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DATA QUADRANT REPORT
EMOTIONAL FOOTPRINT REPORT
Employee Engagement

What is Employee Engagement Software?

Employee Engagement software is used by organizations to solicit and measure feedback from their employees and draw actionable insights in order to improve employees' experience.

Common Features

  • Questionnaire Design/Survey Builder
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Benchmarking
  • Templates & Question Library
  • Dashboards and Visualization
  • Audience Segmentation
  • Pulse Surveys
  • Automatic Notifications
  • Action Planning
  • Social Recognition

Our Methodology

8.1

Composite Score

Vendors are ranked by the composite score, which is comprised of feature, capability, relationship, and overall satisfaction scores while factoring in the volume and recency of reviews.

8.1

CX Score

The CX score is comprised of the emotional footprint metrics, balanced by metrics related to the overall value of the software, while factoring in the volume and recency of reviews.

Data Quadrant

SoftwareReviews collects user insights that help organizations more effectively choose software that meets their needs, measure business value, and improve selection.

Rankings, results, and positioning on SoftwareReviews reports are based entirely on end-user feedback solicited from a proprietary online survey engine.

Leaders

Products that resonate strongest in the market, balancing features with a great user experience.

Product Innovators

Products that emphasize product features, gaining strong recommendations from their customers.

Service Stars

Products that emphasize a good user experience and build strong relationships with customers.

Challengers

Products that are strong performers in some areas and trail in others. Often up-and-coming vendors.

Emotional Footprint

SoftwareReviews collects user insights that help organizations more effectively choose software that meets their needs, measure business value, and improve selection.

Rankings, results, and positioning on SoftwareReviews reports are based entirely on end-user feedback solicited by a proprietary online survey engine.

Champions

Products that resonate highly with users at an emotional level. Users have specific emotional views towards these products like love, trust, and effectiveness.

Relationship Builders

Products that are bulletproof and focus on fulfilling core needs with steady support, not the latest feature.

Value Players

Products that succeed on cost and service effectiveness with users.

Contenders

Products seen as good in some areas and trailing in others. Users look to these for innovation at the edge but aren't fully committed.

Top Employee Engagement Software

2025 Data Quadrant Awards

2024 Emotional Footprint Awards

At SoftwareReviews, we take pride in recognizing excellence. Each year, we present the Data Quadrant Awards to top-performing software products based solely on authentic user reviews, without any paid placements or analyst opinions. These awards highlight software products that excel in terms of features, vendor capabilities, and customer relationships, earning them the highest overall rankings.

At SoftwareReviews, we take pride in recognizing excellence. Each year, we present the Emotional Footprint Awards to top-performing software products based solely on authentic user reviews, without any paid placements or analyst opinions. These awards shine a spotlight on software vendors who excel in crafting and nurturing strong customer relationships.

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Next Award: Mar 2026 Sep 2025
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Vantage Pulse

Data Quadrant Champion
9.1
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Flex Surveys

Data Quadrant Champion
9.0
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McLean Employee Engagement

Data Quadrant Champion
9.0
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SurveyMonkey Enterprise

Data Quadrant Champion
8.7
Composite Score
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Kudos

8.5
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Motivosity

8.4
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Culture Amp

8.3
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Vantage Pulse

Emotional Footprint Champion
9.3
Cx Score
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Flex Surveys

Emotional Footprint Champion
9.0
Cx Score
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McLean Employee Engagement

Emotional Footprint Champion
8.8
Cx Score
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15Five Engage

Emotional Footprint Champion
8.6
Cx Score
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Motivosity

Emotional Footprint Champion
8.6
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Kudos

8.5
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SurveyMonkey Enterprise

8.5
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Top Employee Engagement Software 2025

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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Vantage Pulse
Vantage Pulse
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Vantage Pulse

Composite Score
9.1 /10
CX Score
9.3 /10
51 Reviews
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Vantage Pulse is a powerful employee survey tool that helps organizations measure employee engagement, boost performance and improve morale in the workplace using eNPS surveys. With Vantage Pulse, managers get data-driven results to analyze trends, uncover factors of employee turnover, predict behaviors and ultimately increase employee retention. It helps HRs overcome the gap between feedback and action with real-time insights and facilitate a better employee experience.

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  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
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Flex Surveys
Flex Surveys
Flex Surveys

Flex Surveys

Composite Score
9.0 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10
23 Reviews
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Flex Surveys is a fully managed employee survey solution that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and workplace satisfaction. Flex Surveys takes care of the intricate and time-consuming aspects of engagement surveys, allowing your team to focus on analyzing results and implementing action plans that drive meaningful change.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
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McLean Employee Engagement
McLean Employee Engagement
McLean & Co

McLean Employee Engagement

Composite Score
9.0 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10
54 Reviews
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McLean Employee Engagement Program goes beyond job satisfaction to find out what drives a positive employee experience. McLean takes a multi-leveled approach to tackle engagement, from developing an engagement strategy, to survey implementation and reporting, to results interpretation and action planning.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Saves Time
  • Fair
  • Altruistic
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SurveyMonkey Enterprise
SurveyMonkey Enterprise
Momentive

SurveyMonkey Enterprise

Composite Score
8.7 /10
CX Score
8.7 /10
90 Reviews
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SurveyMonkey is the world's largest survey company, helping customers collect 2.8 million online survey responses every day. SurveyMonkey has revolutionized the way people give and take feedback, making it accessible, easy and affordable for everyone. Build surveys fast, respond and adapt to trends, and make big decisions confidently. Leverage the power of AI to cut through the noise and uncover meaningful insights quickly.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Efficient Service
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Kudos
Kudos
Kudos Inc

Kudos

Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10
40 Reviews
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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.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
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Motivosity
Motivosity
Motivosity

Motivosity

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10
42 Reviews
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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.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Helps Innovate
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Culture Amp
Culture Amp
Culture Amp

Culture Amp

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10
47 Reviews
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Culture Amp's employee engagement, performance and development tools and insights makes it easy to collect, understand and act on employee feedback. With Culture Amp, understand your employees via powerful engagement, onboarding, exit & pulse survey tools, build high‑performing teams with performance reviews, feedback, goal‑tracking & 1‑on‑1s delivered in the flow of work and grow and retain your people with the only personalized solution for effective, continuous development.

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Pros

  • Fair
  • Trustworthy
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Respectful
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Lattice
Lattice
Lattice

Lattice

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10
36 Reviews
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Lattice is a people management platform that empowers people leaders to build engaged, high-performing teams, inspire winning cultures, and make strategic, data-driven business decisions. Improve manager effectiveness, simplify people processes, and uncover employee insights with an AI-powered platform.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Performance Enhancing
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Workvivo
Workvivo
Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

Workvivo

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10
23 Reviews
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Workvivo is an internal communication and engagement platform that is designed to bring what’s happening in the organization alive in a fun, intuitive and highly engaging way, while at the same time being structured completely around what the organization is trying to achieve and connecting employees to this.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Quantum Workplace Engagement
Quantum Workplace Engagement
Quantum Workplace Inc

Quantum Workplace Engagement

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10
22 Reviews
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Quantum Workplace provides an all-in-one employee engagement software that makes managers the central drivers of workplace culture. Quantum Workplace’s technology gives team leaders direct access to employee feedback and personalized real-time insights, so they can better serve their teams.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
  • Caring
  • Respectful
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