Unified Employee Experience

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 1 minute to read
  • The Unified Employee Experience suite of products consist of Employee Center, the unified portal available in two tiers: the standard version of the product and the subscription-based application, Employee Center Pro, offering advanced features along with other omni-channel experiences and integrations.

    Employee Center versus Employee Center Pro

    Employee Center is one portal that is packaged as two separate store applications:
    • Employee Center: Multi-department service delivery that enables employees to report issues, request items or services, find service-related answers, and complete to-dos. This application and its capabilities are available to all customers by default.
    • Employee Center Pro: Subscription-based application that extends the standard Employee Center capabilities including content creation capabilities, multi-stage and multi-channel content delivery, and portal analytics. This application requires additional licensing.
    Table 1. EC and EC Pro feature comparison
    Functionality Employee Center Employee Center Pro
    Service catalog and Knowledge Base articles Yes Yes
    AI Search Yes Yes
    Chat (live agent, virtual agent) Yes Yes
    Curated Experiences (Unified Taxonomy for Employee Center, Dynamic topic pages, Mega Menu) Yes Yes
    Complete tasks and Manage requests Yes Yes
    Content recommendations (via "recommended for you") Yes Yes
    Cross-channel Favorites Yes Yes
    Unified employee profile Yes Yes
    Guided Self-Service in Employee Center Yes Yes
    Employee communications No Yes
    Enterprise Search (with SharePoint Online Search Connector) No Yes
    Integration-powered capabilities No Yes
    Manager Hub No Yes
    Org chart and Dotted-line relationships No Yes
    Employee Forums No Yes
    Employee Center Pro Kiosk overview No Yes
    Integrated experience and service feedback No Yes

    Omni-channel experiences

    The Omni-channel experiences provide different information and communication channels with a unified experience.