Introduction
According to a McKinsey report, employees spends 1.8 hours every day searching or recreating information that already exists in their organisation’. This precious time could have been spent being more productive.
In response to optimising people’s time and improving decision-making, Microsoft designed Viva Topics. Combining the capacity of the Microsoft Cloud with AI power, they have created a new resource that automatically organises information, resources, and expertise into topic pages that are easily accessible to your employees wherever they are.
The Main Features of Viva Topics
Automatically identify topics – Viva Topics can recognise common topics across content and conversations between employees, organize that information, and generate specific topic pages.
Automatically build topic pages – Topics creates pages and cards using suggested definitions, relevant content, and conversations.
Find related topics – It also allows you to discover and display complementary topics and expertise across multiple sources.
Access everywhere and anywhere – You can access topic highlights and display cards anywhere in any of the 365 apps.
Topic pages provide a comprehensive view of related details including: alternative names, definitions, recommend and suggested people and content. Additionally it details related locations and teams and a map of related topics.
How Viva Topics Can Help Your Business Thrive
With Viva Topics you can get insights into projects you are unfamiliar with. When you hover over a topic name, you will see more information about the project in the topic card. This can instantly give you insight into what the topic is without having to needlessly search through files or ask around, increasing your productivity time.
Additionally, topic cards are incredibly detailed and can provide users with information on associated people and resources, meaning you can easily identify who is connected to important topics and projects.
If you would like to learn more about it, get in touch with us today.
Introduction
The rise of remote and hybrid working has made employee engagement difficult – according to the Microsoft Work Trend Index; 60% of workers said they felt “less connected to their team after shifting to remote work” and a less connected workforce will only reflect poorly on the business.
To combat this problem, Microsoft have created Viva, a new employee experience platform specifically designed to bring communications, knowledge, learning, wellbeing, resources, and insights all into one platform, empowering your employees from wherever they are.
Within Viva there is a tool known as Viva Connections, which is enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate their workforce into Microsoft Teams. creating an opportunity to push and display relevant content and resources to their workers by combining the power of the SharePoint intranet and Teams.
The Three Main Features of Viva Connections
Collection of Resources – Viva Connections increases the efficiency of Microsoft Teams by allowing users to access content from the Teams home page. Your workers will be able to access news, announcements, SharePoint sites, and all the documents they need to work.
Personalised Feeds – Viva Connections empowers the business to deliver personalised content to each user, meaning no two dashboards are the same. It also means that employees can contribute to the conversation and access company resources and tasks from anywhere.
Curated Dashboards – Viva Connections enables your business to create a unique experience for each user giving your employees access to their most important tools and content. The dashboards are mobile-optimised, meaning that employees can easily access apps, tools, and data anywhere, whether they are in the office or working at home, saving precious time.
How Viva Connections Can Help Your Business Thrive
Viva Connections can allow your business to thrive, but more importantly, it can keep you connected with your team. Within Connections you can curate the content and tools you want, delivering quick access to relevant news, people, resources, and tasks, all in one place.
Connections also integrates with other Microsoft 365 apps like Yammer, easily allowing employees to engage in conversations with the team and stay up to date with company news, replicating the workplace wherever and however you work.
Viva Connections helps your workers stay connected, empowering your employees wherever they are.
If you would like to learn more about why not give us a call, or alternatively, if you’d like to see how ready your business is for automation, you can find out more about the automatic revolution here.
Introduction
In the past couple of years employee wellbeing has been a feature of many news stories, with workers being more stressed in the workplace. In a recent study, 52% of respondents experienced burnout in 2021 and this number is only increasing. Recognising this as a problem, Microsoft Viva Insights.
The Main Features of Viva Insights
Microsoft Viva Insights is a data driven tool that gives employees control over their focus time, helping them stay positively connected with their colleagues and collaborative teams. By focusing time employees will be able to control their workload and ensure they aren’t being overwhelmed, improving productivity. It also helps your remote workers separate the home life from the work life by offering a ‘virtual commute’ allowing them to wind down at the end of the workday.
How Viva Insights Can Help Your Business Thrive
Boost employee wellbeing – Using Personal Insights employees can see how they work, and what changes they can make to ensure they maintain a healthy work regime. Offering useful recommendations such as setting out time for regular breaks, focused work and offering learning. These recommendations will help develop better work habits which will help increase productivity and help the employees achieve a balanced life.
Provide invaluable manager insights – Insights can also give managers a view into the work patterns of their employees to ensure they are being productive but also not working to the point of burnout. Using these insights, you can help your employees strike a balance between productivity and well-being. You can also make data driven decisions which can help address complex challenges within your business.
Viva Insights can help improve employees improve their wellbeing and productivity at work at a time where the workplace is becoming increasingly different.
How Emerge Digital Can Help
Microsoft Viva has many opportunities to help your business gain a competitive advantage and improve efficiency. The key thing is knowing which elements to use – and which will have the most positive impact on your bottom line.
We’ve been helping our clients tap into Microsoft Viva for a while now. And through this experience, we’ve learned that a solid digital transformation strategy is important for getting the most out of this innovative technology. It also ensures you’re clear on what’s required – and that you only pay for the technologies you really need.
When you have this strategy in place and know which elements to implement first, you’ll be in a strong position to start applying Microsoft Viva tools and enjoying the high returns that follow.
