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Elevate Engagement: 10 departmental dashboard ideas for SharePoint’s Dashboard web part
Announced in May 2025, SharePoint’s Dashboard web part lets you build targeted, role-based intranet experiences in minutes. As it is powered by Viva Connections and Adaptive Cards you can use this new web part as a way to easily surface data from 3rd party apps, such as ServiceNow, Workday, PowerBI and dozens more. Why the Dashboard web part is so significant Gone are the days when Viva Connections dashboards lived only on your tenant’s home site. Now, any Teams or Communication Site can host cards that pull in everything from PTO balances to live ticket queues—no code required. Thanks to…
5 tools that let you slash your Enterprise SaaS license costs
In today’s digital workplace, many businesses rely on Line-of-Business (LOB) applications or B2B SaaS platforms like Workday, Zendesk, and ServiceNow for their operations. While these tools are essential, their per-user licensing costs can become a significant burden, especially as teams grow. However, by integrating these tools with automation platforms like Zapier or Power Automate, companies can extend the visibility and functionality of their software without needing to buy a license for every individual user. For instance, a popular use case for Zapier is to automate customer support tickets between Zendesk and Slack, enabling the whole team to monitor ticket statuses…
Workvivo after Workplace by Meta shutdown: What Microsoft products are an alternative?
As Workplace by Meta prepares to shut down, Meta has nominated Workvivo as the recommended migration destination for customers. However, there’s another powerful alternative that organizations should absolutely consider: a combination of Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, and Viva Connections. This Microsoft suite offers robust features and seamless integration that can significantly enhance your organization’s communication and collaboration. In this blog post, we’ll explore why Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, and Viva Connections might be the perfect fit for your needs. The power of MS Teams Microsoft Teams serves as a comprehensive hub for team communication and collaboration. It brings together chat,…
Alternatives to Shift and 6 other unified workspaces
I was kind of surprised to learn that there is a huge market for web browsers that are specifically designed for work purposes. Perhaps you feel similar, so in this post you can learn from my experience. I’ll share some of the best apps I have found, and why, if you’re like me, you may well be wondering whether any of these apps are worth switching to from your regular Chrome. (You may be surprised.) I couldn’t find a distinct product category label for these apps. Other than calling them “work browsers” other descriptions that fit might be “work hubs”,…
The 7 best GPTs for busy managers and business owners
OpenAI has just launched their new GPT store and we've tried out dozens of GPTs that will help you become more productive at work.
The best ‘new tab’ browser extensions for productivity
We're exploring 6 of the best Chrome 'New tab' extensions to see which ones are the best at helping you connect to your work apps
Top 4 SharePoint Dashboard Apps
Dashboards have traditionally been a staple for real-time data visualizations, of interest mostly to business intelligence users, data analysts or perhaps marketers.
10 best SharePoint integrations [Updated 2024]
Having always been a popular Intranet platform, in recent years SharePoint has become ubiquitous. In part thanks to Viva Connections, a new set of features that improve employee engagement. Through Microsoft App Source, organizations find apps and extensions that suit their particular needs, for example to include data from outside sources like IT tickets, holiday allowances, lunch menus, etc. This helps make SharePoint into a hub for all external data so users have to spend less time hunting for tabs, and can monitor things more conveniently and centrally. In this blog post we have summarized the 10 most popular business…
The 6 best apps for Viva Connections
Viva Connections’ dashboard is a fresh, new take on an intranet dashboard. Available both on SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, in a recent overhaul the dashboard has become even more central on the Viva homepage. This area is therefore coming into the focus of many admins and comms teams who discover that you can not just make your own Cards, you can also get Cards that let you connect to other work tools. This promises to improve the usability of your new intranet homepage, so in this post we’ll look at the 6 best apps for Viva Connections for improving your…
23 free Adaptive Card templates for businesses (Updated Apr ’23)
Adaptive Cards are a standardized UX for business use cases, such as displaying Adaptive Cards in SharePoint, or to build Adaptive Cards . With the wide range of input types and the flexible layout they are a great way to make portable snippets of information. Related: Building with Adaptive Cards? Here’s what you should consider If you’re considering to build Adaptive Cards for your business, then these free examples could help you get there more quickly. Our free Adaptive Card samples show a great range of designs and layouts with images, approve/decline buttons and expanding sections. Adaptive Cards for Employee…