Microsoft Teams interface is planned, its final capabilities, permission model, and supported workflows may change before release.