Glossary of Simpplr terms and their definitions.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adoption | A measurement of how many of your employees are logging into your intranet. |
| AI/ML | Refers to artificial intelligence/machine learning. Feedback loops are used to enhance search, personalization, and other product features. |
| Album | Type of content. A way to aggregate images and/or video. Can be populated by only the author or open for all users to contribute. |
| Alert | An urgent, time-sensitive notification that is displayed prominently at the top of a user's screen. Can be distributed through multiple channels: SMS, email, push notification, etc. |
| Analytics | A suite of metrics, benchmarks, and recommendations that helps you understand your intranet's content inventory, interactions, and overall adoption |
| API | An interface through which two apps connect and communicate. Common Simpplr API use cases are integrations, SSO, and data transfer |
| Approval | A site or content manager's authorization of a piece of content to be published to their site |
| Author | The user that creates/publishes a piece of content. If content is ghostwritten, designated managers can create/publish on behalf of a certain author |
| Auto-Governance | AI-backed engine that manages the freshness/validity of intranet content. Validation policy can be applied for knowledge content that needs periodical review |
| Benchmark | Measurement of how well your intranet is performing in a specific area in relation to similar peers |
| Blog | A type of content. Allows users to publish personal messages. Can be enabled for all users or only a selected group |
| Branded Mobile App | Paid add-on. Native Android/iOS Simpplr mobile app privately published on Google Play and Apple App Store. Branding is customized according to customer specifications |
| Branding | Refers to customizing an intranet according to an organization's brand. Intranets can be personalized with its own logo, colors, fonts, head, and footer |
| Breadcrumbs | A means of tracking your location in the files hierarchy of a site |
| Browser | Software used to access the internet, and your intranet. Simpplr supports the latest two versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge |
| Carousel | The primary visual component of a dashboard. Displays curated, high-visibility content. Can include internal or external content |
| Category | A means of organizing sites and content. Site categories determine site type (content, location, etc.). Content categories define content type (news, knowledge, etc.) |
| Comment | A user interaction on a piece of content where the user can start or continue a conversation |
| Content | Refers to native intranet content and communications. There are four types of content: Pages, Blogs, Events, and Albums. Doesn't include metadata, labels, or files |
| Content Collaboration | A workflow that allows multiple authors to create and/or edit the same piece of content |
| Content Promotion | A means of enabling content discovery to ensure it reaches its intended audience. Content can be promoted automatically, or manually by the author |
| Content Sharing | Refers to when a user shares a piece of content with another user on the intranet |
| Dashboard | A visual summary of intranet content. Contains the carousel, tiles, news feed, etc. |
| A type of content comprising a social event for eligible users, such as webinars and product launches. Users can be invited and can RSVP | |
| Expertise | A label users can add to their profile for reference in People search |
| Extensibility | When third party applications use Simpplr APIs to build on their own functionality outside of Simpplr |
| External URL Search | Functionality that leverages Simpplr's search to get results from external URLs |
| Favicon | A small icon in your web browser that denotes your intranet's tab |
| Favorite | A means of marking content, feed posts, or files for future reference. Favorites be easily referenced in the favorites menu |
| Feedback | A user's way of giving feedback to the content author |
| Follower | A user interested in a public site. Following a site will provide notifications and personalized content recommendations |
| Fonts | Component of branding. Refers to your intranet's font. You can change your application's fonts using CSS |
| Ghostwriting | A workflow for selected users to publish content on behalf of a certain author. For example, a communications expert publishing on behalf of a CEO |
| Header | Seen on the top of your intranet's browser or mobile screen in all parts of the application. Grants quick access to global search, user profile, and navigation |
| Home Feed | Your main feed of curated content from all sites of which you're a member or follower |
| Integration | A connection to an external product or service. Simpplr provides over fifty types of no-code integrations: file storage, HRIS, productivity, SSO, knowledge base, etc. |
| Languages | Simpplr supports multiple languages. Navigation, labels, and clickables can be personalized for native language speakers. Doesn't refer to content |
| Launchpad | A shortcut in Simpplr to access external apps or systems |
