You may have heard of Microsoft Viva, two of the four Viva products have shipped, but many are still confused about how it fits in with Microsoft’s initiatives. Did you know Viva is entirely built on Teams? Teams is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft history with over 150 million active daily users. The Microsoft Viva product lines are the killer apps for “Teams as a Platform”. In this information webinar, we will help you understand the Teams platform investment as Microsoft’s modern workplace, digital transformation to cloud innovation, and show you how Microsoft is taking their own advice in building solutions to empower, and engage, employees. With the collision of communication and collaboration, it’s time to catch up on how the World has changed and “Teams as a Platform”, with killer apps, has engaged the enterprise, business teams, and personal productivity. In this informative webinar, you will learn the following: Understand how Microsoft Viva fits into Teams as a Platform. See how Viva Connections provides the plumbing for next generation intranets, global navigation, and hubs. Experience Modern Teamwork, enhanced by governance, and discovery, through the Valo Solutions Collaboration Stack and the Valo Productivity Stack. See Viva in context, for clear examples, of employee engagement and employee experience systems. Follow the latest Microsoft Directions and see the updated Microsoft 365 Roadmap. See “Teams as a Platform” in action using the rich Valo Solutions to extend how you get to the places where you work and the people you work with.

1. Viva Enhanced
Teams as a Platform
Joel Oleson, Microsoft MVP & RD
Founder Joel365
@joeloleson
Olivera
North American Partner
Manager
Olivera@ValoIntranet.com
Dan Roloto
North America Partner Team
Product Evangelist
Dan.Rotolo@ValoIntranet.com
#MicrosoftViva #MicrosoftTeams

3. Agenda: Teams as a Platform enhanced by
Viva
+ Microsoft Teams “The Vision”
+ Teams as a Platform
+ Viva Enhanced Employee Experience
+ Third Party Enhanced Employee Experience: Valo Solutions

4. + Hundreds of apps
+ More to come
Low Code
No Code App Dev
Employee
Experience
Communication
Collaboration
Productivity
App Platform
+ AI Builder
+ Power Automate Desktop
+ More
ValoSolutions.com

5. Microsoft
Teams
“The Vision”

6. Vision of the Teams platform

7. Skype vs Teams
Understanding the Depth of Teams

8. Teams is the Center of Modern Digital Workplace
Modern Intranet
UC: Voice, Video, Comms
Documents & Files
Modern Content Services
Business Process
Chatbot Services
Global Search
Collaboration
Application
Platform
Productivity
Communication
AI and Machine Learning
Line of Business
IoT Dashboards

10. Teams as a
Platform

11. Maker Culture…
Represents a technology-based
movement of DIY intersecting with
geek culture focused on creation of
solutions based on democratized tools.

12. 145 million daily active
38 billion collaboration mins
1 billion Teams calls in one month

13. Microsoft Teams provides a powerful and
extensible platform
Build apps with a rich set of capabilities to reach
your users through chat, channels, notifications and personal
workspace.
Integrate with new or existing business processes and services
Connectors
Post rich updates to channels
Activity Feed
Engage users via feed
notifications
Bots
Help users get tasks done in
conversations
Adaptive Cards
Add rich interaction to your
connector cards
Message Extensions
Allow users to query and share
rich cards in conversations
Tabs
Surface rich content as well as
SharePoint Framework* based
solutions
Build in intelligence and connect
to data that drives productivity
Microsoft Graph App Store
Drive engagement by submitting
your app to our app store
* Microsoft Inspire 2021

14. The New Microsoft Teams as a Platform
Microsoft
Productivity Apps
No Code
Low Code
Integrated apps, processes automation, and business intelligence
Microsoft Teams
Employee Experience
Pro Code Dev
Bring Communication, Knowledge, Learning, and Insights into an Integrated Employee Experience
Connections Topics Learning Insights
Microsoft Viva
Microsoft Power
Platform
Teams App Store
Plus more than 100+ additional apps
Microsoft Visual Studio

