Pearson is a FTSE 100 company with employees scattered across the globe. Their intranet was the usual story: poorly designed, rarely updated, universally ignored. Employees weren't engaging, and corporate communications were disappearing into the void.
They wanted an internal app that people would actually use. Social features, surveys, group chat—something that felt more like consumer tech and less like enterprise software.
Ionic gave us cross-platform mobile coverage with a single codebase. For an internal app where device variety is high and budget isn't infinite, it was the pragmatic choice.
The feature set mixed social and corporate: a micro-blogging platform where employees could share updates and wins, employee surveys for gathering feedback, and group chat for team communication. Each feature designed to be quick and frictionless—if posting an update takes longer than a tweet, nobody will do it.
Laravel powered the backend: user authentication integrated with Pearson's existing systems, content moderation for the social features, analytics so leadership could see what was actually working.
Engagement went up. People actually used the thing, which in internal comms terms counts as a significant victory. Surveys got responses. The chat features saw real usage.
Enterprise apps don't need to feel like enterprise apps. Make them good enough and people will use them voluntarily.
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