UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) / ukg.com
AI-powered workforce management platform providing scheduling, time and attendance, payroll, HR, and workforce analytics with AI optimised scheduling and predictive insights for large workforces.
Pricing
Free
Free plan
No
Category
Developer Tools
Platforms
3
Free plan
No
API access
No
Open source
No
Platforms
3
UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) was formed from the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos — combining best-in-class HR/payroll (Ultimate Software) with the market-leading workforce management and scheduling platform (Kronos). The combined company serves over 80,000 organisations globally with a comprehensive HCM suite.
AI-powered scheduling in UKG Workforce Management is the platform's highest-impact AI capability for shift-based industries — predicting labour demand, ensuring coverage compliance, respecting employee preferences, and minimising overtime cost simultaneously. For retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and hospitality with complex scheduling requirements, AI scheduling reduces the most time-consuming workforce management task.
Predictive analytics for workforce decisions provides HR leaders with forward-looking intelligence — predicted attrition risk, overtime forecast, absence pattern analysis, and labour cost projections. Rather than managing workforces reactively, predictive intelligence enables proactive decisions.
UKG Pro (HCM platform) provides payroll, benefits, talent management, and employee self-service for enterprise-scale HR requirements alongside the workforce management capabilities. The integrated platform covers the full HCM spectrum from scheduling through pay through development.
Great Place to Work integration is UKG's distinctive capability — UKG acquired the Great Place to Work research company, enabling employee experience benchmark comparisons against GPTW-certified organisations.
UKG AI runs as ml platform software built around data and text workflows. Users typically start with a prompt, upload, or connected data source, and the underlying model handles the heavy lifting before returning a result you can refine or export. It's available on web, ios, and android.
The capabilities that matter most for teams evaluating UKG AI.
ML predicts labour demand and generates optimised shift schedules balancing coverage requirements, employee preferences, and overtime cost for shift-based industries simultaneously.
Forward-looking intelligence on attrition risk, overtime forecast, and labour cost — enabling proactive workforce management decisions rather than reactive response to emerging issues.
Comprehensive human capital management covering payroll, benefits, talent, and employee self-service alongside workforce management — providing full HCM scope from scheduling through development in one platform.
Enterprise licensing. No public pricing. Annual contracts. Demo available. Formed from Ultimate Software and Kronos merger.
Model
Enterprise
Starting price
Free
Free trial
Yes
Workday (covered) provides enterprise HCM with strong analytics. ADP Workforce Now provides enterprise payroll and HR. SAP SuccessFactors provides HCM within SAP ecosystem. Ceridian Dayforce (rank 619) is UKG's primary direct competitor.
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Key facts about model providers, platforms, and team support.
Model Provider
UKG
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android
Deployment
SaaS, On-premise
Integrations
ADP, SAP, Salesforce, Workday, API
Team Collaboration
Yes
Launch Year
2022
Compliance signals and data-handling notes as reported by the vendor.
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. HIPAA eligible. FedRAMP eligible. Enterprise data handling agreements.
Employee workforce and HR data processed under UKG's enterprise data handling agreements and applicable employment data regulations.
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Editorial Verdict
UKG is the leading AI workforce management platform for large organisations in shift-based industries wanting AI-optimised scheduling, predictive HR analytics, and comprehensive HCM from one platform.
Last verified July 24, 2026.
Enterprise licensing. No public pricing. Annual contracts. Demo available. Formed from Ultimate Software and Kronos merger.
From $8/user/month. Modular pricing — core platform plus modules. Enterprise custom. 14-day trial.
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. HIPAA eligible. FedRAMP eligible. Enterprise data handling agreements.
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. FedRAMP eligible. Enterprise data handling agreements.
Employee workforce and HR data processed under UKG's enterprise data handling agreements and applicable employment data regulations.
Employee HR, payroll, IT, and identity data processed under Rippling's enterprise data handling agreements. Multi-jurisdiction compliance data handling follows applicable employment data regulations.
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