In 2025, intranets, digital workplaces and digital employee experience (DEX) are still making a huge difference in the workplace. Most of us spend our working day in and out of technology, so the solutions we use are incredibly important. Intranets and digital workplaces help us stay productive and get things done. They act as the single source of truth for reference content and knowledge. They underpin core organisational processes. They connect us with our colleagues and help to nurture organisational culture. 

To share leading-edge approaches and inspiring examples, Step Two announces today the winners of the 2025 Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards. Now in their 19th year, these are global awards that recognise outstanding contributions to the fields of intranets, digital workplaces and digital employee experience. The awards uncover remarkable solutions that deliver business value, sharing them with the wider community.

Key highlights from this year are:

1. next-generation knowledge management (KM) is already embracing AI
2. frontline DEX drives engagement and productivity
3. IC teams get creative to conquer challenges
4. skills-based approaches supercharge adoption
5. ecosystem evolution unlocks business value.

Obtain a copy of the 2025 Intranet and Digital Workplace Showcase report for full details on the highlights and winners. You can also browse this year’s winners, drilling down to the key case studies you need.

BREAKING NEWS: for the first time, we’re offering a free chapter from the Awards report, sharing the full case study from Gold winner Burger King UK. If you haven’t purchased one of the yearly Awards reports before, be prepared to be amazed at the depth of insights and scope of screenshots shared!

So without further ado, here are details of this year’s winners!

Platinum winner

The landing page for Roche’s Digital Workspace (DWS) knowledge platform. Screenshot appears courtesy of Roche.

The Platinum award recognises one outstanding entry that will inspire teams around the globe:

• Roche (Switzerland): An ambitious knowledge management platform with a series of apps covering high-value KM use cases including expertise location and advanced query management, all powered by integrated search and AI.

Gold winners

The “BK for Good” page on BK Hub, the Burger King UK intranet and employee app. Screenshot appears courtesy of Burger King UK.

The winners across multiple categories (in alphabetical order):

• Burger King UK (UK): An exceptional intranet and mobile app aimed at frontline employees with strong alignment to the Burger King brand aimed at both engagement and enablement, supporting high adoption and process improvement. (Download a free copy of this case study!)
• COWI (Denmark): A comprehensive series of apps that successfully streamlines project and proposal management across a global engineering firm, building on an existing integrated digital workplace environment based on SharePoint.
• Cox Enterprises (USA): An imaginative approach to aligning internal communications across three operating businesses incorporating a custom content syndication solution, as well as a more unified editorial approach and framework.
• EY (UK): An exciting set of advanced AI-powered apps supporting winning new work which builds on EY’s investments in AI and their custom knowledge platform Discover, helping to generate slides, retrieve credentials, answer RFPs and more.
• Mazda North American Operations (USA): An excellent portal unifying four legacy sites accessed by employees, dealerships and vendors for the US operations of an automotive manufacturer, exhibiting high adoption and strong brand alignment.
• NEXTDC (Australia): A holistic skills-based approach to driving adoption of digital tools and new ways of working for a technology company, involving well defined business scenarios, high-touch support and robust governance.

The homepage of OneMazda, the intranet for Mazda North American Operations. Screenshot appears courtesy of Mazda North American Operations.

Silver winners

The winners across multiple categories (in alphabetical order):

• Ashurst (UK): An impressive AI platform roll-out at scale across a global law firm with a comprehensive approach to change management encompassing learning and knowledge-sharing, resulting in high adoption and supporting digital transformation.
• Dentons Australia (Australia): A feature-rich custom document management solution using SharePoint, deployed in the Australian offices of a global law firm, covering multiple use cases including legal precedents and company policies.
• Ontario Public Service (Canada): An impactful redesign of a large government intranet based on extensive user research with improved usability, greater accessibility, new features and design tweaks.
• Scottish Government (UK): A creative and thoughtful pivot of a flagship employee learning event to avoid its cancellation by delivering it in-house using existing channels, resulting in increased user engagement and dramatically reduced budget.
• SEFE (Germany): An impressive rapid 100-day project to design and launch a new intranet for a nationalised energy company, incorporating an innovative model for quick delivery, flexible governance, creation of new bi-lingual content and more.

Obtain insights from the winners

You can browse this year’s winners on the main Awards page, narrowing down to the specific insights you need to succeed.

Then get the full insights into all these winners by obtaining a copy of the 2025 Intranet and Digital Workplace Showcase report. This provides the insights you need, in a format that you can easily dip into as required.

Agency and vendor credits

Congratulations also to the following agencies, consultancies and vendors who were involved in the winning entries:

• Accenture (Roche)
• Appspace (SEFE)
• Craftware (Roche)
• Deloitte (NEXTDC)
• Fellowmind (COWI)
• Interra IT (Mazda North American Operations)
• Lemonyard Fresh Cloud Services (Dentons Australia)
• Lithos Partners (SEFE)
• Oak Engage (Burger King UK)
• Quontori (Roche)
• Rapid Circle (NEXTDC)
• Rightpoint (Cox Enterprises

Enter next year!

Our congratulations to this year’s winners, and many thanks to all the organisations, agencies, teams and individuals that contributed.

You deserve a trophy! If you’re currently doing great work on your intranet or digital workplace, visit the Awards page, and sign up to be notified when next year’s Awards opens for entries in January 2026.