Microsoft Kills Viva Goals

I completely understand the frustration in this thread. A lot of teams invested real time in building their OKR process around Viva Goals, only to be left looking for an alternative.

That is exactly why we started building AlignTide.

Our goal is not to recreate another heavy enterprise platform. We are building a simpler OKR tool for small and growing teams that want to:

• align company, team, and individual goals,
• update progress in plain language,
• use AI to connect weekly updates to the right Key Results,
• quickly see what is on track and what is at risk,
• and avoid expensive per-user pricing.

We are still in early development, so I do not want to pretend the product is more mature than it is. We are currently speaking with teams affected by the Viva Goals shutdown and using that feedback to shape the product.

If anyone here is evaluating alternatives or would be willing to share what they valued most in Viva Goals, I would genuinely appreciate the conversation.

https://www.aligntide.com/

Going through the same thing — we had just started rolling out Viva Goals when the retirement news hit. We're building **AlignTide** (aligntide.com), a simple, fixed-price OKR tool aimed specifically at teams in this spot — not trying to be another heavyweight enterprise suite. Still early (earl

y access list, no cost yet), genuinely want feedback from people who used Viva Goals on what actually mattered to you. Not a hard pitch, just trying

to build the right thing for people who just went through this.

If you are interested in another Microsoft based OKR solution then check out the offering of Hubdrive. It is based on Power Platform and therefore seemless integrated in Teams and Outlook, too.
Here you can find it on Appsource:
https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/dynamics-365/xrm1.objectives-and-keyresults-for-dynamics365?tab=Overview

I have just finished onboarding 80% of our organization and have been using the software almost since it was released.  This is a terrible decision and waste of time and resources for so many.  Are you even going to offer an alternative?  Terrible decision.

Good news that there is a replacement available that is completely build on Microsoft Power Platform and offers therefore even better customizability.

Hubdrive OKR
https://www.hubdrive.com/en/features/leadership-management.htm

Terrible news.

We absolutely love the software and it changed the game in our business.

Please don't do this!

Why am I not surprised—this is déjà vu from the announcement about shutting down the Performance Point initiative, which was supposed to support Balanced Scorecards. This is yet another smart solution they are discontinuing, causing losses and setbacks for their customers. It’s just unfortunate.

Terrible news I hope they reconsider 

Another bad decision by Microsoft. I understand that the adoption was slow but companies like ours didn’t even know this existed until about 3 months ago. Since then we have been aggressively training and implementing it in our business. After we have some hands on experience we were planning on demonstrating it to our clients so they could also implement it. I hope Microsoft changes their mind and doesn’t go through with this decision. The way Viva goals integrates with planner and allows an organization attach daily tasks to company objectives is awesome. Well organized companies need this tool and many of us are already seriously invested. Stop being like Google Microsoft, doing things like this undermine our ability to trust you.

I am disappointed as well as some co-workers. We were getting ready to expand the implementation of Viva Goals as it did prove to be a useful tool for our newly developing Strategy and Innovation Division.

I hope Microsoft will reconsider.