2026 Intranet & Digital Workplace Awards report

Who are the 2026 winners?

Platinum winner

• 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.

Gold winners

The winners across multiple categories (in alphabetic 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.

Silver winners

The winners across multiple categories (in alphabetic 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.