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Sage People

Score8.1 out of 10

9 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Sage People?

An extensible, configurable, and flexible global cloud HR and People solution, Sage People aims to empower HR to lead change. Built on Salesforce, Sage People enables business to flow by being inclusive, agile, and resilient, designing new ways of working, successfully competing for talent, and driving business transformation. It does this through automation, to elevate the work of their HR teams and the workforce, using actionable People insights to experiment and innovate, while delivering hybrid experiences.

Categories & Use Cases

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Screenshot of Reports on the matters that mean the most to the organization. Offers insights about a global workforce to suppot informed, data-driven business decisions with data that is always up to date.
Screenshot of An employee self-service portal gives the workforce access to common HR tasks, such as managing personal and pay details, viewing company communications, and managing their time off.
Screenshot of Sage People is used to manage time off, and track and manage planned and unplanned absences by team or by an individual.
Screenshot of Locates future leaders, close skills gaps, and develops talent with a system for employees and managers to engage in conversations anytime, anywhere, with real-time feedback, instant recognition, flexible goal setting, and formal, flexible performance reviews.
Screenshot of The Sage People mobile app is used to manage HR processes on-the-go.
Screenshot of Sage People Payroll is a unified HR and Payroll system for UK and US teams, to provide an accurate, synced view of people costs.​
Screenshot of Automates key processes for a smoother and more consistent candidate experience, and helps offer targeted talent a seamless onboarding experience both in the office and remotely.

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Screenshot of Reports on the matters that mean the most to the organization. Offers insights about a global workforce to suppot informed, data-driven business decisions with data that is always up to date.

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Sage People has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 9 ratings of Sage People's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Employee demographic data

    Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Employment history

    Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.

    Category average: 8

  • Approval workflow

    Approval workflow is the process for approving employee paid time-off requests.

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.

    Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)

    Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Duplicate Candidate Prevention

    Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added

    Category average: 7.4

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Sage People
Based on HG Insights installation data
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

20.3%

29 installations of 143

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

11.2%

16 installations of 143

#3 most frequent

Information

10.5%

15 installations of 143

Reviews

What users are saying about Sage People.
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Complete HR package for small and mid market companies. Go for it!!

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Marketing (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

End-to-end and centralised HCM tool helpful in managing employee data, performance evaluation, compensation, and other things. All our company documents and policies can be found in one place which is extremely useful considering we're working from home. As a manager, it's helpful in tracking and managing productivity better. Overall, I feel it improves business efficiency.

Pros

  • Easy to configure, set up, and integrate with pre-existing tools we use on day to day basis.
  • Since everyone is WFH, it can get confusing to know who's who. Sage People eliminates this process
  • You can get access to employees in other departments like sales, development, etc.

Cons

  • Training manuals are not much useful. You always need a helping hand to move forward.
  • When you have to look up employees, we have to provide their job title which I feel is not an efficient way.

Most Important Features

  • Benefits administration
  • Onboarding & scheduling interviews for employees
  • Time & attendance marking
  • Performance review

Return on Investment

  • As a manager, it has streamlined my job for scheduling interviews and helping new employees feel welcome.

Alternatives Considered

Vibe HCM

Other Software Used

HubSpot CRM

Sage People - easy, customizable, and effective

Incentivized
Jeremiah MillerView profile
Associate Director IT Infrastructure in Information Technology at Mennonite Central Committee (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • It is completely web-based so both employees and HR administrators can access the software from anywhere with no need to install special software.
  • Sage People is based on the Salesforce.com platform so it has a robust API which is well documented and easy to integrate with other systems.
  • Sage People can integrate with almost any payroll system using their "Payflow" interface
  • Customer support is responsive and helpful.

Cons

  • We found out-of-the-box configuration and fields for employees and salary to be lacking and had to do extensive customization especially for salary.
  • Basic salary functionality like uniform pay grades and automatic calculations based on FTE are lacking. This makes simple things like COLA adjustments to be a chore.
  • It is very easy to customize, which is a "Pro", but also means that you might have to do quite a bit of customization to get it to do what you'd like.
  • The employee Self-serve ("WX") interface can be a bit slow at times.

Return on Investment

  • Sage People has helped us to standardize our HR processes across a complex multinational environment. Overall, this has saved us time and resources
  • Licensing can be expensive especially for HR administrator licenses, and non-profit pricing isn't as good as we would hope. However, in the long run, costs are saved because there is no need for internal infrastructures such as servers or client applications
  • Integration with multiple payroll providers saves time and money and reduces the chance for errors.

Sage People - Great for Mid-Size, Global Companies

Incentivized
Stacie Alexander, SPHRView profile
Director, Global HR Shared Services in Human Resources at Worldwide Clinical Trials (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Sage is highly flexible and configurable, allowing us to manage the variety of geographies and functional units in one platform.
  • Sage is highly customer focused, with great CSM support.
  • Sage People will be able to integrate with other Sage pillars such as Accounting and Payroll.

Cons

  • Sage Support is sometimes tricky, as the system is so configurable that each client's setup is unique.
  • Sage is so configurable that at times it is a challenge to make use of all the functionality.
  • Sage US Benefits functionality is progressing now that the company is building out the US based resources - CSM, Support, and Systems.

Return on Investment

  • Has significantly improved our team resources by having one system and set of processes, rather than managing duplicate entry in multiple systems
  • Has allowed us to finally have a process for ensuring we can approve, manage, track and report employee PTO liability in one system
  • Improved HR Data reporting and Data Analytics for both HR and for managers, so that we can make better people and business decisions
  • Better manager and employee experiences by eliminating paper based request forms and automating workflows

Alternatives Considered

SuccessFactors Employee Central

Other Software Used

ADP Workforce Now

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