| Like | A user interaction with a piece of content that shows they like or support that content |
| Localization | Functionality that automatically translates the Simpplr app into a select supported language |
| Logo | Main component of branding. Refers to your intranet's logo. Used in the header of the browser and mobile apps, and in all other intranet communications |
| MDM | Mobile Device Management. Recommended for distributing branded or native mobile apps |
| Member | A core user of a site, public or private. Site membership requests must be approved by a site's manager. Site membership will provide all notifications related to the site, and personalized content recommendations |
| Metric | Analytics measurement of your intranet's performance in a specific area |
| Mobile App | Native Android/iOS Simpplr mobile app publicly available on Google Play and Apple App Store |
| Must-read | A page content that requires "have you read this?" acknowledgment from its audience. Admins can view an inventory of read/unread must-read content |
| Navigation | Refers to both app and site navigation. Gives users quick access to different spaces in the app or site |
| Newsletter | A bulletin select users can send to a chosen audience. Can contain native intranet or external content |
| Notification | A message that informs the user of relevant content or interactions. Can be informative or actionable |
| Org Chart | A built-in visual representation of your organization's reporting structure |
| Page | Most common type of content. There are two types of pages: knowledge and news. News is time-sensitive and unchanging. Knowledge isn't as time-sensitive, but subject to auto-governance policies on content validation |
| People | All the users that are registered on the intranet |
| Personalization | A means of personalizing content and user experience for each user. Users can personalize their experience by adding or removing dashboard widgets. Content is automatically personalized |
| Privilege | Refers to set privileges around content consumption and creation. Creation privileges exist for newsletters, social campaigns, alerts, and carousel content. Consumption privileges refer to public vs. private content |
| Profile | Contains personal, customizable employee information |
| Promotion Channel | A channel through which a user receives content and/or notifications. Includes Slack, email, SMS, web browser, etc. |
| Provision | A means of synchronizing the creation and deletion of users between Simpplr and another external source, like Workday |
| Reply | A user interaction with a comment where the user can continue the conversation |
| Role | A definition of what a user can and can't do on the intranet. Common roles include: App Manager, Site Manager, and End User |
| Scheduler | Refers to one of two workflows: scheduling content, and scheduling batch jobs. Content schedulers allow for automatically publishing content at a future date. Batch job schedulers let system admins execute batch jobs on a pre-define schedule |
| Segment | Means of creating separate, tailored user experiences for different brands and/or users of a single intranet. Content is still shared between segments. Members can be segmented by division, company, or country |
| Single Sign-on | Using a single set of login credentials to log into Simpplr or other systems |
| Site | An architectural component of the intranet that contains a select category of content and social interaction for its intended audience |
| Site Feed | A site-specific feed which contains content posted by members or followers of that site |
| Site File | Site files are found in the Files folder in a site. All of a site's files can be viewed in the Files folder |
| Smart Feed | A dynamic source of personalized content/information, communications, and social activity. Comprises the Home Feed and Site Feed |
| Smart Search | Top-nav search engine that includes results that are curated and federated based on your intranet's content inventory, integrations, etc. |
| Social Campaign | A workflow that lets intranet users leverage their social media network to advocate for company news, updates, etc. |
| Social Interaction | User interactions with content and other users on the intranet. Includes likes, comments, replies, shares, etc. |
| Subscription | Automatic bulk assignment of members and/or followers to a site or list of people |
| Sync | A means of synchronizing data between Simpplr and another external source |
| Tile/Widget | A visual component of dashboards that features important information. Can show dynamic content, such as Latest & Popular, countdown clock, calendars, events, or static content, like URLs and videos |
| Topic | A label users add to content and feed posts for future reference. Content topics influence search results |
| User Menu | Personalized drop-down navigation that grants quick access to different parts of the application based on a user's privileges. Accessible by clicking on your avatar in the top-right of the header |
| Validation | Acknowledgment by a content author that their piece(s) of content are still up-to-date and accurate, per auto-governance policy |
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