Best Performance Management Systems

Bridge modernizes traditional performance reviews with agile, continuous performance management. Combine regular 1:1 check-ins, goal tracking, real-time feedback, and developmental plans to build an engaged, high-performing workforce.

Breathe (also known as Breathe HR/BreatheHR) is a UK HR platform, founded in 2012, for small and medium-sized businesses. It brings people records, leave, documents, performance, reporting and compliance into one place, replacing scattered spreadsheets and disconnected tools. What's included Core HR: secure central employee records and documents, holiday and leave requests, sickness and absence tracking, self-service, e-signatures, performance management (goals, feedback, one-to-ones, reviews), reporting and analytics. Optional modules: - e-Learning: training management, UK-specific courses, completion tracking - Health and Safety: risk assessments, incident reports, certifications, compliance evidence - Recruitment: hiring workflows, job ads, candidate tracking - Expenses: claims, receipts, manager approval, spend tracking - Rota, Time and Attendance: shifts, availability, hours, attendance In development: an AI Assistant answering HR and policy questions from company information. Payroll planned for late 2026. Problems solved - Scattered data → one accurate central record - Chasing approvals → self-service, e-signatures, shared workflows - Lean HR teams → start with Core HR, add modules as needs grow Result: less duplicate entry and chasing, clearer visibility, more manager and employee involvement. Who it's for Best fit: UK SMEs with up to 200 employees moving HR off spreadsheets, e.g. start-ups, charities, healthcare, retail, education and professional services, especially with lean or shared HR roles. Evaluate carefully: 200+ employees, or needs for multinational payroll, complex global compliance, extensive custom workflows or enterprise workforce planning. Not a global enterprise HCM suite. Why Breathe - 17,000+ businesses; 1,000+ UK HR consultancies - From £24/month per organisation, no long-term contracts or hidden fees - Free 14-day trial, no obligation - UK-based support from setup onwards - ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 accredited; GDPR-conscious; UK data centres, encryption, access controls Bottom line: a flexible, self-service way for UK SMEs to organise HR and cut admin, with room to grow into recruitment, learning, safety, expenses, rotas and payroll (late 2026).

Build high-performing teams painlessly with Rippling’s suite of Performance Management apps. Powered by your employee data, Review Cycles facilitates efficient evaluations with 360-feedback, calibration, and even compensation all in one place. Aligning employee performance with organizational goals while providing real-time insights throughout performance cycles. Cultivate a culture of high performance with Milestone Reviews, triggered off of any employee attribute or event.

Paylocity delivers the most innovative technology bringing HR, payroll, and IT together in one modern, easy-to-use platform to empower teams, simplify processes, and deliver real results. The platform enables businesses to manage payroll, benefits, employee engagement, and other core HR functions while also managing non-payroll spend, including expenses, account payable, corporate cards, procurement, and headcount planning. Paylocity's integrated platform includes mobile access, workflow automation, seamless third-party integrations, and real-time insights that help businesses manage employees and business operations more effectively. Paylocity also provides dedicated customer support, implementation services, and scalable solutions designed to meet the needs of growing businesses and enterprise organizations.

Seertech is an all-in-one solution that consolidates your learning and development investment in multiple systems: one contract, one software, one relationship, and one place for all your learners. As an award-winning LMS, Seertech is trusted by over 5 million users globally. With a customer retention rate 78% higher than industry average, Seertech will be the LAST LMS you will ever need. At its core, Seertech is designed to rapidly upskill and retain resources at scale. What sets Seertech apart is how personalized and configurable the software is. This makes our LMS ideal for enterprise organizations with intricate and ‘mission-critical’ learning needs. The Seertech learning approach reduces tribal knowledge, time to contribution, fragmented learning, and manual reporting. These outcomes enable enterprise organizations to better address the current skills shortage. To achieve exceptional learning outcomes, boost retention and reduce costs - talk to Seertech today.

Paycor modernizes every aspect of people management, from recruiting, onboarding and payroll to career development and retention. For more than 30 years, Paycor has been listening to and partnering with leaders to learn what they need: a comprehensive, unified HR platform, easy integration with third party apps, powerful analytics, and custom technology and support for specific industry needs. That’s why more than 29,000 customers trust Paycor to help them solve problems and achieve their goals.

