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Steve Ottenad

Steve Ottenad is a Seattle-based Microsoft Practice Architect at Perficient. He focuses mainly on SharePoint, Teams, Viva, and Frontline Worker topics.

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Viva Pilots

Microsoft Viva pilot programs: Overhaul your employee experience while mitigating risk

Most senior leadership today is at least partially focused on ensuring that their organizations culture, productivity, and employee engagement are keeping pace with the competition. Microsoft Viva has emerged as a cost-effective and tightly-integrated suite of tools that allows companies to provide pointed solutions for many employee experience challenges. However, creating change in the employee […]

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Microsoft Viva Insights: How to Get Started Leveraging Data for Enterprise Success

In today’s business landscape, enterprises are constantly seeking ways to improve employee productivity, engagement, and well-being. Microsoft’s Viva Insights, an innovative workplace analytics solution, has emerged as a powerful tool to help organizations achieve these goals. By providing valuable data-driven insights, Viva Insights enables enterprises to make informed decisions that foster a more productive and […]

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Improve Employee Engagement and Communication with Viva Connections

Effective and efficient employee communication is critical to the success of any organization. Microsoft Viva Connections, a part of the Microsoft Viva platform, has been making waves as a powerful tool for transforming the way companies interact with their employees. Let’s take a look into some key features of Viva Connections and discover how its […]

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Viva Insights: Empower Hybrid Work Employee Experiences with Data-Driven Insights

Viva Insights In the ever-changing landscape of work, having data-driven intelligence is paramount for individuals, managers, and leaders. Viva Insights takes signals from across M365, Exchange, and teams and uses them to identify trends. From those trends, MS applies a ton of workplace insights gleaned from academic and hands-on research to derive from that data […]