With Release 4.4, we are bringing employee experience to new heights. The launch of Staffbase Journeys will revolutionize the way you communicate with your employees and allow you to bring them a handcrafted in-app experience like never before. To help your content creators make the most of their content, we’ve also introduced Reach Analytics, so you can bring your users more of the content they love. The new Post widget and beta versions of the Microsoft Search Extension and Microsoft Teams integrations will also be available starting July 30th to make using the platform an even smoother and more intuitive experience for your employees. 

Reach Even More Employees with New Reach Analytics!

We know how much time and energy your content creators put into bringing your employees important and engaging company news and information. That’s why, with the 4.4 release, Staffbase is introducing Reach Analytics free of charge for all customers. Reach Analytics gives your content creators insights and hard numbers to evaluate the success and effectiveness of their content.

For each news post, statistics on the potential audience, total number of visitors, and the ratio of potential visitors to actual visitors (also called reach) is visible directly from the News overview page in the Staffbase Studio. This ratio is visualized as an eye-catching circular graph, making it easy for editors to quickly glean the performance of posts.

These figures are also accessible to content creators in the editor view in the Statistics section for individual posts. But what we love most about Reach Analytics is that it allows your content creators to access important insights anytime, anywhere. After updating to the latest 4.4 mobile app version, editors can view an array of statistics on reach and social interactions via the Statistics button in the post header even on mobile. 

Let Reach Analytics guide your content creation and bring your employees more of the content they love! 

Be There for Employees Every Step of the Way with Journeys

It’s finally here, the tool you’ve been waiting for to make sharing highly personalized content with your employees scalable to your entire organization! Staffbase release 4.4 introduces Journeys to the platform, so you can provide your employees with the right content at exactly the right moment. 

New employees often feel overwhelmed in their first days at a company, with all the new names and faces, policies, and tools. Amidst all of these process-driven to-do's, there's a part of employee onboarding that sometimes gets left out: culture and connection. But, with Journeys, cultural onboarding is no sweat. Journeys strengthens the onboarding process by adding a highly personal touch through the new Personalization widget, which utilizes user profile information, such as first name, last name, or role, together with user group targeting.

Your authors and editors create content that feels hand-tailored for each employee without losing valuable time in the process. Journeys allows your content creators to reuse effective and informational content and present it to employees at the best suited moment.

But Journeys goes above and beyond just onboarding new employees. Journeys can also be used to bring new group members important information, such as guiding them as they change roles or office locations. Instead of expecting new or visiting employees of a specific office location to search for transit, parking, and operational information, make it available to them instantly with Journeys. 

Use Journeys to anticipate your employees needs and provide an exceptional user experience. Contact Staffbase Support or your Customer Success Manager for more information on pricing and activation. 

A New Sharing Experience!

Communication is the bread and butter of your communication platform — so why not make it as easy as possible for your employees to share important updates and other content with each other? The Post Widget allows users to post content directly to a specific news channel. This not only saves time, but also makes tiresome searching for the right news channel a thing of the past. Strategically place the Post widget, which displays as an input field, on any page to make posting quick and intuitive for your users. In your mobile app, you also have the option of replacing the input field with a button that floats at the edge of the screen, giving your users the ability to add new content within seconds. 

The handy new Post widget will be rolled out for all free of charge!

Enjoy More Flexibility With the New Microsoft Teams Integration and Microsoft 365 Search Extension!

What makes employees more productive? Needless to say, it’s the flexibility regarding where and how they work. As a platform, Staffbase strives to provide its users such flexibility by allowing the platform to be used as either an employee app or intranet — or through versatile integration options that enable you to decide where and how you work. With this release, we’re taking a step further by blurring the lines between the Microsoft and Staffbase platforms to create a seamless transition for users of both platforms.

And what’s flexibility if it’s only one way? That’s why we bring you a two-way flexibility through:

• Microsoft Teams Integration 
• Microsoft 365 Search Extension

Whether you use the Staffbase platform as your intranet or employee app, now you can make it available within Microsoft Teams. Boost productivity and collaboration for teams in your organization that heavily use Microsoft Teams, and make sure they don’t miss out on important internal and corporate communications by integrating your Staffbase platform into the MS Teams environment. 

The Microsoft Search Extension offers flexibility from the Staffbase platform. Search for content in Microsoft 365, including SharePoint and OneDrive, from the comfort of your employee app or intranet. Now, users signed into Microsoft can search not only content from the Staffbase platform but also from Microsoft. Search results from Microsoft are conveniently listed in a separate section under the Staffbase search results. Save your content creators the effort of content duplication and let users avoid the hassle of having to switch between platforms to find the right information.

These beta features are a part of the O365 Integrations product. Contact Staffbase Support or your Customer Success Manager to activate one or both for your organization. Now what are you waiting for? Empower your employees with the flexibility that comes with our platform. 

We’ve Got More Exciting News!

With the 4.4 release, your editors and administrators might notice something has changed. We’ve renamed our admin interface to the Studio, because it’s more than a place for administrators, it’s a place where all content creators help to craft tailored experiences for your employees. This is where the magic happens, and we wanted to give the interface a name that reflects the importance and variety of the work done by your content creators and administrators. 

So what’s changed? 

You’ll notice all links to switch between the user view and the Studio, previously labeled “Administration,” are now labelled “Studio.” The Studio layout and functions will remain the same, it's just got a nice new ring to it!

Note on iOS App Updates 

Included Minor Release Since 4.3