Simpplr Expands Extensibility with Custom Apps for Seamless Enterprise Integrations

Fully integrated with the Simpplr One platform, custom apps streamline workflows, drive productivity, and create a unified employee experience

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Simpplr, the leading EX unification platform provider for employee engagement and productivity, announced today at the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit the addition of enhanced extensibility and integration capabilities with custom apps. These new features make it easy for enterprises to seamlessly integrate key tools with minimal IT effort, driving a more unified employee experience and increasing productivity.

Custom apps is the second significant product enhancement included in the Simpplr Spring Product Innovation Update, which builds on the new Enterprise Search functionality announced on March 6, 2025. Working together to bridge disconnected systems, these two new product enhancements to Simpplr One enable organizations to eliminate information silos and accelerate workflows. Whether displaying time-off balances from an HRIS system or searching across common enterprise systems such as Asana for team or project tasks, employees can easily find the right answers and take action without IT intervention.

Powered by Simpplr's innovative bring-your-own-integration (BYOI) framework, custom apps enable organizations to seamlessly connect their most commonly used enterprise tools and integrate critical data directly within the Simpplr EX unification platform. This powerful capability ensures that essential business applications are linked and fully embedded into daily workflows.

Using customizable app tiles, organizations can now surface essential business data from HRIS, ITSM and LMS apps directly on their intranet dashboards, providing employees with instant access to the information they need. By eliminating app-switching inefficiencies and reducing time spent searching for data, custom apps help IT teams streamline processes, improve productivity, and create a truly unified digital workplace.

"By utilizing custom apps, we've been able to centralize more functionality within our core system, the Scoop," said Duncan McHugh, Chief Operating Officer at Nutrition Warehouse. "I'd highly recommend this solution to anyone looking to centralize operations and improve cross-functional efficiency."

KEY FEATURES OF SIMPPLR CUSTOM APPS

• Purpose-built integrations: Custom apps enable organizations to build tailored connectors and define API actions to support specific, business-critical use cases — no complex coding required.
• Simple design controls: Admins can create and configure app tiles using a drag-and-drop interface, adjusting the look, feel and content to fit their needs.
• Interactive UI elements: Users can design tiles with unique styling and interactive components for a more engaging representation of third-party data.
• Versatile display options: App tiles enable organizations to showcase real-time data on any intranet home or site dashboard, ensuring key external data is always accessible.
• Effortless configuration: Design and set up tiles without code, using intuitive tools to align content and appearance with specific needs.

According to a survey by Gartner®, "Companies with 10,000 employees spend $4.6 million per week on information consumption."* To combat the costs of information overload and lost productivity, research underscores the critical need for integrated systems in enterprise environments. By enabling seamless integration with existing tools, Simpplr helps enterprises maximize ROI on their tech stack while fostering a more connected and productive workplace.

"Enterprises are constantly grappling with disconnected systems and fragmented workflows," said Dhiraj Sharma, CEO and Founder of Simpplr. "Custom apps address this challenge by giving IT teams the flexibility to integrate their most essential tools into one cohesive platform. This goes beyond improving efficiency – it's about empowering employees to focus on meaningful work by bringing everything they need into one place."

ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS: INSTANT MESSAGING
Additional enhancements to Simpplr One include instant messaging, a secure communication tool built directly into the platform. With enterprise-grade encryption and frontline-friendly accessibility, instant messaging facilitates seamless collaboration across teams without requiring additional logins or platforms.

AVAILABILITY
All existing customers have immediate access to the new custom apps and instant messaging functionality.  While Enterprise Search is a premium feature add-on to the Simpplr One platform, all existing customers will benefit from the enhanced search capabilities for intranet-only data, including better accuracy, performance and AI-powered smart answers.

For more information about the Simpplr Spring Product Innovation Update, please visit: https://www.simpplr.com/spring-2025-release/

GET A DEMO AT GARTNER DIGITAL WORKPLACE SUMMIT
To learn more about how Enterprise Search, custom apps and other enhancements drive a more unified employee experience through your intranet platform, schedule an in-person demo or come visit us in person, March 12-13, at Gartner Digital Workplace Summit, booth 209. Virtual demos are also available at www.simpplr.com/demo.

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*Gartner®, Information Overload: Cut Through the Noise for More Effective Internal Communications, Alexandra Earl, 24 January 2025 (For Gartner subscribers only)

ABOUT SIMPPLR
Simpplr transforms the employee experience to create a more connected, engaged and productive workforce. Harnessing AI, our Simpplr One™ EX unification platform provides employees with personalized single-point access to the people, information and resources they need to succeed and thrive. For over a decade, Simpplr has been creating transformative digital workplaces for 1000+ leading brands, including AAA, Eurostar, Penske and Moderna. Simpplr is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA, with additional offices in the UK, Canada and India. We are backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Tola Capital. Learn more at simpplr.com.

Contact:
Jason Klein
Director of Communications at Simpplr
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