HR Technology Ecosystem

Automation plays an important role in achieving operational excellence in HR. Technology supporting end to end automation, service delivery and amazing employee experience are the winners in the Cloud HR technology market. We covered HR technology landscape in the previous blog, in this blog we will be covering some of the big names in HR technology ecosystem.

HCM market in the past was ruled by PeopleSoft, Oracle eBusiness Suit and SAP HCM software, however in the cloud world, there are many big players winning in different areas eventhough Workday, SAP SuccessFactors and Oracle HCM Cloud holds most of the marketshare.  In the new world, organisation need to think about investing in a partnership as opposed to buying a software as the rate of innovation in todays market is so fast that partnership is as important as the quality of the software at the time of purchase. 

Below is a diagram of functional layers within HR technology and some popular strategic vendors

Please note that technology selection for your organisation depends on the organisation specific need and hence a good software for one organisation may not be a fit for the other. HR technology selection process will purely depend on factors like requirements, vendor history, customer service, your budget, etc. and are specific to your organisation

*Not all vendors are included here

Vendor	Link	Description
Workday	https://www.workday.com/	Key player with overall end to end HCM offering from the founders of PeopleSoft
SAP SuccessFactors	https://www.successfactors.com/content/ssf-site/en.html	Key player with overall end to end HCM offering from SAP
Oracle HCM Cloud	https://www.oracle.com/uk/applications/human-capital-management/	Key player with overall end to end HCM offering from SAP
Ultimate software	https://www.ultimatesoftware.com/	Well known overall end to end HCM player from an upcoming big player
Cornerstone	https://www.cornerstoneondemand.co.uk/	Learning leader and provides talent management capabilities
ServiceNow	https://www.servicenow.com/products/hr-service-delivery.html	HR service delivery leader with a move to provide end to end enterprise service management in one place Have on-boarding offering
Peopledoc	https://www.people-doc.com/	HR service delivery tool, now owned by Ultimate software
Taleo	https://www.oracle.com/uk/applications/taleo.html	Recruitment leader owned by Oracle
IBM Kenexa	https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/marketplace/talent-acquisition	Recruitment specialised owned by IBM
Visier	https://www.visier.com/	Leader in people analytics and strategic workforce planning space
Workhuman	https://www.workhuman.com/	Social recognition specialist
Qualtrics	https://www.qualtrics.com/uk/	Employee engagement leader now owned by SAP, was leader in customer engagement
Glint	https://www.glintinc.com/	Employee engagement specialist owned by LinkedIn
Peakon	https://peakon.com/	Employee engagement specialist vendor, have other offerings as well
ADP	https://uk.adp.com/	Payroll leader, have HCM software as well
Kronos	https://www.kronos.co.uk/	Time and Attendance leader, managed complex time tracking
Beqom	https://www.beqom.com/	Total compensation statement specialised
Ceridian	https://www.ceridian.com/uk/products/dayforce	Payroll leader
SAP Fieldglass	https://www.fieldglass.com/	Vendor management system specialised for contingent worker management , owned by SAP
Talent Soft	https://www.talentsoft.com/	Learning specialised
NGA	https://www.ngahr.com/	Payroll leaders
Salesforce	https://www.salesforce.com/uk/products/service-cloud/solutions/employee-engagement/	HR service delivery player, leader in customer service
Pega systems	https://www.pega.com/	HR service delivery player
Alteryx	https://www.alteryx.com/	Machine learning, data science player in analytics arena
SAS	https://www.sas.com/en_gb/home.html	Machine learning, data science player in analytics arena
Databricks	https://databricks.com/	Machine learning, data science player in analytics arena
Walkme	https://www.walkme.com/	Walkthrough tool to enable digital adoption
Applearn	https://applearn.com/	Digital adoption software
Yammer	https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/yammer/yammer-overview	Social collaboration platform owned by Microsoft
Facebook Workplace	https://www.facebook.com/workplace	Social collaboration platform owned by Facebook
Chatter	https://www.salesforce.com/uk/products/chatter/overview/	Social collaboration platform owned by Salesforce
Kudos	https://www.kudos.com/	Social recognition platform
Workstars	https://www.workstars.com/	Social recognition platform
LinkedIn Learning	https://www.linkedin.com/learning/	Learning offering from LinkedIn
SAP Litmos	https://www.litmos.com/	Social learning leaders owned by SAP
Power BI	https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/	Data visualisation tool owned by Microsoft
Qlik	https://www.qlik.com/us	Data visualisation tool in analytics arena
Tableau	https://www.tableau.com/en-gb	Data visualisation tool in analytics arena
MicroSoft SharePoint	https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration	Portal and content management system owned by Microsoft
BluePrism	https://www.blueprism.com/	Robotic Process automation leader
UIPath	https://www.uipath.com/	Robotic Process automation leader
MS Teams	https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software	Microsoft teams for better teams collaboration and meeting
IBM Watson	https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/watson	Leader in Machine learning
DocuSign	https://www.docusign.com/	Digital Signature leader