Everything you should know about Microsoft Viva

Overview:

When we heard the word “Microsoft Viva” for the first time, the question arises in our mind that, what do we mean by Viva? How Microsoft Viva is useful to us to achieve our business scenarios and business goals? We will talk about all these important things in detail throughout this session! Microsoft Viva comes up with four different Viva products which help us to build an Employee Experience Platform and Ecosystem. Now, the question arises, what do we mean by Employee Experience Platform (EXP)? 

Employee Experience Platform (EXP):

Employee Experience Platform is described as bringing together all useful tools for employee communications, wellbeing, learning, and knowledge discovery into one package! 

Microsoft Viva comes up with the same thing with four amazing Microsoft Viva Products! Now, let’s see how these viva products are helpful!

1. Viva Topics: Responsible for knowledge and expertise
2. Viva Insights: Responsible for employee productivity and wellbeing
3. Viva Connections: Responsible for employee engagement and communication
4. Viva Learning: Responsible to make learning a natural part of your day

Now, let’s check each Viva product in detail!

Viva Topics:

• Topics turn content to Knowledge using M365, Graph, and AI to organize content into Topic Pages which can be easily discoverable from other M365 Products.
• Examples:
• New Employee Onboarding
• Different Verticals like
• Science & Space
• Construction
• Education
• Healthcare

Viva Insights:

• Viva Insights delivers Data-Driven and Privacy Protected Insights and recommendations that help individuals and teams to improve their product and wellbeing.
• Viva Insights surfaces the data using Exchange Online, Teams, and My Analytics.
• Viva Insights provides three types of Viva Insights:
• Individual/Personal
• Manager Insights
• Leader Insights

Viva Connections:

• Viva connections boost Employee Engagement.
• Viva connections provide a curated, company-branded experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and resources in the apps and devices you use every day.

Viva Learning:

• Viva Learning makes learning a natural part of your day. 
• All your learning content is available in one place in Microsoft Teams.
• Microsoft has collaborated with other content providers like Microsoft Learn, Skillsoft, LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight, and many more!

We at Binary Republik conducted a webinar on Microsoft Viva. Here’s the entire recording for the same webinar! 

Chapters of the webinar:

• What is Microsoft Viva?
• Four Pillars of Microsoft Viva
• Get Started with Microsoft Viva Topics
• Get Started with Microsoft Viva Insights
• Get Started with Microsoft Viva Connections
• Get Started with Microsoft Viva Learning

Recording of the session:

Conclusion:

This is how we can leverage the Microsoft Viva capabilities in actual business scenarios! It’s really useful to make a better Employee Experience Platform and Ecosystem.

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