Microsoft has announced that Viva Goals will be retired on December 31, 2025. While availability, accessibility, and security will be maintained until then, new feature development will cease after December 5, 2024. This leaves businesses searching for a reliable alternative for goal-setting and strategy management. Though transitions like this can be difficult, they also provide a valuable opportunity to rethink and enhance how organizations align teams and achieve strategic goals.

At Inspire Software, we’re ready to step in as the ideal alternative to Viva Goals. Here’s why Inspire goes beyond simple goal management:

𝟏. 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Inspire integrates deeply with Microsoft tools making your transition smooth and adding value across your workflows.
• Teams: Access most Inspire functions from Teams while tracking meeting notes, conversations, and actions in Inspire
• Outlook: plan tasks and activities against your OKRs while staying in sync with Outlook’s calendar and tasks
• Planner/Azure Dev Ops (ADO): sync your tasks and work items with Inspire’s OKR activities and key results
• PowerPoint: auto-create monthly and quarterly business review briefs with a single click to transform Inspire’s Strategy Narrative into a full presentation with auto-generated images, bullets, and speaker notes saving many hours of prep time
• All Inspire reports can be exported to Excel, PowerPoint and/or Word.

𝟐. 𝐀𝐈-𝐄𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲: Inspire’s integrated AI tools streamline time-intensive processes, including OKR creation, 1-1 coaching, recognition, performance reviews, and planning.

𝟑. 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭: We offer free migration services, ensuring that transitioning from Viva Goals to Inspire is as seamless as possible.

This change is your chance to enhance strategy execution and empower your teams with tools that don’t just track goals but enable growth, alignment, and impact.

Check out the 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐊𝐑 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 from 𝘖𝘒𝘙𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 by Paul Niven, and find an 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐬. 𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 on the last page. Expanding beyond Viva Goals' capabilities, Inspire provides a dedicated client success team and coaching options to support your success in achieving results throughout the entire partnership.

Let’s turn challenges into opportunities. Ready to inspire your team?