The Microsoft 365 profile card (for OWA initially) lists the set of connected Viva Topics for a person. This only happens when the user has a Viva Topics or Viva Suite license. It’s an example of how Microsoft is building out the set of information available in user profile cards and embedding Viva Topics in as many places as possible. All good if you use Viva Topics!
Microsoft announced that OWA supports Viva Topics, meaning that users with Topics licenses can add topic cards to messages, and those who receive the messages will see topic cards if they also have licenses. Support is coming soon for topi cards in Teams chat. Being able to use topic cards in mainline applications increases the attractiveness of Viva Topics a lot. Whether it’s enough to convince more Microsoft 365 tenants to plunge into knowledge management with Viva Topics remains to be seen.
Microsoft says that its Microsoft Viva platform has ten million users after one year. That’s good, but does it mean success when measured against the user numbers for Office 365 and Teams? And how has the technology evolved during the year. All explained here.
To help you recover from the blizzard of Microsoft 365 information released at Fall Ignite 2021, here are some notes about features and functionality you might have missed. Like any list created by a conference (virtual) attendee, it reflects my interests and what I was looking for. Feel free to disagree on the importance of any or all of the topics discussed here… and suggest some of your own in the comments.
Viva Topics is one of the four modules in the Microsoft Viva employee engagement platform. You can run a 25-user trial for 30 days to create some topics and see how things work. A trial should help an organization decide if they want to pay the $5/user/month Microsoft asks for Viva Topics licenses – and everyone needs a license to see topic cards, which is the point of Topics.