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Rich_Kaplan
Microsoft
Jun 28, 2023Continuing the conversation about deploying Microsoft Viva to Microsoft itself as a Customer Zero
See How We’re Deploying Viva Connections Inside Microsoft - Inside Track Blog
In this article our team focuses on deployment of the Viva connections module. As I've mentioned before it's critical to have a partnership between your information technology team (Microsoft Digital Employee Experience, MDEE) and Human Resources in terms of deploying Microsoft Viva. The Microsoft Viva Connections dashboard is the primary portal into what’s happening in an employee’s day and in the organization. It provides a centralized location to find and act on company tasks and specific action items for their job. The dashboard uses dynamic cards that employees can interact with to do things like complete simple tasks or review critical data. It’s authored in SharePoint and published to the Viva Connections app within the Teams mobile experience or to the employee’s desktop. Staying connected in a hybrid work environment is key for our employees and the connections module facilities access.
For our internal employees at Microsoft, we customized Viva connections to put the employee at the center and provide information and tools that are most important to them. Our implementation puts common employee tools & resources in a unified location with a common user experience. Cards that provide perspectives from other Employees, a Paystub Card, food choices in your local cafe, and facilities requests are common tasks that employees frequently use.
Many of these cards come from different teams in Human Resources, Tech Support, and our Real Estate and Facilities teams. The partnership between our information technology team (MDEE) and Human Resources was key to a successful implementation.
Viva Connections consolidates access across a huge array of company resources and touchpoints, including SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, the Microsoft Graph, and other Microsoft 365 apps like Microsoft Viva Engage and Microsoft Stream. It's another important tool to enable employees to stay connected to what is important for their success
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