Describe the Microsoft Viva apps

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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 four unique experience areas:

  • Connection. To keep everyone informed, included, and inspired.
  • Insight. To improve productivity and wellbeing with actionable insights.
  • Purpose. To align people's work to team and organizational goals.
  • Growth. To help employees learn, grow, and succeed.

Let's explore the available apps within each of the four experience areas.

Connection

  • 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 Viva Connections Employee Communication Solution | Microsoft Viva.
  • 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 Employee Communication Platform | Microsoft Viva Engage.

Screenshot showing the Viva Connections app within the Microsoft Viva platform.

Insight

  • 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. For more information on Viva Insights, see Microsoft Viva Insights | Microsoft Viva.
  • 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 | Employee Engagement.

Screenshot showing the Viva Insights app within the Microsoft Viva platform.

Purpose

  • Viva Goals is a goal-setting and objectives and key results (OKR) management solution for your entire organization. Viva Goals allows you to connect your employees to your organization’s goals, stay aligned at scale, and drive business results to empower people and teams to understand their impact. Manage and surface goals with various interfaces and integrations, such as Microsoft Teams, web, mobile and email. Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Goals uses AI to guide and simplify goal setting, status tracking, identifying obstacles, and generating check-ins, leveraging insights across sources to streamline OKR management. For more information on Viva Goals, see Set Team and Company Goals | Microsoft Viva.

Growth

  • 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.

Screenshot showing the Viva Learning app within the Microsoft Viva platform.

Microsoft Viva also offers role-based experiences to help employees simplify work and reclaim their time.

Role-based

  • Viva Sales is a seller experience application that uses Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams to automatically capture, access, and register data into any customer relationship management (CRM) system. It's designed to help sellers boost productivity, lighten workloads, save time, and help salespeople sell more. To learn more about Viva Sales, see Microsoft Viva Sales | Microsoft Viva.