We performed a comparison between BambooHR and SAP SuccessFactors based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, BambooHR came out ahead of SAP SuccessFactors, as our reviewers found SAP SuccessFactors more difficult to deploy, more expensive, and in need of general improvement.
"The performance goals and personal features of every employee with the dashboard is most valuable."
"BambooHR is accessible to users who aren't good with technology. If you don't have an IT background, you can easily find information about any employee."
"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."
"We use this solution for our end to end HR needs from onboarding and hiring to learning."
"The product is user-friendly."
"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."
"This is a scalable solution. We have not experienced any issues."
"I can easily go to BambooHR to search for any staff member in the company."
"The performance of the solution is very good."
"It is a scalable solution."
"SAP SuccessFactors integrated solution, allows us to start the process from a recruitment marketing perspective and have our career site and candidate profile pull through into each other."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten...It is a stable solution."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its integration capabilities with on-premise ERPs and other systems."
"In terms of user experience, it is quite good."
"HR and managers can use the onboarding tool to help new employees prepare for their first day on the job, which can help them acclimate to the company culture and reduce anxiety."
"The tool's most valuable feature is document generation."
"We cannot add more questions to the assessments if we want to."
"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."
"In the BambooHR performance management annual evaluations we have some limits to the questions. We can only add four extra questions, and they already have three basic questions, this is not easy for us. We would like to have more flexibility with the questions."
"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."
"There are some issues with the job tab under my info where you add the salary."
"It would be useful to have the possibility to assign a task to the different users within the software."
"The color palettes could be changed to make the solution a little more attractive and easier to use."
"The UI needs improvement because it needs to be more user-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in licensing model."
"SuccessFactors feels rigid. It should be more streamlined. Also, the interface design is outdated and needs an upgrade."
"We lack information regarding how to build a network."
"LMS, Learning Management Systems, needs improvement because there were some stability problems."
"SuccessFactors' experience management is not so user-friendly."
"User experience for this solution needs to be improved."
"There have been cases involving a lot of re-implementations and frustrations within clients where they have the workbook sessions, the workbook workshops and things like that. And I think that doesn't really go down well because the workbooks are very technical and, a lot of times, very confusing for the client."
"There should be more connectivity with other systems."
BambooHR is ranked 9th in Cloud HCM with 31 reviews while SAP SuccessFactors is ranked 1st in Cloud HCM with 90 reviews. BambooHR is rated 8.2, while SAP SuccessFactors is rated 7.8. 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 SuccessFactors writes "Offers many useful modules and integrations, and helps companies adhere to best practices". BambooHR is most compared with HiBob, Workday, SunFish DataOn Philippines Inc., DarwinBox and Netsuite SuitePeople, whereas SAP SuccessFactors is most compared with SAP HCM, Workday, Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft and DarwinBox. See our BambooHR vs. SAP SuccessFactors report.
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