Sopra HR Earns Dual Recognition in the Fosway 9-Grid™ 2026 for Cloud HR with HR 4YOU and Neocase

Sopra HR has achieved dual recognition as a Core Leader and Strategic Challenger in the Fosway 9-Grid™ 2026 for Cloud HR, one of Europe's leading benchmarks for evaluating cloud HR solutions.

Sopra HR Recognized as a Core Leader in the European Market

This recognition reflects the strong market performance of HR 4YOU, which has been positioned as a Core Leader by industry analyst Fosway. Customer trust and continued investment in innovation have also contributed to this distinction.

With more than 13 million employees managed through HR 4YOU, several million payslips processed every month, including in the cloud, and an international presence, Sopra HR continues to strengthen its position in the European HR and Payroll solutions market.

Its strong positioning within the Core Leaders category also recognizes a significant acceleration in artificial intelligence investment. Through its agentic AI platform, Sopra HR is embedding AI at the heart of HR and Payroll processes, leveraging specialized AI agents capable of assisting, coordinating and taking action. These investments are driving innovations such as the intelligent payslip, as well as capabilities that make payroll processes more transparent and easier to understand and explain.

Sopra HR is also continuing to enhance its HR 4YOU suite through major investments, particularly in Time and Attendance Management, alongside the integration of Neocase capabilities. These enhancements further improve the employee experience, streamline employee interactions and increase the efficiency of HR operations.

"Our position among the Core Leaders reflects the combination of our growing market presence and significant R&D investments in core HR and Payroll functionality and innovations such as agentic AI. These strategic priorities enable us to offer our customers an increasingly comprehensive platform to support HR and Payroll transformation.

The Fosway report highlights that European organizations are looking for agentic platforms that can ensure reliability, regulatory compliance and data sovereignty. These expectations are at the heart of Sopra HR's strategy, which focuses on delivering measurable outcomes within a framework that is governable, financially sustainable and sovereign."Philippe Uzynski, Director of Strategy and Innovation, Sopra HR

Neocase Recognized as a Strategic Challenger for the Second Consecutive Year

Neocase, acquired by Sopra HR in late 2025, has been positioned as a Strategic Challenger by Fosway. This recognition supports a two-pronged strategy: enhancing the HR 4YOU cloud suite while continuing to expand Neocase's presence in Europe as a standalone solution.

This distinction highlights the solution's overall performance, driven by continuous innovation, a comprehensive range of capabilities tailored to the needs of large and complex organizations, and a particularly competitive total cost of ownership (TCO) compared with other solutions on the market.

Neocase stands out for the maturity and breadth of its capabilities, enabling it to address organizations' most specific requirements by combining employee experience with operational efficiency. It simplifies HR interactions, automates complex requests and orchestrates end-to-end processes.

This recognition underscores both the wide range of use cases supported and the platform's ability to meet the demands of complex environments. It also reflects a strong growth trajectory, supported by a proven value proposition and increasing market adoption potential.

"Being recognized as a Strategic Challenger for the second consecutive year acknowledges our commercial performance and provides important validation of our innovation strategy.

Two years of customer experience with AI agents in production have confirmed that organizations are not simply looking for AI assistants capable of answering questions. They need platforms that can execute complete HR processes, handle exceptions, comply with governance requirements and provide full traceability.

Our strategy is built on a clear vision: beyond the efficiency gains achieved and improvements in the employee experience, it must enable HR teams to leverage this enhanced quality of service to focus on higher-value activities." Stéphanie Braud-Conte, Head of Neocase Offering, Sopra HR