Getting started with Microsoft Viva
With the growth in hybrid work, it's more important than ever to connect employees with an experience that brings together a wide range of productivity tools all in Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform made up of different apps that can be used individually or combined to meet your organization’s needs. Microsoft Viva is customizable and extensible, accessible from anywhere you work, and integrates with tools you already use. It also supports various partner integrations to give you access to industry-leading apps in the natural flow of work.
Identify your business scenario
Viva apps can be used on their own or used together for a more cohesive employee experience. This document helps you understand which solutions are right for your organization.
- Use all Viva apps - Get guidance on how to prepare, plan, and deploy all Viva apps.
- Discover how you can combine Viva apps - Viva apps become more powerful if used together. Viva can help your organization meet popular business scenarios like onboarding and helping employees with wellness in the workplace. Learn how to combine Viva apps.
- Learn more about individual Viva apps - Get detailed descriptions of each Viva app and learn more about how they can be used to meet specific objectives. Then, review requirements and considerations for planning and deploying.
Summary of each Viva app
| App | Features and capabilities | Microsoft 365 integration |
|---|---|---|
Viva Connections |
- Build a modern employee experience on your existing infrastructure. - Create a centralized destination that’s personalized for employees. - Deliver a customized mobile and web application that includes your company branding. - Provide a unified communications channel to aggregate and share essential information. - Target communications and dashboard cards to individuals or groups based on job type, geo, or other targeting criteria. - Boost critical news and announcements to maximize exposure. - Integrate with third-party providers and human resources systems to use your current investments and systems. |
SharePoint Microsoft Teams Viva Engage Stream Microsoft Graph |
Viva Engage |
- Connect people across the business to strengthen professional relationships and build social capital. - Build communities that support diversity, shared interests, and business initiatives. - Spark engagement between leaders and employees to amplify vision and shape culture. - Exchange knowledge, find answers, and crowdsource ideas. - Activate people to contribute their experience and expertise. |
Microsoft Teams Viva Engage |
Viva Glint |
- Use the principles of People Science to craft an employee engagement strategy tailored to meet your specific business goals. - Use AI to create efficiencies in aggregating, understanding, and enhancing the actionability of employee feedback. - Reduce time to action with AI driven efficiencies such as data collection, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and predictive analysis. - Support employees with personalized, relevant actions that maximize their employee experience. - Gain immediate insights and use AI to understand strengths, risks, benchmarks, and comments in interactive, easy-to-use dashboards. - Empower leaders and managers to have guided team conversations that drive change through personalized results and actionable recommendations. |
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Viva Goals |
- Create focused and motivated teams by aligning work to your organization's mission and priorities. - Create and set OKRs (objectives and key results) for your organization. - Work with OKRs for every team in your organization, including both hierarchical and cross-functional teams. - Align projects to OKRs and track project outcomes. - Surface OKRs in Microsoft Teams. |
Microsoft Teams Excel Online |
Viva Insights |
- Personal insights help employees build better work habits with actionable recommendations, such as reserving time for focused work, taking regular breaks, and activities to reduce stress and improve focus. - Manager insights show how your habits impact your team while getting suggestions on how to foster team culture. - Leader insights show a snapshot into how your company is doing, including company-wide outcomes and leading indicators for each outcome. - Advanced Insights has advanced analysis tools for deep diving into Viva Insights data and different ways of analyzing and reporting custom analysis to your company’s business leaders. |
Microsoft Teams Outlook Web-based apps |
Viva Learning |
- Enable social learning by using Teams chat and tabs- Aggregate learning from connected content providers, learning management systems, and your own company resources. - Recommend learning content and track reported completion progress. - Add learning to the calendar to prioritize personal growth and development. - Get personalized learning suggestions based on your interests and trending content. - Surface learning content in Microsoft Search across Bing.com, Office.com, and SharePoint.com. |
Microsoft Teams SharePoint |
Viva Pulse |
Helps managers and team leads seek regular and confidential feedback on their team’s experience. Using People-Science backed templates and analytics, Viva Pulse will enable teams to use their voice so they can help managers pinpoint what's working well and which areas to focus on over time. Viva Pulse will also suggest learning and actions on relevant topics, making it easy for managers to address their team’s needs. | Microsoft Teams |
Microsoft Viva license requirements
Learn more about Microsoft Viva licensing and which Microsoft Viva features are available across Microsoft 365 plans in the Microsoft Viva service description.
