UKG named Strategic Leader in the 2025 Fosway 9-Grid for Cloud HR

Recognition underscores UKG’s strong market performance, innovation, and people-first AI leadership supporting complex organisations across EMEA

UKG, a leading global AI platform unifying HR, pay, and workforce management, is the only vendor in the 2025 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Cloud HR report with two solutions named Strategic Leader or Core Leader.

Fosway Group, EMEA’s leading independent market analyst for HR, Talent and Learning, rated UKG Pro Workforce Management as a Strategic Leader for its ability to meet the complex needs of large, international organisations. Fosway also rated UKG Ready a Core Leader for its full HCM suite with the scope and ability to manage small and mid-size enterprises with an international footprint.

UKG partners with organisations employing frontline workers who must be physically present to build products or deliver services to customers, patients, students, or residents. These workers represent nearly 80% of the global workforce.

The Fosway 9-Grid report highlights UKG’s deep expertise in workforce planning and scheduling, and advanced AI capabilities through UKG Bryte™ AI, which it said “provides market-leading AI features for specialist workforce management.” Fosway added that UKG has historically been among the first to embed AI for workforce management deep into its core products.

The report said UKG Pro Workforce Management “has market leading capabilities in workforce management, serving a multitude of planning and scheduling approaches.” It also highlighted UKG Pro’s integrated One View® platform, which provides multi-country payroll visibility across EMEA.

UKG Ready® solutions were highlighted as having: “sophisticated time and workforce management, as well as HR service delivery capabilities, and a strong mobile app.”

Russell Howe, Group Vice President EMEA at UKG, said: “We’re honoured two of our solutions were recognised in the 2025 Cloud HR 9-Grid. This achievement reflects our commitment to delivering innovative, AI-powered solutions that meet the diverse needs of large, complex enterprises to growing SMEs. At UKG, we believe that every workforce deserves technology that empowers people and drives better business outcomes.”

“Agile, effective management of work and the workforce is critical to the future success of all companies,” said David Wilson, Founder and CEO of Fosway Group, “UKG Pro Workforce Management offers the capabilities to enable companies to manage workforces at scale and has been recognised as a specialist Strategic Leader in the 9-Grid for Cloud in 2025, with UKG Ready also recognised as a Core Leader suite for small and mid-enterprises.”

The Fosway 9-Grid is a unique, five-dimensional model that compares solutions based on Performance, Potential, Market Presence, Total Cost of Ownership, and Trajectory. It is Europe’s only independent analysis of HR, talent, and learning systems built specifically for EMEA enterprise-scale organisations. The Fosway 9-Grid provides a unique assessment of the leading learning and talent solutions available to organisations in EMEA. The analysis is based on extensive independent research and insights from Fosway’s Corporate Research Network of over 250 organisations.