What are its main features?
Do you wonder how the social intranet – Embrace Social – supports employees in their daily work? Find an overview of its main features below.
An integration with Microsoft 365 means that Social is the one place to go for all of your relevant Office documents, appointments, emails, Teams conversations and profiles.
Because Embrace Social acts as a digital workplace portal, after logging in once (SSO) you have direct access to colleagues, groups, documents and all of your work applications.
It is possible to add numerous integrations to Social. Think of specific HR integrations such as Connexys or EasyCruit. This way these applications can be used directly within the intranet.
The personal timeline shows relevant messages posted by you and your colleagues. These can be messages that are directed to the entire organisation or messages within groups of which you are a member.
You can use widgets to arrange the homepage just the way you like it. A widget is a mini application with limited functionality that provides quick access to important information. Embrace’s social intranet offers users more than 25 applications to make the dashboard even more personal.
Make sure your profile is properly completed. This way, colleagues know exactly who you are and what your skills are. You can also then be found by a keyword search with the Embrace search function.
All of the organisation’s news can be found in one place, and the organisation itself can decide how prominently and where the “news block” is displayed. Users then decide for themselves which of the organisation’s news categories they subscribe to or unsubscribe from, using tags and news filters.
The knowledge and control section is an overview of the different themes and topics that are important to the organisation. Thanks to its logical structure (breadcrumbs) and an A-to-Z overview, employees can quickly find the right information.
The calendar can be found on your personal homepage. It provides an overview of upcoming events. You add items to the calendar using the CMS. Modules offer even more possibilities: for example, you can quantify the number of participants, set up reserve lists, monitor the event and actively share information with the participants.
Receive a weekly (or daily) email containing a summary of missed discussions, chats, tasks and the top three most popular posts. This way, you are always well informed.
As an administrator you want to know how the intranet is being used. You can find out thanks to the social analytics function, which immediately shows which functions are popular and which still need improvement. Google Analytics, Matomo and PowerBI are also connected.
Documents and files can be uploaded to the groups, meaning everyone in the group has access to the latest version of any given document and can open it straightaway in Word or Word Online. A handy previewer allows you to work on the file from within Embrace.
It is possible to create a “page” within a group, and members of the group can easily collaborate on that page, for example to make a presentation. With the WYSIWYG editor you can immediately see what it will look like and version management shows you who has made which adjustments.
You can use the “planner” (which is also part of a “group”) to schedule appointments, create tasks or set milestones for all group members.
You can easily search Embrace to find information, messages, colleagues and documents. Documents with a specific search term in the title or in the body text can also be found.
Of course you have to know who is who on the intranet and you can quickly find the colleague you are looking for with the photo book. Search by name, role, telephone number or area of expertise, among other things. And remember – they can easily find you as well.
The information that you need during the working day is increasingly more spread out. Enterprise search allows you to search through everything from one place: your personal dashboard. You can use this to search underlying systems directly, as well as Microsoft 365 (SharePoint), TOPdesk and iProva.
Use the sidebar to navigate quickly to your own profile, groups of which you are a member, colleagues or tasks. Notifications appear if a message that is relevant to you has been posted.
You receive notifications when a message that is relevant to you is posted somewhere on the social intranet. These could be messages in the feed, messages in groups or when a news story is posted.
If you want to share information with a specific (group of) colleague(s) or if your information is not intended for or relevant to the entire group, you can use the chat function.
You can use social task management to delegate tasks within your organisation. It allows colleagues to delegate tasks, making others responsible for picking up, monitoring and solving those tasks.
Make an inventory of organisations, locations and departments as well as people. Information such as an address, telephone number, email address and a description can be entered in the telephone directory.
Various applications can be opened via the sidebar. This means you can access the applications that you need for your work with just one click, directly from the homepage.
Social can be used in multiple languages, as must be the case if you want to collaborate across borders. We support the following languages: Dutch, German, English, French and Swedish.
Social must be accessible by everyone. By continuously conducting WCAG audits on our intranet, we ensure that it meets the latest WCAG guidelines.
As you can open Social on your computer, tablet or mobile device (for example using the app), you have access to the social intranet anywhere, at any time. Your colleagues and documents are therefore always close by.
We are all for equal rights, just not on the intranet. Different groups of users have different rights in Social. Environment managers or community managers have the most rights, and guest users the least.
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