Buyers Guides for Total Compensation Management

2025 Software Provider and Product Assessment

The ISG Buyers Guide for Total Compensation Management is the distillation of continuous market and product research. It is an assessment of how well software providers’ offerings address enterprises’ requirements for Total Compensation 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 Buyers Guides for Total Compensation Management evaluate providers across three software categories with unique research for each focus area to help enterprises assess and select software providers.

• The Total Compensation Management Buyers Guide evaluates 10 software providers and products on the ability to deliver a unified, end-to-end approach to compensation. The guide assesses the following providers: ADP, Dayforce, Infor, Oracle, Payscale, PeopleFluent, Salary.com, SAP, UKG and Workday. 
  
  
• The Compensation Insights Buyers Guide evaluates 12 software providers, assessing capabilities for pay equity analysis, spend and trend monitoring, predictive modeling and executive-level reporting. The guide assesses the following providers: ADP, beqom, Dayforce, HRSoft, Infor, Oracle, Payscale, PeopleFluent, Salary.com, SAP, Workday and UKG.
  
  
• The Compensation Operations Buyers Guide evaluates 21 software providers and products, assessing capabilities for workflow automation, governance and approval routing as well as integrations with HRIS, payroll and finance systems. The guide assesses the following providers: ADP, BambooHR, beqom, Cornerstone, Darwinbox, Dayforce, HiBob, HRSoft, Infor, isolved, Oracle, Paycom, Paycor, Paylocity, Payscale, PeopleFluent, Salary.com, SAP, UKG, Unit4 and Workday. 
  
  
• The Compensation Planning Buyers Guide evaluates 19 software providers and products, assessing software that enables organizations to structure pay programs effectively and align them with market realities. The guide assesses the following providers: 15Five, ADP, Anaplan, beqom, Cornerstone, Darwinbox, Dayforce, HiBob, HRSoft, Infor, Oracle, Paycor, Payscale, PeopleFluent, Salary.com, SAP, Unit4, UKG and Workday. 
  
  
• The Compensation Emerging Providers Buyers Guide evaluates 11 software providers and products, assessing platforms offering coverage across planning, analytics and operations, along with differentiated UX, strong collaboration features and scalability potential. The guide assesses the following providers: Aeqium, BetterComp, ChartHop, CompLogix, Compport, Decusoft, Lattice, Leapsome, Pave, Quisitive and Zimyo. 
  
  

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