As organizations reimagine the future of work and the hybrid workplace, the employee digital experience will emerge as a key component to maintaining company culture. The past year has led companies to create experiences for their employees that are personalized, engaging and built on connections with a source of truth.
The world is reopening and the future of work is here. We have fortunately made it past the worst of a worldwide pandemic and are now thinking about what comes next. Conversations about returning to the office are starting, the shift to a semblance of normalcy is here but didn’t the immediate rush to work from the home showcase that remote work is here to stay?
Today I’m excited to announce that Simpplr has raised $32 million in Series C funding led by Tola Capital with continued investment from Salesforce Ventures, Norwest Capital, and George Still Ventures. This new round of funding will help us accelerate our vision of building the penultimate unified employee engagement platform.
For over 25 years, the company Intranet has been a private online network for employees and authorized users to communicate, engage in collaborative projects, and develop content. Over time, it has become the centralized source of truth and a repository for company knowledge. When leveraged correctly, it can be a company’s most powerful tool next to its own product, service, or offerings.
Every year, Simpplr Research conducts a study on the current state of internal communications. The State of Internal Communications 2020 (pre-COVID-19) report is Simpplr Research’s most downloaded report and provides useful benchmarking data for internal communications professionals. Insights from this report should still be relevant for most programs.
What hasn’t been said about COVID-19 and the changes it has forced organizations to make in light of this extended remote work period? The transition to a fully remote office workforce caused organizations to take a look at their digital tech toolkit and re-evaluate processes to help meet the immediate need.
FeaturedCustomers, a customer reference platform for B2B business software & services, has just released their Spring 2021 Customer Success Report for Employee Intranet Software category and Simpplr is proud to announce that we’ve been recognized as a market leader. Market Leaders are vendors with a substantial customer base & market share. Market Leaders have the highest ratio of customer reference content, content quality score, and social media presence relative to company size.
Analyst firm, Gartner, released a new report on Modern Intranet Top Practices where analyst Gene Phifer outlines the three key strategies that can make or break a modern intranet. Many intranets fail, even if they are built-in with the most complex features. In fact, Simpplr’s report revealed that the top three reasons for intranet failure were process-related. According to the Gartner report, “Governance, processes and deployment strategies can make or break your next generation intranet.
The Software Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Software Product Executives of 2021, which includes Simpplr’s Blagoja Golubovski, VP of Product Management. Each nominee on this list is the driving force for software innovation, improved user experience, and the genesis of company revenue growth and continuity. Blagoja was recognized for leading product management and UX at Simpplr, driving and building beautiful products to solve for customer’s pain points.
