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Workday Talent Optimization

2Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

1 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Workday Talent Optimization was named 1 time in Succession planning, where Lattice led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market42 of 93

under the label threshold

Enterprise12 of 82

under the label threshold

In succession planning · 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 Talent Optimization 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Succession planning	Performance and talent management	0%	42 of 93	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 28%

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated Workday Talent Optimization across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0

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

Direct1 label1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 label1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“shortlist Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle, and Cornerstone” GPT-6 Luna · Succession planning · comparative prompt · first choice

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workday Talent Optimization, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Talent Optimization was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development2 of 20Not among the top eight

Cornerstone Succession1 of 20Not among the top eight

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM1 of 20Not among the top eight

Oracle Talent Review and Succession Management1 of 20Not among the top eight

UKG Pro Talent Management1 of 20Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Talent Optimization. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 2 answers that named Workday Talent Optimization and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

docs.oracle.com2

help.sap.com2

workday.comYour site2

cornerstoneondemand.com1

ukg.com1

Six of the eight domain citations in answers naming Workday Talent Optimization came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

workday.com/en-us/products/talent-management/talent-optimization.html2

cornerstoneondemand.com/platform/succession-planning1

docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/human-resources/faqah/use-the-succession-organization-chart.1

docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/talent-management/fatrs/succession-planning.html1

help.sap.com/docs/successfactors-succession-and-development/implementing-and-managing-succ1

help.sap.com/docs/successfactors-succession-and-development/sap-best-practices-for-sap-suc1

ukg.com/products/features/talent-management1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Follow Workday Talent Optimization

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Workday is the company behind Workday Talent Optimization.

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On record

Company records

Also from Workday: Workday Absence, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Advanced Compensation, Workday Assistant, Workday Benefits, Workday Compensation, Workday Compensation Management, Workday Contingent Worker Management and 35 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Skills and Performance Management Software
workday.com/en-us/products/talent-management/talent-optimization.html
For: organizations
workday.com/en-us/products/talent-management/talent-optimization.html
Certifications: Workday Pro Platform Administrator Certification
Customers named: ConcentrixNVIDIAPwCOchsner Health SystemCochlear
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Workday Talent Optimization's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: workday.com/en-us/products/talent-management/talent-optimization.html, workday.com/de-de/services/talent-partners.html, workday.com/en-us/pages/ig-employee-performance-management-me.html, workday.com/nl-nl/topics/hr/talent-management.html, workday.com/fr-fr/topics/hr/talent-management-hr.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Workday Talent Optimization's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Workday Talent Optimization, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Workday Talent Optimization by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Workday Talent Optimization is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Workday Talent Optimization, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.