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Workday People Analytics

70Judge labels
5First choices
23Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in People analytics for enterprise buyers
Rank 77 of 99 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 43% of its 21 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In people analytics · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Workday People Analytics for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
People analyticsWorkforce planning and analytics0%77 of 9943%21criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workday People Analytics yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Workday People Analytics across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash01012
Perplexity Sonar01012
Grok 4.1 Fast00112
Mistral Small01113
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash00022
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX01113
MiniMax M2.501001

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct9 labels1
Paraphrase7 labels2
Comparative21 labelsNone
Budget-constrained7 labels2
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative21 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative70 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Embedded analytics inside the Workday ecosystem, with enterprise-grade predictive capabilities.” Perplexity Sonar · People analytics · comparative prompt · alternative
“best if you already run Workday and want analytics tightly embedded in an HCM suite” GPT-5.4 mini · People analytics · comparative prompt · alternative
“There is zero data migration, data-cleaning, or external API integration required.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · People analytics · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best if you already use Workday: Workday Analytics/People Analytics” GPT-5.4 mini · People analytics · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Facing multiple U.S. lawsuits ... alleging AI-driven job screening discriminates” Grok 4.1 Fast · People analytics · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Workday People Analytics if you need advanced analytics.” Mistral Small · People analytics · negative prompt · hard negative
“Be very cautious with "Enterprise giants" that sell analytics as an add-on... Avoid if you're under ~2,000 employees.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · People analytics · negative prompt · soft negative
“native HCM analytics modules (such as Workday People Analytics or SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · People analytics · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workday People Analytics, over the 70 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday People Analytics was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Visier66 of 7033Not in the top three
One Model39 of 704Not in the top three
ChartHop34 of 705Not in the top three
Crunchr29 of 701Not in the top three
Culture Amp21 of 701Not in the top three
BambooHR18 of 707Not in the top three
Lattice15 of 702Not in the top three
SAP SuccessFactors15 of 700Not in the top three
Eletive13 of 701Not in the top three
SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics13 of 701Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Workday People Analytics. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 63 of the 70 answers that named Workday People Analytics and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hrbench.com38
eletive.com37
thrivesparrow.com36
workhuman.com33
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com25
peoplemanagingpeople.com25
hr.university23
agile-hr-analytics.com20
adp.com17
firsthr.app16

270 of the 270 domain citations in answers naming Workday People Analytics came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Workday People Analytics

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday People Analytics; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday People Analytics / Prism 1Workday People Analytics / Workday Peakon 1
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