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Microsoft Viva Insights vs Workday comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Viva Insights
Ranking in Talent Management
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Workday
Ranking in Talent Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Benefits Administration (1st), Cloud HCM (1st), Talent Acquisition (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Talent Management category, the mindshare of Microsoft Viva Insights is 0.9%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Workday is 17.9%, up from 16.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Talent Management
 

Featured Reviews

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Provides notifications on missed emails and meetings
Microsoft Viva Insights provides notifications on missed emails and meetings.  Microsoft Viva Insights is integrated with Outlook and SharePoint. It helps me to reply and attend all scheduled meetings.  I get very few notifications of Microsoft Viva Insights on my mobile.  I have been using the…
Sarvesh Kumar Jha - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use and provides great flexibility and security
Implementing the solution is generally not easy because it depends on our client's landscape. In the last one and a half years, Workday has started a new implementation approach called launch implementation. This approach allows you, as a client organization, to implement Workday in a shorter amount of time, given that you fulfill certain criteria. It depends on the number of subsidiaries and employees you have and their compensation structure. If it's not too complex, Workday provides its clients with this new approach called launch, where they can quickly onboard with the Workday without many complex requirements. The general implementation for Fortune 500 companies is always complex.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Microsoft Viva Insights is integrated with Outlook and SharePoint. It helps me to reply and attend all scheduled meetings."
"The reporting feature is quite easy for a layman to use, and the look and feel of the application is good. Its security is robust. You will never find a use case that cannot be covered."
"Performance and good usability are the two most valuable features of this solution."
"We like the fact that this solution is very user-friendly, with a straightforward user interface."
"Provides flexibility to integrate with the product. It has several tools, out-of-the-box, for integrations. It delivers pre-built interfaces for specific vendors, pre-built generic integrations to extract or push data into Workday through configuration."
"What I appreciate best about Workday is the recruiting component."
"It's easy to set up."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the usability, learning, and compliance tools."
"I would say that we have definitely seen a return on investment."
 

Cons

"I get very few notifications of Microsoft Viva Insights on my mobile."
"In terms of reporting, we have to rely on a consultant to do the report customization. The most important thing is to be able to do your own reporting, which it can't do. We rely so much on our consultant to customize reports for us."
"There is a lot of complexity in the configuration of this solution."
"My only suggestion might be to include a brief description of any new fields we introduce, making it easier for people to use them. Perhaps this is something they can consider implementing."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"They don't have worker payroll in the product. We have to solve our payroll. I hope one day they will be able to have their own localized standard payrolls for all countries."
"Reporting systems should be improved. If you want to report it on paper, if you want something more BI oriented, more high level predictive or more data-driven, it should be improved."
"They don't offer any backend database access. This is one limitation that I found in this product. Workday hasn't opened up about what kind of database they are into, which can make it easy for the technical team to emulate issues. It would be good if they can offer backend access to the technical team. It would be helpful if they can also provide a Troubleshooting Guide that we can use to troubleshoot issues. When we have an issue, there are very limited resources to refer to."
"They could provide a web chatbot feature in the dashboard for Workday."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"With a bigger budget, I would recommend SAP."
"I need to pay for a license. It is expensive."
"It has an annual subscription rate, but I'm not sure how it will work."
"It is on a yearly basis."
"You have the license fee per module, and then you have a kind of annual training fee, which is a kind of add-on. I wouldn't say it is exhaustive; it is minor. Licensing is pretty transparent for most of the part."
"Workday is an expensive solution."
"The pricing for this solution is fairly high. It is not affordable for small and mid-sized companies."
"The pricing is good from an HR perspective, although management gets upset after spending $500,000 a year, every year."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Educational Organization
19%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Viva Insights?
Microsoft Viva Insights is integrated with Outlook and SharePoint. It helps me to reply and attend all scheduled meetings.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Viva Insights?
I get very few notifications of Microsoft Viva Insights on my mobile.
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Viva Insights?
Microsoft Viva Insights provides notifications on missed emails and meetings.
What are the biggest differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors?
Differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud,w and SAP SuccessFactors:w Oracle: "simple interface and deep customization to suit the purpose." SAP: Multiple functionalities that increase process effi...
What do you like most about Workday?
I like its UI and UX. When we were using Oracle or SAP, the UI/UX wasn't very user-friendly for the employees.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Workday?
If you go with the launch implementation approach, the solution is generally not very expensive. If you want to add more features to your subscription, Workday becomes expensive. The solution is fl...
 

Also Known As

Volometrix, Microsoft Workplace Analytics
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