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Employee Communications Software

Employee Communications

What is Employee Communications Software?

Employee Communications software is an important tool for internal communicators to reach, engage, and listen to employees. For the employees themselves it provides a way to interact with co-workers and collaborate on projects.

Common Features

  • Mobile
  • Employee Directory
  • Instant Messaging
  • Surveys and Polling
  • News Feeds, Alerts & Notifications
  • Rewards Recognition
  • Pulse Surveys
  • Application Integration
  • Single Sign-On (SSO)
  • Emergency Notification
  • Intranet
  • Newsletter Creation

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Products: 12
Next Award: Jan 2025

Top Employee Communications Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

Workvivo

Composite Score
8.9 /10
CX Score
9.2 /10

Workvivo is an internal communication and engagement platform that is designed to bring what’s happening in the organization alive in a fun, intuitive and highly engaging way, while at the same time being structured completely around what the organization is trying to achieve and connecting employees to this.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Unique Features
  • Caring
  • Saves Time
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Salesforce.com Inc

Salesforce Chatter

Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

Connect every employee with files, data, and experts — anywhere, anytime. With Chatter, connect, engage, and motivate employees to work efficiently regardless of their role or location. Collaborate on sales opportunities, service cases, campaigns, and projects with embedded apps and custom actions.

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Pros

  • Fair
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Inspires Innovation
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Staffbase Inc.

Staffbase

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10

We provide an internal communications platform to unite companies and their employees behind a common purpose. Staffbase offers a platform for mobile-first employee communication. Staffbase makes your company intranet accessible on the go with a mobile app. Today, even office workers expect to find everything they need on their phones. Staffbase allows employees to download your company intranet app directly from the app stores onto their phones. Using the company intranet is just as easy as checking the weather or answering a text.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Client Friendly Policies
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Poppulo

Poppulo

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

Poppulo is an omnichannel platform for the new world of work. Poppulo helps you create the clarity your employees need to drive business outcomes with the industry’s most personalized, data-driven communications. The Poppulo platform makes it easy to reach and engage dispersed and overwhelmed employees, and deliver news securely across any enterprise communication channel — personalised and relevant to every employee. Leveraging our deep experience in scalable email, Poppulo has built a complete enterprise employee comms platform.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Helps Innovate
  • Security Protects
  • Continually Improving Product
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Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

Staying connected is more important than ever. Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) is a social networking tool to openly connect and engage across your organization. Tap into the knowledge of others. Use the Discovery feed to stay on top of what matters, and build on existing work.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Effective Service
  • Saves Time
  • Respectful
Simpplr Inc

Simpplr

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Simpplr's modern intranet software helps connect and engage employees to boost productivity, increase retention, and drive engagement.

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Pros

  • Altruistic
  • Transparent
  • Respectful
  • Client's Interest First
Guru Technologies LLC

Guru

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Guru is a collaborative knowledge management solution where answers find you--everywhere, every time. By empowering these teams in-context with the knowledge they need to respond to customer questions, they can stop spending time hunting down information and instead focus on what matters most — their customers.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
  • Client Friendly Policies
Sociabble

Sociabble

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Sociabble helps companies turn their employees into an informed, engaged, and influential workforce. With Sociabble, employees are better informed about what is happening in their company as well as their workplace and can improve their digital footprint, while enhancing the visibility of the company externally. Sociabble helps companies turn their employees into an informed, engaged, and influential workforce.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Caring
  • Respectful
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Firstup

Firstup

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Firstup is redefining the digital employee experience to put people first and lift companies up. Firstup makes communication solutions that build authentic engagement and create two-way conversation between employees and companies. The Firstup orchestration engine connects every worker, everywhere, on any device with personalized information that helps them do their best work.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Badge Winner
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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Viva Connections

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Grow together with Microsoft Viva Connections—the employee experience platform within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams. Viva supports connection, insight, purpose, and growth, empowering people and teams to be their best.

Pros

  • Saves Time
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing