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Understanding how employees in your company use Office 365 is imperative in helping to drive more usage and obtaining the best value from your own Office 365 investment. The Office 365 admin center now has a new reporting dashboard to greatly help give IT greater visibility across SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, and Yammer.

Onedrive App and reporting dashboard enable you to easily monitor your service and identify opportunities and issues. It offers you metrics to use in reporting to management about your workplace 365 investment. The reporting portal also provides a full picture across all main Office 365 services.

Activity Dashboard - A high-level summary of how many people in your company use Office 365. Each service at work 365 suite has its own tile that presents key activity data, making it easy to get a quick understanding of the experience.

Email Activity Report - This report lets you understand email usage, such as for example send, receive and read activity. You can even monitor trends in email traffic which may be helpful in user migration.

Office Activations Report - Shows which users have been assigned an Office 365 license and have signed into Office 365 on at least one device. This report helps you identify users who have not activated their license yet.

SharePoint Site Usage Report - Provides you with storage consumption details across all your SharePoint sites. The report helps you see activity across sites, just how much storage is available, and the way the sites are being used for file storage.

OneDrive for Business Usage Report - This report helps you understand storage and sharing activity on OneDrive for Business. This consists of number and how big is files stored, in aggregate and per user.

Skype for Business Report - Shows Skype for Business usage, such as minutes spent in a Skype Meeting, peer-to-peer activity like IMs and calls, meetings organized, and meeting participation.

Yammer Report - This report provides details on Yammer engagement such as for example Like, Read and Post activities.

Additional hints provide you with both aggregate and user-level information, in order to plan training and communication that helps make best use of Office 365. The reports also show information for different timeframes: 7, 30, 90, and 150 days. Reports can be exported in CSV format and opened in an instrument like Excel.

IT admins will only have access to information they curently have permission to gain access to in the service. more info will discover detailed log information to audit and track user and admin activities in the Compliance Center.

In the next few months, there will be even more reports focused on SharePoint and OneDrive for Business user activity, Office 365 Groups, email protection and user interaction with Office 365.