FEATURES
Trial period with recognition consultant
Guaranteed 30-day trial and a specialist to help you
Very difficult to trial something that does not exist
Most employee recognition vendors offer trials
Business model does not support try before you buy
Free to launch software
Simple, fast and flexible launch process
Expensive build costs, lengthy process with reward bias
Free and fast but very limited software capability
Can be flexible but slow to set-up and never free
80+ pre-built configurations
Smart employee recognition engine to fit any strategy
Very little recognition understanding or investment
Software is one size fits all
Most have some but defined by heavy reward logic
Pre-launch workshops
Sandbox your manager workshops before you go live
Time spent testing custom code and functionality
No pre-live status or managed services
Some employee recognition vendors do with fees
Global reward services
Covering 97 countries with no volume commitment
Some vendors can but often restricted by tech capability
Few reward capable vendors, none with global reach
All employee recognition vendors do but high volume expectations
Perk and 3rd Party reward catalogs
“Open” software can plug and play any reward offering
Custom solutions, only use agency reward and pricing
Some social recognition vendors
Not possible, only use in house reward and pricing
Real-time manager dashboards
Action-based intelligence available 24/7
Little to help managers inspire and engage their team capability
Limited hierarchy and manager functionality
Some manager insight available via reporting access
A complete mobile experience
Built for mobile and a seamless employee experience
More custom-build costs and maintenance
Yes, mirroring the one size fits all model
Some do very well, some do very poorly
Financial and reward management
Comprehensive cost center, budget and breakage views
Limited, not flexible or transparent
Not available, limited financial understanding
Limited, not flexible or transparent
Innovation and feature pipeline
A clear vision with updates and opt-in features
Not specialists or enthusiasts, no software investment
Progressive features as business model is not tied to reward
Some do, but often reward bias limits vision and innovation
Country and global programs
Countries, languages and currency built-in
Limited understanding, more build costs and maintenance
Some have countries and languages built-in
Countries, currency, but languages at best client responsibility
Security and Testing
Network, application and data security, 3rd party penetration testing
Client funds cost to try and maintain custom application security
Not built to exceed enterprise-level security expectations
Security is key to delivering in the enterprise market
Full API Suite for automation
Pre-built API’s for data, hierarchy and workflow integrations
Automation build costs, model is a barrier to integrations
Weak on hierarchy/ data automation but often good integrations
Automation is key to delivering in the enterprise market