Data Quadrant Awards 2025
Employee Communications
SoftwareReviews names Workvivo, Salesforce Chatter, Staffbase, Microsoft Viva Engage (Yammer), and Poppulo as Employee Communications Data Quadrant Award Winners.
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Employee Communications
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Gold Medalists
Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
Workvivo
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.
8.9
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+98
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
89%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Salesforce.com Inc
Salesforce Chatter
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.
8.5
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+88
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
84%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Staffbase Inc.
Staffbase
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.
8.5
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+95
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
88%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Viva Engage (Yammer)
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.
8.4
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
86%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Poppulo
Poppulo
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.
8.2
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+83
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
83%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Sociabble
Breadth of Features
Firstup
Business Value Created
Beekeeper
Ease of Customization
Firstup
Ease of Data Integration
Staffbase
Ease of IT Administration
Guru
Ease of Implementation
Sociabble
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Staffbase
Quality of Features
Guru
Usability and Intuitiveness
Beekeeper
Vendor Support
Staffbase
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Sociabble
Breadth of Features
Firstup
Business Value Created
Beekeeper
Ease of Customization
Firstup
Ease of Data Integration
Staffbase
Ease of IT Administration
Guru
Ease of Implementation
Sociabble
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Staffbase
Quality of Features
Guru
Usability and Intuitiveness
Beekeeper
Vendor Support
Staffbase
Other Evaluated Vendors
Guru Technologies LLC
Guru
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.
8.1
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+95
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
86%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Sociabble
Sociabble
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.
8.1
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+95
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
87%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Beekeeper
Beekeeper
The Beekeeper team communication app provides real-time unified communications for your frontline and mobile workforce. Internal teams benefit from communication and engagement tools such as secure group messaging, chat bots, HR tools, analytics, employee surveys, and polls.
8.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+94
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
85%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Haiilo GmbH
Haiilo
Haillo is the communications platform that allows you to create a meaningful dialog within your business - connecting your people to purpose. You can create, distribute and control all internal communications within one secure platform that everyone loves to use.
8.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
86%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Firstup
Firstup
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.
8.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+96
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
84%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Viva Connections
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.
8.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+93
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
87%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
DSMN8
DSMN8
DSMN8 is a Cloud-based SaaS platform enabling employees to share company related content such as blogs and articles to their owned social media networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and others. DSMN8 is available as both a desktop application as well as a mobile application as an opt-in tool for all employees. DSMN8’s innovative technology helps brands tap into the power of their number one asset - their employees through an all-in-one platform.
7.9
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+86
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
94%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Simpplr Inc
Simpplr
Simpplr's modern intranet software helps connect and engage employees to boost productivity, increase retention, and drive engagement.
7.8
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+86
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
83%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
LumApps
LumApps
LumApps Social Collaborative Intranet helps companies in all industries improve communications and much more. Lets get in touch! LumApps is the next step in the evolution of the employee intranet. Fully integrated with Microsoft Office 365, as well as G-Suite and other tools, the powerful LumApps Platform lets employees connect and collaborate to create a more efficient and engaged workforce.
7.7
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+82
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
81%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Unily
Unily
Unily is the employee experience platform that connects, informs, and engages your enterprise.
7.5
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
88%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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