What is The Forrester Wave™: Intranet Platforms?
The Forrester Wave™: Intranet Platforms report is an essential guide for enterprises developing their digital workplace strategies and assessing intranet platforms. It evaluates the most significant providers in the market, analyzing their current offering, strategy, and customer feedback.
Access the report for an in-depth view of the intranet platform landscape and learn how vendors compare across key capabilities.
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The Forrester Wave™ provides an independent evaluation of the intranet platform market, helping organizations understand how solutions are positioned and where they deliver value.
The report is designed to support enterprise leaders in selecting technology that enables employee engagement, communication, and productivity across increasingly complex digital workplaces.
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What does the report include?
- A consistent set of evaluation criteria to assess intranet platforms
- Insights into the latest market trends and strategic direction
- Analysis of vendor strengths and considerations
- A comparative view of the most significant providers in the market
Who is this report for?
This report is designed for enterprise leaders across internal communications, HR, and IT who are responsible for delivering modern digital workplace experiences.
Forrester is a leading independent research and advisory firm, and the Forrester Wave™ report is widely used to inform technology decisions and benchmark vendors across the market.
Forrester recognizes Unily as a Leader in intranet platforms
Following evaluation of the most significant intranet platform providers, Unily was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Intranet Platforms 2026.
For Unily, its position reflects strong strategy and product capabilities, with the highest possible scores in 11 criteria, including developer resources, frontline worker support, content and repository services, metadata management, audience segmentation, experience touchpoints, employee journeys, branding and templating, delegated administration, roadmap, and supporting services and offerings.
According to the report, Unily “serves the needs of large and midsize enterprises,” noting that "tools for delegating administrative roles and providing branding/templating for different lines of business will appeal to large, complex organizations, and audience segmentation capabilities are flexible."
The report also notes that “Enterprises, including those with a need to support mobile-first deskless workers and those that have an established AI strategy with preferred agents and assistants, should consider Unily.” Unily received the highest possible scores across 11 criteria, and the report highlights the depth of those capabilities, stating that:
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"Unily's architecture provides strong overall content repository and metadata capabilities along with strong support for mobile and the needs of frontline workers."
The Forrester Wave™ - Intranet Platforms, Q2 2026
Forrester Wave™ for Intranet Platforms FAQs
The Forrester Wave™: Intranet Platforms report is an essential guide for enterprises developing their digital workplace strategies and assessing intranet platforms.
A Forrester Wave is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving readers an analysis of available solutions within a given space.
The report includes:
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An extensive assessment of intranet platform vendors in the space
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The latest market trends and advice for decision-making
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Why Forrester positions Unily a Leader in the intranet platforms market
The Forrester Wave™ report helps strategic decision-makers:
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Get quickly educated about a market’s competing technology providers and their ability to deliver on what end users require today and, in the future,
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Understand how a market’s technology providers are competitively positioned and the strategies they are using to compete
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Compare a technology provider’s strengths and challenges with their specific needs
A Forrester Wave™ is a trusted, industry-recognized source to help make an insight-informed purchase decision.
Vendors are assessed across multiple criteria and positioned using a relative rating system that compares each vendor against the others in the evaluation, helping organizations identify solutions aligned to their needs.
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