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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    RUN Powered by ADP®

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    The RUN Powered by ADP® cloud-based solution is used to pay employees. It also includes HR and hiring tools, as well as benefits, helping small businesses grow and manage their teams.N/A

    Workday HCM

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AWorkday Human Capital Management is a cloud-native system offering a globally consistent user experience. Workday HCM is part of an intelligent, unified system with other Workday products.N/A
    Pricing
    RUN Powered by ADP®Workday HCM
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    RUN Powered by ADP®Workday HCM
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    RUN Powered by ADP®Workday HCM
    Considered Both Products
    ADP
    No answer on this topic
    Workday
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    183 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    167 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    182 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    145 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    148 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
    RUN Powered by ADP®Workday HCM
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
    8.0
    261 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    9.0
    80 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Pay calculation9.0252 Ratings8.568 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors7.376 Ratings8.856 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment9.3175 Ratings9.818 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration6.7111 Ratings8.563 Ratings
    Direct deposit files9.4245 Ratings8.869 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management9.5186 Ratings9.266 Ratings
    Reimbursement management5.138 Ratings9.243 Ratings
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
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    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.6
    96 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.481 Ratings
    Employment history00 Ratings8.891 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration00 Ratings8.693 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings9.288 Ratings
    Organizational charting00 Ratings9.387 Ratings
    Organization and location management00 Ratings9.084 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings6.759 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.6
    74 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Approval workflow00 Ratings8.573 Ratings
    Balance details00 Ratings8.473 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings8.959 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.4
    94 Ratings
    4% above category average
    View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.983 Ratings
    Update personal information00 Ratings8.792 Ratings
    View company policy documentation00 Ratings7.673 Ratings
    Employee recognition00 Ratings8.157 Ratings
    View job history00 Ratings8.883 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.4
    25 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings8.425 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.5
    78 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Report builder00 Ratings8.974 Ratings
    Pre-built reports00 Ratings8.676 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings7.964 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.6
    56 Ratings
    9% above category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings8.452 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.852 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.5
    60 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings8.750 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.759 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.951 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings8.658 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
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    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.9
    63 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Performance plans00 Ratings9.062 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings8.954 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings8.758 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings9.058 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings8.951 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.0
    40 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings9.334 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.735 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings7.938 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings6.837 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of RUN Powered by ADP® and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    RUN Powered by ADP®
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.3
    48 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Job Requisition Management00 Ratings8.045 Ratings
    Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.339 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings8.734 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings8.440 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.839 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.240 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings8.444 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    RUN Powered by ADP®Workday HCM
    Small Businesses
    OnPay
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Zoho People
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    APS
    Score1.4 out of 10
    Zoho People
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ADP Streamline Payroll
    Score6.4 out of 10
    PeopleStrong
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    RUN Powered by ADP®Workday HCM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (327 ratings)
    9.0
    (108 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (21 ratings)
    9.0
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    9.9
    (12 ratings)
    7.0
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    6.6
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (24 ratings)
    8.0
    (22 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.9
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    RUN Powered by ADP®Workday HCM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ADP
    ADP offers a wide range of options beyond just running payroll. We appreciate the flexibility to select options that best suit our company, such as having Workers' Compensation administered through ADP. During the COVID pandemic, our payroll experts and legal team proved invaluable in navigating special pay circumstances. We have also accessed the HR application to navigate and seek advice on how to administer situations that could be tricky. I would say less appropriate would be putting all our eggs in one basket when it comes to employee benefits - we have a dedicated broker team that we have used for nearly 30 years, and we carry our own HSA and POP insurance, and circumstances when we carry compliant coverage from other sources do not translate to our file with ADP.
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    Workday
    I would say it's well suited in every environment because I think it does so much. It's like the holy grail of HRIS systems is what I like to call it because thinking about all parts of the employee lifecycle, it lives here in Workday Human Capital Management. So I love the fact that you can do the people data analytics, you can store employee records, the talent acquisition pieces there. I'm thinking I can't think of anything negative right now except for the fact that I can't drill down into the data for the people analytics side. Other than that, I think it's literally, yeah, the holy grail of HRIS systems, I love it and I would highly recommend it.