15. 15

16. Teams as a Platform

17. Viva Enhanced
Employee
Experience
Wave…
Microsoft VIVA

18. This is the Teams as a Platform VIVA Wave…
catch the wave!

20. Introducing The New Killer Apps for Teams:
Microsoft Viva
Knowledge &
Expertise
Viva Topics
Connect to Knowledge
& Experts
Project Cortex
Knowledge Center
Culture &
Communications
Viva Connections
Stay Engaged &
Informed
Teams Home Site App
Productivity &
Wellbeing
Viva Insights
Find efficiencies &
work life balance
Org Analytics &
My Analytics
Skilling and Growth
Viva Learning
Make learning a
natural part of your
day
LinkedIn Learning
Was:

21. Learning
Skilling and
growth
Topics
Knowledge and
expertise
Insights
Productivity and
wellbeing
Connections
Culture and
communications
Microsoft Viva the New Killer Teams Apps
Empower people and teams to be their best

22. Viva
Connections:
Think of it as
plumbing and a
Feature Pack.
Mobile app
coming soon…

23. Viva Connections what you need to know:
Coming Soon: Enhancements to the configuration and
deployment experience
The Viva Connections for desktop PowerShell script is
available now in the Microsoft download center.
+ Note: SharePoint admin permissions are required to create the Viva Connections
package in PowerShell, and Teams admin permissions to apply the app.
+ Viva Connections
+ Global Navigation
+ App Bar
+ Targeting
+ Personalization
+ Search
+ Share

24. Information Architecture & Hubs for Teams

25. Planning for Deployment
+ Get Modern
+ Make Home Site Root
+ Create Connections Teams icon(s)
+ Official News
+ Manage Targeting
+ Create PowerShell app package
+ Pin the app

26. We are here

28. Why Valo?
Customers:
Countries:
Partners:
HQ Offices: Helsinki (EMEA), Montreal (Americas), Melbourne (APAC)
Founded: 2001.
950+
50+
300+
Microsoft Alignment,
IP Co-Sell Program
Regular product updates and
continuous improvements
Well designed product,
Mature, best in class
Clean and consistent experience for
employees and admins
100% Built on top of SharePoint
using SharePoint framework
Adds time to value,
well rounded roadmap, features rich

29. 07/29 Webinar: Viva Enhanced, Teams As A Platform
Valo has the ability to execute time to value in a single digital workspace. Bridging
the gap to intranet maturity, re-imagined on Teams, Valo Solutions are flexible and
focused to gain adoptions.
Value
Proposition
Story telling: Business case. Flexible. Focused.
Personalized
Mature
Employee Experience Alignment
“Teams As A Platform” Alignment
Productivity
Collaboration
Communication
Applications

30. Valo has the ability to execute time to value in a single digital workspace. Bridging
the gap to intranet maturity, re-imagined on Teams, Valo Solutions are flexible and
focused to gain adoptions.
Value
Proposition
THE SOLUTIONS STACK: (DEMO - Teams focused: good (Viva), better (Connect), best (Connect Me) – Underlined Governance (Teamwork))
Valo Solutions Stack Teams As A Platform Innovative Value-Add Extensions Essentials
Communications Intranet/Extranet
(Re-imagined on Teams)
Social
(Awareness on multiple sites/pages)
Multilingual
(auto/referenced translation sites)
People
(directory/hierarchy)
Productivity Connect
(360 View inside Teams)
Ideas
(ideation urgency/innovation)
Enterprise Search
(access to information/innovation)
Extensions
catalogue for LOB
integrations
Applications Connect me
(How I work and what I do)
Universal Webpart
(webparts to one page/integration)
Tygraph Analytics
(Valo adoption, powered by tyGraph)
Toolbox
(Create Content/Publish)
Collaboration Teamwork
(Governance, Teams Management)
Entrance
(Provisioning outside users/Collab)
Mobile App Apps and
Extensibility
07/29 Webinar: Viva Enhanced, Teams As A Platform

31. DEMO

32. Thank you!