Mapping of top 50 HR tech solutions – 2025/2026 edition
The HR Tech ecosystem, just like our cities, is in perpetual transformation. Each year, we hand you a map to navigate its latest HR innovations!
Discover the Top 50 best-of-breed solutions suited for large enterprises in 2025. We have left the HRIS suites off the map as you are already familiar with them.
And just before navigating together across these rich, fast-moving terrain, here are 3 key dynamics shaping the HR Tech landscape:
1️⃣ Slowdown Zone
The watchwords of the year: caution, consolidation, and rationalization. On the supply side, we are seeing a reduced momentum in start-up launches and fundraising is subdued. On the demand side, HRDs are optimizing their digital ecosystem, reassessing the functional coverage of the many tools already in place. This favors solutions that can address multiple use cases and fosters market consolidation.
2️⃣ Artificial Intelligence: Clear Express Lane
After last year’s GenAI wave, agentic approaches continue to power AI’s promise. The most concrete and most promising use case in HR tools is the conversational agent: a personalized service capable of handling complex requests by triangulating multiple data sources.
3️⃣ HR Data: The Essential Fuel
HR is strengthening its ability to steer how roles and organizations evolve, leveraging quantitative analysis enriched with qualitative and even forward-looking insights for the most advanced. In large enterprises, this goes hand in hand with formalizing HR data governance and the teams around it. Among HR data, skills-related data is becoming increasingly critical, particularly in the context of establishing skill-based organizations.
The Akoya team wishes you a rewarding journey through the 5 themed districts! Here they are:
👋👋👋Talent Acquisition
This category brings together recruitment solutions spanning the end-to-end candidate journey. The market is mature and well-structured, driven by rising demand for unified platforms that integrate with HR information systems (HRIS) and streamline processes. As in other categories, artificial intelligence now plays a central role: it sharpens skills assessment, matches candidates’ capabilities to hiring needs, automates application qualification, and deepens the personalization of interactions.
The top solutions in this category: Joveo – Paradox – Radancy – Seeqle – Beamery – AssessFirst – MakiPeople – TestGorilla
📢📢📢 Employee Engagement
Most solutions in this category capture and analyze employee sentiment to generate organization-wide insights. A second stream targets well-being, mental health, inclusion, remote/hybrid work, and work–life balance, with the goal of improving retention and quality of work life. The market has reached a high level of maturity. Amid consolidation, differentiation now hinges on HRIS integration, manager enablement, and the ability to measure impact.
The top solutions in this category: ServiceNow – Simpplr – Workhuman – Medallia – Perceptyx – Qualtrics – Zest – Culture Amp – Popwork
📚📚📚 Learning & Development
This category encompasses solutions for designing, delivering, and orchestrating training: learning experience platforms (LXP), collaborative learning, mobile learning, and nudge-based tools. The connection between training and the skills it builds has become central, enabling pathways tailored to individual needs. The market is growing as companies raise their expectations: they seek tools that can produce at scale, link learning, skills, and performance whilst still delivering a consistent, standout learner experience.
The top solutions in this category: 360Learning – Bealink – EdCast by Cornerstone – Degreed – Synthesia – Teach on Mars by LumApps – Fifty
🚀🚀🚀 Skills & Talent Management
Solutions in this category map skills, structure skills frameworks, and match talent with opportunities to support employee development. The market is maturing in employee skills mapping and analysis, with clear use cases and a more consolidated set of players. Competition is intensifying between HRIS suite vendors, investing to offer comprehensive, natively integrated capabilities as well as specialist pure-players, who are responding by broadening their functional coverage.
The top solutions in this category: Elevo – Klara – Reejig – 365Talents – Fuel50 – Gloat – SkyHive by Cornerstone – Eightfold – Phenom
💎💎💎Talent & Organizational Intelligence
This category covers data-sourcing and data-exploitation solutions. Powered by internal systems and market data, they address both organizational design and the workforce. The market remains heterogeneous, with maturity levels varying by use case. Specifically, People Analytics and Strategic Workforce Planning topics show sustained growth momentum.
The top solutions in this category: Figures – Syndio – Draup – Lightcast – TalentNeuron – Ingentis – Nakisa – OrgView – Crunchr – One Model – Visier Inc. – TechWolf – Workera – Albert – Anaplan – eQ8 – Pigment
We’ll be delighted to further discuss HR innovations and digital transformation with you: do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss any topic further.
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