At APS, our mission is simple: to make payroll and HR easier. Our comprehensive, user-friendly SaaS platform is designed to streamline human capital management for organizations, enabling efficient payroll processing, automated HR workflows, and an enhanced employee lifecycle—all in one place. With decades of industry expertise, APS is your dependable partner, committed to continuous improvement and innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our clients. Our clients and partners benefit from personalized service and dedicated support, helping them achieve their goals effortlessly. Businesses choose APS as their trusted workforce partner because of our unwavering commitment to the customer experience, reflected in our 98% customer satisfaction rate. Experience the APS difference—where professional, approachable, and innovative service meets your HCM needs.

Netchex is a cloud-based HCM (Human Capital Management) system designed to help businesses manage the employee lifecycle, from recruitment to retirement, with a range of tools to manage recruiting, hiring & onboarding, plus payroll and tax compliance, human resources, time and attendance, benefits, and more. As a cloud-based solution, Netchex gives users the flexibility to manage the employee lifecycle anytime, anywhere, via any internet-enabled device. Netchex helps users streamline the entire hiring process through their applicant tracking and onboarding system. With Netchex recruiting technology, users can find and evaluate qualified candidates, as well as carry out background checks, send offer letters, archive resumes, and more. Features such as flexible payment options, pre-processing reports and analysis, and compliance management help users manage payroll and tax processes accurately and efficiently.

intelliHR is an Australian HR technology business that has developed a next-generation cloud-based people management and data analytics platform. Our strategic HR SaaS product helps our customers: 1. Create a culture based on employee engagement 2. Enable performance through empowering employees 3. Give leaders real-time insights and visibility over their people Our aim is to become an essential core platform for every business to manage their talent providing the necessary tools to align, manage and enable a ‘people and culture strategy’ within a company’s broader business strategy. We add value through the automation of traditionally manual HR processes, like onboarding and record management, whilst capturing critical people and performance data not typically available or visible to business today, providing deep insight into issues, trends and opportunities that HR managers can act on and use to inform strategy and decision making.

People are complex, but your HR solution shouldn’t be. Namely gives you the resources to make your life easier and your employees happier. With modern, intuitive technology and a world-class team of HR experts, Namely empowers people teams with a complete HR solution designed for mid-sized businesses. Namely streamlines all of your HR data into a single platform with an interface you AND your workforce will love to use. Your platform is implemented with your unique business needs in mind. Whether you’re transitioning from a PEO or on the hunt for a new HCM software, Namely has the technology and people to support your company every step of the way.

An HCM system that adapts to what comes next. Your workforce, how and where people work, even the skills you need continue to shift. So how do you adapt to what the future brings? Meet Workday Human Capital Management (HCM). Our machine learning helps you understand your people’s skills today and build talent around the skills you'll need tomorrow. Workday Human Capital Management empowers you to curate recommendations, suggest learning, and keep communication open. And do it at scale. Our augmented analytics surfaces insights from vast data sets, explaining what’s happening and why in stories you can understand. We deliver intelligent automation across the entire attract-to-pay process, eliminating manual tasks and empowering your people to be their most productive selves. From compensation and payroll to time tracking, benefits, and more, Workday HCM helps you take care of your workforce.

Learn Amp is the complete People Development Hub. Weaving together learning, community, and talent development to power performance. Enabling modern companies to balance people-led and company-led learning, and align individual progression with collective goals. Technology on its own is not a silver bullet. Get software with a service (SwaS) through our expert coaching and advisory services. Our consultative approach has led to a 96% retention rate of happy customers. Speak to us to find out more and join future-thinking organizations like Metro Bank, GAIL's Bakery and Specsavers in consolidating and replacing their tech stack with Learn Amp. Platform packages are flexible and scalable. LEARN; combine engaging LXP and powerful LMS tools. CONNECT; drive higher engagement and better knowledge transfer with cutting edge social features. DEVELOP; improve and measure competencies and connect the right people to the right skills learning; integrate and align performance with L&D goals

A complete set of financial analysis and strategic planning tools that create a clear path to growth. The best strategies are informed by a single source of truth about your business. If you're manually flipping between platforms to get financial data to inform your strategy, not only are you doing more work than necessary, you’re not seeing the whole picture. Maus is a complete suite of business planning and financial analysis tools that help make the big picture obvious. When you’re working with a single source of truth for data in your business, you can create strategies that are focused on specific data that inform actionable insights. Create a unified vision for your business that drives future initiatives towards success. Create detailed plans that explore the next 5 years of your business and showcase how you can grow. Maus lets you create business plans, run business analyses to discover areas for growth, and make connections that lead you in exciting new directions.

