SAP Workforce Analytics vs. Visier People

Overview
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SAP Workforce Analytics
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Visier People
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Visier aims to give organizations a "Workforce AI Edge:" A set of AI-powered capabilities that help leaders understand the relationship between people and work, elevate employee productivity, and win by adapting to change faster. The company offers people analytics, workforce planning, and compensation allocation. All Visier technology is underpinned by its Real-time People Data Platform, which uses AI to unlock the business-transforming potential of people data, work data, and the fusion…N/A
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Highlights

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Visier and SAP Workforce Analytics, a part of the SuccessFactors product line, are both workforce analytics tools. They are both primarily used by enterprises. They are primarily distinguished by their status as a point solution vs. a product within a quite. 

SAP Workforce Analytics is designed to complement SAP SuccessFactors’s HR management suite of offerings. As such, it emerged out of an HR background and adopted more advanced analytics capabilities. In contrast, Visier is a point analytics solution. It was created from what was originally a Business Intelligence foundation and structured to be easy for HR professionals to use.

Features

SAP Workforce Analytics and Visier both have strong features tailored for their audiences. 

SAP Workforce Analytics excels as an analytics tool for enterprises that live in the broader SAP ecosystem. It naturally integrates with the rest of the SuccessFactors platform, which is key for enterprises looking to centralize their HR systems into a single vendor. It also has a range of out-of-the-box features and HR metrics. 

In contrast, Visier stands out as a standalone workforce analytics platform. Given its origins in BI infrastructure, it serves as an excellent database for structuring and preparing HR data. Reviewers also highlight that Visier is very intuitive and easy to use, even among line of business users. 

Limitations

Despite their robust features, there are some limitations to SAP Workforce Analytics and Visier worth considering. 

SAP Workforce Analytics’s position as a legacy analytics tool comes at the cost of a more cumbersome and clunky user interface. This UI can make the platform frustrating for frequent users and intimidating for new users. There are also limited training resources available to help users get up to speed on the platform. 

On the other hand, Visier struggles more with some of its extended analytics features. For instance, the mobile application is not on par with the main desktop application, with lower performance and more limited capabilities. The system is also not as customizable as reviewers would prefer their analytics platform to be. 

Pricing

SAP Workforce Analytics pricing starts at $6.17/user/month. Final pricing is available by quote from the vendor. 

Visier is priced uniquely for each business by quote from the vendor. 

Features
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Workforce Analytics
Comparison of Workforce Analytics features of Product A and Product B
SAP Workforce Analytics
9.9
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15% above category average
Visier People
8.0
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6% below category average
Automated data collection10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Data analysis10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Data integration9.70 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Predictive analytics9.90 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Benchmarking10.00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Report designer9.90 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Pre-built content10.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Data management10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Self-service insights10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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9.8
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8.7
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.1
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Usability
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8.9
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User Testimonials
SAP Workforce AnalyticsVisier People
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP Workforce Analytics is well suited for analyzing employees' performance and providing accurate data. It helps us to monitor how our employees are performing their daily duties. Therefore, SAP Workforce Analytics has been a reliable and easy to manage software for our business. The insights provided by this tool allow us to create predictive models for future behaviors.
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This solution, prepared mail for the HR departments, is definitely well suited for decision making. This means that Visier enhances data analysis and drives planning, metrics, and business results to the next level. The ability to transform databases of employees' data (for example) into interactive, clear, and detailed reports supports and upgrades the current decision-making process.
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Pros
  • Runs smoothly.
  • Haven't had any issues with it.
  • Has not ever crashed.
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  • Visier does an excellent job providing summary charts and graphs of people data, including turnover, job information, and diversity and inclusion statistics.
  • Visier is flexible in setting up data feeds between various systems to ensure all of our data is accessible in one system. For example, we have a data connector between our market pricing, HCM, and recruiting systems.
  • Visier has an intuitive and user-friendly interface that empowers line managers and HR partners to use the system. Managers and HR partners can easily share data with other users.
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Cons
  • One of the key areas of improvement, is not in the software itself, but the implementation process into organizations. Sometimes the lack of knowledge of an organization's key driven factors, causes SAP products to not be customized properly for the organization, or the organization's lack of knowledge of all SAP products hinders a produced and effective implementation strategy.
  • Ad-hoc reporting lags sometimes, and whether it's server response times or the organization's slow connections, it tends to slow the processes at points.
  • The move to V12 for PM forms leaves the customer with limited configuration choices and the administration tools are not yet up to the functionality that customers get using SuccessFactory and the v11 forms.
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  • Technical Deadlines Often Missed: On several occasions during data onboarding, or applying fixes to data, communicated deadlines were missed by 24-48 hours.
  • Security can be convoluted, but is effective.
  • Built on Flash and the only native mobile apps are for iPad (iPhone forthcoming).
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Likelihood to Renew
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It is a software with great resources, it increases the possibility that the entire workforce is productive, it gives us quick answers, it is the most powerful workforce analysis software that exists so far.
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Usability
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Visier People makes it very easy for all end users to go in and see, pull, or dig in to their data where previously my team would have to pull or schedule a report of the data to each user. It is also very fast in updating charts/analyses when changing or adding filters, which makes the ease of use better. Last, the charts and analyses are very visually appeasing, making users want to use the platform more.
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Implementation Rating
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Visier can move as quickly or as slowly as the client needs. The topic-by-topic approach separates the project in clear phases and allows for focus on specific data. Depending on the size of the implementation team, implementation could move more rapidly if the subject matter experts are responsible for the individual topic data sets.
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One of the biggest challenges Oracle HCM Cloud has is that Oracle is still in the development stage, or acquisitions phase, where they are attempting to buy other solutions/companies to better their cloud solution. The product just before Taleo, Fusion, lacked the ability to have all of the necessary apps within the solution. Having said that, SAP Workforce Analytics, has all of what a corporation needs, even though, it is not an organic solution, the overall solution provides all of what its customers had asked for and then some.
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Our business has experimented with the use of Skedulo, but it has not stacked up against Visier People, as we don't get the luxury of the nicely recorded data that Visier People gives us. We have been able to record important information day-to-day due to the use of Visier People - Skedulo just didn't compete.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive effect on ROI as we were able to quickly retrieve useful data on expenses, etc.
  • Being able to use the tool across the organisation saved money compared to each department using their own tool
  • Little to no downtime improved ROI
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  • A quick analysis of the company's trends has been obtained, measuring the possible failures that may be found in the company.
  • Errors have been quickly performed efficiently, helping to have a better job optimization.
  • Thanks to the fact that many negative aspects of the company have been improved, better sales results have been obtained since the analyzes that have been made of the workforce with this platform have optimized the performance of the employees.
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ScreenShots

Visier People Screenshots

Screenshot of Visier People: Learning helps make sense of the complex learning landscape.  Visier People helps spot trends in the sea of records from micro-learning and self-sourced learning activities being pursued by a workforce, and gives shape to the thousands of xAPI statements from LRS. The platform centralizes learning records and identifies which sources are producing the most compelling training to understand the full impact of all a workforce's learning activity.Screenshot of Visier People: Organization provides foundational insights for the organization around employee demographics, diversity, organizational structure, starts, and exits - as well as benchmarking against other Visier organizations with Visier Benchmark’s 10 million+ employee records.Screenshot of Visier People: Workforce helps find the optimal balance when an organization is powered by the hourly worker. Unifying labor data - time, pay, safety, productivity - Visier People helps to discover how hours worked, productivity, and employees’ well-being connect together. Users can then take action on insights into absenteeism, case management, overtime, and worker safety.