If you’d like to see how we can help your business harness the power of Microsoft Viva, and kickstart or optimise automation, get in touch.
Introduction
At a glance, Microsoft Teams Rooms is a dedicated set of systems or hardware, typically installed in rooms where enhanced and higher-fidelity video conferencing is needed. For example, you can install one in a meeting or board room. Plus, Microsoft Teams Rooms are managed through a central, Microsoft Teams-compatible device in the cloud.
Here’s a deeper look at Microsoft Teams Rooms and how businesses may benefit from it.
What is Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR)?
MTR systems are more or less an evolution of the Skype Room System Version 2. Microsoft asks vendors to exclusively produce the hardware, with the only underlying distinction being that MS hand-picked the necessary hardware up front.
MTR systems are capable of transforming the average meeting room into a spatially rich, video-powered collaboration space. It’s considered by many organisations as a complete, end-to-end collaborate solution where the best of HD video and audio is at your fingertips in the meeting room. Also, it allows you do everything from making calls and sharing content to record sessions and collaborate with participants across different offices. All of this from a simple yet intuitive touchscreen.
Why MTR systems are better than traditional video conferencing solutions
As it stands, Microsoft Teams Rooms are better than any video conferencing solution currently available. With a one-touch join feature and perfect for organisations already using Teams, there are many benefits to be had from its collaborative tools:
Inclusive and interactive meetings
Help each remote participant feel highly engaged and empowered to take part in meetings – at the same level as those already present.
Intelligent cameras
Heighten and enhance the experience for everyone present in a Teams Room through AI-powered active speaker tracking which automatically detects who is speaking. In addition, multiple video streams show all active speakers in dedicated video feeds.
Live captions
Every participants sees a text stream in real-time as participants speak and relay their thoughts in a meeting.
Whiteboard
Leading-class digital whiteboard experience where users “ink together”, using their own touchscreen devices like a PC, tablet or smartphone.
Very easy and hassle-free
Teams Rooms are friction and hassle-free meeting spaces. Simply start or join a meeting through a single-touch, easily share thoughts, ideas and content. You can allow people from multiple offices to virtually meet face-to-face without any distractions whatsoever.
Virtual meetings in any space
Bring Microsoft Teams to just about any meeting space according to its individual space and device requirements.
All in all, the key benefit of using Microsoft Teams Rooms is that it gives you dedicated meeting hardware which paves the way for effective live video communication and interaction. Additionally, the hardware is handpicked according to your meeting requirements, with most of those devices or hardware having one-touch-join capabilities.
Everything is centrally managed from the cloud for even greater ease-of-use and a high level of security.
What equipment do I need for Microsoft Teams Rooms?
Emerge Digital will assess your meeting needs and provide the right hardware to improve communication and empower all the participants.
Choosing the right MTR technology can really help to make your meeting as productive and fruitful as possible.
If you’re interested in learning more about Microsoft Teams Rooms, get in touch today!
Introduction
Data visualisation is a representation technique to help people understand complex data. It converts large data sets and metrics into small graphs, creative charts, and innovative visuals. Visual representation of data makes it easier to identify and share real-time outliers, insights, latest trends, and other information.
According to research on “why data visualisation is important,” humans can process visual information 80% faster than verbal and written information. In fact, 65% of humans are quick visual learners, understanding visual concepts in a better way.
3 Reasons Why Data Visualisation is Important
Data visualisation can positively impact an organisation’s decision-making process with communicative visual representations.
While there are many benefits of using data visualisation, we present three reasons why it’s critical to businesses.
1) Communication
Pictures and visual representations of any kind can powerfully grab the attention of the audience as compared to written words. Some studies suggest that humans understand visuals better than text. Visual representation is suggested to reiterate critical information in a unique way, strengthening their impact on your audience.
2) Decision Making
With the data visualisation process, company’s leaders can make quicker, more informed decisions. Not just that, data visualisation can also support brand awareness and help your target audience make better decisions.
3) Data Analysis
Data visualisation helps present complex data into easy to follow images and graphics. It can help turn complex information into simple, easy to follow formats.
Power BI: Our Recommended Data Visualisation Tool
Microsoft Power BI is a cloud-based, business-analytics tool used for visualising and analysing data. With Power BI, businesses can bring together multiple data sets into easy-to-use dashboards, helping them make well-informed business decisions. With Power BI presented by Emerge Digital, you can have access to features like:
– Business data consolidation
– Valuable reports’ sharing
– Actionable insights
– Interactive visualisation
At Emerge Digital, we believe that everyone must make confident decisions using up-to-the-mark analytics. This powerful tool helps your business turn insights into actions and streams analytics in real-time to interpret data from multiple resources.
Emerge Digital’s Data Visualisation Process
Our initial workshop is one hour long. During this workshop, we aim to explore your business in general, the goals you have and strategies it may need, and find out where and how technology can help you innovate.
Next, we offer a one-to-three day workshop (dependant on your business), where we help sort complex reports. Run by a business analyst, this workshop will help you get the most actionable insights that help your business grow, and we will present to you what dashboards and reports we think your business needs.
Finally, our Power BI specialists will prepare the impactful visuals and design dashboards that match your requirements.
Please get in touch with a member of our team to find out more!
