Microsoft Viva Connections is a company-branded home in Microsoft Teams, built on SharePoint and Viva Engage. ChangeEngine works with it: Employee Hub AI runs as a Teams tab or SharePoint web part, answers from your own policies and pushes posts to Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Slack, SMS and WhatsApp. Here's how the two fit together, with every Microsoft Viva Connections fact checked against its own website.
Book a demoGet started freeChangeEngine works with Microsoft Viva Connections and SharePoint rather than replacing them. Keep SharePoint for files and Viva for your Teams home, and ChangeEngine adds what Viva doesn't publish: HRIS-driven audiences, AI answers from your handbook, and reach by SMS and WhatsApp for people without Teams. Viva Connections fits on its own if your workforce lives in Teams.
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Microsoft Viva Connections gives Microsoft 365 companies a branded home in Teams: a dashboard of cards, a feed from Viva Engage and a list of links to popular destinations, with content pulled from SharePoint, Teams, Viva Engage and Stream. It does that job well for people who live in Teams.
ChangeEngine adds Employee Hub AI on top, as a Teams tab or a SharePoint web part, and reaches the people Teams misses. See how it fits with Microsoft 365. We checked every Microsoft Viva Connections fact below against microsoft.com on November 6, 2026.
Microsoft Viva Connections facts checked against its own website on November 6, 2026. ChangeEngine facts from changeengine.com on the same date.
Five things teams switch for, shown in the product. No new app for employees, and nothing that needs an IT project to launch.
Write the message once. ChangeEngine sends it to Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Slack, SharePoint and SMS, and employees never log in to anything new.
A new hire, a promotion or open enrollment triggers the right messages automatically, branched by role, team or location.
The AI Content Studio turns one prompt into an on-brand email, manager guide, poster, infographic or video script.
Open, click, view and action rates by team, location and channel, ready to export for leadership.
Employee Hub AI builds an on-brand employee hub from your domain. Change it in plain English, then add it to Teams or SharePoint.
No. ChangeEngine works with both. Employee Hub AI can run as a Teams tab, pinned for any team, or as a web part on your existing SharePoint home page. Your SharePoint sites, files and permissions stay where they are, and the hub links straight to them. Nothing gets migrated, and IT keeps its own admin roles and rules.
Viva Connections is good at being the front door to Microsoft 365. Microsoft describes it as a company-branded destination that brings together news, conversations and resources, with a dashboard of cards, a feed from Viva Engage and a resources list. It pulls content from SharePoint, Teams, Viva Engage and Stream, and you can brand it with your organization's name, logo and colors. Keep all of that. ChangeEngine adds the layer that answers questions, targets people from HR data and reaches people who never open Teams.
They type a question and get an answer from your own policies. The Ask anything bar in Employee Hub AI answers from your handbook and policy documents, not the open internet, and links to the source. The same HR Knowledge Agent answers in Microsoft Teams and Slack, so the answer is the same wherever someone asks. Suggested questions come from what people ask most, and each employee sees a personal Top 3 of what's new and what's next.
On the Viva side, Microsoft lists Answers in Viva for crowdsourced Q&A in its Employee Communications and Communities plan, and it lists AI-generated insights with Copilot in Viva as coming soon in the Viva Suite. If you already pay for Viva, that stays. ChangeEngine adds policy-grounded answers that don't depend on a colleague replying.
You publish once in ChangeEngine and it goes everywhere. Each post goes to Outlook, Gmail, Microsoft Teams, Slack, SMS and WhatsApp, formatted for each channel and timed to each person's working hours. Frontline teams get two-way SMS, QR posters for each location and a hub they can install to their phone's home screen. Employees open a link and use the hub without logging in.
Viva Connections runs in the Teams desktop and mobile apps and on the web, and Microsoft says the Teams-integrated features need a Teams license. Viva Amplify, listed in the Employee Communications and Communities plan, reformats a campaign for Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and Viva Engage and reports views, comments and promotions by channel and audience. Audiences are another gap ChangeEngine fills: Microsoft's setup docs scope an experience by group or license type, while ChangeEngine builds segments from 75+ HRIS platforms, so lists stay current as people join, move or leave without IT tickets.
Yes. With the ChangeEngine MCP, you can plan, write, target and schedule hub posts and People comms from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot. Ask: "Post the new parental leave policy to the hub, send a Teams message to people managers in the US and a text to store staff, and tell me who it will reach." The MCP drafts the hub post and each channel version, builds the audience from your HRIS and shows you exactly who will get it before anything goes out. You can also ask it for recent read rates. Every send waits for your review.
