Xoxoday Empuls provides every client with a dedicated sandbox tenant within the production environment, enabling safe configuration testing and validation before any changes are promoted to the live tenant.
Testing Before Go-Live
Xoxoday Empuls does not expose internal staging or development environments to clients. Instead, Xoxoday Empuls provisions two distinct tenants for every organisation: a sandbox and a live tenant, both operating within the same production infrastructure. This architecture means your team works with production-grade performance and full feature parity from day one. There are no capability gaps between what you configure during testing and what employees experience after launch.How the Sandbox Tenant Works
The sandbox tenant is a fully functional replica of your live environment. Administrators use it to configure reward catalogues, set up recognition workflows, adjust point policies, and map organisational hierarchies — all without touching active employee data or live reward balances. For example, if your organisation is integrating Xoxoday Empuls with Workday or SAP SuccessFactors for employee data sync, you can validate field mappings, test sync cadence, and confirm data accuracy in the sandbox before enabling the connection in the live tenant. The same applies to communication integrations such as Slack or Microsoft Teams — notification templates, bot permissions, and channel routing can all be verified in advance.Promoting Changes from Sandbox to Live
Once a configuration is validated in the sandbox, administrators replicate the same settings in the live tenant. This deliberate two-step process reduces the risk of misconfiguration reaching active users during rollout. The sandbox also serves as a safe training environment. New HR or IT administrators can familiarise themselves with the Xoxoday Empuls admin console — including survey setup, budget allocation, and approval workflows — without any consequence for live programme participants.Why Production-Hosted Environments Matter
Because both tenants run within the production environment, they operate under the same security controls and compliance frameworks that Xoxoday Empuls maintains across its infrastructure, including ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II standards. Your organisation does not need to evaluate a separate, lower-trust environment; the sandbox inherits the same data protection guarantees as the live tenant. This design also streamlines IT procurement and security review, since there is a single infrastructure tier to assess and approve — not two separate systems with different control sets. Learn more: Empuls Help Centre — TechnologySecurity and Compliance Standards
Understand the ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, and data residency standards that govern Xoxoday Empuls infrastructure.
HRIS and Tool Integrations
Connect Xoxoday Empuls with Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Darwinbox, Slack, and Microsoft Teams to sync employee data and automate recognition workflows.