Automate complex HR processes with Ascentis, a trusted provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) software solutions. Designed for midmarket businesses based in the US, Ascentis suite of solutions not only help companies save time and money, it also helps them manage the workforce and stay on top of their needs. Ascentis' full range of solutions include applicant tracking and onboarding, benefits management, compliance management, robust reporting, talent management, payroll, time and attendance, and more.

Engagedly is an AI powered talent management platform that helps organizations connect performance, learning, talent mobility, employee engagement, recognition, and people analytics in one unified experience. Powered by Marissa, its AI SuperAgent, Engagedly brings intelligence across every module to help leaders uncover insights, support employee growth, strengthen workforce readiness, and turn people strategy into meaningful action. Built for both desk based and frontline teams, its flexible modules, automation, and integrations help organizations create a connected employee experience. Trusted by organizations worldwide, Engagedly helps build high performing teams, improve engagement and retention, and drive measurable business outcomes.

Powered by GPT AI and Salesforce, we make it easy for your team to conduct inspections, identify risks, assign corrective action requests, prioritize tasks and manage checklists, everywhere you work. Meet the app helping businesses inspect and connect from anywhere. Mobile, connected and secure. We provide teams with real-time insights they can trust to mitigate risk and resolve high-priority actions effectively. Make inspections easy for everyone. Configure questions, tasks, and workflows to create comprehensive Customer 360 views so your inspectors get the job done right the first time, every time. Enable stakeholders to act effectively. Leverage workflows, corrective action plans, and time of inspection flagging features to ensure issues are resolved accurately and efficiently. Use prebuilt digital checklists to streamline data sharing across workflows, creating a secure and scalable data-gathering structure for your business.

Auzmor Learn merges LMS and LXP functionalities into a unified platform that streamlines content creation, learner engagement, and training management. AI-powered course authoring tools reduce content development time by generating interactive elements automatically. Adaptive learning paths tailor training based on individual learner needs and progress. The platform features built-in AI mentorship programs for skill and career growth and uses smart rules to automate training assignments dynamically based on real-time employee data. Event management capabilities simplify scheduling and attendance for live and recurring sessions. Advanced analytics provide predictive insights to optimize learning strategies.

HR Acuity is the only technology platform specifically built for employee relations and investigations management. With our HR case management solution, organizations can build a better workplace by easily performing thorough and comprehensive fact-finding into allegations of employee conduct, minimizing legal and financial risks. The platform includes tools for consistent documentation, search and reporting, and post-hire and exit interviews.

Your partner in delivering a curated and compliant journey of learning and talent development. As the world continues to change rapidly you must build talent agility across your workforce, driving bottom line success and adaptability for future success. Retention is critical to business sustainability. Developing your workforce improves employee retention. With continuous onboarding, you can drive speed to productivity that delivers real results, faster. Employees who believe they have a path to growth are more engaged and likely to stay with your organization longer. All the tools your organization needs to drive compliance, employee skilling and upskilling, and career development and planning. Provide your employees with a powerful, engaging and personalized learning experience for development and growth. Identify, attract and select the right talent for your organization. Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your recruiting team.

Actio is a cloud-based business performance and corporate management platform designed to unify and automate strategic planning, performance tracking, risk management, bonus and incentive processes, operational routines, and results monitoring in one integrated system. It helps organizations translate strategy into execution by connecting goals, indicators, actions, and dashboards so leaders can monitor performance across teams and levels, apply methodologies like OKR, BSC, PDCA, and agile frameworks, and use built-in AI to generate actionable insights, detect performance gaps, and support data-driven decisions rather than reactive problem-solving. It includes modules for strategic management, risk forecasting and mitigation, performance and people management, variable compensation (bonus), budget matrix tracking, customizable digital checklists, and more, all centralized in a single environment with real-time dashboards, visual maps, and progress tracking for KPIs.