The Viva Engage experience is very much powered by Yammer. So for many of our customers that are already using Yammer today have no fear; it’s all connected. We’re making some updates to the UI to make Viva Engage a bit more familiar and a bit more comfortable and to align with some of the design sensibilities that go along with the rest of the Viva platform. In conclusion though the underlying technology that powers.
Viva Engage is Yammer. CB: I’ve heard people say one of the problems with Teams is that it’s fantastic for doing focused project-related work but not so for more broad company-wide tasks. That’s what makes Latest Mailing Database Yammer so special. SN: Yeah it’s all about meeting people where they’re at. Why not bring some of thethe Microsoft Teams experience so you can get them in the activity feed? You can get notifications for when you’ve been @ mentioned or when there’s an announcement in a community that you’ve been in.
You can also do an announcement in a Yammer community and have that be distributed as an email notification or as an announcement in Teams or even as a push notification in Yammer. This way corporate communicators don’t have to worry so much about where their users are and can just have an announcement go out that will reach them regardless. Is Engage just part of Microsoft’s strategy to go after Facebook? CB: Viva is of course Microsoft’s foray into the employee experience and Engage fits smack dab in the middle of it.