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 Improve employee productivity and well-being through data-driven insights and recommendations.
Insight	Viva Insights Improve employee productivity and well-being through data-driven insights and recommendations.
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.
Role-based	Viva Sales Use Microsoft 365 and Teams to automatically capture, access, and register data into any CRM system.

Viva Connections

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

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Viva Engage

This employee experience app 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 Yammer 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 Insights

This employee experience app helps improve productivity and wellbeing through data-driven, privacy-protected insights and recommendations. It 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 Topics

This employee experience app applies AI to 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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Viva Learning

This employee experience app brings 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 Goals

This goal-setting and management solution aligns 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 Sales

This seller experience app uses Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams to automatically capture, access, and register data into any customer relationship management (CRM) system. The app is designed to help sellers work the way they want to without unnecessary context switching and manual data entry. Viva Sales brings together the apps you work with daily—your CRM, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams—to provide a more streamlined and AI-powered selling experience.

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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, Glint, and Headspace

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

Find out more about partner integrations

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