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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Brightmine

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Brightmine (formerly XpertHR) is a global provider of people data, analytics and insight. Brightmine is a division of LexisNexis Data Services, within RELX®, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools. RELX serves customers in 180+ countries with 35,000+ employees.N/A

    Paycom

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/APaycom is an automated HCM platform, built on a single database that eliminates redundant data entry through automation. A payroll and HR software solution, Paycom is used by organizations of all sizes to access employee data without navigating multiple systems.N/A
    Pricing
    BrightminePaycom
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BrightminePaycom
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BrightminePaycom
    Considered Both Products
    Brightmine
    Chose Brightmine
    We like Brightmine because they are a global company and offers the most information for the countries where we have employees. Having a one-stop shop for all things compliance for all countries is essentially huge for us. As we grow, we know Brightmine will still be our go-to …
    Incentivized
    Paycom
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    227 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    598 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    171 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    536 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    230 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    608 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    138 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    418 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    141 Answers
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    378 Answers
    Features
    BrightminePaycom
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    8.1
    570 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.9524 Ratings
    Employment history00 Ratings8.1504 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration00 Ratings8.2503 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings8.2505 Ratings
    Organizational charting00 Ratings7.6409 Ratings
    Organization and location management00 Ratings8.0448 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings8.1419 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    8.3
    570 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings8.8554 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings6.447 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings8.5102 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.4488 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.1551 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.4459 Ratings
    Reimbursement management00 Ratings8.3322 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    8.4
    500 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Approval workflow00 Ratings8.5474 Ratings
    Balance details00 Ratings8.4475 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings8.5399 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    8.7
    572 Ratings
    5% above category average
    View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings9.1562 Ratings
    Update personal information00 Ratings9.2568 Ratings
    View company policy documentation00 Ratings8.7507 Ratings
    Employee recognition00 Ratings7.9280 Ratings
    View job history00 Ratings8.6469 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    4.9
    26 Ratings
    48% below category average
    Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings4.926 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    7.2
    507 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Report builder00 Ratings7.9500 Ratings
    Pre-built reports00 Ratings7.9494 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings5.855 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    8.4
    498 Ratings
    4% above category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings8.5492 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.3429 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    6.3
    296 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings4.236 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.0272 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings4.835 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings8.0291 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    7.9
    377 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Performance plans00 Ratings7.8348 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings7.9331 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings8.0335 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings8.0343 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.8307 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    7.9
    97 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings7.956 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.875 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings7.992 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings7.975 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Brightmine and Paycom
    Feature
    Brightmine
    -
    Ratings
    Paycom
    7.6
    374 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Job Requisition Management00 Ratings7.8337 Ratings
    Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.0332 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings7.4262 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings7.8306 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings6.9285 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking00 Ratings7.7344 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings7.9355 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BrightminePaycom
    Small Businesses
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    UZIO
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Zoho People
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    PeopleStrong
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BrightminePaycom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (155 ratings)
    8.7
    (742 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (18 ratings)
    9.1
    (31 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (124 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (59 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    6.5
    (9 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    7.5
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    4.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BrightminePaycom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Brightmine
    Brightmine is well suited for UK employment law guidance, policy interpretation, and complex employee relations scenarios requiring quick, reliable insight. It is less appropriate for country specific advice outside the UK or for highly bespoke legal matters that require formal external legal counsel. In these cases you would still require external legal counsel.
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    Paycom
    My company is currently at around 2,000 employees and meets all expectations. I have worked at companies of up to 7,000 employees that also used Paycom and that met all expectations as well. I do not know that Paycom would be worth it from a pricing perspective for a smaller company, maybe 30 employees or less. I also believe Paycom has an opportunity to better partner with clients in mergers and acquisitions.
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    Pros
    Brightmine
    • Keep me informed of regulatory changes
    • Has great matrices on a per state basis for multiple regulatory topics, such as payment of final wages, etc.
    • Provides resources such as labor law posters for updating
    • Has a great handbook tool for creating and updating handbooks with well written policies that are easy to edit and customize.
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    Paycom
    • I like the employee self-service feature. It's very straightforward and easy to use. I also like my representative, Mikey. He's been very helpful—every time I call him, I get the assistance I need. I also appreciate how quickly I can get someone on the phone and get help when needed.
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    Cons
    Brightmine
    • Have a 50 state chart that lists all final pay requirements for a deceased employee.
    • Policy requirements that are 100% mandatory for the handbook. This could be adjusted to make it crystal clear what is really needed and what an employer may want to add.
    • Chat support. I don't think this feature has ever worked on the site.
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    Paycom
    • I am not a fan of the most recent update. I wasn't prepared for the change especially given it came right before payroll was processed. I'm told given time, I will get used to it and I'm always open to change for the better.
    • IWant™ feature isn't what I hoped it would be. I haven't used it much given the information I need in Paycom I can find quickly on my own. I have heard however that several employees utilize and appreciate the IWant™ feature.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Brightmine
    Without realising it we use Brightmine so often and it is so beneficial as our daily roles are onerous. By having a tool there that covers such a wide variety of products we can rest assured we know if we need something we can find it on there easily. With no hassle.
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    Paycom
    we are having no problems with how the system works and our support system at paycom is the best - we are learning more and using the system in more ways all the time the only thing that could be better is pricing on some things
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    Usability
    Brightmine
    The website is so easy to use and navigate through. I check this website weekly on the states I am responsible for, and it is so well organized to quickly find those states. I also use this to check up on information with policies and laws I run into and all the information is quick and easy to find.
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    Paycom
    I'm probably going to have to go seven and three-quarter to eight, and that may be user error to me because I know Paycom has got it figured out, but there's times I just can't figure it out, even with some of the tutorials, the university, the show-mes, and calling Alex, our representative. He can hold my hand and walk me through that process, and it just may be I didn't get it, but that's why I gave that score. I'd give it a solid nine.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Brightmine
    It is almost always available when I need it. I have only ran into 2 situations where I received an error message and could not get logged in but was told this was a widespread issue that would quickly be resolved.
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    Paycom
    They are very dependable and I have never experience any outages
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    Performance
    Brightmine
    Everything loads quickly and is exactly where I need it to be. I like how the sidebar breaks down different sections of policies for each state to help me find what I am looking for or gives suggestions or documents to review that may also be helpful
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    Paycom
    Yes load quickly
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    Support Rating
    Brightmine
    The initial support was brilliant with a colleague who showed us how to use the platform, as the platform is so easy to navigate we havent had further support but i know if i needed any i could contact brightmine to offer the support. It is so easy to use so havent needed to
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    Paycom
    In 6 years, we've never had a bad experience with client support. We implemented during COVID, and I was the only person in HR at the time. I was also having to homeschool our children, which meant bizarre work hours and limited time to focus on platform build at times. There were nights that I was literally on calls at 11 pm and the implementation team was unbelievably supportive. Recently, a Position Seat specialist came on site to help us set up for our 5 client codes - the experience was transformative for how we use the platform and an absolute game changer. I trust Paycom because I trust our representatives. They truly are strategic partners for us, and work to ensure we're maximizing the platform and that our needs are being met
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    In-Person Training
    Brightmine
    No answers on this topic
    Paycom
    Tadd and Ellie have been great! They have show us many aspects that implementation did not. They are very personable and action oriented as well. Anytime we need them they offer to swing in.
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    Online Training
    Brightmine
    The people on the call training us were very friendly and knowledgeable! They helped me learn of new tabs for finding templates to create new trainings to update departments on policies and procedures. It also has great excel sheets so I can see side by side differences between states regarding different laws and compensation changes.
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    Paycom
    It was good, but hard to know what questions you need to ask until you actually get in there and start working with a live product. But Paycom is also very helpful every time I call and can't figure something out. Nathan has been very friendly and helpful no matter what I call him about. He is always eager to help out.
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    Implementation Rating
    Brightmine
    I didnt implement but just wanted to say the person providing the training was brilliant and guided us through each page so we knew how to navigate, also allowed us to ask a lot of questions if we needed to which was helpful. So we could go away with confidence to use it
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    Paycom
    Not at all satisfied it was a nightmare we spent over 8 months with the implementation team having issues after issues all related to the Puerto Rico regulations (half my employees are in Puerto Rico) and at the end we were moved over from the implementation team to the production team without all the issues being resolved
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    Alternatives Considered
    Brightmine
    HR Inform's documents are written a little better but there is less choice, they are similar in pricing however you can get a discount is you are a CIPD member which is attractive. It would be good if Brightmine can partner with the HR Ninjas very large network and give discounts to members, this would definitely drive subscriptions up for Brightmine and increase their presence.
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    Paycom
    I have not currently used any other products. I'm still kind of new to the HR industry. The only other thing that I really have to compare it to is Vonmar's system, which they created themselves, and it was not user-friendly.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Brightmine
    The price is too expensive and there is not clear transparent pricing model.
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    Paycom
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    Scalability
    Brightmine
    WE only use it in HR but, I have no doubt that it could be scaled across other sites / teams.
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    Paycom
    They are not able to meet our current needs
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    Professional Services
    Brightmine
    No issues.
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    Paycom
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    Return on Investment
    Brightmine
    • Brightmine reduces the time it would take me to research certain items on my own. As a consultant, this increases my capacity, allowing me to take on additional clients and increase my revenue.
    • Using Brightmine saves me from needing to hire someone to help me perform research or to help me stay up-to-date on changing laws. Although I pay for the service, it is at least 80% less than an employee would cost.
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    Paycom
    • It's helped us save time. We've been able to automate a number of payroll and accounting functions. It's also enabled our employees to use the ask gear feature. So it's really saved time, and also we've not gotten hacked, which is always a plus.
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    ScreenShots

