Aware - People Sets with Azure Active Directory

This article contains information on creating and using People Sets within Aware, including integration with Azure Active Directory (AAD), upcoming CSV-defined groups, viewing People Sets, and examples of their use in reporting, comparisons, and legal holds.

A People Set is a group of individuals you create to gain deeper insights into segments of your organization that are meaningful to you.

Types of People Sets Available in Aware

• An integration of Aware with Azure Active Directory (AAD) groups.
• Coming Soon: A customized group of people you define using a Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file. The People Sets defined by the CSV file do not depend on an Active Directory integration; they can include all collaborative platforms and sources.

How to View the Available People Sets

To display the available People Sets, you must be an Aware Administrator and have access to System Settings.

1. Navigate to System Settings > Integrations
2. Scroll down to People Sets

Custom Reporting with People Sets

All analyzes in the Topic or Audience Report results will be based on the users in the People Group you selected for your report.

People Set Examples

Some organizations will segment their employees into many different departments, with each segment reporting to a different leader. Typically, these segments are defined differently than their collaboration platform groups. They are:

• If your organization has only one designated engineering segment within your collaboration platform, but there are multiple sub-segments within that all have different managers, Leveraging People Sets could help your organization better understand the engineering segment as a whole and identify similarities and differences across the sub-segments and management.

People Sets are also leveraged when organizations are looking to compare their different office/store locations and how they are operating.

• Suppose your organization is running a company-wide initiative and has employees in Texas and California. In that case, you can use People Sets to compare how the initiative resonates with both locations.
• If your organization is involved in a legal investigation at one of its offices or store locations, it can leverage People Sets to create a Legal Hold on that specific location. This would be especially important if the organization has an existing Retention Policy that purges content.