Microsoft Viva is a new announcement from Redmond, focused on the world of “employee experience”, in part at least driven by the changes that COVID-19 has brought to the workplace. It’s split into 4 products:
- Viva Topics
- Viva Connections
- Viva Learning
- Viva Insights
Viva Topics
This, via AI, automatically curates content from across an organisation to help people find information and answers from throughout the business – something more important than ever with so many now working remotely.
It costs $5 per user per month and, as an add-on license, requires one of the following as a base:
- Microsoft 365 F1, F3, E3, E5, A3, A5
- Office 365 F3, E1, E3, E5, A3, A5
- Microsoft 365 Business Basic / Business Standard / Business Premium
- SharePoint K, Plan 1, Plan 2
More info here.
Viva Connections
This Viva product seems aimed at helping keep remote employees connected as, according to Microsoft it will bring together “relevant news [and] conversations” from across an organisation – and surface it in Teams. They cite stats that highly engaged employees are less likely to leave and help generate greater profitability – it seems they’re trying to make HR software more mainstream.
More info here.
Viva Learning
This product will serve as a central hub for learning -enabling content form various sources to be presented to employees within Microsoft Teams. As well as Microsoft Learn and LinkedIn Learning, it looks as though partners will include companies such as Coursera, Pluralsight, SkillSoft, SAP SuccessFactors and more.
More info here.
Viva Insights
This looks to be an evolution of Workplace Analytics and will, in fact, require Workplace Analytics for many of the features to be enabled. It will help provide information to employees to enable them to reduce stress and increase productivity, with connections to products such as Headspace.
More info here.
Cloudy with a chance of Licensing 
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