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isolved adds forecasts and benchmarks to its payroll and HR suite, and sells them by quote

Benchmarks, advisory AI, reports without code and published security basics

These are the parts of isolved’s offer that help a buyer most. Each one gives you something to check in a demo.

Its customer stories come mostly from employers with 3 to about 225 people

Fit depends on how large you are, so the size of its customers matters. The stories isolved publishes run from PayMint, an isolved partner with 3 employees, to Imagine360 with about 1,500. Most sit between 48 and 225. Read these as the nearest evidence you can ask about.

Check the benchmark group, who sees one person’s turnover detail and what is still coming

Four things deserve a second look before you sign. Each one is a question you can put to isolved in the first meeting.

isolved publishes no price, so the quote is your first test

isolved publishes no price for this product. You ask for a quote on a form. Pricing is custom, based on organisation size and needs. The Microsoft Marketplace listing for isolved HCM has a Contact me button and no price.

People Cloud can be deployed as a complete suite or in selected parts. Ask whether the analytics can be bought on its own. The Microsoft Marketplace listing also calls part of People Cloud “Advanced People Analytics”. Ask whether that is a separate tier. DuraServ built a workforce plan during a quick implementation and trial, before it made a payment. Ask whether you can run the same trial.

Getting your data out takes some thought. Reports output to PDF or Excel. isolved offers API access for custom integrations. People Cloud also uses a single database architecture. So ask how your analytics data is separated from payroll if you leave one and keep the other.

isolved also has a Connector for Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant. It gives employees access to information across time and attendance, payroll, benefits and employee information. Pay and benefits are read-only. Data that reaches Claude is handled under your own terms with Anthropic. Ask whether the same link can carry your analytics data.

Nine questions for isolved

Put these nine questions to isolved before you sign, and ask for each answer in writing. Each comes with the answer you want to hear.

1. What does the analytics cost for our headcount, on its own and with payroll and HR? Good answer: A written price for the analytics alone, one for the full suite, and renewal terms for both.
2. How many records sit behind the benchmark for our job titles, our company size and our country? Good answer: A count for our own comparison group, with the date the data was taken.
3. Can it run on data from an HR system that is not isolved? What does that cost and how long does it take? Good answer: A named list of systems, with go-live times from customers who run them.
4. Who can open the detail on one employee’s turnover risk, tenure or pay? Good answer: A written list of roles and what each can see, with managers limited to their own team.
5. Which AI model or provider sits behind the forecasts, and where is our data processed? Good answer: A named provider and location in writing, with the promise not to train on our data.
6. Which features in your demo are live today and which are still to come? Good answer: A written list of live features, with a release date for each of the rest.
7. What uptime will you put in our contract? Good answer: A written uptime figure, with a remedy if it is missed.
8. Which customer of our size can we speak to, and how long have they used it? Good answer: A named customer at our size that has used it for more than a year.
9. How do we get our data out if we drop the analytics but keep payroll? Good answer: File formats and API access written into the contract, with a time window.

Alternatives to isolved

If isolved comes off your shortlist, look first at Dayforce, Paycor and Paycom. These payroll and HR suites also build analytics in. One Model and Visier are separate analytics products.

The suites differ on whether you can see a price first. Dayforce publishes a price book that puts People Analytics at $28.80 per employee per year. Paycor’s Complete bundle for businesses under 50 employees costs $199 a month plus $7 per employee per month. It includes Paycor Analytics with benchmarking, diversity and inclusion metrics, pre-built dashboards and compensation insights. For 50 or more employees, Paycor asks you to call. Paycom prices by headcount and the tools you use. Its Talent Management tiers include a Retention dashboard and Workforce analytics. Like isolved, Paycom publishes no figure.

One Model brings HRIS, recruiting, payroll, engagement, performance and finance data into one HR data model. Visier prices by the number of employees and varies the price with the products you buy. It offers a 30-day free trial of Visier People on a test copy, with sample data or data you load. Look at these two if your people data sits in more than one system.

Buying nothing is the last route. If your current payroll or HR system already builds the reports you need, you may not need forecasts yet. Add them when a question comes up that your reports cannot answer.