MC1075900 - Microsoft Viva Insights: People Skills insights for analysts

Updated August 11, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Insights: The Skills landscape report, a new Microsoft Power BI report in the advanced insights app that introduces the skills landscape in your organization, powered by People Skills data. With this report, analysts and leaders can understand People Skills data and its usage in the organization, browse commonly used skills and areas of skills specialization, see how groups of skills are distributed across your groups, and explore the skills hierarchy.

A Microsoft 365 Copilot, Viva Suite, or Viva Insights license is required to enable People Skills data in Viva Insights.

This message applies to the Viva Insights web app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 491022.

When this will happen

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late June 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late August 2025 (previously early August) and expect to complete by late October 2025 (previously early September).

How this will affect your organization

Insights analysts will have access to a new Skills landscape Power BI template in the advanced insights app:

After setting up the report in Power BI, users will be able to access aggregated skills insights for their organization and use these to support use cases such as identifying skill gaps, optimizing workforce distribution, and promoting upskilling:

With this report, users can:

• Understand People Skills data and its usage
• Browse commonly used skills and areas of skills specialization
• See how groups of skills are distributed in your organization
• Explore skills hierarchy

What you need to do to prepare

This report template will be available in the advanced insights app with no admin action required, but the following steps are required for the Skills landscape report to process successfully:

• Before users in your organization can run this report, you must set up People Skills and enable the People Skills data in Viva Insights. Most organizations can quickly set up People Skills using the out-of-the-box skills library. You also have the option to curate your own library by importing custom skills. During the setup, make sure to select the option to allow People Skills in Viva Insights. After these settings are confirmed, it can take a few days for People Skills data to be processed and ingested in Viva Insights.
• To enable People Skills data in one or more of your Viva Insights partitions, make sure your Insights administrator include this dataset when creating or editing a partition. This will become available once public preview starts.
• Please make sure Insights analysts and users in your organization are aware of this upcoming change and direct them to the Skills landscape report documentation to learn more about how to use this report.

Learn more

• Skills landscape report | Microsoft Learn
• Overview of People Skills | Microsoft Learn
• Blog: Announcing People Skills general availability and new Skills agent | Microsoft Community Hub