Company Info

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Features Empuls Glint
Founded in  2012  2013
Employee size  51-200  201-500
Geographical presence  USA, Europe, South-east Asia, Middle East, Australia  USA, Europe, Australia
Go-live time  0-7 days  7-30 days
Target Company size  Small, Mid and Enterprise  Mid and Enteprise

Communication Features

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Features Empuls Glint
Communities & Groups  • Create groups based on teams, departments, interests, projects etc for effective communication, celebrations, task management and collaboration.
• Share and manage work, information, social interactions, likes, comments etc like any workplace social media application.
  Feature not available.
 Feeds & Announcements • Feeds visible at group level. Feeds have access controls rights to enable or disable various options.
• Send & share recognition with awards/value cards/greetings/hashtags.
• Profanity filters & report abuse features.
• Post,likes, comments, edit, share, delete options.
• Share announcements to specific person or teams or company.
• Rich file management with access controls.
• Attach documents/files, GIFs, images, video, audio, links, hashtags, e-cards, value-badges and more.
  Feature not available.
Chat/Voice bot  • Chat one to one or in a group.
• Chatbot to answer any questions related to the product, any features or workflows.
• AI enabled bot for intelligent actions on the platform.
  Feature not available.
Notifications & To-do  • Receive notifications on email/mobile app/web browser for all actions like comments, celebrations, mentions, tags, surveys, feedbacks recognition, announcements, events & rewards.
• A filtered to-do action list to remind on pending actions.
  Survey notifications only.
 Greetings, Celebrations & Value Cards  • Greet instantly with configurable greeting e-card options.
• Celebrate life events like marriage, new joinee, retirement, baby shower, work anniversary and more.
• Custom celebrations, events, and festivals can be configured and automated DIY.
• Recognize values and behaviours exhibited.
  Feature not available.
Search  Easy global search for content, groups, users, messages, documents, files, audio/video, employees, mentions and tags etc.  Feature not available.

Empowerment Features

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Features
 Empuls Glint
Reward Funds Management  • Manage reward budgets and funds.
• Share funds with different teams.
• Manage funds with reports and access controls.
  Feature not available.
Engagement Pulse Surveys  • Pulse surveys to measure employee engagement.
• Fill rate, nudges and reminders.
• Actionable insights through tables and graphs.
• Benchmarking with respective industry data.
• Build with top behavioural scientists and experts.
• Configure frequency, cadence, audience, and intervals.
• Actionables for key insights from the surveys through rewards, recognition, communication and other features.
• Access to top independent consultants and consulting firms for execution.		  • Pulse surveys to measure engagement, manager effectiveness, team effectiveness.
• Schedule to your needs.
• Heatmaps with all measurement.
• Alerts, Scores on the feedback.
• Benchmarking.
Anonymous Feedback  • Collect or give anonymous feedback on different dimensions.
• Measure sentiments and feedback cohorts.		  • Collect anonymous feedback.
• Get rich actionable insights.
Custom Survey Templates  • Ready templates on employee onboarding, L&D, Hiring, Exit, Diversity & Inclusion, and other similar employee lifecycle events. • Draw insights from reports. • Templates build with top consulting firms in each area of expertise. • Build or use own templates if required."
  Onboarding, manager effectiveness, team effectiveness survey etc., templates available.

Motivation Features

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Features Empuls Glint
Values & Behaviour Recognition  • Configure values and behaviours as per the organization.
• Appreciate/Recognize/Award/Reward people for showing good values and behaviours.
• Intelligence and reports with different dimensions.		  • Behaviour analysis with survey insights.
• No rewards available.
Nomination Workflows  • Different rule engines for award nominations can be configured as per your organizational needs.
• Configurations are self serve and DIY.
• Any permutation or combination is possible to build these nomination rules like inter-department, inter-location, inter-teams, reporting structures, approval structures etc.
  Feature not available.
Complex Rewarding Types  • Simple to any kind of complexity can be handled in rewards.
• Commonly used reward templates like Peer to Peer, Team, Spot, Jury, Value based, Milestones, Service, Monetary, Non-monetary awards are available.
• Any new template can be custom made as per company requirements directly from the platform.
• Approval workflows can be configured directly from the platform.
• Option to reward in bulk or individually.
  Feature not available.
Occasion & Festival Gifts  • Run un-limited campaigns for various occasions and festivals with elegant e-cards, templates & funds.
• Common examples are Birthdays, Anniversary, Mother's Day, New Year, Diwali, Christmas and many more.
• Scheduler for deffered gifting.
  Feature not available.
Gamification  • Gamify using leaderboards, milestones, awards and badges.
• Advanced rule engines can be built for gamification based on company requirements.
• Campaigns based on fitness, health, performance, targets can be easily managed with game elements and reports.
  Feature not available.
Award Certificate  • Attach certificates for any reward.
• Certificates can be customized as per company brand guidelines DIY.
  Feature not available.

Technology

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Features Empuls Glint
Export & Import data  Export or import CSV or xls files for users, rewards, gifts etc directly or through third party systems like HRMS, SFTP etc.
  • Import data from excel, csv.
• Export in csv.
Reporting and Analytics  • Reports on feeds, groups, engagement, gifts, rewards, influencers, funds, surveys, conversations etc.
• Different views, graphs and filters.
• System generated nudges based on data intelligence.
  Predictive analytics, Psychometric analysis, Heatmaps, Alerts, Scores, Engagement reports, Annual Business reviews.
Custom Configurations  • Email Templatization for custom branding.
• Configurable access controls.
• DIY Whitelabelling of colors, landing page, logo etc.
• Custom reward workflows.
  • Custom question validation.
• Psychometric analysis.
• Smart profiles.
Third-party Integrations  Integrate with HRMS, HRIS, SSO, SFTP, SAML. Can integrate with Slack, Facebook, Microsoft Teams, Yammer on demand.  Integrate with HRIS.
DIY & Self Serve enabled  Free trial, Fully DIY, Set up guides, Resources.  No free trial, DIY.
Developer APIs & Marketplace Apps  Ready Developer APIs and relevant marketplace apps.
  Limited apps and api integrations.
Mobile App & Web  Android, iOS & web access.  • Survey on any device.
• Reports on the web.
Login  SAML,SSO, ADFS, Okta, One login and more integrations.  ADFS, Onelogin.
International Languages  Architecture to support any global language.  International languages available.
Security  • Audit logs.
• GDPR, ISO 27001 compliant.
• Local deployment and Hybrid cloud facility.
  • GDPR compliant.
• AICPA | SOC certification.

Others

Empuls Helps HR leaders, CHROs, and CXOs to effortlessly execute key activities such as award workflows, budget automation, industry-endorsed surveys, and OKRs. With key features such as communication feeds, messaging, groups the software equips employees to engage meaningfully with their peers, and proactively participate in building a culture of collaboration while staying motivated and aligned. Watch out for this space for more such comparison blogs.

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