Microsoft Viva overview

Microsoft Viva is an integrated employee experience platform built within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams that gives you the ability to support connection, insight, purpose, and growth in your organization using your existing infrastructure.

Viva is easily customizable and extensible, accessible from anywhere you work, and supports several partner integrations to give you access to industry-leading apps in the natural flow of work.

Viva is an open and extensible platform. Partners and developers can use toolkits and APIs for supported Viva apps. To find out more, see the Microsoft Viva Developer Page.

As an integrated experience, administrators can use the centralized Microsoft 365 admin center experience to access guided setups for deploying Viva. Learn how to set up Microsoft Viva.

Learn which Microsoft Viva features are available across Microsoft 365 plans in the Microsoft Viva service description.

Microsoft Viva experiences

Experience	App	App
Connection	Viva Connections Connect employees with tools, news, and resources through this customizable app in Microsoft Teams.	Viva Engage Bring people together across the organization to connect with leaders, coworkers, and communities.
Insight	Viva Insights Improve employee productivity and well-being through data-driven insights and recommendations. Viva Pulse Empower leaders and managers to seek and act on feedback when it matters.	Viva Glint A "voice of the employee" solution helping organizations understand and improve employee engagement to drive business outcomes.
Growth	Viva Topics Use AI to automatically organize content and expertise across your systems and teams.	Viva Learning Bring enterprise learning into the flow of work by connecting content from your organization with other sources
Purpose	Viva Goals Align teams and employees with your organization’s strategic goals and priorities.

Viva Connections

Connect employees with tools, news, and resources in Microsoft Teams. Content is displayed on a dashboard and tailored to each individual based on their role, region, and interests.

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Viva Engage

Brings people together across the organization to connect with leaders, coworkers, and communities. It can also help people crowdsource answers and ideas, share their work and experience, and find belonging at work. The Viva Engage app integrates these experiences into Microsoft Teams and introduces new features including storyline and stories. These new features will also appear in the Viva Engage web, desktop and mobile apps, so no matter where an employee visits, they’ll see the same content and feature set.

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Viva Glint

Understand and improve employee engagement with this "voice of the employee" app. Organizations get immediate visibility into the employee experience with org-wide surveys and recommended actions to drive business outcomes. Questions and action plans are based on people science to guide employee listening and engagement programs that support the employee experience. Leaders and managers can view results to understand wins and opportunities, compare performance against benchmarks and receive personalized suggestions for learning courses, conversation starters, and other actions that support positive business outcomes.

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Viva Goals

Align teams to your organization’s strategic priorities, driving results and a thriving business. With Viva Goals, you can connect employees to your organization’s goals, stay aligned at scale, and drive business results to empower people and teams to understand their impact.

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Viva Insights

Improve productivity and wellbeing through data-driven, privacy-protected insights and recommendations. Viva Insights combines communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights into an employee experience that integrates seamlessly into the apps employees use every day, such as Microsoft Teams.

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Viva Learning

Bring enterprise learning into the flow of work by connecting content from your organization, Learning Management Systems, third-party providers, and Microsoft.

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Viva Pulse

Empower leaders and managers to seek and act on feedback when it matters. Using research-backed templates, teams can quickly share their experience and suggestions, and reporting helps managers pinpoint what's working well and which areas to focus on over time.

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Viva Topics

Automatically organize content and expertise across your systems and teams into related topics, projects, products, processes, and customers. That content appears as topic pages and topic centers—created and updated by AI—that enables experts to cultivate and share knowledge with wiki-like simplicity. It also pops up as topic cards that deliver knowledge across Outlook, SharePoint, and Office.

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Partner integrations

Microsoft Viva supports several partner integrations to give you access to industry-leading apps in the natural flow of work. Here are the current partner integrations. New partners are being added on an ongoing basis, so check back for more.

Viva Learning: SAP SuccessFactors, Cornerstone OnDemand, Saba, Coursera, Skillsoft, Pluralsight, edX, Udemy, Go1, Infosec, Josh Bersin Academy and more

Viva Connections: Qualtrics, ServiceNow, UKG, Talentsoft, StandOut by ADP, Adobe Sign, Moveworks, Lifeworks, Limeade, Tribute, Blue Yonder, Zebra-Reflexis

Viva Insights: Qualtrics and Headspace

Viva Goals: This app has dozens of partner integrations. Find the latest list here.

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Viva solutions

The Viva solution center provides guidance to help understand, plan, and implement integrated Viva solutions. Here you'll find summaries of each Viva app, license requirements, how to plan and combine apps for greater impact, and more.

Access the Microsoft Viva solution center