    Brightmine Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Brightmine® HR & Compliance Center, which offers proactive updates, best practices, and tools to manage complex HR issues and stay compliant—without wasting time or paying for costly legal advice. (US,UK,NL)Screenshot of the trusted data in the HR & Compliance Center, now with GenAI-powered AI Assist, helps quickly find answers to HR compliance and employment law questions.Screenshot of Brightmine® Compensation Planning — a self-serve solution for building fair, market-aligned pay structures using up-to-date employer-reported data in the U.K.Screenshot of Brightmine® Automated Handbook Management, which is more than a handbook builder. It’s an AI-powered tool to upload, analyze, and maintain handbooks that tracks updates across all 50 states and 130+ localities.Screenshot of Brightmine® Pay Equity Analytics, which helps simplify gender pay gap reporting and enables real-time analysis across regions and demographics—helping users stay compliant, uncover disparities, and take action without manual work or consultants.

    Paycom Screenshots

    Screenshot of A new study that reveals that for a composite organization representative of interviewed clients, unifying HR and payroll in a single-database software with automation and streamlined workflows achieved a three-year 362% ROI and resulted in: $1.4M net present value*; over 45% total time saved by HR; 80% time saved on compliance work.Screenshot of Full-Solution Automation and Auto-Decisioning Powered By a Single DatabaseScreenshot of Employee Self-Service