Hybrid work in an unsure financial local weather is inflicting many leaders to rethink easy methods to scale significant connections amongst their distributed groups. Greater than half (51 %) of workers surveyed for our Work Development Index say relationships exterior their instant work group have weakened.1 On the management degree, constructing social capital is essential to the success of office tradition. In truth, 68 % of enterprise decision-makers view cohesion and social connections inside groups as a reasonable to sturdy problem because of the shift to hybrid work.
For over 10 years, Yammer has been the social cloth for Microsoft’s productiveness cloud, bringing group and conversations into the apps that individuals work in each day. Nonetheless, in an more and more distributed world of labor, group engagement is crucial to how folks and groups come collectively and is a vital pillar of the worker expertise, which is why final yr we launched Microsoft Viva Interact, an evolution of the Yammer Communities app in Microsoft Groups, as the most recent a part of Microsoft Viva.
We’ve heard your suggestions on this preliminary step and within the coming yr, all of Yammer will change into Viva Interact, retiring the Yammer model. As well as, we’ll proceed to boost Viva Interact with new capabilities that spur management engagement, genuine expression, occasions, and information discovery, together with new experiences rolling out in the present day.
Microsoft Viva Interact
Join everybody at your group by means of worker communities and conversations.
Yammer is evolving to Viva Interact
The subsequent section of the evolution will begin subsequent month, March 2023, with updates to the Communities app for Outlook and Yammer cellular apps for iOS and Android. Exterior of branding modifications, there aren’t any modifications to the options, capabilities, and investments for Microsoft 365 prospects. You’ll proceed to expertise and profit from the facility of Viva Interact simply as you probably did with Yammer, with no lack of continuity. As well as, we are going to proceed to construct new capabilities that understand the facility of group, company communications on the organizational scale, and information sharing. We’re enthusiastic about how this variation will create a unified Viva Interact expertise all through the net, cellular, and different endpoints and convey consistency for Yammer and Viva customers. This evolution makes manner for brand spanking new Viva capabilities powered by Viva Interact and can streamline options, assets, coaching, documentation, and help for patrons. Learn on to be taught extra about what’s coming and when you’ll be able to count on to see Yammer evolve into Viva Interact.
Connecting folks within the hybrid period
New experiences rolling out for Viva Interact
In September 2022, we introduced a new wave of capabilities in Viva Interact that spurs management engagement, genuine expression, occasions, and information discovery. Right this moment, these experiences start to roll out worldwide for Viva suite and Microsoft Viva Subjects prospects.
Management Nook offers an area for leaders to attach with workers, showcase worker useful resource teams, and foster tradition by means of discussions, storyline posts, occasions, and extra. Workers see the leaders that they’re related to inside their group, after which leaders and their delegates can promote, combination, and launch initiatives from a single place. A brand new collection of intuitive dashboards monitor metrics and worker sentiment to assist management groups preserve a pulse on conversations and information the dialogue with their workers.
Management Nook additionally introduces a brand new occasion fashion in Viva Interact referred to as Ask Me Something (AMA) occasions to additional drive engagement. AMA occasions modernize the usual city corridor expertise by means of upvoting, Q&A, and interesting dialogue options like GIFs and pictures. Lengthy-running AMAs work nicely for leaders with globally distributed groups so everybody will get a chance to ask questions, upvote others’ questions, and get responses from their leaders. AMAs additionally present moderation controls so leaders can hear what actually issues, reply questions, and be certain that workers have the most recent data once they want it most.
Leaders and company communicators can even now create campaigns to drive key initiatives that help enterprise targets and aims. These campaigns are mechanically pulled into Management Nook and embody a devoted marketing campaign web page, a visible Objective Tracker to measure progress, and the flexibility to showcase key sponsors and acknowledge prime contributors.
Distant work has strained ambient information switch and logistical hurdles for workers attempting to be taught from one another. Workers who commonly search particular person experience from their friends can discover the method irritating or limiting resulting from many components like time zones, overloaded inboxes, or advanced organizational silos. Solutions in Microsoft Viva is now rolling out to Viva suite prospects and Viva Subjects prospects as a brand new tab in Viva Interact. Solutions makes use of Viva Subjects and wealthy AI to floor and match worker inquiries to solutions and specialists, bringing collective information to work for everybody.
