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Engaging employees, particularly firstline workers, has become a priority for many organisations. Traditional intranets aren’t always the best fit, and a new category of agile, mobile apps has emerged.
Our independent assessments of the leading employee apps will let you compare mobile apps for employees and help build the best-fit shortlist for your organisation.
Covering 22 communication-focused apps (17 in-depth reviews and cataloguing 5 more), our assessments are independent, balanced, and honest, allowing you to see the functionality and strengths that meet your requirements.
Each review highlights the workforce app’s features and benefits, assessed against nine common business scenarios, so you can find the most suitable product from a local or international vendor. We’ve perfected our review process over six years on our SharePoint intranet in-a-box report.
Buy today, for a one-off up-front payment to instantly download the report and receive updated V1 issues within a calendar year of your purchase date.
Engaging employees, particularly firstline workers, has become a priority for many organisations. Traditional intranets aren’t always the best fit, and a new category of agile, mobile apps has emerged.
Our independent assessments of the leading employee apps will let you compare mobile apps for employees and help build the best-fit shortlist for your organisation.
Covering 22 communication-focused apps (17 in-depth reviews and cataloguing 5 more), our assessments are independent, balanced, and honest, allowing you to see the functionality and strengths that meet your requirements.
Each review highlights the workforce app’s features and benefits, assessed against nine common business scenarios, so you can find the most suitable product from a local or international vendor. We’ve perfected our review process over six years on our SharePoint intranet in-a-box report.
Current and first version is V1.0 published late September 2020.
$395.00 USD
Approx. £303+VAT / €333 in EU.
ClearBox is a UK-based company.
Easily pay a single amount with your card online now, and get a receipt via email.
Or request an invoice and receive the report and receipt upon payment.
17 in-depth
app reviews
Over 400 pages
Instant download
of the PDF
A quick-view summary of pros and cons
Price band
Numerous screenshots
Vendor background information
User experience
Publisher and administrator experience
Company communications
Chat, social, and engagement
Training and e-learning
Integrations and employee services
Information finding
Analytics
This is a buyers’ guide to ‘workforce communication apps’ or employee apps. The employee app market is a mostly unexplored space, changing and growing far faster than other enterprise tech topics. You may have heard of Staffbase, SocialChorus, or Smarp, but we know of over 60 products in this complex, ever-changing market.
The ease of deployment is a major factor in the decision to improve digital working with an enterprise grade app. Unlike many other enterprise solutions, an app can be deployed very quickly, and so adoption becomes all about the roll-out strategy and the change communications. It’s easy to engage a vendor and procure an app too – even considering any unique security or legislative needs – and so HR, Operations, or the central digital team might decide the budget and take the lead. We’d hope and expect Internal Communications, Learning and Development, and IT to take a direct interest as well.
Beyond the engagement and communication benefits of reaching frontline staff, these apps extend the digital workplace into people’s pockets, enabling people who rarely sit down with a computer to get things done when and where they like. Employee apps are productivity apps, helping individuals and teams get their work done in a professional yet social environment.
We’ve brought over six year’s of research experience, having published our SharePoint intranet report since 2015. Through our consultation work with clients, we’ve come to understand communication requirements and experience expectations. Leading vendors through our scenarios and review process has given us an insight into their strategic approaches, strengths, and roadmaps.
As ClearBox Consulting focuses on the business side of the digital workplace and does not sell any products, we are able to give you genuinely independent evaluations.
As a comprehensive buyers’ guide, our 400-page report will reduce your research time and accelerate your decision-making process, assuring stakeholders that you’ve evaluated the market.
Being in the cloud and on mobile devices, deploying an app is as much about your engagement and comms strategy as about IT. We know it’s not only Internal Communications teams that choose an app as a key channel; HR and Operations Directors are keen to lead in transforming their digital approach, to reach site and field workers.
In every full review you will find a the ‘Product Focus’ chart. This chart indicates the style of product; not a score of how well it performs. As an analogy, wines can be “full bodied” or “fresh and fruity” in character, but there are still good bottles and bad bottles of each.
Click a thumbnail to see a preview.
You can download the 80-page executive summary today to get a sample review and an overview of our report.
“Beyond superb! Not just the assessments but the depth of insight to place employee apps in context.”
— Martin White, Enterprise search expert, Intranet Focus
Our reviews are entirely vendor-neutral (nobody pays to be in the report; we don’t sell any products or accept referral fees). Evaluations are based on in-depth live demonstrations against the criteria we set and go through rigorous fact-checking.
Current report version: 1.0 released late September 2020. Next update scheduled for 2021.
$395.00 USD
Approx. £303+VAT / €333 in EU.
ClearBox is a UK-based company.
Easily pay a single amount with your card online now, and get a receipt via email.
Or request an invoice and receive the report and receipt upon payment.
The buyers’ guide to employee apps.
If considering revamping more of your digital channels, you can get our well-known SharePoint intranets in-a-box report along with the employee apps report.
Buy both for $740 USD (or equivalent in your currency) and save $250.
Check the terms and update explanation. For help purchasing the report or to discuss choosing a product, email us on apps@clearbox.co.uk and we’ll reply as soon as we can.
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This list of employee apps is still growing as we review more work apps and talk with more vendors.
Here’s our definition of ’employee app’.
Many more workforce apps will added to the next edition in 2021.
We use Stripe to process credit and debit cards (including ‘company cards’). We also accept PayPal.
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