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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP Core HR and Payroll

    Score9.9 out of 10
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    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
    SAP Core HR and PayrollWorkday HCM
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Core HR and PayrollWorkday HCM
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SAP Core HR and PayrollWorkday HCM
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    Workday
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
    SAP Core HR and PayrollWorkday HCM
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    5.6
    4 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.6
    96 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Employee demographic data2.02 Ratings8.481 Ratings
    Employment history7.04 Ratings8.891 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration4.03 Ratings8.693 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.04 Ratings9.288 Ratings
    Organizational charting6.04 Ratings9.387 Ratings
    Organization and location management7.04 Ratings9.084 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)6.02 Ratings6.759 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    28% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    9.0
    80 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Pay calculation9.04 Ratings8.568 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors5.02 Ratings8.856 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment4.01 Ratings9.818 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration6.03 Ratings8.563 Ratings
    Direct deposit files8.03 Ratings8.869 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management4.04 Ratings9.266 Ratings
    Reimbursement management6.02 Ratings9.243 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    4.7
    3 Ratings
    52% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.6
    74 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Approval workflow5.03 Ratings8.573 Ratings
    Balance details5.03 Ratings8.473 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment4.03 Ratings8.959 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    5.8
    4 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.4
    94 Ratings
    4% above category average
    View and generate pay and benefit information6.04 Ratings8.983 Ratings
    Update personal information7.04 Ratings8.792 Ratings
    View company policy documentation4.02 Ratings7.673 Ratings
    Employee recognition7.03 Ratings8.157 Ratings
    View job history5.04 Ratings8.883 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    3.0
    1 Ratings
    92% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.4
    25 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Tracking of all physical assets3.01 Ratings8.425 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    5.0
    4 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.5
    78 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Report builder5.04 Ratings8.974 Ratings
    Pre-built reports4.04 Ratings8.676 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data6.03 Ratings7.964 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    6.5
    2 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.6
    56 Ratings
    9% above category average
    New hire portal7.02 Ratings8.452 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools6.02 Ratings8.852 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.5
    60 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Corporate goal setting7.02 Ratings8.750 Ratings
    Individual goal setting9.02 Ratings8.759 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility4.02 Ratings7.951 Ratings
    Performance tracking8.02 Ratings8.658 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    7.4
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.9
    63 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Performance plans8.02 Ratings9.062 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans8.02 Ratings8.954 Ratings
    Review status tracking9.02 Ratings8.758 Ratings
    Review reminders7.02 Ratings9.058 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency5.02 Ratings8.951 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    5.8
    2 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.0
    40 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools6.02 Ratings9.334 Ratings
    Candidate ranking8.02 Ratings7.735 Ratings
    Candidate search4.02 Ratings7.938 Ratings
    Candidate development5.02 Ratings6.837 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of SAP Core HR and Payroll and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    SAP Core HR and Payroll
    6.1
    2 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.3
    48 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Job Requisition Management5.02 Ratings8.045 Ratings
    Company Website Posting7.02 Ratings8.339 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.02 Ratings8.734 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting6.02 Ratings8.440 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention4.02 Ratings7.839 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking7.02 Ratings8.240 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.02 Ratings8.444 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP Core HR and PayrollWorkday HCM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (108 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (22 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP Core HR and PayrollWorkday HCM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    SAP HR can be well suited for global companies with operations in multiple countries. The Payroll module needs to be limited to one instance per country, otherwise trying to maintain multiple countries on the same instance is too complicated. I would not recommend using SAP HR and Payroll for smaller companies because the total cost of ownership and the lack of flexibility will make it unfeasible. There are many cloud-based options now a days available that would fit better for this type of scenario.
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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
    SAP
    • Employee lifecycle JLM process.
    • Globally employee engagement.
    • Employee Learning and development process.
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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
    SAP
    • The design looks outdated
    • Could add more functions like PTO tracking
    • The help sections aren’t very helpful
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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
    SAP
    I live to mention this rating due the SAP core HR very user frndly and providing and multi HR module under single umbrella. there are multi reasons for this rating we have
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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
    SAP
    The application is highly available, easy to use, and very user-friendly.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    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
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    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
    SAP
    Even we have excellent team for SAP system who aways working good, whenever we needed for Support for SAP we got quick support for SAP as well
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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
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    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
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    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
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    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
    SAP
    SAP is very intuitive to use and allows us to achieve our goals.
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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
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    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
    SAP
    • SAP HR is suited for large companies with a sufficient budget. Small budgets will not be able to cover the expensive licensing, technical personnel and consultants required of an SAP installation.
    • In regards to the total cost of ownership, my ROI experience has been that by replacing SAP HR modules with cloud solutions we have been able to reduce the cost up to 60% while modernizing our systems and improving the employee experience.
    • I would encourage decision makers to look for cloud-based alternatives with a robust system integration, before believing that supporting every area of HR with a single SAP installation is a good long-term strategy. Having SAP HR as the core integrated to best-in-class cloud-based systems is a very valid and effective system strategy.
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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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