Haystack Features
What are the features of Haystack?
Information Distribution
- News Feed
- Newsletter
- Notifications
- Multi-Channel Sharing
Employee Engagement
- Employee Generated Content
- Confirmation
- Comments
- Inline Translation
- Administrative Access
- Content Interaction
User Experience & Accessibility - Employee Communications
- Native Mobile Application
- Branded Experience
- Personalized Ux Experience
- Audience Management & Creation
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Information Distribution
News Feed | Allows information to be distributed via a scrolling news feed. 90 reviewers of Haystack have provided feedback on this feature. | 94% (Based on 90 reviews) | |
Newsletter | As reported in 83 Haystack reviews. Allows information to be distributed via newsletter. | 91% (Based on 83 reviews) | |
Notifications | Allows information to be distributed via push notification. This feature was mentioned in 88 Haystack reviews. | 90% (Based on 88 reviews) | |
Allows information to be distributed via email. This feature was mentioned in 78 Haystack reviews. | 85% (Based on 78 reviews) | ||
Multi-Channel Sharing | Based on 77 Haystack reviews. Allows administrators to deliver information through multiple channels at once. | 86% (Based on 77 reviews) |
Employee Engagement
Employee Generated Content | Able to share pictures, videos or external articles, and users can participate in the communication if authorized 85 reviewers of Haystack have provided feedback on this feature. | 91% (Based on 85 reviews) | |
Confirmation | As reported in 75 Haystack reviews. Allows employees to confirm that they have received or read a piece of content. | 88% (Based on 75 reviews) | |
Comments | Allows employees to leave comments on posts within the application. This feature was mentioned in 86 Haystack reviews. | 90% (Based on 86 reviews) | |
Inline Translation | As reported in 63 Haystack reviews. Automatically translates information via machine translation. | 80% (Based on 63 reviews) | |
Administrative Access | Allows administrators to set permissions within the application. 73 reviewers of Haystack have provided feedback on this feature. | 89% (Based on 73 reviews) | |
Content Interaction | Has the ability for users to like and react to a post, comment and share visuals on posts, react to comments left by colleagues, and also tag colleagues if they think it would be interesting to share with others to read too. 10 reviewers of Haystack have provided feedback on this feature. | 90% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Surveys (global & local) | Shares the option for users to answer surveys via the tool from wherever they are are. Has customization options of single, multiple choice, or open text answers, etc. 10 reviewers of Haystack have provided feedback on this feature. | 82% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Chat | As reported in 10 Haystack reviews. Create audience-based chat rooms to share news within their teams, and employees can create private chat rooms as well. Replicates the user experience of employee's favorite apps (e.g. WhatsApp, Messenger, Slack etc.). | 78% (Based on 10 reviews) |
Admin & Reporting Features - Enterprise Social Networking (ESN)
Content Moderation | Helps administrators ensure content is compliant with company policies by providing tools to monitor and moderate user-generated content. | Not enough data | |
Polls & Surveys | Enables users to create and conduct polls and surveys to gather employee feedback and opinions. | Not enough data | |
Content Management | Provides cloud-based storage to manage, organize, and store information and documents. | Not enough data | |
Analytics & Reporting | Administrators have access to analytics and reporting tools to monitor platform usage, engagement, and impact of ESN on the organization. | Not enough data | |
User Management | Enables administrators to create, edit, and deactivate user profiles as well as assign different roles and permissions based on user responsibilities. | Not enough data |
Content & Community Features - Enterprise Social Networking (ESN)
Gamification | Incorporates gamification elements such as badges, rewards, and leaderboards. | Not enough data | |
Community Building | Enables users to create groups or communities for the purpose of connecting on shared interests or goals. | Not enough data | |
Knowledge Sharing | Allows users to upload, share, and collaborate on a variety of documents and file types. | Not enough data | |
User Generated Content | Allows users to create and share content via posts, comments, and discussion forums. | Not enough data |
User Experience & Accessibility - Employee Communications
Native Mobile Application | Contains fully branded mobile app that is available natively via different platforms. Has low bandwidth management to optimize communication between the application and servers. This feature was mentioned in 10 Haystack reviews. | 85% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Branded Experience | As reported in 10 Haystack reviews. Provides customizable web platform for colors, fonts, company branding etc. | 90% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Personalized Ux Experience | Based on 10 Haystack reviews. Targets content based on profiles, attributes, communications needs, etc. Able to personalize end-users' content view based on preferences and interests. | 90% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Audience Management & Creation | Based on 10 Haystack reviews. Creates segmentation groups and communication audiences to target messages, content, features access, etc. | 83% (Based on 10 reviews) |
Content Distribution - Employee Communications
Newsfeed | Displays application newsfeed content in an engaging and modern manner. This feature was mentioned in 10 Haystack reviews. | 90% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Newsletter Engine | Allows for reaching employees through the Integrated newsletter builder via email This feature was mentioned in 10 Haystack reviews. | 85% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Multi-Channel Sharing | Publishes the content once on the platform and pushing it through to different comms channels. Pushes specific content based on rules to Microsoft Teams, displaying content inside SharePoint, etc. | Not enough data |
Additional Features - Employee Communications
Emergency Notifications | Can activate a Must-Read or an Alert. Must-read will be content that a user is exposed to when they connect to the platform. Allows for alerts to appear in full screen and user will not be able to view the platform without reading the content and validating the dedicated button. This feature was mentioned in 10 Haystack reviews. | 87% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Analytics | Analyzes behavior data to understand performance of program via users, content performance of what content performs best, and video content performance determined by what videos have been seen and by who. This feature was mentioned in 10 Haystack reviews. | 83% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Integrations | Connects with API access, low-code/no-code connectors, as well as integrations with intranet, HRIs, Microsoft Teams, Slack etc. | Not enough data |
