Rippling

Rippling sells a unified workforce management platform that combines HR, IT, finance, and payroll applications on a single data model centered on employee records. Its product catalog includes benefits, recruiting, performance management, learning management, identity and access management, device management, corporate cards, expenses, procurement, bill pay, travel, and payroll for employees and contractors globally. The company states it offers over two dozen products across HR, IT, and Spend, and that its platform integrates with more than 600 applications.

Shared platform capabilities span all applications: custom reporting with pivots and calculated fields, attribute-based role permissions and approval routing, a Workflow Studio for automation triggers, and App Studio, a no-code environment for building applications on top of Rippling and connected systems. More recent additions marketed on the company site include Rippling AI for insights and task delegation, an AI Spend Console mapping token usage to employee data, a Data Cloud business-intelligence layer, and Rippling Automated Compliance covering SOC 2 evidence collection and remediation.

The company's stated thesis is that employee data underpins a wide range of business systems beyond HR, IT, and finance, and that fragmentation of that data across siloed databases creates operational overhead; Rippling positions a single system of record with automatic propagation of changes as the remedy.