We're just over halfway through April, which means one thing in my world: we are nearly done with our people analytics tech study. Since January, we have had 3 different surveys in the market, conducted live briefings and demos with more than 40 vendors, reviewed demos and information from more than 20 other vendors, and analyzed all of that information.

(phew!)

Next week, we will be debuting our findings at the People Analytics World conference, and we'd love it if you came along to hear what we've learned.

The TL;DR is, as you'd expect, the market grew quickly and adapted to changes in customer needs rapidly.

A few pieces of data to tempt you:

• More than half of vendors expect growth higher than 31% in 2022
• Nearly half received investment funding in 2021
• Approximately a third collect data from digital exhaust (e.g., email/calendar metadata)

The final report will come out in May and quickly be followed by a new PAT vendor tool (with a brand-new UI and even more information—we can't wait!). Moving forward, vendors will be able to update much of the information in the PAT tool on their own, so they won't have to wait for our annual survey to make sure the market has the latest.

Further, we will also have our customer survey continuously open, and those results will also automatically update. If you are a customer of any of the vendors in our study, you should feel free to share your thoughts here.