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    Pros
    ADP
    • Ease of use of the platform for reporting payroll.
    • Ease of use for employees via the ADP App.
    • Ease of integration of both PayRoll & 401K services.
    • Storage of reports for 3 years.
    • Accuracy of quarterly filings for State Fund collections via payroll.
    • Hours of operation for support are adequate.
    • Additional available services are helpful.
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    Workday
    • Groups employees in management hierarchies and creates Org Charts that are easy to navigate and allow for visualizing management chains regardless of employee locations
    • Intuitive and easy to use. The Workday search functionality works very much like Google; one can search for anything that they have access to in the database and drill down into the various details. All information is connected through hyperlinks and users can easily keep digging into the details for as far as their security access would take them.
    • Tasks such as to do, review or approve items are sent to the user's Workday Inbox, very much resembling email. Notifications about outstanding "to do" items are also sent to each the user's work email address on a daily basis.
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    Cons
    ADP
    • I would like to see a change in the payroll processing so that when you have to save for later, you don't have to reenter all the information you have already entered.
    • Make it easier for the employees to track their used vacation and PTO hours.
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    Workday
    • Should have more option in time sheet like choose project code or something.
    • On The pay page, it should have options to view past salaries; it may be there already but not in the version that I use.
    • The employee information page does not have a back button to navigate to the previous page.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ADP
    It is much better than the payroll system I used previously. The integrations that RUN has for on-boarding new hires are very convenient when they work properly. It saves a tremendous amount of time being able to email a link to new employees that allows them to enter much of their own demographic information. Payroll feature alerts me when someone's pay is significantly less or more than usual.
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    Workday
    It is work to make one system the source of truth for our data, but now that it is done, there is less work involved in staying on this path. This means for us that maintaining and/or implementing new modules like performance, finance, talent, etc. is simple. It's a no-brainer
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    Usability
    ADP
    I have been using this system for years and they have actually made it easier and easier. The system is always making great upgrades that don't necessarily require any additional information or training. I love when I log in and see a new feature or button that I get to use to make my life easier!
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    Workday
    Workday's on a great path in terms of user experience. Their goals is to deliver a use experience that doesn't require training or instruction, like Amazon on the consumer side for example. That's hard to do when you're talking about complex business processes and important and sensitive employee information, but they're doing it well
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    Reliability and Availability
    ADP
    I don't think I have ever encountered error codes or 404 error screens when trying to access RUN ADP. I run payroll for the company every other week and I have had no issues accessing the website, everything saves and updates when it's needed. Our employees use the app on their phones and they have not had any issues either other than just a basic update of the app occasionally
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    Workday
    In 2014, Workday has changed the update process. There will be two updates a year; the updates will be delivered to customers typically in a 24 hour window during these two weekends a year. They also keep the Community up-to-date about any planned outages, etc. There is weekly scheduled downtime on Friday night.
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    Performance
    ADP
    ADP Run loads a bit slowly at times, once I put in my credentials. However, that said, I think my perception of the time it takes is impacted by our "instant gratification" expectation of being able to get into everything quickly.
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    Workday
    From my perspective, the system runs like a well oiled machine and I have not had any issues with customers complaining about speed. If a report is taking long to run, the report can run in the background and you can go about your business. For larger enterprises, there is additional space and machines to process the application in what Workday refers to it as Extended Configuration Tenant
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    Support Rating
    ADP
    I appreciated having that issue finally take care of. it was extremely disheartening to see the issue had not been resolved. I also had my employees looking to me and thinking I was not trying to resolve the issue so it reflected poorly on my character. I do not know if i was because of a miscommunication, but nonetheless I was happy it was taken care of
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    Workday
    Workday is still learning about the needs of higher education. I have seen rapid improvement in support and knowledge over the last year so am confident this will continue to improve. Overall however, I have found the Support Team to be extremely responsive and Workday offers the advantage of having support across several timezones so that we never wait more than a few hours for a response.
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    In-Person Training
    ADP
    they helped up with the 1st payroll after that we were fine - it is very user friendly- they wanted to be sure everything had imported correctly.
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    Workday
    Some training is offered online. Cost is per-person. This also gets quite expensive. Training doesn’t follow a logical path A to B. Starts in middle. When you try to do it afterwards at your desk, difficult.
    • Training scenarios are not very real
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    Online Training
    ADP
    Our rep was on a zoom with us and one other person from RUN ADP showing us the layout and how to access everything. we mainly use it for payroll and reports so any questions we had they both were insightful and able to help us navigate the site. The training process was a success and we have had any issues since using.
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    Workday
    I have done for report writing and mass imports (EIBs). They give materials and you run through examples, i.e. you don’t just watch them do tasks, so that is helpful. Training is expensive – a single reporting writing class is $600 per person for virtual training
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    Implementation Rating
    ADP
    Make sure there's plenty of time between payrolls for the implementation and be sure to test all the manually inputted fields.
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    Workday
    It was implemented before my joining the company. At my last company, we used Workday professional services.

