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title: "ADP® Comprehensive Talent | ADP"
description: "Get a designated talent expert, benchmarking from 39M+ employee records and access to 100K+ premium learning courses — all within ADP's secure platform."
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ADP® Comprehensive Talent

# ADP® Comprehensive Talent vs. the competition: Unmatched access to expertise and data

Businesses that partner with ADP Comprehensive Talent get a designated talent expert, the industry’s largest benchmarking dataset and access to 100,000+ premium learning courses, all within ADP's secure and trusted platform. Let’s see how all of that stacks up against the competition.

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## Simplify benefits administration with designated expertise and data-driven support from ADP Comprehensive Benefits

### A designated talent expert to help you redefine your talent strategy

With ADP Comprehensive Talent, your committed and experienced talent consultant will partner with you and your strategic account partner to solve your toughest talent problems – from employer branding, recruiting and retaining high quality talent, compensation modeling, succession planning and more. These are highly experienced and knowledgeable members of our ADP Comprehensive Services client success organization who can help businesses of all shapes and sizes with common strategic talent issues through insights, trusted workflows and best practices.

### Smarter talent decisions powered by the industry’s largest dataset 

Benchmark your compensation, workforce demographics and retention metrics against your industry peers using the largest HR dataset in the market, ADP DataCloud, built from anonymized data across 39M+ U.S. employees.  
  
With advanced benchmarking capabilities and AI-powered analytics tools that enable natural language queries across key practice areas like recruitment, you can gain deeper insights to help inform your talent strategy. Furthermore, you can analyze critical areas of your business through curated experiences designed to enable a deeper understanding of what impacts your employees and organization. Get deep-dive insights on factors like:

-   Turnover probability
-   Organization benchmarks
-   Annual compensation
-   Workforce compensation analysis
-   Talent market insights
-   And more!

### Track and manage employee performance in real-time 

Get the exact support you need for your talent challenges. The Performance Management Module in ADP Comprehensive Talent provides an out-of-the-box, single dashboard solution to help you holistically view, track and manage your employees’ workplace performance and competencies in real time.  
  
Or, with the help of your talent consultant, you can set up various tables to track performance optimization and review best practices. Come performance review time, these tables make it simple to easily review and validate all of the great work your employees have achieved throughout the year. Furthermore, with the real-time updates provided here, your talent consultant can offer strategic training and best practices around performance reviews and optimization tactics within the module.

### Premium learning content to upskill and develop your people

ADP Comprehensive Talent gives you and your teams access to ADP® Premium Learning Content which offers over 100,000 training courses and development content to help them grow in their role and alongside your organization.  
  
Your teams can utilize our AI-powered course recommendation tools to sort through our library curated from over 250 learning providers across a wide range of topics to more easily find the right courses to help them grow in their roles. Furthermore, our Premium Learning Content library offers CEU (Continuing Education Units) and CPE (Continuing Professional Education) credits to showcase your employees’ commitment to career development.

### Streamline recruitment from job postings to hiring

ADP Comprehensive Talent’s Recruitment Management Module simplifies the creation, posting and tracking of new jobs listings, while also offering a single location to track potential candidates alongside applicant progress across the interview process. This helps to ensure a streamlined experience and real-time visibility for practitioners.  
  
Employers will also get access to partnerships with popular job board sites to help the distribution of job listings and remove much of the manual lift involved in the process, helping to ensure qualified candidates see your openings and connect the right applicants with the right roles.

## See how ADP Comprehensive Talent outperforms other talent management offerings

ADP Comprehensive Talent gives you a scalable solution for talent management with the help of designated expertise, AI-powered data insights and benchmarking, streamlined performance management and more!

Paychex + PaycorPaycomPaylocityDayforceUKG

Capabilities
| Capabilities | ADP | Paychex + Paycor¹ |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Strategic partnership with a designated talent consultant who brings specific expertise and knowledge around all things talent (in addition to their accounts manager) | Offered | Not offered |
| Benchmark, prioritize and make smarter talent strategy decisions with access to premium data from ADP DataCloud, the largest dataset in the industry\* | Offered | Partial capability² |
| Access to 100,000+ premium learning courses to help upskill and develop your people with access to AI tools to help find the right content for them | Offered | Not offered |
| Real-time management and tracking of workers' progress towards achieving strategic goals with the Performance Management Module at no additional cost | Offered | Partial capability³ |
| Track candidate progression and open role applicant performance with the Recruitment Management Module and Insights | Offered | Offered |

Capabilities
| Capabilities | ADP | Paycom¹ |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Strategic partnership with a designated talent consultant who brings specific expertise and knowledge around all things talent (in addition to their accounts manager) | Offered | Not offered |
| Benchmark, prioritize and make smarter talent strategy decisions with access to premium data from ADP DataCloud, the largest dataset in the industry\* | Offered | Partial capability⁴ |
| Access to 100,000+ premium learning courses to help upskill and develop your people with access to AI tools to help find the right content for them | Offered | Not offered |
| Real-time management and tracking of workers' progress towards achieving strategic goals with the Performance Management Module at no additional cost | Offered | Partial capability⁵ |
| Track candidate progression and open role applicant performance with the Recruitment Management Module and Insights | Offered | Offered |

Capabilities
| Capabilities | ADP | Paylocity¹ |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Strategic partnership with a designated talent consultant who brings specific expertise and knowledge around all things talent (in addition to their accounts manager) | Offered | Not offered |
| Benchmark, prioritize and make smarter talent strategy decisions with access to premium data from ADP DataCloud, the largest dataset in the industry\* | Offered | Partial capability⁶ |
| Access to 100,000+ premium learning courses to help upskill and develop your people with access to AI tools to help find the right content for them | Offered | Partial capability⁷ |
| Real-time management and tracking of workers' progress towards achieving strategic goals with the Performance Management Module at no additional cost | Offered | Offered |
| Track candidate progression and open role applicant performance with the Recruitment Management Module and Insights | Offered | Offered |

