Company Info
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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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