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Data Quadrant Awards 2024

Employee Rewards and Recognition


SoftwareReviews names Applauz Recognition, Vantage Rewards, Qarrot, and Kudos as Employee Rewards and Recognition Data Quadrant Award Winners.


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Employee Rewards and Recognition

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Employee Rewards and Recognition Data Quadrant

Note Software product placement is based on the scores provided by users, recency of the reviews, and review volume. Axes are dynamically adjusted based on the minimum and maximum values in the data set.

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists


Applauz

Applauz Recognition

This comprehensive solution provides the essential tools to foster a positive work environment and boost employee morale. Easily implement peer-to-peer recognition, allowing employees to acknowledge each other's efforts and achievements on an engaging social feed. Managers can set up automated celebrations for milestones like work anniversaries and birthdays, ensuring no special moment goes unnoticed. Applauz Recognition Starter helps you build a culture of appreciation and motivates your team to perform their best.

9.0

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94%

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Badge Winner
30Reviews

Vantage Circle

Vantage Rewards

Vantage Rewards is a holistic rewards & recognition platform that leverages AI-powered technology to foster a culture of appreciation for an increasingly hybrid workforce. Designed to enhance employee productivity, Vantage Rewards simplifies and automates the entire recognition experience with on-spot and timely appreciation. With its SOLI based framework, it ensures regular and equitable rewards across organizations, especially those with global presence. Our cross-channel integrations along with diverse redemption options elevate the entire user experience of a rewards and recognition platform.

8.9

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+93

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93%

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Badge Winner
227Reviews

Qarrot

Qarrot

The Qarrot platform is an integrated solution for HR, team leads, and small business owners to centralize all of their recognition, motivation, and celebration initiatives. It is recognition software for growing businesses to improve workplace culture and employee performance. It provides an affordable tool for growing companies to empower their managers and employees to send points and badge-based recognitions, to motivate individual and team performance with performance-based awards, to celebrate birthdays and work-anniversaries with automated milestone awards, to increase their program's visibility with an engaging public social feed.

8.8

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+92

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90%

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Badge Winner
48Reviews

Kudos Inc

Kudos

As a communication tool, Kudos enables team members, managers and leadership to stay connected, collaborate and coach. It promotes the entire team to share important information, from personal status updates to the organizational vision and goals.

8.7

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+89

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93%

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Badge Winner
76Reviews

Vendor Capability Awards


Availability and Quality of Training

Applauz Recognition

Badge Winner

Breadth of Features

Applauz Recognition

Badge Winner

Business Value Created

Applauz Recognition

Badge Winner

Ease of Customization

Applauz Recognition

Badge Winner

Ease of Data Integration

Applauz Recognition

Badge Winner

Ease of IT Administration

Clarity Wave

Badge Winner

Ease of Implementation

Qarrot

Badge Winner

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Applauz Recognition

Badge Winner

Quality of Features

Applauz Recognition

Badge Winner

Usability and Intuitiveness

Applauz Recognition

Badge Winner

Vendor Support

Applauz Recognition

Badge Winner

Vendor Capability Awards


Availability and Quality of Training

Applauz Recognition


Breadth of Features

Applauz Recognition


Business Value Created

Applauz Recognition


Ease of Customization

Applauz Recognition


Ease of Data Integration

Applauz Recognition


Ease of IT Administration

Clarity Wave


Ease of Implementation

Qarrot


Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Applauz Recognition


Quality of Features

Applauz Recognition


Usability and Intuitiveness

Applauz Recognition


Vendor Support

Applauz Recognition


Other Evaluated Vendors


Clarity Wave

Clarity Wave

Clarity Wave is an automated all-in-one engagement and motivation system for your organization. With Clarity Wave, you receive a constant stream of insights on what team members really need and want. Weekly surveys provide answers and comments to help you pinpoint areas of opportunity and put out any potential fires in a timely manner.

8.4

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+88

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88%

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31Reviews

Bonusly Company

Bonusly

Bonusly is a smart and fun engagement solution that powers daily connections between teammates, driving big organizational wins. Bonusly combines 360-degree recognition and rewards that employees love to drive engagement. Bonusly helps you celebrate everyday contributions and key milestones, automate time-consuming HR admin processes, run and incentivize participation in company initiatives, and offer digital rewards your employees

8.3

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+93

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91%

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53Reviews

Motivosity

Motivosity

Motivosity is a full suite employee engagement & recognition platform, with the mission to make people happier at work. Motivosity improves company cultures by focusing on three of the top drivers of employee satisfaction: feeling appreciated for your work, being part of a community, and having a meaningful relationship with your manager. Our software helps organizations measure & improve eNPS, retain top talent, and truly drive positive company culture.

8.3

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+87

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91%

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44Reviews

Reward Gateway Ltd

Fond Rewards

Fond is an employee rewards program that enables your employees to send points to each other, along with recognitions for hard work, major accomplishments, and more. Employees around the world use these points to redeem incredible rewards and corporate perks on the Fond platform. Fond is available in multiple languages for your global workforce.

8.1

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+96

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93%

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26Reviews

Awardco

Awardco

Awardco is an all-in-one Rewards & Recognition Solution and has teamed with Amazon Business to provide a powerful and flexible software for all your recognition programs. Using the largest reward network in the world you can show your employees how much you appreciate them by allowing them to choose rewards they actually care about - with no markups.

8.0

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+96

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92%

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36Reviews

Reward Gateway Ltd

Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway's all-in-one Employee Engagement Platform helps create a streamlined and centralized employee experience customized for each organization. A flexible platform empowers HR to choose the right combination of engagement tools – from market-leading reward and recognition solutions, communications, surveys, wellbeing and employee discounts – in order to meet the changing needs of their people and their company.

7.5

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+90

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85%

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27Reviews

Workhuman

Workhuman Social Recognition

Employee recognition is one of the most important factors in workplace engagement and retention. With Social Recognition, employees can give peer to peer recognition awards to one another and make the workplace feel more inclusive. Workhuman's Social Recognition software helps companies unleash their employees’ hidden potential, ignite unparalleled productivity and engagement, and cultivate a magnetic workplace culture that attracts and retains the crème de la crème – all while improving your company’s bottom line.

6.5

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+74

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74%

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33Reviews

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