Which data sources are connected?

What amber can answer from your company knowledge comes down to two things: which data sources are connected, and what you personally have access to.

In 3 steps

  1. Open the overview: click Data sources in the left sidebar. You'll see everything available to you – SharePoint, Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, Confluence, Jira and whatever else is connected at your company.

  2. Connect a source: click "Connect" on the source you want and follow the instructions – always with your personal credentials.

  3. Switch it on in the chat: enable "Company knowledge". amber then draws on your sources for its answer.

The three knowledge modes – and why the distinction matters

Mode

Source

Example

Company knowledge

your connected data sources

"What's our parental leave policy?"

Web search

public web sources only

"What does ISO 27001 currently require?"

General chat

the language model's own knowledge

"Turn that into an email."

You switch between modes at the bottom of the chat. If you're unsure where an answer came from, the source reference next to the answer tells you.

Data source or action?

Two things that are easy to mix up:

Data source

Action

amber may

read

read and act

Example

"What does our travel policy say?"

"File the summary in SharePoint."

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Good to know

Your access rights still apply, unchanged. What you can't open in SharePoint won't show up in amber either – and a colleague may get a different answer to the same question.

Every answer names its source. For important questions it's worth checking which document the information came from and how current it is.

Missing a data source you'd like connected? Get in touch at support@amber.de

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