Quantive StrategyAI vs. Viva Goals: Finding a New Home For Your Business Goals

In December 2024, Microsoft announced the sunset of Viva Goals. The product will be discontinued on December 31, 2025. Therefore, customers need to find an alternative within this year.  

Thankfully, Microsoft is helping customers transition away from Viva Goals with API, Excel, and more migration options. They’ve committed to keeping the platform accessible and secure until its retirement, giving teams time to find the right alternative.

But as the saying goes, when one door closes, another one opens.

That’s where Quantive StrategyAI comes in. In this article, we’ll explore how shifting to Quantive StrategyAI is an upgrade to your goal management and not just a replacement. 

We know that it’s important for every Viva Goals customer to transition away as smoothly as possible. Therefore, you might be looking for a solution that focuses on goal management similarly to Viva Goals. Familiar functionalities reduce the learning curve and suggest easier adoption.

Quantive StrategyAI shares several key features with Viva Goals:

Alignment and goal-tracking

Quantive StrategyAI and Viva Goals ensure that team goals and company objectives are connected and working toward a shared vision through:

• Centralized goal management
• Visual representation of goals (OKRs) and their interconnectedness 
• Integration with existing productivity tools

Collaboration and communication

Both platforms prioritize team collaboration, transparent communication, and shared visibility into goal achievement through:

• Real-time progress tracking and updates
• Comments on goals, goal check-ins, and feedback features
• Integration with communication tools (e.g., Microsoft Teams)

Data-driven decision-making and reporting

By utilizing insights into performance metrics, teams can identify what’s working, adjust strategies proactively, and stay on track:  

• Analytics dashboards
• Performance metrics tracking
• Custom report generation
• Visual progress indicators
• Shareable goal summaries 

While Quantive StrategyAI offers similar goal management experience, it also goes further — offering a holistic approach to strategy management and embedding AI-powered capabilities at every step.  

Instead of tracking goals during strategy execution, Quantive StrategyAI helps you shape your strategy, execute it effectively, and refine it, when necessary, in real time.

Let’s explore how both platforms differ in every stage of the strategy management process: Plan, execute, and adapt.

Goals and strategy execution

Here’s where Quantive StrategyAI and Viva Goals share most of their core features. However, Quantive takes collaboration to the next level.

Team check-ins

With weekly team check-ins, you get real-time status updates, blockers, requests, and wins — all in one place. This gives you a clear picture of strategic progress and helps teams adjust before issues become roadblocks.

Whiteboards and AI-guided OKR creation

With interactive whiteboards, teams brainstorm, prioritize, and fine-tune objectives in one place. Setting your OKRs live is very easy — with just a click, you turn your ideas into live objectives visible to the whole organization. The best part is that goal creation is powered by AI suggestions for faster and more accurate generation.  

Integrations and platform connectivity

Quantive StrategyAI connects 170+ data sources, turning them into a single source of truth for your strategic initiatives. Teams get real-time, AI-generated insights on what’s working and what needs extra focus. This gives you complete transparency, better visualization of business performance, and support for smarter decision-making. 

Strategic planning and evaluation

With Viva Goals, your journey starts with setting goals—it’s a great platform if you already have a plan in place. But what if your strategy needs to be adjusted? Quantive helps you decide where to focus and set the right direction before execution begins. Thanks to the advanced AI capabilities, you can now shorten the decision-making process to hours, not weeks or even months.  

Here’s how:

AI-assisted strategy refinement and formulation

With Quantive StrategyAI, you can evaluate the health of your current business performance and identify strategic directions with a built-in AI assistant. The virtual AI assistant helps you analyze massive datasets, uncover hidden opportunities, and turn insights into actionable strategies.  

To pick the right direction, you can further analyze each decision with built-in strategic frameworks like SWOT, PESTLE, Porter’s 5 Forces, etc. From there, you can brainstorm with your leadership team to determine the best approach for your unique business context. 

Smarter and faster decisions

The decision-making power stays in your hands. AI won’t take over — it will help you accelerate your processes, challenge assumptions, and offer fresh perspectives that stimulate discussions. All insights and analyses provide data-backed validation before committing resources and effort.

Microsoft Viva Goals lacks these advanced planning capabilities and focuses primarily on goal setting within established strategies. However, successful strategy execution relies on well-done strategic planning.

Advanced OKR and KPI reporting

Once you determine your direction, you can generate an executive summary that is easy to understand and follow. This summary will allow all teams to align with the company’s strategic direction and start planning goals and tactics to support it.  

During the strategy execution phase, Quantive StrategyAI equips your teams with sophisticated analytics and a clearer view of performance, trends, and impact. All this is powered by AI recommendations at every step to ensure you understand what’s going on and act on it as quickly as possible.  

Disruption is never fun. Many teams worry about losing continuity in tracking goals. That’s why Quantive’s team is here to make your transition as smooth as possible with our support team, seamless built-in and API integrations, and flexible migration options.

Ready to take the next step? Our team is ready to support your transition with zero data loss, complete assistance, and faster adoption. Let’s discuss how Quantive StrategyAI can work for your teams.