The challenge facing many organisations today is the need to continuously improve employee engagement and business performance in the next gen AI world. To combat this, Microsoft Viva brings together the tools and applications your business needs for communication and feedback, analytics, goals, and learning, all in one unified solution.
Powered by Microsoft 365 and accessible via Teams, Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that combines communication with knowledge, learning, insights, and resources to ensure your teams have the best experience possible, regardless of location. The ability to connect each element of an employee’s working day is what makes this tool so special. From emails and calls to internal communications and goal setting, Microsoft Viva gives leaders the opportunity to understand employee needs and provide everything they need to work efficiently.
While employee experience has always been a key consideration for businesses, the shift to remote working and the focus of employee wellbeing has emphasised its importance. Microsoft Viva has been designed to tap into every element of the employee experience, enabling organisations to target specific pain points and make changes to improve the working day.
The result? A more productive, positive and engaged workforce.
Jack Fisher
Solutions Architect at Nasstar
"Enhancing the workplace has become increasingly important for businesses, especially since more companies implemented remote working policies. Microsoft Viva lets business leaders have a better understanding of how their employees are working and what they need, opening the door for solutions that improve the employee experience.
"At Nasstar, we have significant expertise in this area, having deployed the solution for many of our clients and internally across our organisation. We look at this using a four-pronged approach to discover where Microsoft Viva can add the most business value and help to address challenges that your organisation may face.
"This includes modernising how you communicate and engage with employees, transforming employee feedback and insights into impact, aligning people’s work to team and organisational goals, and helping your workforce learn, grow, and succeed."
Related Services/Solutions
Microsoft Viva is a key part of the Microsoft stack, and a complementary solution for many different Microsoft tools. It integrates seamlessly with several Microsoft solutions, enabling even greater productivity across your business.
Our expertise
At Nasstar, we’ve worked with hundreds of businesses on their employee experience initiatives, ensuring the tools and technologies they use are fit for purpose. Whether it’s implementing Microsoft Viva alone or as part of a wider Teams of M365 deployment, our teams can help you understand what solutions will be the best for your business.
We’ve helped many of our clients implement Microsoft Viva, giving them the ability to improve both wellbeing and productivity within their organisations. Not only have we supported the implementation of Viva, but we’ve created a series of workshops designed to help your workforce thrive and realise the potential of Microsoft Viva.
Our partnership with Microsoft is over 10 years old, and we have significant expertise and experience in the entire Microsoft stack. If you’re keen to enable connection, insight, growth, and empowerment with Viva and other Microsoft solutions, our teams can help.
Help your employees thrive with Microsoft Viva
From learning and knowledge discovery to news and internal communications, Microsoft Viva connects disparate teams, making learning a part of company culture. Enabling employees to adjust their schedules for optimal efficiency, health and personal development are just some of the key outcomes of this solution.
There are several Microsoft Viva modules your business can use to improve the employee experience and create efficiencies that help you get the most out of your investment.
Microsoft Viva Modules
- Employee Communications and Communities
Comprising Viva Connections, Viva Engage, and Viva Amplify, these modules support improved communication and collaboration in your organisation.
- Workplace analytics and feedback
Viva Insights, Viva Pulse, and Viva Glint can all work together to help you gather valuable analytics and feedback on how your organisation is functioning so you can take steps to make improvements.
- Goal setting and management
Viva Goals helps to align teams to strategic priorities through clear goal setting and management. Learning and knowledge management Using Viva Learning, you can empower your employees to learn when and where it’s needed, benefitting both them and your business.
- Learning and knowledge management
Viva Learning integrates training materials within Microsoft Teams, bringing AI-driven content direct to users, and providing a framework for all aspects of learning.
Here, we reveal what makes Viva Learning an essential component for your growth and development strategy.