Capabilities
| Capabilities | ADP | Dayforce¹ |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Strategic partnership with a designated talent consultant who brings specific expertise and knowledge around all things talent (in addition to their accounts manager) | Offered | Not offered |
| Benchmark, prioritize and make smarter talent strategy decisions with access to premium data from ADP DataCloud, the largest dataset in the industry\* | Offered | Partial capability⁸ |
| Access to 100,000+ premium learning courses to help upskill and develop your people with access to AI tools to help find the right content for them | Offered | Not offered |
| Real-time management and tracking of workers' progress towards achieving strategic goals with the Performance Management Module at no additional cost | Offered | Partial capability⁹ |
| Track candidate progression and open role applicant performance with the Recruitment Management Module and Insights | Offered | Partial capability¹⁰ |

Capabilities
| Capabilities | ADP | UKG¹ |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Strategic partnership with a designated talent consultant who brings specific expertise and knowledge around all things talent (in addition to their accounts manager) | Offered | Not offered |
| Benchmark, prioritize and make smarter talent strategy decisions with access to premium data from ADP DataCloud, the largest dataset in the industry\* | Offered | Partial capability¹¹ |
| Access to 100,000+ premium learning courses to help upskill and develop your people with access to AI tools to help find the right content for them | Offered | Not offered |
| Real-time management and tracking of workers' progress towards achieving strategic goals with the Performance Management Module at no additional cost | Offered | Offered |
| Track candidate progression and open role applicant performance with the Recruitment Management Module and Insights | Offered | Partial capability¹² |

## FAQs about ADP Comprehensive Talent

### Why should I choose ADP Comprehensive Talent over Paychex?

Only ADP Comprehensive Talent pairs a designated talent consultant with the industry’s largest benchmarking dataset while giving your teams access to over 100,000 premium learning courses to grow in their roles and with your organization. Paychex doesn’t offer these, and while they may offer a performance management tool, it’s an add-on feature that requires organizations to purchase it. The performance management module comes bundled with ADP Comprehensive Talent.

### Why should I choose ADP Comprehensive Talent over Paycom?

Only with ADP Comprehensive Talent, do you get the partnership of a designated talent consultant alongside access to the industry’s largest benchmarking dataset, while your teams can grow in their roles with the help of 100,000 premium learning courses. ADP Comprehensive Talent also provides performance management tools with real-time visibility into your teams’ progress towards their goals. While Paycom may offer similar performance management features, theirs doesn’t include real-time tracking and insights.

### Why should I choose ADP Comprehensive Talent over Paylocity?

Only with ADP Comprehensive Talent, can you tap into the insights and best practices of your designated talent consultant alongside access to the industry’s largest benchmarking dataset. Paylocity doesn’t offer as many premium learning courses for your employees as ADP Comprehensive Talent does.

### Why should I choose ADP Comprehensive Talent over Dayforce?

Only through ADP Comprehensive Talent, do you gain the support of a designated talent consultant and the industry's largest benchmarking dataset, as well as the ability to empower your teams to develop their abilities with the aid of 100,000+ premium learning courses. Dayforce may offer performance and recruitment management features as well but their performance management feature is an ad-on that costs extra, while their recruitment management tool lacks the additional insights that come with with  a designated talent consultant and ADP’s vast data insights.

### Why should I choose ADP Comprehensive Talent over UKG?

With ADP Comprehensive Talent alone, you can benefit from the guidance of a designated talent consultant and access to the most extensive benchmarking dataset in the industry, all while your teams can enhance their skills through 100,000 premium learning courses. While UKG may also offer performance and recruitment management features, they lack the additional support of a designated talent consultant’s strategic support and the insights from the industry’s largest dataset that come with ADP Datacloud.

### What other managed services does ADP Comprehensive Services offer?

1.  In addition to ADP Comprehensive Talent, ADP Comprehensive Services also offers scalable full-service solutions to support HR, payroll and benefits administration for businesses of all sizes and industries.
2.  With ADP Comprehensive HR, you get HR and compliance support from your strategic account partner. This includes HR best practices, a forms library, online document management, new hire onboarding and electronic I-9 employment verification, compliance alerts, and more!
3.  With ADP Comprehensive Pay, you get the administrative support of a payroll specialist who will help with payroll processing, reconciliation, compliance validations, tax filing and reporting, a payroll dashboard with real-time information and more!
4.  With ADP Comprehensive Benefits, you get the administrative support of a benefits specialist who will assist with open enrollment, benefits plan setup and carrier connections, COBRA administration, invoice discrepancies, reporting and more!

### Can I use ADP Comprehensive Talent with other ADP Comprehensive Services managed services?

Yes, ADP Comprehensive Services allows you to outsource one or multiple functions across HR, payroll, benefits administration and talent management. You can learn more about these options from a client using all four of our services [here](/resources/what-others-say/testimonials/c/changing-the-game-genesis-gaming).

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\*Aggregated and anonymized HR and pay data from ADP’s U.S. client base of over 1 million employers with more than 39 million employees

1.  As of June 2, 2026 and is subject to change.
2.  Only pulls from a dataset of 20-million employees from 700k employers in the U.S.
3.  Add-on feature
4.  Only offers insights from internal analytics
5.  Not real-time
6.  Benchmarking dataset not as large as ADP’s
7.  Access to 95k courses from Go1
8.  Only draws from a dataset of 4,000 client employers
9.  AI-assisted goal-setting is add-on
10.  Dayforce Talent Intelligence too
11.  Acquired Great Place to Work for support with benchmarking and workforce data
12.  UKG Rapid Hire