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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"ADP: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/adp/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/adp/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/adp.md",
  "title": "ADP: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "ADP is on 4 Newsprint research maps: the AI hiring software map, the AI workforce planning software map, the AI compensation software map and the AI internal communications software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Jan. 28, 2026.",
  "period": "Sept. 3, 2025 to Jan. 28, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "adp",
    "name": "ADP",
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    "site": "https://www.adp.com/",
    "summary": "\"A global leader in HR and payroll solutions\" serving more than 1.1 million clients across 140 countries and territories. Products include Workforce Now, Lyric HCM and ADP Global Payroll. Its AI layer, ADP Assist, centres on payroll anomaly detection, conversational analytics, policy answers and talent actions such as promotions. ADP sells a recruiting product (ADP Recruiting Management, with \"contextual AI\"), but its named AI launches in the window do not target screening or scheduling.",
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    "categories": [
      "hcm"
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    "status": "active",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "category_names": [
      "HR suites and HRIS"
    ]
  },
  "confirmed_product_launches": 0,
  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
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  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "\"A global leader in HR and payroll solutions\" serving more than 1.1 million clients across 140 countries and territories. Products include Workforce Now, Lyric HCM and ADP Global Payroll. Its AI layer, ADP Assist, centres on payroll anomaly detection, conversational analytics, policy answers and talent actions such as promotions. ADP sells a recruiting product (ADP Recruiting Management, with \"contextual AI\"), but its named AI launches in the window do not target screening or scheduling.",
    "source": {
      "name": "mediacenter.adp.com",
      "url": "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-09-03-ADP-Unveils-AI-Features-Built-for-HRs-Biggest-Challenges-at-Innovation-Day-2025"
    },
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      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-adp",
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      "name": "ADP",
      "site": "https://www.adp.com/",
      "category": "HR suites and HRIS",
      "what": "\"A global leader in HR and payroll solutions\" serving more than 1.1 million clients across 140 countries and territories. Products include Workforce Now, Lyric HCM and ADP Global Payroll. Its AI layer, ADP Assist, centres on payroll anomaly detection, conversational analytics, policy answers and talent actions such as promotions. ADP sells a recruiting product (ADP Recruiting Management, with \"contextual AI\"), but its named AI launches in the window do not target screening or scheduling.",
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        "url": "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-09-03-ADP-Unveils-AI-Features-Built-for-HRs-Biggest-Challenges-at-Innovation-Day-2025"
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      "price": "not published; sales-led",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agents",
          "AI analytics",
          "Assistant",
          "Skills and planning"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 1,
      "scale": "Enterprise incumbent: a public company or nine-figure revenue (Public company (NASDAQ: ADP); 1.1 million clients, 42 million wage earners)",
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        },
        {
          "name": "mediacenter.adp.com",
          "url": "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2026-01-28-ADP-R-Accelerates-AI-Leadership-with-Launch-of-New-AI-Agents-Designed-to-Solve-Workforce-Challenges"
        },
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    },
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      "name": "ADP",
      "site": "https://www.adp.com/",
      "category": "HR suites and HRIS",
      "what": "ADP sells hourly workforce management inside Workforce Now, Lyric HCM and Global Payroll: demand-based scheduling, labor forecasting from business drivers, overtime alerts and predictive analytics, packaged as the ADP WorkForce Suite in November 2025. ADP Assist analytics agents build workforce reports from chat questions. ADP sells no headcount or strategic workforce planning product of its own.",
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        "name": "adp.com",
        "url": "https://www.adp.com/what-we-offer/time-and-attendance/workforce-management.aspx"
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      "price": "not published; sales-led",
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          "Assistant",
          "Labor demand forecasting",
          "Shift scheduling"
        ]
      },
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          "name": "mediacenter.adp.com",
          "url": "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-11-20-ADP-Launches-Unified-Global-Workforce-Management-Suite-Across-HCM-Platforms"
        },
        {
          "name": "adp.com",
          "url": "https://www.adp.com/resources/what-others-say/analyst-reports/adp-workforce-manager-as-an-expert-in-nucleus-wfm-technology-value-matrix-2026.aspx"
