Describe the Microsoft Viva apps
Microsoft Viva is an integrated employee experience platform (EXP) that empowers people and teams to be their best. An employee experience platform is a digital platform that helps organizations create a thriving culture with engaged employees and inspiring leaders. Microsoft Viva is powered by Microsoft 365 and designed for everyone to connect, learn, and grow. It's built right into Microsoft Teams and experienced through Microsoft 365, so employees can find what they need when they need it. Viva is easily customizable and extensible, accessible from anywhere, and integrates with the tools that organizations already use. Microsoft 365 Copilot in Microsoft Viva helps boost engagement, productivity, and business success by providing leaders new ways to access insights and interact with the workforce through intelligent experiences.
Microsoft Viva brings together all the tools employees need to be successful in today’s world of work into one unified solution across unique experience areas. Let's explore the available apps within each of theses areas:
Employee communications and communities
- Viva Connections is your gateway to a modern employee experience. Viva Connections offers organizations a branded company app for employees to find everything they need to get their jobs done and stay connected. It's a customizable app in Microsoft Teams that gives everyone a personalized "home" destination to discover relevant news, conversations, and quick access to the tools and resources they need to succeed. For more information on Viva Connections, see Microsoft Viva Connections.
- Viva Engage powers the social layer of Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365. Through communities, company-wide events, and open conversations, Viva Engage connects leaders and employees to openly share, ideate, problem solve, and contribute across boundaries. The Viva Engage app is integrated in Microsoft Teams that surfaces existing and new employee experiences powered by Yammer services. These new Viva Engage features will also appear in Yammer web, desktop and mobile apps. Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Engage helps leaders in Viva Engage easily create engaging posts, personalize messages, analyze metrics, and recommend responses to drive authentic community interactions. For more information on Viva Engage, see Microsoft Viva Engage.
- Viva Amplify is a centralized campaign management, publishing, and reporting app for corporate communicators to reach and engage all employees using multichannel publishing. Users can create publishing workflows, and track and measure analytics—all from one place. For more information on Viva Amplify, see Microsoft Viva Amplify.
Workplace analytics and feedback
- Viva Insights provides data-driven, privacy-protected insights and actionable recommendations that help everyone in the organization work smarter and achieve balance. Personal, manager, and leader insights are available within the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams or through the web app. It uses quantitative and qualitative data to empower individuals, managers, and leaders to improve organizational productivity and wellbeing. Explore the Copilot Dashboard to gain insights on how your organization is utilizing Microsoft 365 Copilot and how to maximize it's value. For more information on Viva Insights, see Microsoft Viva Insights.
- Viva Glint is a people-driven platform that provides visibility into the health of your organization and guides effective action. With Viva Glint boosts engagement and delivers rapid people insights, enabling continuous feedback conversations, predictive risk modeling, data-driven analysis of success drivers, and tracking of feedback progress and impact. Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint summarizes and analyzes employee feedback at scale, enabling leaders to explore insights by asking natural language questions. For more information on Viva Glint, see Microsoft Viva Glint.
- Viva Pulse is a survey solution for managers and project leads, helping gather quick feedback from their teams to understand experiences and recommendations. Data remains confidential to managers and project leads. For more information on Viva Pulse, see Microsoft Viva Pulse.
Learning and knowledge management
- Viva Learning is a centralized learning hub in Microsoft Teams that lets you seamlessly integrate learning and building skills into your day. Viva Learning brings enterprise learning into the flow of work by connecting content from your organization, Learning Management Systems, third-party providers, and Microsoft. Along with AI providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows for easy sharing, assigning, and tracking capabilities. Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Learning curates personalized learning content and concise knowledge summaries to help leaders easily develop skills and train their workforce. For more information on Viva Learning, see Employee Learning and Training | Microsoft Viva.
- Viva Topics delivers a knowledge discovery experience that helps people connect to information and experts across their organization. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically organize company-wide content and expertise into relevant topic cards. Clicking on a card opens a topic page with related documents, conversations, videos, and people. Viva Topics brings knowledge to your users in the Microsoft 365 apps they use every day. Experts can rapidly curate and share knowledge through simple, highly customizable web pages. Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Topics and Answers uses conversational AI to help users learn about topics, ask intelligent questions, and generate comprehensive, well-cited answers using relevant references and experts. For more information on Viva Topics, see Knowledge and Expertise | Microsoft Viva Topics.
