Data Quadrant Awards 2025

Employee Engagement

SoftwareReviews names Vantage Pulse, Flex Surveys, McLean Employee Engagement, and SurveyMonkey Enterprise as Employee Engagement Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Employee Engagement

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Note Software product placement is based on the scores provided by users, recency of the reviews, and review volume. Axes are dynamically adjusted based on the minimum and maximum values in the data set.

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

50Reviews

Vantage Circle

Vantage Pulse

Vantage Pulse is a powerful employee survey tool that helps organizations measure employee engagement, boost performance and improve morale in the workplace using eNPS surveys. With Vantage Pulse, managers get data-driven results to analyze trends, uncover factors of employee turnover, predict behaviors and ultimately increase employee retention. It helps HRs overcome the gap between feedback and action with real-time insights and facilitate a better employee experience.

9.1

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+98

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93%

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23Reviews

Flex Surveys

Flex Surveys is a fully managed employee survey solution that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and workplace satisfaction. Flex Surveys takes care of the intricate and time-consuming aspects of engagement surveys, allowing your team to focus on analyzing results and implementing action plans that drive meaningful change.

9.0

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+100

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98%

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53Reviews

McLean & Co

McLean Employee Engagement

McLean Employee Engagement Program goes beyond job satisfaction to find out what drives a positive employee experience. McLean takes a multi-leveled approach to tackle engagement, from developing an engagement strategy, to survey implementation and reporting, to results interpretation and action planning.

9.0

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+94

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94%

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88Reviews

Momentive

SurveyMonkey Enterprise

SurveyMonkey is the world's largest survey company, helping customers collect 2.8 million online survey responses every day. SurveyMonkey has revolutionized the way people give and take feedback, making it accessible, easy and affordable for everyone. Build surveys fast, respond and adapt to trends, and make big decisions confidently. Leverage the power of AI to cut through the noise and uncover meaningful insights quickly.

8.7

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+84

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89%

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Flex Surveys

Breadth of Features

Flex Surveys

Business Value Created

Flex Surveys

Ease of Customization

Flex Surveys

Ease of Data Integration

Flex Surveys

Ease of IT Administration

Flex Surveys

Ease of Implementation

Flex Surveys

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Flex Surveys

Quality of Features

Flex Surveys

Usability and Intuitiveness

Flex Surveys

Vendor Support

Flex Surveys

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Flex Surveys

Breadth of Features

Flex Surveys

Business Value Created

Flex Surveys

Ease of Customization

Flex Surveys

Ease of Data Integration

Flex Surveys

Ease of IT Administration

Flex Surveys

Ease of Implementation

Flex Surveys

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Flex Surveys

Quality of Features

Flex Surveys

Usability and Intuitiveness

Flex Surveys

Vendor Support

Flex Surveys

Other Evaluated Vendors

39Reviews

Kudos Inc

Kudos

As a communication tool, Kudos enables team members, managers and leadership to stay connected, collaborate and coach. It promotes the entire team to share important information, from personal status updates to the organizational vision and goals.

8.5

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+91

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94%

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42Reviews

Motivosity

Motivosity is a full suite employee engagement & recognition platform, with the mission to make people happier at work. Motivosity improves company cultures by focusing on three of the top drivers of employee satisfaction: feeling appreciated for your work, being part of a community, and having a meaningful relationship with your manager. Our software helps organizations measure & improve eNPS, retain top talent, and truly drive positive company culture.

8.4

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+91

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93%

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47Reviews

Culture Amp

Culture Amp's employee engagement, performance and development tools and insights makes it easy to collect, understand and act on employee feedback. With Culture Amp, understand your employees via powerful engagement, onboarding, exit & pulse survey tools, build high‑performing teams with performance reviews, feedback, goal‑tracking & 1‑on‑1s delivered in the flow of work and grow and retain your people with the only personalized solution for effective, continuous development.

8.3

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+84

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88%

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35Reviews

Lattice

Lattice is a people management platform that empowers people leaders to build engaged, high-performing teams, inspire winning cultures, and make strategic, data-driven business decisions. Improve manager effectiveness, simplify people processes, and uncover employee insights with an AI-powered platform.

8.2

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+94

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93%

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21Reviews

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.

8.1

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+99

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89%

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21Reviews

Quantum Workplace Inc

Quantum Workplace Engagement

Quantum Workplace provides an all-in-one employee engagement software that makes managers the central drivers of workplace culture. Quantum Workplace’s technology gives team leaders direct access to employee feedback and personalized real-time insights, so they can better serve their teams.

8.1

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+94

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92%

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53Reviews

15Five Inc

15Five Engage

15Five is a strategic performance management platform that empowers HR leaders with data-driven insights and guided recommendations, while people managers are transformed into changemakers, all within the flow of work, accelerating employee engagement, performance, and retention. 15Five combines the power of generative AI, custom analytics and human-centered principles in a complete platform including 360° performance reviews, actionable engagement surveys, robust goal & OKR tracking, customizable manager coaching and training, and ongoing manager-employee feedback tools like guided 1-on-1s and check-ins.

7.9

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+89

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83%

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32Reviews

WorkTango

Measure employee engagement and support organizational change by gathering employee feedback with pulse surveys. Support action across the entire employee lifecycle with powerful technology and analytics. Measure employee engagement and experience throughout the entire employee lifecycle with Surveys & Insights from WorkTango. Available individually or as part of the full Employee Experience

7.9

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+90

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88%

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30Reviews

SurveySparrow Inc

SurveySparrow

SurveySparrow is an experience management platform that allows you to collect, analyze, and act on customer feedback in real-time. So whether you’re looking to improve customer satisfaction, increase loyalty, or drive revenue growth, SurveySparrow has everything you need to create a world-class customer experience.

7.8

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+86

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86%

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21Reviews

Qualtrics

Qualtrics EmployeeXM

EmployeeXM gathers continuous feedback from every employee experience to take the right actions to impact engagement, talent planning, productivity, and innovation. It empowers your organization to take actions that put your people first. With Qualtrics XM, you can accelerate how you create, optimize and deliver employee experiences at scale to grow your team members and bottom line.

7.6

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+88

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85%

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15Reviews

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.

7.5

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+83

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82%

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20Reviews

Workleap

Officevibe

Officevibe is an easy-to-use engagement platform made for busy managers who care as much about their people as performance. Act on real-time employee feedback to elevate workplace culture, boost retention, and attract top talent. Officevibe drives retention by continually measuring and improving employee experience.

7.2

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+74

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85%

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25Reviews

Xoxoday

Empuls

Empuls is an all-in-one employee engagement and motivation platform that offers Rewards & Recognition, Pulse Surveys, eNPS surveys, 1-on-1 Feedback, Social Intranet and People Analytics in one powerful solution. Trusted by 1000+ brands across the globe, Empuls helps organizations to build high-performing teams that are aligned to organizational culture and values. The platform seamlessly integrates with any of your existing software like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Facebook Workplace, BambooHR, SAP SuccessFactors, ZohoHR, PeopleStrong and more.

7.0

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+81

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81%

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