Overview of steps
| Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
Discover |
Learn |
Prepare |
Get started |
| Overview of apps and key concepts. | Learn more about requirements and roles. | Get guidance on change management considerations and end-user training resources. | Get started planning for your organization. |
Steps to set up
Discover what app to use and when
Get familiar with how each Viva app can help your organization achieve certain outcomes. Review features and functionality for each Viva app.Learn more about requirements and roles
Get guidance on technical requirements, roles, and other considerations that are a part of the planning process.Prepare your organization for your instance of Viva
Start organizing, auditing, and scoping how your organization will use Viva apps to reach certain audiences and outcomes.Get started deploying
Get specific guidance on how to get each Viva app, considerations for adoption, and best practices for launching new tools.
Guidance for your users
Find out how employees in your organization can use Viva apps, and give them guidance on how to use the apps.
| Viva app | Description | Guidance |
|---|---|---|
| Viva Connections | Helps end users find specific content and tools by giving them a personalized destination with resources, relevant news, popular destinations, and more. | Viva Connections on your desktop |
| Viva Engage | Provides a place to connect and engage with leaders, colleagues, and communities. Viva Engage creates opportunities for asking questions, sharing knowledge, attending virtual events, building social capital, and extending employee networks. | Getting started with Microsoft Viva Engage |
| Viva Glint | Helps HR leaders and admins understand how their people perceive work and how to respond positively to influence the employee experience and business results by reducing turnover and improving productivity. Data provides employee trends, risks, and opportunities across the employee lifecycle. Managers learn to understand and support their employees’ unique work experience with personalized action plans and end users can share their employee experience in a secure, confidential manner and receive relevant and personalized support to maximize their employee experience. | An introduction to Viva Glint |
| Viva Goals | Makes it easy for employees to view objectives and key results (OKRs) that are relevant to both them and your broader organization. Employees can also add their own OKRs and submit them to managers for review. Employees who own OKRs can conduct check-ins to update progress. | Viva Goals in Teams - Microsoft Support. |
| Viva Insights | Includes advanced insights for end users, managers, and leaders. Also offers custom analysis for evaluating your specific organization’s work patterns with research-based recommendations about where to focus change management efforts. | Introducing Viva Insights |
| Viva Learning | Allows employees to discover, share, and track formal and informal learning in the flow of work. Users can engage in social learning with colleagues and set and track personal learning goals. Personalized learning helps users get relevant learning content based on their own interests or recommendations from colleagues. | Viva Learning Social learning Personal learning Learning content |
Learn about new Viva apps coming soon
These new Microsoft Viva apps are coming soon. Learn how to incorporate each Viva app into your organization's employee experience.
| App name | Features and capabilities | More information |
|---|---|---|
| Viva Amplify | Viva Amplify empowers employee communication teams and leaders to elevate their messaging using a centralized communication process that offers writing guidance to help reach every part of the organization. | Learn more about Viva Amplify |
| Viva Answers | Viva Answers matches employee questions to the right answers and experts across the organization to help address open questions and put collective knowledge to work for all employees. Answers in Viva will also leverage AI to surface similar questions that have been answered, recommend topics and experts, and highlight top solutions. | Learn more about Viva Answers |
Learn more
Learn more about which Viva app, or combination of apps, is the right fit for your business scenario. Then, get guidance on how to prepare, plan, and deploy the Viva solution for your organization.