Microsoft Viva improves the employee experience

In today's article, we'll show you how you can engage your employees even better in the company with Microsoft Viva (New Employee Experience). The new platform helps to promote the well-being of your employees and also enables even better communication. Access to knowledge, learning content and company resources is directly integrated into daily work processes. Viva Connections, Viva Insights, Viva Learning and Viva Topics are primarily used in Microsoft Teams as part of Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Viva - Open and extensible

Microsoft Viva is a forward-looking platform for employee experience. It is fully focused on the daily needs of employees. It enables companies to integrate fragmented workplace tools into the workflow. As an open and extensible platform, it integrates applications from the ever-growing ecosystem of Viva partners. Customers are supported in optimizing their existing investments in Employee Experience. The goal is a strong corporate culture with engaged employees and inspiring leaders.

Your employees are the focus

How can you as a company better integrate your employees into work processes? The need for solutions that put people at the center is increasing in the wake of current developments. Access to knowledge should be easier and promote the well-being of your team. Microsoft Viva addresses the needs of employees in the workplace by strengthening their personal and professional development and thus promoting the satisfaction of your team. Companies benefit from lower employee turnover, increasing their overall revenue.

Four applications for individual employee experience

1) Viva Connections provides a personal entry point into the digital workplace via Microsoft Teams. Your team will find curated content, news, and info about their own company. This app for Teams will be available for desktop in the first half of 2021.

2) Viva Insights ensures optimal work life balance and a healthy company culture. Managers can use it to create better working conditions. The Viva Insights app in Teams and the new dashboard are currently in public preview.

3) Viva Learning provides a central hub for learning in Microsoft Teams. It relies entirely on artificial intelligence (AI) to help your team find the right content at the right time, every time. You can use it to build the culture of learning in your company and let it flourish into a natural part of daily work.

4) Viva Topics helps your employees with research. It significantly reduces the time spent searching for information.

If you would like to use Microsoft Viva effectively for your employees in your company, please contact us. As a certified Microsoft partner with many years of experience, we can support you with our know-how.

In this article you will find all the new features of Microsoft Viva in detail.