Life after Company Communicator: Did anyone actually move to Viva Amplify?
Hi all, here is a thing I've been working on from time to time for the last 6 months. With Microsoft retiring the Company Communicator template we had to figure out our next steps for sending corporate updates in Teams over the 2,000 users org. I know Viva Amplify is the official replacement, but at roughly $2/user/month licensing cost is hard to justify for our basic use case.
so we decided to keep the open-source template and maintain it internally. It already saves us a lot of money compared to Amplify now, but we definitely traded licensing fees for some operational headaches. We've had to do a lot just to keep it working (fixing SSO chains, dealing with client cache, handling multi-tenant types, and sorting out admin consent) so taking ownership is far from a deploy-and-forget solution.
I'm curious how the rest of you are dealing with this transition. Did your org bite the bullet on Amplify, find a third-party tool, or keep the old CC template alive? I'm wondering if maintaining the old template is the right path, or if there are any hidden issues we might be missing with this approach or some other approaches you use.