While AI is the most talked about change to digital workplace environments, the real transformations in 2026 are happening at a more fundamental level. Intranets are playing an increasing role as a source of trusted information, for humans and AI. Valuable effort is being put into supporting employees in their everyday work, helping teams stay productive and fostering employee engagement.

To share leading-edge approaches and inspiring examples, Step Two announces today the winners of the 2026 Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards. Now in their landmark 20th 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. Having run for two decades, they are now the longest-running awards in the space.

Key highlights from this year are:

1. Leading intranets act as a task completion layer
2. Embedding AI into processes unlocks early value
3. Achieving change requires creativity and insight
4. Next generation personalisation drives DEX
5. Frontline engagement starts with the frontline
6. Intranet teams keep pushing to deliver success.

Obtain a copy of the 2026 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.

GREAT NEWS: We’re offering a free chapter from the Awards report, sharing the full AI case study from Gold winner Singapore Management University. 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 Platinum award recognises one outstanding entry that will inspire teams around the globe:

• Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany): An impressively executed global SharePoint intranet delivering a strong digital employee experience, including a powerful task-based dashboard based on Viva Connections, powered by integrations and personalisation.

Boehringer Ingelehim’s approvals card on their intranet task dashboard as viewed on a mobile device. Screenshot appears courtesy of Boehringer Ingelheim.

Gold winners

The winners across multiple categories (in alphabetical order):

• Adobe (USA): A highly mature intranet with strong levels of adoption, robust governance and high-value features that has been supporting employees for two decades, all managed by a compact, high-performing intranet team.
• Alliander (Netherlands): An open-source intranet with excellent adoption, driven through continuous improvement, with a new iteration focused on targeted homepages built on an updated persona model that includes frontline staff.
• Ashghal (Qatar): A highly integrated custom intranet built as a digital command centre to complete employee tasks, bringing together HR self-service, task and workflow management, enterprise search and an AI-powered chatbot.
• Aurecon (Australia): An ambitious project to build a library of standardised technical knowledge and assets across a large engineering firm, incorporating lifecycle management, metadata and taxonomy standard, and a related AI-powered agent.
• Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (UK): A comprehensive and complex change management program based on user research, extending an intranet and social platform to replace Workplace across Asia-Pacific sites, achieving a smooth rollout.
• NAB (Australia): A creative and imaginative campaign to launch Viva Engage to replace Workplace by Meta across a large bank, focusing on the actions of leaders, and using storytelling techniques, a travel design concept and attractive campaign assets.
• RGP (USA): An innovative global intranet supporting the project lifecycle of RGP consultants, surfacing data from multiple integrations with key business systems, powered by a dynamic persona model and wrapped in a striking design.
• Singapore Management University (Singapore): A set of innovative AI-powered digital assistants deployed across multiple areas, designed to remove friction from existing workflows, and part of a strategy to only introduce AI with tangible value.

The intranet homepage of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. Screenshot appears courtesy of Coca Cola Europacific Partners.

Silver winners

The winners across multiple categories (in alphabetical order):

• DTEK (Ukraine): A SharePoint intranet roll-out across a complex energy group with a large frontline workforce, all delivered during the war in Ukraine, with the intranet team showing exceptional resilience and persistence in very difficult circumstances.
• Port Waratah Coal Services (Australia):An intranet focused on frontline needs, featuring embedded real-time operational and safety data, with mobile access and a simplified publishing experience.
• Smulders Projects Poland (Poland): The launch of a mobile app supporting engagement and efficiency across a mainly frontline workforce in a small manufacturing company, strongly shaped by employee input and feedback.

News and categories on DTEK’s intranet. Screenshot appears courtesy of DTEK.

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 2026 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:

• Akumina (RGP)
• Christiaan W. Lustig (Alliander)
• Coldtrick (Alliander)
• Elcom (Port Waratah Coal Services)
• Engage Squared (NAB)
• Expansio Software House (Smulders Projects Poland)
• Linkers (DTEK)
• Sociabble (Coca-Cola Europacific Partners)
• Tabhita Minten (Alliander)

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 February 2027.