Case Study: Ellie Mae achieves 100% intranet adoption and boosts employee engagement with Unily

Ellie Mae - Customer Case Study

Ellie Mae, a mortgage technology company with about 1,200 employees, needed a high‑tech intranet to consolidate four disparate collaboration tools, overcome resistance to SharePoint, and create a single gateway to company information to boost engagement. They chose Unily’s employee experience platform to build Ellie Connect, leveraging Office 365 tools to provide a user‑friendly central hub for news, communities and resources.

Unily delivered Ellie Connect with personalized feeds, blogs, social communities, a Cheers for Peers widget and integrated collaboration features; launch activities (including a CEO‑led scavenger hunt) drove rapid adoption. Eight months post‑launch Ellie Mae reports 100% active intranet users, 60% contest response, 40% survey response, 20% using Cheers for Peers (over 400 submissions), formation of ~16 employee groups and clearer cross‑team idea sharing—demonstrating measurable increases in engagement and internal collaboration.

Ellie Mae

Sara Holtz

Senior Manager Internal Communications