What is Microsoft Viva?

Microsoft Viva is a new platform to enhance the employee experience.

Long before the coronavirus pandemic broke out in 2020, smart, digital tools were being developed for more flexible ways of working in the workplace of the future. That the 'future' would come so suddenly and disruptively was not something thatfew people anticipatedthem. In many respects, our existing ways of working have been turned upside down, so new tools are needed to meet new needs that arise when we can no longer be seen in person to the same extent.

As a step in this effort, Microsoft has launched Microsoft Viva - a so-called employee experience platform (EXP), a digital platform that is seamlessly integrated with the same tools used in daily work. The platform provides businesses, managers and employees with the resources and support they need to develop and succeed - wherever they are. It promotes the employee experience in four key areas: engagement, well-being, learning and knowledge, distributed in the platform's first set of modules.

The first set of modules is: 

• Viva Topics: A tool aimed at making information, knowledge and expertise available to everyone in the organization. A knowledge bank where, by searching on a specific topic or keyword, you will find all the information stored in files and documents related to the topic or containing keywords related to it. The tool also makes it possible to easily find the people in the company who have particular expertise in the subject area.
• Viva ConnectionsA new and personalized interface to your digital workplace. It gives you access to intranet communications, company resources and employee communities directly in Teams. The Connections app for Teams is available for desktop in a public preview and will be available as a mobile app later this year.
• Viva Learning: A knowledge and training platform for your organization where employees can access the organization's training resources. As an employer, you can also follow the training courses that employees have attended and set up training plans for employees. A unified platform for learning where your own courses can be created and where content from external training services can also be added.

• Viva Insight: Helps managers and leaders gain team- and organization-level insights into how employees work in order to develop better and healthier ways of working. They can identify where teams are experiencing challenges, proactively adjust work processes, and then measure the impact of those adjustments over time. Employees themselves can create their own insights, visible only to them, to help them balance productivity and wellbeing. The insights are generated from aggregated and de-identified data to maintain personal privacy. The tool can also leverage data from third-party applications such as Zoom, Workday, and SAP Success Factors.

Dedicated partner for successful implementation of Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva is fully integrated with the productivity and collaboration features found in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams. This brings the power of Microsoft's cloud platform together to create an enhanced employee experience.

We at WeSafe are dedicated to the Microsoft product range with cloud services as the main focus. We have the knowledge, expertise and focus required for a successful rollout of the constituent modules of Microsoft Viva and make them work together in a way that benefits your business. WeSafe helps you in the implementation phase and then in the ongoing work so that you can optimize the benefits of the tools - both today and in the long term.