Microsoft Viva
Microsoft Viva is an Employee Experience Platform (EXP) built for the digital era. Microsoft launched Viva in 2021. Viva brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights into an integrated employee experience that empowers people and teams to be their best, from anywhere. Here is what Viva includes today and how the lineup has changed since launch.
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Microsoft Viva Connections
Viva Connections offers a new way for leaders to shape culture and invite employees to participate in building an inclusive workplace that helps everyone succeed by giving people a curated, company-branded experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and other resources.
Viva Connections is personalized and appears in the apps and devices employees already use every day, such as Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Viva Insights
To help people achieve balance, build better work habits, and find focus wherever and whenever they need it, Viva Insights is generally available and built into Microsoft Teams. Viva Insights gives individuals, managers, and leaders personalized and actionable insights that help everyone in an organization thrive. The capabilities that used to ship as Microsoft Workplace Analytics and MyAnalytics now live inside Viva Insights under the Microsoft Viva brand.
Viva Insights is designed to protect privacy. Personal insights are visible only to the individual, and for manager and leader insights, customers can rely on safeguards like de-identification, aggregation, and differential privacy by default.
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Microsoft Viva Learning
Viva Learning empowers everyone to gain targeted skills in the flow of their work by creating a central hub for learning in Microsoft Teams where people can discover, share, assign, and learn from content libraries available across the organization.
Microsoft Viva Engage
Viva Engage is the communities and conversations app, formerly Yammer. It connects people across the organization, supports leadership communication, and gives employees a place to share ideas and belong to internal communities.
What changed since the 2021 launch
The Viva lineup has shifted as Microsoft moved knowledge experiences into Copilot. Viva Topics was retired on February 22, 2025. Microsoft cited the shift to AI and moved the investment to Copilot-powered knowledge in Microsoft 365. Existing Topic pages converted to standard SharePoint pages.
Viva Goals reached end of life on December 31, 2025. Viva Sales became part of Copilot for Sales in 2023 and no longer exists as a standalone Viva module. The Viva apps that remain are Connections, Insights, Learning, and Engage, alongside newer additions such as Pulse, Glint, and Amplify and Copilot in Viva.
