Explorance Wins Gold in 2021 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards

Montreal, Quebec – December 10, 2021 – Explorance, a provider of People Insights, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group gold award for excellence in the “Best Advance in AI and Machine Learning” category.

Explorance’s win was announced on December 9, 2021, during an online ceremony hosted by Brandon Hall Group. A complete list of all winners can be viewed on the Brandon Hall Group website.

The gold award comes shortly after Explorance introduced its breakthrough solution for employee comment analysis. BlueML is the only machine learning tool of its kind trained on real employee responses and scenarios to deliver useful and actionable insights in seconds. Until BlueML, comment analysis tools on the market leveraged machine learning models trained to analyze generic text-based data that lacked the specialization necessary to turn employee responses into decision-grade intelligence.

BlueML is an integral part of Explorance’s full suite of solutions, helping accelerate the insight-to-action cycle for organizations. The BlueML dashboard automatically scans and categorizes employee comments, providing polarity sentiment analysis and forward-looking recommendations that leaders can use to drive timely and meaningful action.

“This recognition by Brandon Hall Group reinforces the feedback we have been receiving from our customers,” said Explorance CEO Samer Saab. “BlueML is the fruit of our relentless commitment to providing useful solutions that help transform data into insights to support organizations, at scale, in taking meaningful actions when it comes to their most important asset: their people.”

A panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, and Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executives evaluated the entries based upon the following criteria:

• Product: What was the product’s breakthrough innovation?
• Unique differentiators: What makes the product unique, and how does it differ from any competing products?
• Value proposition: What problem does the product solve and/or what need does this product address?
• Measurable results: What are the benefits customers can expect to experience as a result of using this product

About Explorance:

Explorance is a provider of People Insights solutions. The company empowers organizations with actionable decision-making by measuring students’ and employees’ needs, expectations, skills, knowledge, and competencies. Through scalable automation with tools including Blue and Metrics That Matter and expert-based services, Explorance facilitates continuous improvement and accelerates the insight-to-action cycle, leading to personal growth and organizational agility.

Founded in 2003, Explorance is headquartered in Montreal with business units in Chicago, Chennai, Melbourne, Amman, and London. Explorance works with 35% of the Fortune 100 and 25% of the top higher education institutions, including 8 of the world’s top 10 business schools. The company has clients in more than 40 countries. Since 2014, Explorance has been consecutively ranked as a top employer by the Great Places to Work Institute® and is currently the #1 “Best Workplace in Canada” for 2021. To learn more, please visit Explorance.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter @explorance.

About Brandon Hall Group:

Brandon Hall Group operates the largest and longest running awards program in Human Capital Management. As an independent HCM research and analyst firm they conduct studies in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Talent Acquisition and HR/Workforce Management. These benchmark studies help organizations by providing strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.

Coupling the research studies with the best practice from the awards, Brandon Hall Group has helped more than 10,000 clients globally and more than 28 years of delivering worldclass research and advisory. At the core of our offerings is a membership program that combines research, benchmarking and unlimited access to data and analysts. Membership enables executives and practitioners to make the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, coalesced with analyst advisory services which aim to put the research into action in a way that is practical and efficient.

Brandon Hall Group has also launched professional certifications for business and human capital management professionals to upskill themselves and gain credentials for career advancement. (www.brandonhall.com).