Introduction to connect occupancy signals
Microsoft Places analytics signals onboarding overview
Microsoft Places analytics helps real-estate and facility managers understand, analyze, and optimize space use across buildings, rooms, and desk pools. There are a few articles you can use to learn in-depth about how the signals used by analytics can be used by real estate and facility managers to better understand how their spaces are being used.
Places analytics uses first-party data and third-party data to plot the use of spaces. The following articles can help you:
Understand the signals used to build a dashboard in Places analytics and its source.
Guide to onboard and integrate signals (particularly for occupancy data) available at your end to Places analytics.
Note
Analytics for desk booking are only available for desk pools at the moment. Analytics for individually bookable desks are coming soon.
Prerequisites
Before you can use Microsoft Places analytics, buildings must be onboarded to Microsoft Places and enabled for Places analytics.
Onboarded buildings should have city, state, and country details available to show accurate numbers in Places analytics. You should also ensure details are onboarded for all buildings, rooms, and desk pools.
The following articles help you learn in-depth about how the signals used by analytics can be used to better understand how spaces are being used.