Try Viva for yourself
We know that Microsoft Viva is an excellent choice for organisations seeking to improve the employee experience and enhance engagement. But if you’re not sure whether it would work for your organisation, our three pre-packaged pilots enable you to trial the platform and assess suitability before implementation.
Building a high-performance workforce
Empowering employees to reach their full potential with Viva Connections and Viva Learning.
Driving mission and alignment
Building engaged and productive teams for the highest impact with Viva Goals, Viva Engage, and Viva Amplify.
Measuring engagement and productivity
Understanding employee wellbeing with Viva Glint, Viva Insights, and Viva Pulse.
Why choose Nasstar?
At Nasstar, our understanding of employee experience and the Microsoft stack is what sets us apart. We’ve worked with Microsoft since before Viva was created, which means we’ve seen it grow and evolve into the platform it is today. We also use Viva internally, across our entire organisation, giving us a unique insight into the tools and adoption approach required to implement it successfully.
We know the benefits and challenges of Microsoft Viva inside out, and we’ve helped countless businesses to implement the solution in their own organisations. With Nasstar, you can be sure we’ll help you establish the right tools and solutions to suit your goals and initiatives.
Technical Architect
Specialist Insurance Company
"Nasstar has been absolutely great in helping us to get to where we are today, their expertise has been transformational. I’ve been really impressed with the whole team… they’ve gone above and beyond in many regards. When Microsoft recommended Nasstar to us, we got really lucky."
FAQs
Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform comprising a suite of useful Viva apps. It is built into Microsoft Teams but can also be accessed separately. Viva allows organisations to connect, gain insights, learn, and reach goals in the natural flow of work, wherever that work may be. It simplifies how people connect, alongside managing organisational activities, culture, and wellbeing.
Microsoft Viva is a continually evolving platform that enables both employers and employees to put wellbeing at the heart of their operations. The key benefits of Viva for your organisation include:
- Modernise how you communicate and engage with employees
Energise your workforce by creating spaces for conversations, company news, and shared interests. - Transform employee feedback and insights into impact
Measure employee engagement and drive action with rich, data-driven workplace analytics. - Align people’s work to team and organisational goals
Enable your people to connect their everyday work to strategic priorities. - Help your workforce learn, grow, and succeed
Give employees the information they need to thrive at work with knowledge and learning tools.
Nasstar is a trusted partner that can help organisations to implement Microsoft Viva and leverage its benefits. We have the expertise, experience, and resources to deliver bespoke employee experience solutions that tie in with other Microsoft areas, including Power Platform and Copilot. Many of our team members are Viva Insights Certified Specialists and Practitioners, which means we can effectively support your implementation from start to finish.
We not only handle the technical aspects of configuring Microsoft Viva within your organisation, but we also look at your business problems and map the correct employee experience platform elements to address these challenges. From there, we take a people-first approach and ensure your company adopts the platform successfully, fully ensuring you get the most ROI from the platform.
Built within Microsoft 365 and Teams, Microsoft Viva was designed to seamlessly integrate with other solutions. Working across the Microsoft stack, Viva offers helpful experiences to employees from creating tasks based on the analysis of emails in Outlook to booking in ‘focus time’ by analysing the calendar. Viva Amplify integrates well with Teams, SharePoint and emails to improve communication and collaboration.
Viva Goals is a great integrator too, with both Microsoft and third-party integrations. You can use this module to integrate your key result tracking with everything from Excel and PowerBI SQL to Dynamic, CRM, and SharePoint.
Employees and employers are increasingly adapting to the hybrid and remote working landscape, and Microsoft Viva can help to solve some of the challenges commonly associated with these working models. We know that remote work increases employee happiness by 20%, and the promotion of wellbeing plays a key role in this.
Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform with a strong focus on wellbeing. This means it can help to strengthen company culture and teamwork, prevent burnout, maintain productivity, encourage skills development, and create better ways to share knowledge. All of these elements contribute to combatting the challenges of remote working, such as isolation, lack of motivation, and productivity issues.