Microsoft Viva is positioned here as Microsoft’s employee experience platform—bringing knowledge, learning, insights, communication, and resources into the flow of work. Powered by Microsoft 365 and experienced through Microsoft Teams, Viva is framed as both a cultural catalyst and a practical platform: because Teams is ubiquitous, you can extend your existing apps, data, and insights into Viva to broaden reach across Viva and Microsoft 365. The animation calls out Viva’s open, extensible developer story with familiar building blocks like adaptive cards, SharePoint Framework, and Microsoft Graph, then points viewers to a learning track for Viva Connections (web parts, application customizers, adaptive cards), building Microsoft Graph connectors in preparation for the Topics API, and creating custom Power BI templates using Viva Insights data. It also notes the Viva Connections Toolkit is available now, with APIs for Insights, Topics, and Learning described as “coming soon in 2022,” and closes with a developer CTA: developer.microsoft.com/viva.
We produced this as an end-to-end animation built to make a platform story feel clear, approachable, and oddly energizing. In preproduction, we shaped the messaging into a tight script and visual plan, then used boards and animatics to keep the pace brisk while still letting the technical nouns breathe. From there, we paired professional voiceover with upbeat music, illustrated the full piece, and keyframed each beat so the ideas land cleanly—then polished the sound so it feels crisp and confident (because even Microsoft Graph deserves a little sparkle). After review loops, we delivered the final with closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails—ready to perform wherever your audience lives: Teams, web, or the mysterious tab someone pinned in 2021 and still uses daily.
The inevitable sequels
Hollywood keeps stretching good ideas into progressively worse sequels. We don’t. These are the related videos—spiritual siblings of the one you just watched—as good or better than this video. Expect callbacks, new plot twists, and maybe even a scene-stealing cameo from a lower third.
