MangoApps Named Finalist in Ragan’s Zenith Awards for Platforms & Tech

We're thrilled to share that MangoApps has been named a Finalist in the Platforms & Tech category of the prestigious Ragan Zenith Awards. This category honors innovative technology platforms that support communication strategies and objectives—and we're proud to be recognized among the very best.

Why This Matters

The Zenith Awards celebrate the peak of communications excellence, spotlighting organizations and platforms that raise the bar for how people connect, collaborate, and share knowledge. Being named a finalist affirms what our customers have been telling us for years: MangoApps is more than software—it's the foundation for a unified, intelligent, and inclusive digital workplace, or intranet, built for every kind of employee.

For more than 15 years, we've stayed true to our mission: to give every employee—whether behind a desk or on the frontlines—the tools, knowledge, and support they need to stay connected, informed, and empowered. While many workplace technologies focus on one segment of the workforce, MangoApps was built to bring everyone together in one hub. That matters more than ever given that 80% of the global workforce is deskless, per Emergence Capital, yet most intranet platforms were designed primarily for desk-based employees.

From frontline store associates at PetSmart, to clinicians at OU Health, to event staff at the Kansas City Chiefs, our platform consistently delivers adoption rates above 80–90%. That's not just engagement—it's proof that when you design for everyone, you create value for the entire organization.

The Platform & Tech That Got Us Here

Our finalist recognition is built on a foundation of continuous innovation and a deep commitment to customer success:

• One Unified Hub that combines modern intranet capabilities, a frontline employee app, operational workflows, and AI services.
• Contextual, persona-driven AI that integrates with multiple LLMs and company knowledge to give employees fast, relevant answers—addressing a real gap: only 22% of company intranets currently deliver personalized content, per the State of the Digital Workplace & Modern Intranet 2024 (cited by Akumina).
• Enterprise-grade security including HITRUST, FedRAMP, ISO-27001, and SOC 2 Type II compliance—a stronger certification stack than most intranet vendors carry.
• Customer-funded innovation, with four major releases each year—driven by direct customer feedback rather than investor pressure.

This approach has helped organizations consolidate dozens (sometimes hundreds) of fragmented systems into one trusted platform, saving time, reducing costs, and making work simpler for everyone. The urgency is real: employees spend an average of 2.5 hours per day searching for information, per IDC, and per Social Edge Consulting, nearly a third of employees never log in to their intranet at all—even though 91% of organizations operate one. MangoApps is built to close that gap.

With more than 1 million users worldwide and a customer NPS of 78, the platform's scale and satisfaction scores reflect what the Ragan judges recognized: consistent, measurable impact on employee communications across industries.

Looking Ahead to the Gala

The winners will be announced at the Zenith Awards Gala during Ragan's Communications Week, November 12–15, 2025 in Austin, Texas. It's the biggest week of the year for communicators, and we're honored to be in such great company.

We want to thank our incredible customers, who continually challenge and inspire us, and our team at MangoApps, whose dedication turns big ideas into everyday reality for millions of employees worldwide.

Whether or not we bring home the trophy, being recognized as a finalist is a moment worth celebrating—and a reminder that our mission is resonating where it matters most: in the workplace.

What the Ragan Zenith Criteria Mean for Customers

The Platforms & Tech category evaluates entrants on how effectively a technology platform enables communication strategy—not just feature counts. Judges assess real-world adoption, measurable employee engagement outcomes, and the platform's ability to serve diverse workforce segments. MangoApps was evaluated on deployments spanning healthcare, retail, and live events, where the definition of intranet success extends well beyond page views to include frontline task completion, knowledge access speed, and cross-location alignment.

For customers, this recognition signals that the platform they've chosen is being validated by an independent communications industry body—not just by vendor marketing. If you want to see how MangoApps performs against the broader intranet and employee experience platform landscape, ClearBox Consulting's 2026 Intranet and Employee Experience Platforms Report provides independent analyst context.

What This Recognition Means Going Forward

Award recognition is a milestone, not a destination. The problems that earned this nomination—fragmented tools, unreachable frontline workers, intranet platforms that average only six minutes of daily use per SWOOP Analytics—are still the problems MangoApps is built to solve every day.

For organizations evaluating intranet and employee experience platforms right now, the Ragan finalist status is one signal among several. We'd point you to the MangoApps Included in Leading Research Firm's Intranet Platforms Evaluation and the MangoApps Wins Gold in Reworked's 2026 IMPACT Awards for Excellence for additional third-party validation. And if you're thinking about what a modern intranet strategy looks like in practice, the 2026 Internal Communications Trends eBook is a practical starting point.

The bottom line: if your organization is still running on a fragmented stack—or on an intranet that most employees ignore—this is the moment to ask whether your platform was built for everyone, or just for the people already at a desk.