We performed a comparison between PeopleSoft and Workday based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Benefits Administration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."A solid and mature product."
"Job data is a valuable feature."
"I use the reporting feature occasionally to check for potential improvements in timesheets. We have integrated it with Power BI."
"Very stable in terms of performance and scalability."
"The PeopleSoft interface is very good."
"PeopleSoft is resilient and has the flexibility for us to customize it."
"It's a mature product."
"In general, this solution is user friendly and also performs well. There are two types of forms. One is a standardized form, which you can define things into. The other, you can customize so more repetition can be done in an even manner. That way, it can be designed for what the public or user actually wants. It's not very tough for any person, or layman to understand exactly what the screen requires one to do."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of reporting."
"The solution was very good at reconfiguration and customization of their software. It helped us to meet federal regulations."
"Workday is a secure product."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the usability, learning, and compliance tools."
"I found the analysis features to be very useful for our company. I also found the modules installed to be aligned with our company's KPIs. These were the two features that stood out."
"Workday's best features are planning and finance."
"We use the platform for tasks, including applying for leaves, communication, and adhering to our organization's policies through efficient goal setting and reviews."
"First time users, understanding accessibility and consolidated data is fairly easy. The solution improves productivity for users and reduces the need to switch between different tools."
"The solution needs to work on its mobile technology. We're hoping in the next version we're working on implementing, 9.2, will have more of this."
"Agile system configurations to accommodate business dynamics."
"On the other hand, the more recent push for standardization precludes customized approaches to certain industry requirements."
"The learning and development side of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Scalability is not there in PeopleSoft. Its performance and resilience are also very bad. When you're trying to stretch it, it breaks. It is not resilient. It is also not stable. It is stable as far as data is concerned, but the infrastructure is not stable."
"In my opinion, it needs more performance, maybe something technical related, because it's very slow for us and even small activities take a while."
"The UI and user experience are not great, and it's not as feature-rich as today's systems. Furthermore, our implementation does not include all the components we need, like payroll or some other functions."
"I would like to see better support, bug fixing, and documentation."
"The finance module of this solution is not great and needs improvement."
"The product must include payroll features."
"This solution could be made easier to use by continuing to release new improvements."
"My only suggestion might be to include a brief description of any new fields we introduce, making it easier for people to use them. Perhaps this is something they can consider implementing."
"The solution has some features missing when you put them in the test studio or Confluence Studio. I would like the tool’s coding to be easier to understand and automated. Most of the coding these days is automated. Any query given can pull the answer directly which can make the solution easier to understand."
"The solution has to work a lot on financial integrations, material management and CRM modules."
"It is good that much of the development is based on community input but often that can lead to details being ignored and small, nagging issues are ignored."
"The user interface could be better. Everything else was fine."
PeopleSoft is ranked 3rd in Benefits Administration with 80 reviews while Workday is ranked 1st in Benefits Administration with 51 reviews. PeopleSoft is rated 8.0, while Workday is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of PeopleSoft writes "Comprehensive solution for SCM but requires add-ons for fluid pages". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workday writes "The solution's interface is clean, organized, and easy to use ". PeopleSoft is most compared with Oracle HCM Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite, whereas Workday is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, Oracle HCM Cloud, UKG and Cornerstone Learning. See our PeopleSoft vs. Workday report.
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Big question but let me try to sum this up without diving too deep into the details.
1. Workday is the only fully in memory consolidated application on the market. It is an event-driven snapshot-based system and is SAAS only. Everything you do is an event and some of the events are exposed as business processes on the Workday business process framework. The only way to access data is through API operations.
2. PeopleSoft has been around a long time and is a database-driven application. You can access it through a browser and leverage PeopleTools to customize it to do what you need. PeopleSoft can be on-premise or hosted by Oracle. No new releases have come out in a while that I am aware of. I don’t know what the long term prospects of PS being around are. Different databases house different functional areas, i.e. HR, Financials, Student.
3. SuccessFactors is a consolidation of systems through acquisition. Its several databases being kept in sync under the covers with triggers and coding. I think parts of the application work well and others have a ways to go.
To me, the bottom line is really the technical aspects of the applications are hugely different in their approach. Workday being fully consolidated in memory SAAS solution,
PS being older highly customizable and SuccessFactors being a bunch of systems under the covers all pushing data between different databases to keep things in sync. Functionally I would say they each have their wheelhouse.
Workday is excellent for global implementations where you want to have employees from different geographies on the same HCM platform. Workday gives you the comfort of end to end global implementation on the same platform.
SAP SuccessFactors has strength in PMS and learning. India payroll is not so strong.
PeopleSoft (Oracle HCM) has strength in core HR data management, time and attendance, and recruitment, but their learning module is quite average.
I’m sharing my experience based on the evaluation I had conducted two years back.
I have compared some with Oracle Fusion and all have their pluses and minuses.
Workday was too complex for a company to maintain. They replaced PeopleSoft (old version) by Oracle Fusion because this was
preferred due to the integration and UX.
Currently, we applied the HCM - Oracle Fusion for Capital Management in our industry operation.
We already take time for package selections of HCM solutions then we understood for success to be deployed of solutions belongs to the implementation partners.
We based on the optimization triangle concepts are “SOLUTIONS – REALISTIC/APPLICABLE – COSTS”.