Ethan Ray is a senior research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, where he contributes to the Workforce Productivity & Collaboration practice within the 451 Research team. Ethan leads research on employee experience technologies, performance and talent management systems, human capital management tools, and people analytics platforms, with a particular focus on how data and behavioral science drive organizational effectiveness. Ethan joined S&P Global Market Intelligence in July 2025. Prior to this, he was a senior people scientist at Culture Amp, where he served as a strategic adviser to HR teams and senior leaders on evidence-based employee survey strategies and performance management initiatives. He also held roles in talent management at New York Life Insurance Company and served as an adjunct faculty member at Baruch College, where he taught courses in organizational psychology. Ethan holds a Bachelor of Science in biobehavioral health from Pennsylvania State University, a Master of Science in industrial-organizational psychology from Baruch College, and a Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
The acquisition of Included AI adds agentic people analytics and workforce planning to Phenom's talent experience platform, signaling a move beyond descriptive insight toward prescriptive, automated decision support embedded directly into talent workflows.
The company is advancing from traditional people analytics toward a broader workforce intelligence platform. Visier combines generative and agentic AI, organizational scenario modeling, and its Model Context Protocol server to deliver governed, in-flow insight for organizational design and strategic workforce planning.
451 Research's 2025 HR Technologies Market Monitor & Forecast reveals where growth and disruption intersect. Employee experience, people analytics and talent intelligence are expanding at double-digit rates, reshaping vendor strategies and buyer priorities. We explore the dynamics driving this transformation and its strategic implications for HR leaders.
The company has expanded its role in workforce intelligence with a proprietary taxonomy system applied to real-time workforce data. By combining large-scale workforce datasets with adaptive taxonomies, Revelio offers insight into job postings, professional profiles and organizational dynamics.
Draup is expanding its talent intelligence platform with agentic AI trained on external labor market data to help enterprises address workforce planning and skills transformation. Partnerships and product enhancements position it to compete in a market increasingly focused on predictive analytics and embedded intelligence.
As organizations seek predictive insights to guide recruiting and workforce planning, the vendor's launch of Job Posting Data marks a pivotal shift from historical workforce snapshots toward forward-looking intelligence — positioning it to contend in the intensifying race for high-quality labor market data.
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