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Talent Management Software

Talent Management

What is Talent Management Software?

Talent Management software enables organizations to attract, develop, and retain top performers through integrated tools covering recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and learning. These platforms align employee goals with business objectives, providing HR teams and managers with insights needed to nurture talent and drive workforce productivity. Beyond core HR functions, Talent Management platforms support succession planning and career development, helping organizations identify and prepare future leaders. Continuous feedback tools and skills assessments provide employees and managers with actionable development insights, while workforce analytics enable data-driven decisions that improve retention, close skills gaps, and align human capital strategy with long-term business goals.

Common Features

  • Collaboration
  • Performance Management
  • Learning and Development
  • Onboarding Offboarding
  • Rewards Recognition
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Wellness
  • Employee Engagement
  • Career Pathing
  • Succession Planning
  • Compensation Management

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Products: 15
Next Award: Jun 2027

Top Talent Management Software 2026

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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Cornerstone Talent Experience future-forward Talent Experience Platform combines best-in-class learning with growth-centric talent capabilities and the power of AI to make talent leaders champions of engagement, growth, and transformation.Cornerstone OnDemand is a global leader in cloud-based human capital management software, from recruitment, onboarding, training and collaboration, to performance management, compensation, succession planning, people administration and analytics.

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Pros

  • Unique Features
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Respectful

Successful organizations cultivate and retain top talent. Oracle Talent Management Cloud gives you the tools to master every stage of the talent lifecycle, from acquiring the right people to nurturing their growth and development and managing their succession.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Security Protects
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Effective Service

Infor Talent Management is a set of applications that supports strategic people initiatives, helping organizations to get the most from their talent. Build diverse teams and personalize career path strategies for your people by leveraging large quantities of behavioral and performance data.

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  • Efficient Service
  • Enables Productivity
  • Security Protects
  • Respectful

A good talent management solution means being able to find, grow, align and keep your employees. ADP helps you develop your workers so both you and they grow together in the long run. With ADP Talent Management, managers with greater visibility into team strengths, performance and productivity can encourage ongoing collaboration and coaching, delivered in real-time.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Efficient Service

SumTotal Talent empowers your people with intuitive, personalized tools that engage employees in pursuing their own self-directed path for development and career growth, while ensuring their efforts are aligned with the goals and business demands of their team and the broader organization. We deliver new ways to engage your talent with innovative solutions that know, develop, grow and reward your workforce.

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  • Acts with Integrity
  • Fair
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Respectful

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Avature

Avature

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Avature is a highly configurable enterprise SaaS platform for Talent Acquisition and Talent Management. Avature HCM SaaS solutions are designed for Strategic HR initiatives in recruiting and talent management. Avature brings consumer-grade Internet technology and innovation to HCM software. Avature solutions include shared services sourcing, applicant tracking, campus & events recruiting, video interviewing, employee referral management, social on-boarding, branded employee engagement, employee mobility workforce optimization and performance management.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

ADP Vantage HCM is an all-in-one, open-architecture solution for strategic human capital management — talent, payroll, time and benefits — for large U.S.-based multinational businesses. ADP HR Solutions provide a system of human resource management software solutions to streamline the management of human capital and payroll needs for any sized business.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
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8.0 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Leverage Cegid HR's expertise for an enhanced employee experience, simplified recruitment, and sophisticated talent management. Cegid HR's software suite supports HR management at every stage of your growth cycle including Core HR, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and Learning. Cegid HR allows you to transform your talent management decisions into actions by relying on a unified and adaptable Core HR, regardless of the degree of decentralization of your organization.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

TalentGuard offers a robust competency-based Talent Management Software suite. Our talent management technology amplifies your company’s ability to make informed, predictive decisions about your workforce.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Our TALENTview Management System offers a fully configurable suite of cloud-based talent management software built for the way managers work. Powered by our advanced InSITE Technology, HR leaders now can have the best-of-breed features and functionality they need with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that makes it easy for managers to use.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing