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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Microsoft Viva Engage

13Judge labels

1First choices

6Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Microsoft Viva Engage was named 5 times in Internal communications and 1 other category, where Happeo led with 16%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business70 of 82

under the label threshold

Mid-market44 of 80

under the label threshold

Enterprise13 of 73

under the label threshold

In internal communications · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Microsoft Viva Engage for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Internal communications and intranet	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	44 of 80	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Happeo at 16%
Employee engagement surveys	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	30 of 77	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Culture Amp at 40%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Microsoft Viva Engage yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Microsoft Viva Engage across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose Microsoft Viva if: You want to reduce "app fatigue" and already pay for Microsoft 365 licenses.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee engagement surv · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for Microsoft-heavy orgs: SharePoint + Viva Engage” GPT-5.4 mini · Internal communications · direct prompt · alternative

“transitioning fully to Viva Engage” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal communications · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Microsoft retired the Yammer brand and platform ... If you see Yammer listed as a "current" option, it's outdated.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal communications · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Viva Engage, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Viva Engage was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Simpplr8 of 122Not in the top three

Microsoft SharePoint8 of 121Not in the top three

Staffbase7 of 121Not in the top three

Unily6 of 121Not in the top three

Slack5 of 120Not in the top three

Workplace from Meta5 of 120Not in the top three

LumApps4 of 121Not in the top three

Workvivo4 of 121Not in the top three

Jive4 of 120Not in the top three

Happeo3 of 121Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Microsoft Viva Engage. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 7 of the 12 answers that named Microsoft Viva Engage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

lumapps.com5

agilityportal.io4

firsthr.app3

g2.com3

mangoapps.com3

simpplr.com3

workvivo.com3

gartner.com2

happeo.com2

linkedin.com2

Thirty of the thirty domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Viva Engage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

firsthr.app/compare/general/company-intranet-software3

workvivo.com/modern-intranet/best-platforms3

agilityportal.io/blog/why-sharepoint-is-failing-modern-intranets-and-which-no-code-intrane2

gartner.com/reviews/market/intranet-packaged-solutions2

lumapps.com/insights/blog/best-intranet-platforms2

mangoapps.com/articles/top-25-intranet-platforms-frontline-desk-workers2

sparktrajectory.com/is-sharepoint-a-good-platform-for-an-intranet2

workvivo.com/modern-intranet/platforms-comparison2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Microsoft Viva Engage

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Microsoft Viva Engage; a claim can dispute any of them.

Viva Engage 2Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) 1SharePoint + Viva Engage 1Yammer 1

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