Buyers Guides for Payroll

2025 Software Provider and Product Assessment

The 2025 ISG Buyers Guides™ for Payroll are the distillation of continuous market and product research. They are an assessment of how well software providers’ offerings address enterprises’ requirements for payroll management software. The Value Index methodology is structured to support a request for information (RFI) for a request for proposal (RFP) process by incorporating all criteria needed to evaluate, select, utilize and maintain relationships with software providers. The ISG Buyers Guide evaluates customer experience and the product experience in its capability and platform.

The 2025 ISG Buyers Guides™ for Payroll evaluate leading software providers across four payroll focus areas: Payroll Management, Payroll Managed Services, Global Payroll and U.S. Payroll. A set of emerging providers are also evaluated for U.S. Payroll. Each guide delivers unique research, detailed ratings and rankings and in-depth analysis to help enterprises assess and select the payroll software that best fits their requirements.

• The Payroll Management Buyers Guide evaluates nine software providers and products in key areas such as AI and intelligence, analytics and insights, compliance, risk, governance, core payroll processing and automation, employee and administrator experience, integration and ecosystem enablement, payments, finance and embedded services. The guide assesses the following providers: ADP, Dayforce, Infor, Neeyamo, Oracle, Paylocity, SAP, UKG and Workday.
  
  
• The Payroll Managed Services Providers Buyers Guide evaluates 10 software providers and products in key areas such as AI and intelligence, analytics and insights, compliance, risk, governance, core payroll processing and automation, employee and administrator experience, integration and ecosystem enablement, payments, finance, embedded services and service enablement. The guide assesses the following providers: ADP, Dayforce, Deel, isolved, Neeyamo, Netchex, Papaya Global, Paychex, Paycom and UKG.
  
  
• The Global Payroll Buyers Guide evaluates 14 software providers and products in key areas such as AI and intelligence, analytics and insights, compliance, risk, governance, core payroll processing and automation, employee and administrator experience, integration and ecosystem enablement, global payroll coverage and delivery model, payments, finance and embedded services. The guide assesses the following providers: ADP, Darwinbox, Dayforce, Deel, Infor, Neeyamo, Oracle, Oyster, Papaya Global, Paylocity, Rippling, SAP, UKG and Workday.
  
  
• The U.S. Payroll Buyers Guide evaluates 19 software providers and products in key areas such as AI and intelligence, analytics and insights, compliance, risk, governance, core payroll processing and automation, employee and administrator experience, integration and ecosystem enablement, payments, finance and embedded services. The guide assesses the following providers: ADP, BambooHR, Dayforce, Deel, Gusto, Infor, isolved, Neeyamo, Netchex, Oracle, Papaya Global, Paychex, Paycom, Paycor, Paylocity, Rippling, SAP, UKG and Workday. 
  
  
• The U.S. Payroll Emerging Providers Buyers Guide evaluates eight software providers and products in key areas such as AI and intelligence, analytics and insights, compliance, risk, governance, core payroll processing and automation, employee and administrator experience, integration and ecosystem enablement, payments, finance and embedded services. The guide assesses the following providers: EPAY Systems, Intuit, Keka, Namely, Patriot Software, Sage, Sage Criterion and Zoho.
  
  

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