Mission
Be the platform where every voice is heard and makes a difference.
What we do
At the heart of success is a commitment to transforming people experience insight into actions.
Explorance empowers organizations by enhancing the moments that matter for people through an active listening strategy, accelerating the insight-to-action cycle, at scale, leading to personal growth and organizational agility.
Things we pride ourselves on
We work with
1000 organizations
We operate in
6 locations
We have a CSAT score of
96%
We serve customers in
50 countries
We are here for you
24/7
We impact the lives of
20 million people
Our spirit is one of innovation
We are continuously enhancing our products, processes, and people to offer a complete learning and development platform. We reinvest a
large portion of our budget in research and development to stay a step ahead of the evolving needs of our customers and partners.
Despite a challenging year characterized by the transition to remote working due to the ongoing pandemic, Explorance was ranked the number one Best Workplace™ in Canada for 2021 by the Great Place to Work® Institute. This top ranking marks Explorance’s fourth year in the Top 10 rankings for this award.
Following a thorough, independent analysis conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute®, Explorance is proud to announce that we have been certified as a Great Place to Work in India. This certification is based on direct feedback from employees about their workplace experience.
Based on feedback from our employees on the Trust Index™ Survey, Explorance has been recognized as a Great Place to Work®-Certified company in US. This certification is a badge of honor that validates the employee experience we have created for our people and our culture of mutual trust.
Explorance was recognized as a Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ company. This marks a second consecutive year of recognition for Explorance as a rapidly-growing technology company by the Technology Fast 50™ program and is attributed to our unique ability to accelerate its clients’ insight-to-action cycle.
Explorance won a Brandon Hall Group Gold award for excellence in the “Best Advance in AI and Machine Learning” category. The gold award was awarded to BlueML - Explorance’s 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.
Explorance was recognized in Microsoft's Great Canadian Innovators 2020 Yearbook for its success in providing world-class feedback solutions to Higher Education and Large Enterprises across the globe. The yearbook profiles 15 great Canadian companies that are using advanced Microsoft technologies like artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and holograms, to innovate.
Explorance is proud to share the 2020 Gold award for excellence in talent management from Brandon Hall Group with our partner Clarkston Consulting. Clarkston Consulting drives meaningful improvement in the overall employee experience with strategic employee engagement surveys. We are proud of our association through their use of the Blue Experience Management platform and methodology.
Explorance and partner PETRONAS won two awards from Brandon Hall Group. They won a Gold award in leadership development measurement and a Silver award in learning measurement. Explorance jointly applied to the 2020 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence awards with PETRONAS and is proud of our partnership through their leverage of the Metrics That Matter (MTM) L&D effectiveness solution.
The prestigious “Cool Vendors in Education” 2014 report by Gartner profiles vendors whose products and services are innovative, intriguing and impactful in the arena of adaptive learning. Blue leverages all four of the elements in Gartner’s Nexus of Forces - information, cloud, mobile, and social - to create an adaptive learning experience.
IMS Global’s annual Learning Impact Awards recognize outstanding, innovative applications of educational technology to address the most significant challenges facing the global education market. Bluepulse was awarded a bronze medal for its evidence-based learning improvement in educational institutions.
Explorance received the Silver Award from the Brandon Hall Group for the Best Advance in Technology for Testing or Learning Evaluation. Explorance shared the award with our customers Mastercard and Heartland Dental, affirming our contribution to assisting organizations in assessing the effectiveness of informal learning pathways in conjunction with formal learning evaluations.
Training Industry monitors the best providers in the training marketplace that help support enterprises with their corporate learning and development programs. Explorance is recognized as a Top 20 Assessment and Evaluation provider based on quality, innovativeness, number of clients/users, and other criteria.
What customers are saying
We chose Blue because it’s a flexible product that would grow with us. (…) Also, we needed something that would allow large-scale feedback processes but also facilitate one-on-one performance reviews.
