This document provides an introduction to Microsoft Viva, a new employee experience platform. It discusses how Microsoft Teams is an extensible application platform used by over 145 million daily active users. It then introduces Viva as integrating communications, knowledge, learning, and insights into a unified employee experience. The rest of the document outlines the various modules within Viva including Topics, Learning, Connections, and Insights. It discusses getting started on implementing Viva and how TeamsHUB and Cyclotron can help with information architecture, development strategies, and deployments.
2. Introduction to Viva Agenda
+Teams as an Application Platform
+Viva the New Employee Experience Platform
+Getting Started on the Viva Journey
+How TeamsHUB and Cyclotron Can Help
7. Why you need
an Employee
Experience
Platform (EXP)
There are seven key elements to a great employee experience:
8. Microsoft Teams provides a powerful and
extensible platform
Build apps with a rich set of capabilities to reach
your users through chat, channels, notifications and personal
workspace.
Integrate with new or existing business processes and services
Connectors
Post rich updates to channels
Activity Feed
Engage users via feed
notifications
Bots
Help users get tasks done in
conversations
Adaptive Cards
Add rich interaction to your
connector cards
Message Extensions
Allow users to query and share
rich cards in conversations
Tabs
Surface rich content as well as
SharePoint Framework* based
solutions
Build in intelligence and connect
to data that drives productivity
Microsoft Graph App Store
Drive engagement by submitting
your app to our app store
* Microsoft Inspire 2021
9. Microsoft Teams as a Platform
Microsoft
Productivity Apps
No Code
Low Code
Integrated apps, processes automation, and business intelligence
Microsoft Teams
Employee Experience
Pro Code Dev
Bring Communication, Knowledge, Learning, and Insights into an Integrated Employee Experience
Connections Topics Learning Insights
Microsoft Viva
Microsoft Power
Platform
Teams App Store
Plus more than 100+ additional apps
Microsoft Visual Studio
13. The New Killer Apps for Teams: Microsoft Viva Modules
Knowledge &
Expertise
Viva Topics
Connect to Knowledge
& Experts
Project Cortex
Knowledge Center
Culture &
Communications
Viva Connections
Stay Engaged &
Informed
Teams Home Site App
Home Site App
Productivity &
Wellbeing
Viva Insights
Find efficiencies &
work life balance
Org Analytics &
My Analytics
Skilling and Growth
Viva Learning
Make learning a
natural part of your
day
LinkedIn Learning
Formerly
Known as
20. THE VIVA JOURNEY
Readiness Assessment,
Architecture, Site
Structures &
Permission Models
1. INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE
Hub Navigation,
Site Navigation,
Hub Sites &
Personalization
2. GLOBAL
NAVIGATION
Aggregate relevant news
org wide, Sites, Company
comms,
Events & Dashboard for
apps and resources
3. VIVAFY
SHAREPOINT
Personalized &
Targeted Navigation,
Pages, News, Quick
Links, Highlighted
content and Events
4. AUDIENCE
TARGETING
Content Boost
Content Approval
Intelligent Video
5. CONTENT
MANAGEMENT
Packaging &
Deployment
Setup Enterprise Policy
Phased rollout
Training
6. LAUNCH
21. Viva Connections what you need to know:
Coming Soon: Enhancements to the configuration and
deployment experience
The Viva Connections for desktop PowerShell script is
available now in the Microsoft download center.
+ Note: SharePoint admin permissions are required to create the Viva Connections
package in PowerShell, and Teams admin permissions to apply the app.
+Viva Connections
+Global Navigation
+App Bar
+Targeting
+Personalization
+Search
+Share in Teams
+Modern Header/Footer Brand
29. Amber Bahl
CEO & Founder
Christopher Barber
Power Platform Architect
Steve Ellison
Director of Sales
The Team
Notas do Editor
Teams applications can add a number of features to the Teams UI
Tabs and Bots are the two most important, and both are possible using low-code/no-code solutions
With the addition of code, you can add even more; some of our upcoming workshops go deeper into the coding and discuss these other options.
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Tabs allow you to surface rich content within Teams, so you can bring the tools and services your team cares about right into a channel or private chat. Add rich dashboards and data visualization, collaborate on documents and note taking, manage tasks across the group, and share designs.
Bots help users get tasks done in conversations in Teams. Bots can do things like kick-off workflows and provide related status, give and receive kudos from team members, create lightweight surveys to gauge employee satisfaction, and answer natural language questions about sales and customer usage data.
Connectors help bring useful information and rich content from external services into channels in Microsoft Teams. Get social media notifications, updates about pull and push requests, and news updates.
With Actionable messages, you can add rich content to your connector cards.
Message extensions allow users to query and share rich cards in conversations.
Activity feed notifications engage users via feed notifications.
To learn more about the Teams developer platform, visit the Office Dev Center at Developer.Microsoft.com/Microsoft-Teams.
And with this rich set of capabilities, many the result of partner feedback, it has opened up significant opportunities for you as partners to create a very wide range of customized solutions for your customers.
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To start with, Viva will have these 4 modules that you see here, and we’ll be adding more in the future.
Each of these builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 and are integrated directly in Teams, as you can see from the UI here for each module.
I’ll provide a quick description of the modules now and then we’ll go deeper into each one in the following sections.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
David
[Notes: This shows what happens on expiration. First box is notice. 2nd box tells you it's been done. Bottom screen shot from Teams. The group owner will get email plus notice in Teams in parallel with top left screenshot.]