Solutions surfaces comparable questions which were answered, recommends subjects and specialists, highlights prime options, and prompts and rewards folks for contributing solutions to the information base.
To raised perceive engagement inside Viva Interact, we’ve added new Superior Analytics that drill down into quite a lot of dashboards, together with devoted metrics for private analytics, viewers analytics, marketing campaign analytics, and international solutions. Customizable date ranges will let you decide attain and engagement over time to supply a deeper have a look at what’s taking place in Viva Interact. All metrics are aggregated and de-identified for privateness. They’re on by default however might be toggled off by a World Admin. Study extra about what’s included in these analytics and management how they’re rolled out on the Microsoft Viva Tech Group weblog.
Viva Interact in Outlook and cellular
In March 2023, the prevailing Communities app for Outlook will likely be up to date to mirror Viva Interact branding. This transformation will occur mechanically, with no motion essential to see this replace. Prospects can use the brand new Viva Interact app to remain on prime of group and dialog exercise instantly from Outlook, whether or not within the desktop app or internet expertise.
Additionally in March 2023, the Yammer cellular apps for iOS and Android may also be up to date to Viva Interact to supply a local mobile-first expertise that’s optimized for social sharing and wealthy media. To see the brand new expertise, you’ll must replace your app. Viva Interact can be used by means of the Groups cellular app.
Get Microsoft Viva in the present day
The brand new experiences for leaders, communicators, and workers that we introduced can be found to Microsoft Viva prospects and start rolling out in the present day. Study extra about every characteristic and the licenses required.
Wanting forward
We need to sincerely thank all of our Yammer and Viva prospects who’ve been on this journey with us, and we are going to proceed to speak in regards to the timing and modifications that you could count on to see on the Yammer Tech Group weblog. Please observe this variation doesn’t affect the present pricing or capabilities accessible to present Microsoft 365 prospects.
We stay up for constructing the way forward for Viva Interact collectively and have large plans for Microsoft Viva within the coming yr and past.
To be taught extra in regards to the modifications introduced in the present day, be part of us on February 23, 2023, for an AMA with the product leaders from the Viva Interact staff.
Continuously requested questions
Is that this a complete rebrand of Yammer?
Sure, we began this journey with the rebranding of the Communities app in Groups in 2022. Over the subsequent yr, the remaining Yammer experiences will likely be rebranded to mirror Viva Interact branding and higher align with Microsoft Viva.
What does this imply for Yammer?
Yammer will proceed as Viva Interact, with the subsequent step being the rebranding of the Communities app for Outlook and Yammer cellular apps for iOS and Android. Over the subsequent yr, all of Yammer will likely be rebranded into Viva Interact.
This doesn’t change the present capabilities, worth, or pricing to Yammer for present Microsoft 365 prospects or M365 SKUs. Management Nook, Superior Analytics, and Solutions in Viva will likely be accessible to Viva suite prospects. Solutions in Viva may also be accessible to Viva Subjects prospects.
Will any Yammer performance not be accessible as a part of this variation to Viva Interact?
There aren’t any modifications to the options or performance ensuing from this variation.
The place can I get assist organising Viva Interact?
Attain out to FastTrack, your account supervisor, or discover ways to deploy Yammer/Viva Interact.
We are going to assist talk this variation and have made accessible a complicated deployment information by means of FastTrack for prospects.
You may also discover useful adoption supplies at Viva Interact Adoption. We are going to proceed so as to add supplies for patrons to make use of for communication and coaching as extra capabilities change into accessible.
Will the identical content material moderation and different admin insurance policies set in Yammer be transferred over to Viva Interact?
Sure, all administrative insurance policies and capabilities will stay. Obtain this FAQ for an in depth have a look at Viva Interact for admins.
1Work Development Index, WorkLab, Microsoft.
