Guides
Ten categories, walked product by product
A guide takes one category's standing from the November 2026 Edition and walks the top eight products in order: the share and rank each holds for each buyer, what the fourteen models said for and against it in their own words, and where the answer changes with the framing or the size of the company asking. Every figure is the category page's own; a guide adds no opinion, only the reading.
Core HR and payroll
HRIS and HCM platforms
Rippling leads at 37% of first choices, contested. The top eight of nine ranked products, with what the models said for and against each.
Core HR and payroll
Payroll software
Rippling leads at 29% of first choices, contested. The top eight of ten ranked products, with what the models said for and against each.
Talent acquisition
Applicant tracking systems
Greenhouse leads at 30% of first choices, contested. The top eight of nine ranked products, with what the models said for and against each.
Learning and development
Learning management systems
TalentLMS leads at 40% of first choices, contested. The top seven of seven ranked products, with what the models said for and against each.
Performance and talent management
Performance management
Lattice leads at 47% of first choices, clear leader. The top five of five ranked products, with what the models said for and against each.
Onboarding and employee experience
Employee engagement surveys
15Five Engage leads at 39% of first choices, contested. The top seven of seven ranked products, with what the models said for and against each.
Core HR and payroll
Benefits administration
Employee Navigator leads at 31% of first choices, contested. The top eight of eight ranked products, with what the models said for and against each.
Core HR and payroll
Time and attendance
Rippling leads at 15% of first choices, contested. The top eight of twelve ranked products, with what the models said for and against each.
Onboarding and employee experience
Employee onboarding
Rippling leads at 28% of first choices, contested. The top seven of seven ranked products, with what the models said for and against each.
Compensation and total rewards
Compensation management
Pave leads at 25% of first choices, contested. The top eight of twelve ranked products, with what the models said for and against each.
Why these ten
Guides are added a few categories at a time and measured before more follow. Every category has its standing, its warnings and every answer on its own page whether or not a guide exists for it yet.