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Salary.com
What it is: On-demand software that automates performance appraisals with review forms and pre-populated job competencies. Managers can configure the system to send them e-mail notifications for overdue reviews.

Who uses it: Companies that can't afford to dedicate huge sums of money to upfront hardware purchases and in-house data warehousing costs.

Cost: The base price for an annual subscription starts at $7,500.

Why Salary.com: Salary.com's modular software let Jennifer Edney, a business analyst with Edney Distributing, cherry-pick only those features, such as review forms and competency libraries, that serve the farm-equipment distributor's modest needs. "Because we're a small business, we don't need a lot of those extra features like payroll," says Edney. "Now we're only paying for the features we want."

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