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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AFinancial Edge NXT is a cloud accounting solution tailored for nonprofits that provides a general ledger, projects, grants, endowments, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, banking, and more. It offers real-time reporting, with one-click drill-down functionality and export capability.N/A

    Workday Financial Management

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AWorkday Financial Management is a native cloud solution built on a global foundation designed to enable accounting teams to operate with greater productivity, superior insights, and adapt to changing business needs. Its AI embedded features improve financial business processes like record to report and opportunity to cash while strengthening internal controls, and enabling consistency across global operations. Powered by an in-memory architecture and object data…N/A
    Pricing
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTWorkday Financial Management
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTWorkday Financial Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBlackbaud is currently offering the first six months of Financial Edge NXT free for new customers. Limited conditions apply.
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    Community Pulse
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTWorkday Financial Management
    Considered Both Products
    Blackbaud
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    79%
    Would buy again
    92 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    77%
    Delivers good value for the price
    70 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    93 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    62%
    Implementation went as expected
    46 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    Features
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTWorkday Financial Management
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.4
    19 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings8.719 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.916 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.616 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.5
    17 Ratings
    11% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings8.416 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    9.0
    21 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.7
    23 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.523 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.120 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.718 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.5
    19 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings8.914 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Global Financial Support00 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings8.715 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings8.912 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings9.116 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.7
    8 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Automatic reordering00 Ratings8.68 Ratings
    Location management00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    9.1
    9 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Credit card processing00 Ratings9.19 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTWorkday Financial Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (150 ratings)
    8.9
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTWorkday Financial Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Blackbaud
    The look of the reports and the platform is great. It's easy to lookup vendors and find some information. I wish the flow to navigate around the system was more intuitive. We tend to do more going back and forth to move to another vendor. It must be an easier solution. But that's the learning curve piece we need.
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    Workday
    Workday is well suited for managing employees throughout their full life cycle. It excels at housing employee data from the start of their time with the company through their departure. Workday is less suited to payroll functions, which could be more robust.
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    Pros
    Blackbaud
    • Uploading and inputting information is easy due to a clear format and outline.
    • Researching and finding past information is quick and easy to navigate due to searching and filtering options as well as the ability to name the files for quick searches.
    • Pulling project titles and accounts - you can have a large amount of projects and accounts and are able to know them through the system without having to memorize each individual title.
    • Being able to export a general ledger for an account to excel while still being formatted correctly.
    • Having the ability to filter in what transactions are pulled in the general ledger. You are able to easily look at all the activity or only activity in a certain time frame or other specific filters.
    • There is always access to help from Blackbaud services for any sort of difficulty.
    • Learning and the ability to attend Blackbaud classes are readily and easily available so you can increase your knowledge and ability to serve well in your organizations' role.
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    Workday
    • The flexibility of going beyond handling the accounts, where we can handle cash, assets, and accounting simultaneously for the customer.
    • The single platform offers grants management where you can organize the lifecycle of the grants and synchronize it with any criteria of grant closing out scheme.
    • I personally liked Project billing with the essence of evaluating project revenue and nice reporting templates that can be shared with the customer at any stage of the project while having the flexibility of auditing the reported cost.
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    Cons
    Blackbaud
    • Queries is not fully set up yet and could use more functionality within the reporting structure
    • Recurring payments do not seem to be moving forward and we have several annuities that run quarterly
    • Queue appears to be going away and report scheduling is coming, however, you cannot send to users outside of your organization. We run so many monthly reports that we used to have emailed out via queue that now we have to run them manually and save them to a sharepoint site for our campus partners to access.
    • A little concerned with printing checks once database view goes away since the one time I tried it the printing margins were totally off.
    • Integration of papersave products and cash receipts.
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    Workday
    • Some of the Workday updates last till like 10 in the morning which prevents employees to clock in and check their times and some cases their schedules
    • Workday can work on opening documents quicker instead of taking couple of minutes or notifying the user when they are ready to download
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Blackbaud
    BB seems to forcing changes on customers at a faster rate. This company needs stability because it is understaffed in accounting. There isn't time to drop everything and work up workarounds or even try to judge effects. There also isn't the time to find a replacement suite unless things get really bad.
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    Workday
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    Usability
    Blackbaud
    I don't have much to compare it to but if I speak of just the reporting options; sometimes there are so many options I spend more time finding the "perfect" report when a basic report with minimal columns is needed. But I know I can always add to the report if asked.
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    Workday
    Workday is easy enough navigate, as long as it is properly set up. With that said, it can be put together in a modular fashion as well, allowing for a very high degree of flexibility in terms of design and process delegation. Finally, it makes consolidation achievable in times previously unthinkable.
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    Support Rating
    Blackbaud
    No one is perfect, but this support team is as close as it gets. They respond promptly and if the person I'm talking to doesn't have the answer they find someone that does. They also provide documentation and/or resources to support their responses to my questions. The online chat is awesome and usually all I need
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    Workday
    Our support team has been awesome. They are extremely knowledgeable and have been able to guide us through all of the challenges we have faced. Workday's community online is also extremely helpful with many trainings and help topics that can be reviewed at your convenience.
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    Online Training
    Blackbaud
    The training is semi helpful if you have already been in the system. If you are completely new it does make it kind of hard since chart of accounts will be different among organizations. For a general idea it is helpful. One complaint on training would be that as FENXT is attempting to go fully to the web solution there were often times things that were moved or changed that even the trainer was unaware of and had to adapt on the fly.
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    Workday
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    Implementation Rating
    Blackbaud
    The implementation can be easy depending on how familiar you are with Blackbaud products. It is cloud based so there is not a need for IT involvement but you do need to know your business requirement.
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    Workday
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    Alternatives Considered
    Blackbaud
    Prior to using Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, a financial software package offered by Sage was used. Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT is much more user friendly, and integrates with the fundraising software used by the Foundation, Raiser's Edge. The integration has eliminated duplicate entry of donor information into the financial software. In addition, the add-in tools provided by Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT make journal entries a much more efficient process.
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    Workday
    Despite Airtable also being easier to use one thing that differentiates and put forth Workday Financial Management tool above is it's key features and better suited functionality for handling confidential data. The other positive note where Workday Financial Management performs high is it key analytics tool that's easier to use and representation of information into insightful dashboards.
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    Return on Investment
    Blackbaud
    • Record accuracy has gone up with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT. We are able to keep everything separate using both natural accounts and projects.
    • The AP module has increased our speed in issuing checks. We are able to easily review and see where approvals may be stuck in order to get checks out promptly.
    • The approval chains and easily viewed records of approvals have helped our auditors easily track processes for internal control walkthroughs.
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    Workday
    • We were able to combine 4 different HR modules into one system.
    • We reduced data breach incidents by 95% after shifting to Workday. One of our legacy softwares had vulnerabilities.
    • The initial learning curve was higher than projected. We spent about a week to 10 days extra time deploying it, which affected the profit center that year.
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