Viva Connections: 2-week Base Implementation

An optimized and efficient digital workplace is essential for keeping teams connected, organized, and productive. With so many digital tools to choose from, organizations often end up using a variety of online platforms to get the job done. With Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, the ultimate employee experience platform, Microsoft Viva, is built within.

Microsoft Viva Connections, one of the components of Microsoft Viva, is your gateway to a modern employee experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. Viva Connections is a customizable app that gives your team a personalized destination to discover relevant news, conversations, and the tools they need daily.

What companies would benefit from Viva Connections Base Implementation?

• Companies with Microsoft Teams
• Companies that want to modernize their intranet into Teams
• Companies that want to increase employee engagement through Teams
  
  What does the Viva Connections Base Implementation include?
  

1. Working sessions that cover:

• Art of the possible scenarios
• Compatibility with existing SharePoint site
• Identification of target audience
• Data needs
• Navigation requirements
  

2. Configuration and build of:

• Branded home site within Microsoft Teams that is optimized to enable experiences for information workers and frontline workers
• Customized home site with SharePoint app bar, navigations, dashboard, and components
• Prioritization of content that will appear on desktop and mobile app
• Add Viva Connections app to Teams admin
• Alert and educate end-user
  
  

Benefits and value

Viva Connections is designed to meet people where they usually get their work done—in Microsoft Teams. Viva Connections creates an opportunity to push specific content and display popular resources by combining the power of your SharePoint intranet with Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft 365 apps like Yammer and Stream. Viva Connections offers added functionality through three primary components: the Dashboard, the Feed, and Resources.

• The Viva Connections Dashboard brings together the tools your employees need, enabling quick and easy access whether they are in the office or in the field. The Dashboard uses dynamic cards that employees can interact with to do things like complete simple tasks or review critical data.
  
• The Viva Connections Feed delivers updates to the right people at the right time with powerful targeting and scheduling capabilities. It is tightly integrated with Yammer, SharePoint news, and Stream to display a personalized feed, based on post-level targeting of the groups that employees belong to. It supports both centralized corporate communication scenarios and democratized news scenarios.
  
• The Viva Connections Resources experience enables finding a way across platforms. It uses navigation elements from the SharePoint app bar, which can be audience targeted.