Most pick it alongside Viva, not instead of it. Viva gives Microsoft 365 users a branded home in Teams. ChangeEngine gives HR a hub that answers questions from its own policies, audiences that come straight from the HRIS and reach to every employee, including the ones with no work email. The same platform runs onboarding journeys, benefits campaigns and recognition, with twelve AI helpers in the hub and the AI Content Studio for guides and posters. Reporting covers reach, opens and clicks across channels, plus clicks, searches and responses for each hub tile, so you see what to build next.
Building is faster too. ChangeEngine reads your domain and researches your locations, languages, values and industry moments on day one, so the first draft of the hub already looks and sounds like your company. Editors change it in plain English, with previews and logged changes, and a forward deployed engineer can build custom apps on request. The app library covers onboarding journeys, recognition walls, manager toolkits, pulse surveys and a swag and e-gift store, each rebranded in minutes. Viva Connections setup, by contrast, runs through the Microsoft 365 admin center, needs SharePoint admin and Teams admin permissions, and Microsoft notes changes can take up to 24 hours to propagate. If a SharePoint-based company home inside Teams is your core need, Viva Connections covers that.
There's nothing to switch off. Keep SharePoint for files and Viva Connections in Teams if you use it. Build your first hub from your domain in about five minutes: ChangeEngine pulls your logo, colors and imagery, and you pick up to three priorities. Then connect your HRIS, approve SSO and the Teams app, and add the hub as a Teams tab or a SharePoint web part.
Time it before your Microsoft renewal so you can decide which Viva add-ons you still need. Most teams are live with HRIS and SSO in two weeks and launch the full platform in under two weeks. Your security review has a ready pack in the ChangeEngine Trust Center: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, SSO and US, EU or Canadian data residency.
Connect the ChangeEngine MCP to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot and ask: "Tell all frontline staff about the new benefits page on Monday morning, then show me who opened it."
create_draft writes the announcement in your brand and toneset_audience targets frontline teams by location or roleset_schedule sends it at the time you picklist_communication_analytics reports opens, clicks and actions afterwardYour hub holds the answers, and the MCP makes sure people know they are there. It acts with your own permissions, and every send waits for your review.
ChangeEngine is a ‘force multiplier’ for our small internal comms team. The platform is super easy to use, and everything looks professional and on brand.
I can finally organize all our programs and visualize moments and communications in a single platform, and give visibility to the C-suite.
Over 40 campaigns personalized by location and role. Engagement is up and Slack channels are buzzing.
No rip-and-replace project. Keep the tools that work, connect the data you have, and start with the program that matters most this quarter.
Start read-only with Workday, ADP, BambooHR, UKG or any of 75+ HRIS platforms. Segments and triggers come from the system you already run.
Fonts, colors and logos load once. Plan, write and schedule from the AI Content Studio, or from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot with the ChangeEngine MCP.
Send your first program across email, chat and SMS. Most teams launch the full platform in under two weeks, timed around their renewal date.
After launch
Most vendors hand over software and move on. Your ChangeEngine team stays accountable for whether people read, click and use what you ship.
Your services team
Design, video, swag, data and engineering experts work inside your account, so programs keep landing long after launch.
It's a complement more than an alternative. ChangeEngine runs as a Teams tab or SharePoint web part next to Viva Connections and adds AI answers from your own policies, HRIS-driven audiences and delivery by Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Slack, SMS and WhatsApp.
Yes. The ChangeEngine MCP lets you plan, write, target and schedule hub posts and People comms from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot. You can check who a send will reach before it goes, and every send waits for your review.
ChangeEngine sells modular packages priced on request, and Employee Hub AI is free to start. Microsoft lists Viva Connections as partly included in Microsoft 365, with Employee Communications and Communities from $2 and Viva Suite from $12 per user per month, paid yearly.
You don't switch Viva off. Your first hub takes about five minutes to build, and most teams are live with HRIS and SSO in two weeks.
Yes. Employee Hub AI runs as a Teams tab pinned for any team or as a web part on your SharePoint home page. SharePoint keeps your sites, files and permissions, and the hub links to them.
Yes. Employees open a link without logging in, can install the hub to their phone's home screen and get posts by SMS or WhatsApp. QR posters are generated for each location.
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