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Microsoft Viva Connections

Composite Score

8.4 /10

CX Score

8.9 /10

35 Reviews Write a Review

What is Microsoft Viva Connections?

Grow together with Microsoft Viva Connections—the employee experience platform within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams. Viva supports connection, insight, purpose, and growth, empowering people and teams to be their best.

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Microsoft Viva Connections Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 2
Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

Up 1
Since last award

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Up 1
Since last award

Product Experience

Negotiation and Contract

Conflict Resolution

Strategy & Innovation

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:: 96%
Negotiation and Contract:: 92%
Conflict Resolution:: 97%
Strategy & Innovation:: 98%
Service Experience:: 94%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Viva Connections?

0% Negative

3% Neutral

97% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service
Inspires Innovation

Feature Ratings

Average 77

Instant Messaging

Employee Engagement

News Feed

Home Page

Blog Support

Wiki Support

Integrations

File Sharing Collaboration

Employee Directory

Discussion Forums

Document Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 74

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

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Microsoft Viva Connections Reviews

Gavin M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Energy
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Mar 2023

Brilliant product. Great level of integration.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Viva Connections from other similar products?

Great level of integration with other platforms. Seamless integration with Microsoft products.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It’s is great for engaging global audiences and building communities.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing. It’s a great product.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Look to leverage its functionality early in on creating communities. It’s a great platform to act as a global town square.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Faiz S.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Finance
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Mar 2023

Unique EXP Platform Inside Microsoft 365 Family

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Viva Connections from other similar products?

- Unified Employee Experience Platform inside Microsoft 365, make easier for IT Team to manage - Deep integration with SharePoint and Yammer to foster communication and collaboration in the organization - Employee wellbeing features in Viva Insights

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

- can be integrated into Microsoft Teams, will make easier for users to access - Wellbeing features like guided meditation, praise, schedule send and focus time

What do you dislike most about this product?

- low tangible impact, for most companies, it's still as a nice to have platform

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

- provide better integration and automation between Viva Goals and Project Management Platform - create more tangible good impact features in Viva Insights personal Insights, so that the users will love it

Pros

Helps Innovate
Trustworthy
Inspires Innovation
Client Friendly Policies

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Microsoft Viva Connections Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 2 Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

Up 1 Since last award

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Up 1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Instant Messaging Real-time, text-based communication between two or more people

Employee Engagement Provides ability to solicit and measure employee engagement feedback.

News Feed A display of recent activity relevant to users. Can include notices, events, or work activities such as completed tasks, projects, or recently edited documents.

Home Page A landing page that the user views upon launching the app. This may include announcements and the news feed, and may be customizable by the end user.

Blog Support Allows employees to create blogs, personalizable mini-websites on which they post content viewable by co-workers.

Wiki Support Supports the creation of wikis by users. A wiki is a knowledge base written and maintained by the collaborative authorship of its users.

Integrations The workplace platform integrates with common business applications in which users do their work, such as Office 365, G-Suite, Salesforce, and Zendesk.

File Sharing Collaboration Users share, view, edit, discuss, and provide feedback on content, synchronously or asynchronously, either natively or through a third-party integration.

Employee Directory Employees can browse a searchable directory containing job titles and contact information of co-workers, or identify candidates for collaboration.

Discussion Forums Users can create posts on a browseable message board. Other users can reply to the posts in an open-discussion conversation thread visible to other users.

Document Management Includes features such as check-in/check-out and versioning controls on documents and artifacts.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

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Microsoft Viva Connections Reviews

Gavin M.

Brilliant product. Great level of integration.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Faiz S.

Unique EXP Platform Inside Microsoft 365 Family

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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