Justin Hardman
Solutions Manager
Explorance has been an invaluable partner to Clarkston, providing us with the tools and expertise to measure the employee journey. The insights we gain through our engagement survey program informs many of our employee programs and strategic initiatives so we can continue to build a great place to work for our people.
Jessica Morris
Director, HR
Within the first 6 months of collecting course evaluation data using MTM, I was able to construct a dashboard and report that has helped my CEO and colleagues quickly assess the effectiveness and success of a class. This has helped tremendously! We are able to identify which courses to continue offering and which ones to archive.
Cindy Menches
Ph.D., P.E., STSC IMPACT Director of Professional Development & Training
The Explorance team provided a true partnership. Their professionalism, knowledge, and expertise allowed for a collaborative working environment and met our objectives and more! We look forward to working with Explorance on future projects.
Kaycee Buckley
Director of Global Commercial Learning & Development
The Professional Services team partnered with us to provide their experience on transitioning from our pilot to a sustain model. Where we had company–specific needs, they were flexible in supporting our needs while continuing to keep us on track to complete the implementation. It was a pleasure working with the team!
Shelly Longo
Director, Learning Enterprise Programming
It's been a pleasure working with the Blue implementation team on this challenging and complicated project. Alexandra went above and beyond to assist us in making sure our pilot deployment went without a glitch. Thank you everyone!
Agata Nowak
Chef, Recherche de marché & service après-vente
MTM will change the way we communicate our impact to the business with senior leaders. We can now talk in terms of business results and ROI instead of the soft language of 'people trained' and whether they 'liked' the training.
John Knoble
Director, Strategic Skills and Capabilities
The MTM platform and methodology is helping us better mine data-driven insights, which in turn allows us to better evaluate the impact our L&D experiences are having on the business. MTM is the primary catalyst helping us move from simple reporting to true insight-driven evaluation!
John Talanca
Senior Director, Commercial Capability Development
Student engagement through formative evaluation is an imperative component to retention and success. Receiving in-time feedback with the freedom of anonymity generates pedagogically meaningful relationships between the faculty and student. Bluepulse 2, by Explorance, is the answer for our institution.
Peter A Baccile
Senior Director for Online Learning
Bluepulse has definitely reduced the number of surprises we see at the end of semester on course evaluations. It provides real data that faculty can use for their own professional development in addition to their pedagogical improvement.
Taiwo Ande
Assistant Provost for Institutional Analysis and Effectiveness
One of our major criteria was hosting our data on a Canadian server – we are collecting data from a vulnerable population (children) so retention in Canada was important. We were VERY impressed with Samer’s demo, particularly because it was focused to our needs despite the fact that we are an unusual type of client for Explorance (a k-12 school district). (...)
Erin Faught
PhD., Statistician
In selecting Explorance as our strategic partner, in Blue we have a true solution that has taken our capability to the next level. … it is adaptable to a wide range of data collection, analytics and reporting needs, and we have a wide range of Fortune 500 stakeholders who appreciate the modern look, feel and logic of their new interface.
Oliver Giles
Senior Program Manager
Explorance has a solid piece of software that does more than one thing. Any company can create software to do a survey, but that’s not where the true value is. The true value is in a complete integration: with in-house data, with the student information system, and then being able to produce good reports from all that data together.
Helen Sheridan
Senior Research and Planning Analyst, Institutional Research
Since transitioning to Blue, Monash has made significant efficiency savings in their survey fieldwork operations, has a platform that can cater to the customisation requirements of a large and complex university, and provides a streamlined and consolidated platform for the sharing and distribution of student insights.
Kristina Kaulenas
Manager Information Strategy and Survey
By facilitating direct communication between teachers and students and providing accessible data, Bluepulse enables instructors to better understand and address students’ expectations.
Geoffrey Crisp
Dean of Learning and Teaching, Academic Portfolio
We chose Blue because we were manually doing faculty/course evaluations, sending out links to Survey Monkey, etc. (…) the ROI for Blue made the investment well worth it. We will be able to free up time to work on other projects instead of manually working on faculty evaluations. Yay!
