Microsoft Viva Insights advanced insights: Organizational data uploads move to the Microsoft 365 admin center (Wave 1.3)

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 5, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Note: If your organization does not use the data upload feature in the Microsoft Viva Insights advanced insights app, please disregard this message.

What is changing?

Viva Insights will retire its organizational data upload feature in the advanced insights app (Analyst Workbench) and move it to Microsoft 365 admin center. Consequently, Viva Insights tenants will be migrated to use the data upload feature through the Microsoft 365 admin center (MAC). We’ve placed Viva Insights tenants in one of three waves. If you received this message, you’re in Wave 1. For you, the move to the MAC for organizational data upload starts March 5, 2025.

After your tenant is migrated, your global admin will upload and manage all organizational data imports in the MAC, and the global admin permission will be required to upload data.

Why we are retiring this feature in Viva Insights

We are removing the organizational data upload feature in Viva Insights to streamline and enhance our data management processes. This change is part of our ongoing effort to provide a more integrated and efficient experience for our customers. By moving to MODIS (Microsoft Organizational Data Ingestion System), we aim to centralize data ingestion, ensuring that organizational data is uploaded once and seamlessly powers both Microsoft Viva Suite and Microsoft 365 experiences. This transition will address customer pain points related to data freshness and automation, ultimately improving the overall user experience.

How this will affect your organization:

Roles and permissions

Uploading data: After your tenant is migrated, your global admin will need to upload organizational data for Viva Insights through the MAC.

What you need to do to prepare:

• Global administrator: The only fully permissioned role for uploading organizational data in Viva Insights in the Microsoft 365 admin center is global admin. You may choose to assign the global admin role to your Viva Insights admins.
• Data source admins: These admins usually manage the data source or human capital management (HCM) systems for your organization. After your tenant is moved to uploading data via admin center, the data source admins must work with the global admin and Viva Insights admin to ensure successful data uploads through the Microsoft 365 admin center.

1. Viva Insights admin must identify their global admin and data source admin and inform them of this change.
2. Get familiar with the new platform for importing organizational data: Learn more: Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn
3. Review and update your internal documentation and training materials to reflect the new data upload process.
4. As a Viva Insights admin, get the global admin role assigned to your profile, if feasible.
5. Ensure that the user(s) tasked with uploading organizational data in the MAC is/are assigned the global admin role before March 5, 2025.

To find your current global admin, try using Microsoft Copilot for Work, with this prompt: Which team or person manages our Microsoft 365 admin center?

Message ID: MC997574