digital-workplace
(22)
UDT knows the laptop is only the beginning
A school can buy a thousand laptops and still have a thousand problems. UDT built its business around everything that happens after the box arrives.
The Last Mile of Change Is Written in Plain English
Big transformations tend to arrive as software, strategy and slides. Pivot Strategies works on the stubborn final mile - getting actual employees to understand what changed, why it matters and what to do on Monday morning.
The Company That Builds the Office Nobody Walks Into
Local Wisdom spent 25 years learning that an intranet is not a website. It is the place where a company quietly proves whether it understands the people who work there.
ROI Communication Put Its Employees in Charge of the Message
The internal-communications firm asks leaders to trust employees with hard news. In 2021, it made that advice literal by turning every colleague into an owner.
1E and the $720 million case for fixing IT before it breaks
A frozen checkout, a tired laptop, another help-desk ticket. 1E built a business around these small failures. Now TeamViewer is betting on its ability to make them disappear.
AVI-SPL UK & Ireland: The business behind the ‘Join’ button
A meeting room is easy to photograph and harder to keep working. AVI-SPL UK & Ireland builds the technology, trains the people and stays on call - a business that now stretches from an Edinburgh innovation lab to a coordinated European operation.
The IT Company Selling One Help Desk for 190 Countries
SISL Global built a $220 million business around a stubborn corporate nuisance: keeping hardware, networks and people working across borders without turning every country into a separate project.
Unily Wants to Turn the Intranet Into a Place Where Work Actually Happens
The British software company spent two decades making corporate information easier to find. Now its AI-native bet is that the intranet should stop being a noticeboard and start doing the work.
Damovo’s $140 Million Bet on Keeping Enterprise Tech Boring - and Why Its No-Rip-and-Replace Playbook Works
Most digital transformations begin with a demolition fantasy. Damovo makes its money on the harder promise: keep the phones ringing, the network breathing and the auditors calm while old infrastructure learns new tricks.
Optevo Is Betting Your Team Wants One Workspace - Not Twelve Tabs
The Denver software company wants to collapse chat, tasks, files, notes and AI into one calmer place. The hard part is persuading teams that another workspace is the cure for too many workspaces.
Insight Built an $8.2 Billion Business Selling Tech. Now It Wants to Make It Work.
The Fortune 500 company grew up shipping hard drives. Its next act is harder: becoming the accountable layer between enterprise buyers, cloud giants, AI systems and the stubborn machinery already in place.
Trinetix
Trinetix does not sell enterprises another AI demo. Its 1,100-plus practitioners redesign the stubborn workflows around the technology - and stay long enough to make the new system useful.
Unisys
Unisys helped shape the keyboard, the mainframe and the moonshot. Now the 150-year technology lineage is selling something less visible but just as consequential: keeping the world’s messiest enterprise systems useful, secure and moving.
Kyndryl
Kyndryl inherited the systems big companies cannot switch off. Now the IBM spin-off is trying to turn that unglamorous responsibility into a modern consulting, cloud and AI business.
Smarten Spaces
Smarten Spaces is a Singapore-founded proptech company that builds AI, IoT and big-data software for managing hybrid workplaces and commercial real estate. Its flagship platform - marketed as Jumpree and, more recently, SpaceOnAI - lets enterprises book desks and meeting rooms on 3D floor maps, forecast space demand, roster teams, and analyze how offices are actually used. Founded in 2017 by former Cisco India president Dinesh Malkani, the company serves Fortune 500 clients across 30+ countries and integrates deeply with Microsoft Teams.
iObeya
iObeya is a French enterprise SaaS company that digitizes the Obeya - the Lean 'big room' where teams manage strategy and operations visually. Its Digital Obeya Platform recreates the paper-on-the-wall experience of physical war rooms as connected virtual boards, letting multisite and hybrid teams run Lean rituals, Agile ceremonies, KPI reviews and problem-solving in real time. Founded in 2011 out of work with PSA (now Stellantis), iObeya is used by large industrial and regulated organizations such as Airbus, Thales, Sanofi and Schneider Electric to align leadership and frontline teams and accelerate decision-making.
YOOBIC
YOOBIC is a frontline employee experience platform that unifies task management, communications, and mobile learning in a single app for retail, hospitality, grocery, and other deskless workforces. Founded in London in 2014 by brothers Fabrice, Avi, and Gilles Haiat, the company helps head offices push consistent store execution while giving frontline teams the tools, training, and information they need to serve customers. YOOBIC has layered generative AI across its platform - including its NEO assistants and Store Manager Copilot - and is used by 350+ enterprise brands and around 2 million users across roughly 80 countries.
Milestone Technologies, Inc.
Milestone Technologies is a Fremont, California-based global IT services and digital solutions company founded in 1997. It helps large enterprises run and modernize their technology at scale - spanning digital workplace services, IT service desk and NOC operations, cloud and infrastructure, application and digital engineering, AI/automation, and platform work on ServiceNow and Salesforce. The company employs roughly 2,600-3,100 people, serves more than 200 clients across about 31 countries, and is majority-owned by The Halifax Group with a minority stake held by Two Sigma Impact.
Kadence
Kadence is a workplace operations ("WorkOps") software platform that helps enterprises coordinate people, time and space across hybrid and distributed teams. Born from the pandemic-era pivot of wireless-charging startup Chargifi, the San Francisco- and London-based company unifies desk and room booking, visitor management, team scheduling, occupancy analytics and AI-powered coordination into one platform. Kadence is used by more than 10,000 teams across 40+ countries, including Boeing, Ashurst and BDO, and raised a $20M Series A in 2025 led by High Alpha.
Modo Labs
Modo Labs is a Boston-based software company that lets universities and enterprises build branded mobile and web apps without deep engineering teams. Born from an open-source MIT project, its no-code/low-code platform stitches together backend systems - student records, HR, calendars, building controls - into one personalized digital experience for campuses and workplaces. Its Modo Campus and Modo Workplace products serve organizations across 100+ countries, and the company was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workplace Experience Applications.
PTS
PTS is a global, independent, employee-owned technology consultancy that designs the digital nervous system of buildings - connecting people, technology and space across workplaces, data centres, campuses and smart infrastructure. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in London, PTS advises on everything from audio-visual and networks to cyber and physical security, helping organisations transform their real estate through technology while improving user experience, wellbeing and sustainability.
Simpplr
Simpplr is an AI-powered employee experience platform - the modern intranet for the chat-overloaded enterprise. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, it consolidates internal communications, engagement, recognition, and knowledge into a single personalized hub used by 1,000+ companies and over 2 million employees worldwide.