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Search is the invisible first draft of every project — the step before the step. Across three months and 5.76 million searches, Simpplr data shows how well organizations are helping people find what they need and where they still fall short.

Recent Forrester data shows healthcare leads every industry in workplace AI adoption, yet it’s the sector least likely to call that adoption a success. It has moved fast on deployment but still trails on the outcomes leaders care about most: productivity, trust, and measurable ROI.

Your traditional intranet used to be enough. Now employees expect to find answers in seconds from your system, one that was built to improve the overall employee experience. But for IT professionals, every weekend spent patching servers is a weekend not spent meeting that bar. The mobile access requests keep coming. The hardware refresh keeps looming. Something has to give.

A developer with the right AI tools can now build in days what used to take a quarter. So a lot of CIOs are asking a fair question: Why buy an enterprise platform when my team can spin something up in a sprint? The answer depends on what you think you’re replacing.

For many organizations, employee newsletters remain one of the most reliable ways to keep employees informed. But too many newsletters have become catch-all containers for every update, announcement, and reminder. When everything is important, nothing feels important.

Enterprise AI pilots are stalling in every industry I work with, and the buyers themselves can tell you why. They aren’t buying AI capability. They’re buying organizational trust at scale, with the least possible integration debt. The vendors still selling capability to IT leaders are losing deals to the vendors selling trust.

Most enterprise AI programs don’t fail at the model level. They fail at the foundation — the data strategy, governance model, access controls, and measurement discipline that determine whether a pilot ever becomes a production system. The organizations scaling AI well did the unglamorous work first.

Your intranet can showcase beautiful branding and engaging content, but it still needs internal champions and partnerships to succeed. The organizations recognized by the 2026 Simpplr Employee Experience Excellence Awards demonstrate how executive visionaries, technical experts, and cross-functional collaboration create intranets that deliver results.

Successful intranets display intentional design choices that reflect their organizational identity. The 2026 Simpplr Employee Experience Excellence Award winners illustrate how distinctive design, thoughtful naming, and unexpected features turn standard digital workplaces into memorable brand experiences.

What separates a well-used intranet from one that collects digital dust? The organizations honored with the 2026 Simpplr Employee Experience Excellence Awards have cracked the code. Their platforms are places employees actively participate in, return to daily, and rely on to get things done.