HR helpdesk that reduces the work behind HR support

Give employees instant answers, resolve routine requests before they become cases and use AI to take repetitive casework off HR’s plate.

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Trusted by 100s of enterprise customers with a complex, global HR

 

Why today’s HR teams pick Applaud

Give employees instant, personalized answers and resolve routine requests before they ever reach HR.
AI gathers the right details, understands context and routes each case to the right person first time.
AI keeps HR knowledge accurate, personalized and fresh so employees can get more answers without raising a case.
Let AI agents complete routine case tasks and automate repetitive work across your connected HR systems.
Protect employee data with role-based access, governance, auditability and enterprise-grade security.
Measure deflection, caseload, service performance and the work AI removes from HR in hard numbers.

 

Why today’s HR teams pick Applaud

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Employee-First Tier Zero

Answer the question. Complete the task.
Give employees instant, personalized answers — then let AI agents take action across your connected systems when there’s work to be done.
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AI Case Management

AI can gather details, triage requests, analyze documents, summarize cases and build case plans — while AI agents take on appropriate tasks automatically.
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Smarter Case Resolution

Keep cases moving with less manual effort. Automatically build case plans, assign tasks to the right people or AI agents, and help HR teams resolve work faster with AI embedded throughout the case.

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Insights That Prove Value

Show exactly what HR is saving. Track deflection, caseload, service levels and AI performance to prove where work is being removed and where service can improve.

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Connects to your existing tools

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Built for growing enterprises.

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“Imagine you want to build a new employee portal and then a series of workflows, journeys, or mini-apps for your workers. You want the application to be easy to build, mobile-enabled, and easy to use.  This, in a nutshell, is what Applaud has built. Applaud is easy enough to use for HR managers and business partners to adopt.”

Josh Bersin
Leading Industry Expert and Founder of Josh Bersin Academy

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The #1 Enterprise HR Service Delivery Software on G2

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Frequently Asked Questions

Because HR service rarely lives in one system. Applaud connects your HCM, HR knowledge, case management and wider enterprise tools into one HR service brain.
Employees get answers and actions wherever they work, while HR can improve service without replacing the technology it already relies on.

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Copilot can act as an enterprise front door across multiple departments. Applaud provides the specialist HR capability behind it.

Through Applaud’s Copilot integration, Copilot can delegate HR requests to Applaud as your HR service brain — giving IT control of the front door while HR owns the knowledge, processes and actions behind the experience.

Applaud can also work through Teams, Slack, Moveworks and Outlook, as well as its own web and mobile experiences.

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No. Applaud is technology agnostic and is designed to connect the systems you already use.

It joins HR data, knowledge, case management and other enterprise tools together, giving employees a consistent service experience while your existing systems continue doing what they do best.

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No. Applaud meets employees in the channels they already use, including Teams, Slack, Outlook and mobile. 

That means you can improve HR service without relying on everyone adopting another destination. 

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It goes much further than answers.

Applaud can prevent routine requests becoming cases, gather missing information, build case plans and use AI agents to complete appropriate tasks across connected systems — taking repetitive operational work off the HR team.

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75%Productivity increase
95,000Happy users
0Training required
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Robert Reiling, National Director EBS Systems and BI
Advantage Solutions

1Legacy system retired
100%Adoption
90%Satisfaction rate
“Applaud’s solution has been an instrumental part of the HR Transformation journey that we are undergoing throughout the whole Ministry. We are on track to achieve our objectives and create frictionless experiences for all of our employees.”

Ramy Rajab Zein, General Supervisor of the General Administration of Application Solutions
Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA)

367%Self-service usage
600%More job applications
1000%Rise in platform activity
"Applaud have helped to transform our People Services. Since the Applaud implementation, the enhanced experience continues to prompt positive feedback from our staff and ROI has been delivered to our organization."

Jackie Noorden, People Operations Director
National Trust

100% Adoption achieved
6-Month Satisfaction surge
1Unified experience
“Applaud’s powerful workflows and customization features have allowed us to transform Oracle E-Business Suite to suit the complex needs of our business. Its easy-to-use functionality has been a breath of fresh air as new users only have to be shown the platform once. It’s so easy we never have to explain it again.”

IS&T Unit Head Applications.
Allseas

£1 millionSaved
15,000 Employees live
33%Offboarding spend saved
“This project has been so successful that they are now expanding and investing in more of Applaud’s offerings in order to maximize the benefits associated with the implementation.”
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Ivan Harding, CEO and Co-founder
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