    Based upon my experience at my last company, I would rate the implementation experience an 8/10. There are different ways to set things up and we had different people telling us different things. It set us back a couple of times.

    Regarding configuration advice, we could set things up where every manager has supervisory organizations, or have it financially based i.e. aligned to cost center/department. We chose the individual manager path and I think we should have chosen a department route. Going down the individual manager path, to maintain the information, we have to inactivate a supervisory org whenever a manager changes/leaves.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ADP
    I have looked at both of these products and they both have great services but the support I have received from ADP really keeps me here. My rep is amazing and I honestly have not seen anything on another platform that would make me change at this time.
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    Workday
    Workday is an incomplete product, by this I mean it must work alongside other products and does not work by itself. Trying to make several different products work smoothly together becomes very challenging. As compared to ADP products, when purchased all together work very well all together. Also, ADP has extensive Training programs and extensive Customer Support. So ADP's products are far superior to Workday's products in my opinion.
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    Scalability
    ADP
    Every summer, we hire three new college interns who have to be entered into the system. They can enter their information themselves, which takes a load off me. The onboarding is quite straightforward, and today's college kids are techy enough to be able to understand it.
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    Workday
    Workday has released Financials and is continuing to develop it's Human Capital Management footprint with the addition of Workday Recruiting. I think customers will find that is easy to add on additional functionality in the system. Workday does make it easy for customers to make changes without relying on IT resources. The Business Process framework is a visual tool that allows functional resources to make changes and see the flow of the transaction
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    Return on Investment
    ADP
    • The costs add up with all the services such as running payroll, adding timekeeping, running background checks, and mailing w-2's.
    • We save money on background checks because the first two are free.
    • We lower risk of employee time, penalties, and lawsuits by allowing RUN Powered by ADP® to handle so much of the payroll such as calculations and tax reporting.
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    Workday
    • Positive ROI, we were one of the first organizations that went with Workday HCM, and we received numerous discounts. Cloud systems are the way to go and we feel the system is stable for our growing work force.
    • The user conferences have been helpful to network and learn more deepness in the modules and functionality.
    • Right off the bat, our implementation costs were lower than budgeted and we had less 'billing' surprises.
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    ScreenShots

    RUN Powered by ADP® Screenshots

    Screenshot of the RUN Dashboard with the business' key info front-and-centerScreenshot of the payroll interfaceScreenshot of access to payroll reports and liability amountsScreenshot of the RUN Powered by ADP mobile app, used to process payroll on the goScreenshot of the ADP mobile app, where employees can access their historical payroll statements and year-end tax documents

    Workday HCM Screenshots

    Screenshot of Workday Human Capital Management HomepageScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management Manager Insights HubScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management HR Partners HubScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management Expense AnalysisScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management Skills DashboardScreenshot of Workday Human Capital Management HR Operations and Compliance Dashboard