We performed a comparison between BambooHR and SAP HCM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud HCM solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the fact that the annual days are calculated automatically and that if annual leave is taken in the future, those days are put on hold. You know at every point how many days of annual leave are you left with and how many are on hold."
"The tool's most valuable features are the recruitment module, performance module, and document storage."
"Leave management is the most valuable as they all started with leave management and then progressed to performance management. Of course, employee profiles are central to everything. It is also very easy to use. Customers get on board with it very quickly. One of the selling points for BambooHR is that they have a very wide partner network. There are lots of other partners that have integrations with BambooHR. They have an open API. This is one of the things that is driving its growth because lots of people and companies are literally just building integrations of BambooHR to ride the wave. If you have an integration with BambooHR, you get sales. People are more likely to choose your product because they've already chosen BambooHR. That's how it is happening. It is a cloud deployment, so there is only one version. They do the updates every month, and because of this, you are encouraged to send them feedback all the time. You never know. Your feature may be included in the next release."
"The solution's technical support is super responsive and helpful. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The scalability of BambooHR is good."
"The HR metrics that this solution provides has been most useful. We also really like the fact that employees have the ability to be self sufficient and manage their own information."
"This is a scalable solution. We have not experienced any issues."
"We use this solution for our end to end HR needs from onboarding and hiring to learning."
"The setup was straightforward."
"All of the core processes are very valuable aspects of the solution. These include personnel, administration, organizational structure, and payroll."
"The technical support is quite good."
"When you maintain your data in SAP, you can generate any kind of HR report with one click."
"They provide the most stable and powerful technology in the areas of human resources, information systems, and ERP."
"The platform is simple to use and has a user-friendly dashboard and integration features."
"All our employee data, like performance and payroll, is managed through SAP HCM."
"Recently, the localization versions for different countries were increased, and that added value to the solution."
"It would be useful to have the possibility to assign a task to the different users within the software."
"BambooHR needs to have more flexibility around performance management."
"We cannot add more questions to the assessments if we want to."
"The UI needs improvement because it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The color palettes could be changed to make the solution a little more attractive and easier to use."
"The performance could be improved. When you save some documents, it takes longer to store them in BambooHR's systems than it used to. Something needs to be upgraded or fixed in the code. Alow, we provide services to other companies, so Bamboo isn't able to help us in many areas because of the way we work."
"If you are dealing with two or more businesses under one company name, it is not possible to transfer employees between companies if they have a separate bamboo set up."
"It would be good to include more options for approvals and workflows. They are deliberately not the most sophisticated version of anything that they do, but it is like 80/20. They hit the vast majority of all the needs, but I have started to run up against the limits of their functionality. It has forced me to start paying attention to the marketplace or sending feedback to BambooHR. Clients are still happy though. Timesheets is a new area in which they're slowly expanding. It is currently very limited, but it meets the needs of standard nine-to-five salary employees who just want to be able to key in their time, have it approved, and then pushed off to payroll. It does not have any of the bells and whistles that an hourly employee or hourly worker might need. That is one area that is currently limited, but they have integrations with some of the best companies that do that."
"The solution is rather expensive."
"The talent modules are lacking in HCM, so I would recommend switching to SuccessFactors for talent management, but HCM excels at time management and payroll."
"There needs to be a renovation of the interface and functionalities of the talent management modules."
"It would be nice if the solution migrated to S/4HANA."
"The breadth of functionality offered by SAP HCM comes at a cost."
"The setup comes with a set of challenges as well."
"The speed of technical support can be improved."
"It was difficult to deploy. There were challenges regarding configurations and implementation. So, we had a lot of issues."
BambooHR is ranked 9th in Cloud HCM with 31 reviews while SAP HCM is ranked 3rd in Cloud HCM with 48 reviews. BambooHR is rated 8.2, while SAP HCM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of BambooHR writes "HRIS software used for a company of 300 employees that offers employee tracking, data insights and automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HCM writes "Allows you to generate reports, easy integration and offers out-of-the-box support". BambooHR is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, HiBob, Workday, SunFish DataOn Philippines Inc. and DarwinBox, whereas SAP HCM is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle HCM Cloud, ADP GlobalView Payroll and PeopleSoft. See our BambooHR vs. SAP HCM report.
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