Michelle Whitman
Director of Instructional Technology and Assessment
Blue's ability to take my complicated, 42-department, 28-questionnaire, multi-report evaluation (…) left me feeling confident that I can continue to improve my process and the information I will be able to share with my instructors, departments, and deans.
Heather Thompson
College Course Evaluation Coordinator
We chose Blue for several reasons. In particular, we liked the flexibility, the analytics features, and the ability to customize it the way we needed it, particularly at the department level.
Larry Lee
PhD., Dean of Business, Professional and Technology Education
We have been using Blue 360 here at our college since 2006. It is a staple to our graduate programs and is used in many of our undergraduate programs. The product is a top notch true 360 survey tool which respects the confidentiality and anonymity of the process. Explorance is one of the easiest vendors I have ever had the pleasure of working with…
Tova Duby
Senior Manager, IT Operations
We have been using BLUE 360 for approximately 10 years and find the software provides a great deal of flexibility when it comes to implementing 360s…. Overall we are very satisfied with the product and the level of service provided by their help desk - we are always discovering new ways we can use the tool.
Sheila Anderson-Cousins
Director - Measurement and Communications Services
As a global leadership development company, we were seeking a 360 assessment partner that provided us with robust multi-rater assessment features that were comparable to other providers, reporting and analytics, a flexible turnkey process, and is customer-focused and interested in growing with us long-term. Blue/360 and the Explorance employees continues to deliver on their promises…
Jill Sawin
Product Director, Assessments & Analytics
Bluepulse gives a voice to students who may not feel comfortable speaking up in class or providing face to face feedback to the instructor. The application is mobile device compatible so both faculty and students have the ability to remain engaged at any time throughout the semester. (…)
Becky Patterson
Exec. Director, Institutional Research & Planning
The product is easy to use, has many great features, and integrates with existing platforms … The response rate monitor allows users the ability to track the day of the week and hour of the day that responses are received so marketing efforts and automatic reminders can be scheduled for maximum impact.
Becky Patterson
Exec. Director, Institutional Research & Planning
Most 360 degree feedback systems are built around the provider’s models. Blue lets you build a 360 around your own. This is a key selling point when we approach clients.
Kelly Fairbairn
President
The ability to have Blue on the premises using our own security and authentication methods makes us feel much more confident about the safety of this data.
Aaron Fiskum
IS Manager of Web Services
Our experience with Blue 360 and Explorance has been phenomenal with respect to product flexibility and excellence… Using Blue 360 has allowed us to concentrate on our business and leave the assessment process in the expert hands of professionals such as the team at Explorance.
Olga Bodnar
VP Business Relationships
Explorance is an excellent company to work with and their Blue system has no comparison when it comes to survey tools to capture the customer experience and satisfaction. … Whether you are working with their Professional Services team or Customer Support their response is excellent and without a glitch. I would not hesitate to recommend them and their products.
Erika Sanchez
Office of the CEO/ Customer Care
Connect with like-minded
leaders and administrators
We are strong believers in community and the benefits that they provide.
The Bluenotes Group and MTM Impact Community serve as education
sources for peer organizations and Explorance to build strong domain
expertise. The communities also lobby and influence our roadmap ensuring
that our offerings are always steps ahead and meet their needs.
Bluenotes Group
The Bluenotes Group is a united family of Blue users. It is a forum for Blue users to meet, greet, share successes, and learn from one other. The Bluenotes Group hosts annual user conferences connecting the Blue global community, including Bluenotes global, Bluenotes APAC, Bluenotes MENA, Bluenotes Europe, and Bluenotes Canada.
MTM Impact Community
The MTM Impact Community is a place where Metrics That Matter users can connect, share, discuss, and learn from each other. Events are hosted by community members and Explorance employees and cover best practices, training, new product features, and more. The community hosts an annual symposium to connect the MTM global community.
