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Convera sees 2x employee engagement and improved productivity with Workvivo and Zoom
Convera created a seamless, single-platform communications experience to improve employee engagement and collaboration.
2X
Increase in employee engagement and productivity
99%
Adoption rate of Workvivo by Convera staff
91%
Of employees active on Workvivo every month
Convera helps organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to educational institutions to large enterprises, move money around the world.
With over 2,000 employees serving over 30,000 customers globally, communication at Convera needs to be reliable, secure, and simple. And when Chris Blackstone, director of digital workplace, and his team were presented with a unique greenfield opportunity in 2022, simplicity was one of the reasons they chose Zoom and eventually became the first organization to enable Workvivo within its Zoom desktop application a year later.
“When it comes to technology in the workplace, it can become quite a complex maze of solutions for people to navigate,” Chris said. “We decided to provide a single application, a single platform for people to use for phone, meetings, and digital collaboration.”
People
2,000
Industry
Financial services
Location
United States
Category
Mid-Market
We were the first organization outside of Zoom to enable Workvivo within our Zoom desktop application, and we’ve seen engagement with Workvivo almost double internally as a result of that.
Chris Blackstone
Director of Digital Workplace – Convera
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A tightly integrated employee experience
As the head of Convera’s digital workplace group, Chris is mindful of the employee experience and how engagement is built, especially when colleagues aren’t in the same physical location. For Convera, it starts on Workvivo.
Workvivo is where Convera employees engage with each other on a variety of issues. According to Chris, they post organizational announcements, recognize employees doing a great job, and highlight work anniversaries and birthdays.
Convera began using Workvivo as an employee engagement platform in 2022, so when Workvivo became part of the Zoom family in 2023, it was a happy coincidence to have everything under one roof.
“I was over the moon because of the benefit that was coming to us,” Chris said.
Convera was an early adopter of using Workvivo within the Zoom desktop client, and Chris said they’ve seen a noticeable increase in engagement with the platform.
We were the first organization outside of Zoom to enable Workvivo within our Zoom desktop application, and we’ve seen engagement with Workvivo almost double internally as a result of that.
It also helps with communicating across teams and entire departments. “We can communicate with everyone in a particular org as identified by the leader of that org. That’s really hard to do in other solutions, but it’s cake inside of Workvivo,” Chris said.
He’s excited about the potential to give employees more ways to connect and develop their careers on Workvivo. “We’re going to be partnering with Zoom and Workvivo on designing a solution to engage our employees and expand beyond shoutouts and kudos, encouraging people to be more engaged, include their peers, and even see it as a way that they can progress in the organization,” Chris said.
From phone to platform-wide adoption
It’s rare to have the opportunity to start from scratch, but that’s exactly what Chris and his team were faced with. “We were able to bring Zoom in on the ground floor with very little legacy or baggage,” he said.
The decision was largely based on Zoom Phone. “We were able to choose Zoom Phone as the foundation of what it looked like for Zoom to be embedded at Convera, and from there we’ve really been able to expand and take advantage of all the new features that Zoom is offering,” Chris said. “We made the right decision from the start.”
Over the span of less than two years, Convera expanded its use of the platform beyond Zoom Phone and Meetings to Team Chat, Webinars, Events, and Contact Center. Moving to Zoom Workplace licensing has helped them unlock access to more core Zoom features, including AI Companion, which Chris says has been met with enthusiasm.
As a company in the fintech space, security and compliance are critical to Convera’s operations. The team implemented Zoom customer managed key to manage the encryption keys for all of Convera’s content in the Zoom platform. “That was huge for us and a really important step to demonstrate how significantly we take security,” Chris said.
AI Companion is helping people be effective in meetings. People can be more present because they’re less concerned about having to take down notes. They can be emotionally engaged and more inclusive of who is in the meeting.
Reimagining the digital workplace
In addition to making plans with Workvivo, Chris and his team have been testing Zoom Scheduler with a small group of employees to integrate an easier scheduling process into the Zoom experience. He believes there are efficiencies built into using Zoom tools alongside each other rather than trying to piece together solutions from multiple companies.
“I often think of digital workplace and digital collaboration groups as functioning almost like mini-consultancies inside of an organization,” Chris said. “People can bring us their weird and strange problems and we help them come up with a solution. And Zoom has been tremendous in helping us to solve and meet those needs.”
His advice to other digital workplace leaders? “Don’t think of Zoom as just a meeting platform. It provides so many other features in ways that are more approachable for people than other solutions.
Think of your preferred future. How do you really want to be working together with others in your organization? And let’s see if the solution that you’re looking at – solutions like Zoom and Workvivo – can really help you get to that preferred future because of how well it works together.
