Akumina Signs Digital Workplace Deal with A+E Networks

Akumina, the employee experience platform (EXP) powering personalized digital employee experiences, announced that it is working with A+E Networks to enhance their employees’ digital experience. A+E Networks is a joint venture of Disney-ABC Television Group and Hearst that has a portfolio of global brands that includes A&E®, HISTORY®, Lifetime®, Lifetime Movies™, FYI™, and VICELAND®.

Leveraging Akumina, leading global enterprises create transformative workplace experiences such as modern intranets, digital dashboards, and mobile applications focused on employee engagement, productivity, and innovation. A+E plans to use the Akumina platform to create an engaging, centralized employee hub that works like any modern web site, app, or dashboard to deliver a best-in-class workplace experience. With Akumina, every A+E user will be able to do their job more efficiently and seamlessly on any device.

“A+E is thrilled to make this investment in our employees. We look forward to working with Akumina to build an even better digital workplace with their state-of-the-art technology. Overall this will provide great efficiency and seamless access for all employees,” said Susan Tanamli, SVP, Head of Technology.

Akumina’s employee experience platform (EXP) provides a bridge to the content and the tools critical to productive and engaged teams. The platform’s broad integration approach allows any application to be connected to create a scalable ‘single-pane-of-glass’ experience. Akumina’s EXP delivers contextual content to employees based on a variety of criteria, including job role, device, and location, to ensure employees are engaged and productive.

“A+E is taking a leap forward by empowering its employees with tools that will help them be even more efficient,” said David Maffei, president and CRO at Akumina. “At Akumina, our commitment to our customers is to provide a platform that is easy to implement, operate, and manage so that employees can work smarter, not harder. We look forward to building a partnership with A+E that will further enhance their workplace technology.”

About Akumina

Akumina is the employee experience platform that empowers global enterprises to quickly create personalized digital experiences that help every employee in every role work smarter, not harder. By offering a customizable, brandable and multilingual platform that seamlessly integrates with leading enterprise cloud applications, Akumina delivers a contextual, collaborative and engaging workplace experience to every user on any device. Akumina’s customers include GlaxoSmithKline, Vodafone, the Boston Red Sox and the United States Department of Defense. To learn more visit www.akumina.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

About A+E

A+E leads the cultural conversation through high-quality, thought provoking original programming with a unique point of view. Whether it’s the network’s distinctive brand of award-winning disruptive reality, or groundbreaking documentary, A+E always makes entertainment an art. The A&E website is located at aetv.com. Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/aetv and Facebook at facebook.com/AETV. For more press information and photography please visit us at press.aenetworks.com.