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          "url": "https://uk.adp.com/what-we-offer/products/adp-time-and-workforce.aspx"
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        {
          "name": "mediacenter.adp.com",
          "url": "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2026-01-28-ADP-R-Accelerates-AI-Leadership-with-Launch-of-New-AI-Agents-Designed-to-Solve-Workforce-Challenges"
        }
      ],
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    },
    {
      "map": "compensation-software",
      "title": "The AI compensation software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-adp",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "ADP",
      "site": "https://www.adp.com/",
      "category": "HR suites and HRIS",
      "what": "ADP sells pay data more than comp planning. \"Real Income powered by ADP\" benchmarks pay against \"39+ million ADP U.S. payroll records\" across 9,000+ job titles and can \"quantify pay gaps down to dollars and cents and estimate the cost to close them\". Enhanced Insights powered by ADP DataCloud adds compensation benchmarks, natural-language questions through ADP Assist and a predictive turnover model. ADP's pay transparency page points to DataCloud for pay gap analysis. Buyers are HR teams on ADP payroll.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "adp.com",
        "url": "https://www.adp.com/what-we-offer/products/real-income.aspx"
      },
      "price": "Real Income: free trial of 3 job benchmarks over 7 days, then \"schedule a demo or get pricing\"; DataCloud app: \"Login to see prices\"",
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      "capabilities": {
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          "Pay analytics",
          "Assistant",
          "Market pay data",
          "Pay equity analysis"
        ]
      },
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          "url": "https://www.adp.com/what-we-offer/products/real-income.aspx"
        },
        {
          "name": "apps.adp.com",
          "url": "https://apps.adp.com/en-US/apps/397988/enhanced-insights-powered-by-adp-datacloud"
        },
        {
          "name": "adp.com",
          "url": "https://www.adp.com/resources/pay-transparency.aspx"
        }
      ],
      "more_sources": 0,
      "cross_listed": true
    },
    {
      "map": "internal-communications-software",
      "title": "The AI internal communications software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-adp",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "ADP",
      "site": "https://www.adp.com/",
      "category": "HR suites and HRIS",
      "what": "ADP Connect is an employee engagement experience for ADP Workforce Now, delivered in the ADP Mobile app. Practitioners post company announcements and policy changes to a news feed with email and push notifications. ADP Connect Plus adds direct and group chats, an interactive social-style feed and AI-powered moderation of chats and comments. News feed content can be published in English, Spanish and French. ADP says it engages deskless and frontline workers.",
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        "name": "apps.adp.com",
        "url": "https://apps.adp.com/en/apps/623573/adp-connect-for-adp-workforce-now/overview"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
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        "label": "AI capabilities",
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          "Content governance"
        ]
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          "name": "apps.adp.com",
          "url": "https://apps.adp.com/en-US/apps/623573/adp-connect-for-adp-workforce-now/features"
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/adp/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-01-28",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "ADP launches ADP Assist agents",
      "summary": "ADP introduced persona-based ADP Assist agents for payroll variance, tax registration, HR policy answers, analytics and talent actions such as promotions.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-adp"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2026-01-28-ADP-R-Accelerates-AI-Leadership-with-Launch-of-New-AI-Agents-Designed-to-Solve-Workforce-Challenges"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/adp/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-11-20",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "ADP launches unified WorkForce Suite across its HCM platforms",
      "summary": "ADP brought its workforce management suite into Workforce Now, Lyric HCM and Global Payroll: time and attendance, demand-based scheduling with labor forecasting from business drivers, absence management, and predictive analytics.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-adp"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-11-20-ADP-Launches-Unified-Global-Workforce-Management-Suite-Across-HCM-Platforms"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/adp/#event-3",
      "on": "2025-09-03",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "ADP Assist adds AI analytics and anomaly detection",
      "summary": "At Innovation Day 2025 ADP added payroll anomaly detection, conversational analytics, workforce trend insights and AI compliance monitoring to Workforce Now, Global Payroll and Lyric HCM.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-adp"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-09-03-ADP-Unveils-AI-Features-Built-for-HRs-Biggest-Challenges-at-Innovation-Day-2025"
      }
    }
  ]
}