ClearBox ‘Intranet Choices’ Winners 2024

With so many intranet products to choose from it can be hard to know where to start. From the reviews featured in our free report we have compiled an annual list of ‘ClearBox Choices’.

This year we took the highest scoring products in the scenarios as a start point, but also factored in price point, customer feedback and the overall capabilities of each product. The idea of the ‘Choices’ badge is to highlight products that would make a good start point for your own shortlist.

Note though that we don’t say that the Choices are the ‘best’ products. There is no single ‘best’ platform; there is only a product that is the best match for your needs, and you may need to read about several scenarios to understand what that means for you. We encourage potential buyers to do the groundwork on requirements and strategy first, so that you know exactly what you need rather than be swayed by impressive features.

Blink

Blink is a frontline-focused, mobile-first product that understands its target audience perfectly. Organisations of any size that have frontline workers will find something to like about Blink. It offers a good companion to desktop platforms too, meaning desk workers and frontline workers can be served by products that best suit their needs without clashing.

Three screens from the Blink mobile app, showing new, link buttons, and quick survey.

See our full review of Blink in the free report, which features 34 intranet systems and employee comms tools you’ll want to consider.

Firstup

Firstup is an excellent communications-focused platform that delivers strong capabilities around content creation, audience targeting, engagement and multi-channel posting. The Orchestration Engine uses machine learning superbly and helps publishers deliver communications to the right people, at the best time.

The app menu helps people focus on tasks, on the Firstup home page, and the notification button (bottom-right) brings up alerts and activities.

See our full review of Firstup in the free report, which features 34 intranet systems and employee comms tools you’ll want to consider.

Interact

Interact is a fully-featured product, where the vendor’s years of experience evident. Businesses of all sizes will find plenty of functionality to meet their needs, but large and complex organisations will especially appreciate the advanced features for content creation and the flexible options for targeting a variety of audiences, including frontline workers.

An Interact Intranet home page showing a hero carousel, link buttons, and news headlines.

See our full review of Interact Intranet in the free report, which features 34 intranet systems and employee comms tools you’ll want to consider.

Involv

Involv offers a compelling, ready-to-use communications-focused intranet solution at an attractive price-point. It has many valuable, intuitive features, and helps admins and employees use these by providing simple adoption tools. We think Involv will particularly appeal to medium-sized organisations but also enterprise customers that are looking for excellent ongoing support from the supplier.

An Involv home page, showing multiple hero images, tabbed news, and a side menu bar.

See our full review of Involv in the free report, which features 34 intranet systems and employee communication tools you’ll want to consider.

Oak Engage

Oak is a simple but effective product that provides excellent publishing and community features for employees and admins alike. Oak is also highly flexible, which means admins can easily configure the site to deliver an intranet that meets all employee needs. At an attractive price point, Oak offers a lot while delivering a good employee experience.

An Oak Engage intranet home page showing menu and navigation sections, hero news image and regular news, an external news feed, navigation buttons, ‘trending hubs’, and a poll.

See our full review of Oak in the free report, which features 34 intranet systems and employee communication tools you’ll want to consider.

Omnia

Omnia provides a comprehensive toolset for constructing and managing a large intranet on top of SharePoint. It delivers an excellent experience for employees on desktop and mobile, and offers administrators a high degree of control over all aspects of the site. Its close integration with M365 presents opportunities for developing innovative approaches to delivering workplace services.

An Omnia intranet home page, showing news, blog articles, and learning courses.

See our full review of Omnia in the free report, which features 34 intranet systems and employee communication tools you’ll want to consider.

Staffbase Intranet

Businesses looking to provide first class, multi-channel communications to employees will find much to admire in Staffbase. This is a mature product with a wide variety of well-developed features at both front and back end, a comprehensive analytics section and an impressive selection of community and engagement tools, allied to an excellent user experience on both desktop and mobile.

A home page in Staffbase intranet.

See our full review of Staffbase in the free report, which features 34 intranet systems and employee communication tools you’ll want to consider.