IT House, February 7 news that it has been a year since Microsoft launched Viva, an employee work experience platform integrated in Microsoft Teams, and the company has just shared some new numbers behind the service.
Microsoft now says that Viva now has 10 million monthly active users. Microsoft says that of the 10 million monthly active users, including 1,000 paying customers. These people come from groups such as Blum, Nationwide, Old Mutual, PayPal, REI and Unilever. What's more, these customers sent more than 9 million likes and 48 billion focus hours were booked each month.
Over the course of a year, Microsoft even recruited more than 200 Viva partner solutions from companies such as Accenture/Avanade, EY, KPMG, PwC and Tata Consulting Services. But what is the future of Viva? In today's announcement, Microsoft detailed that it is working closely with LinkedIn to integrate LinkedIn Learning and Glint into Viva.
In February last year, Microsoft officially released the Viva work platform, designed to help enterprises work remotely. The Viva platform is divided into four modules: Connectivity, Insights, Topics, and Learning.
The connectivity module is the regular internal communication in which employees can work remotely with other colleagues. It also contains a dashboard that shows company news, contacts, community content, and more.
The Insights module is used to statistical employee data, from which managers can collect employee work data and analyze employee productivity. Microsoft also said that the module will respect employee privacy, and some data can only be viewed by employees personally.
Learning modules are used for in-house training, where managers can place training materials, courses, and other content for employees to learn.
The thread module can be thought of as an internal company encyclopedia that uses AI to organize content and automatically displays documents, videos, and related people in topic cards.