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."It's a mature product."
"PeopleSoft is an amazing solution. Its users can have total control of the system, including PeopleCode, Application Engine and Component Interface, along with many other tools delivered by PeopleSoft."
"The most valuable feature is that it's easy to use."
"I'd like PeopleSoft to be like on the cloud and more mobile-friendly. If I try to access it from a cell phone, it's a bit difficult, so it would be great if PeopleSoft could improve these features."
"Scales up very well."
"PeopleSoft is a good core system. They frequently update the solution and recently they have added some good enhancement features for higher education. We just switched to the new fluid interface and that is working very well for us. It is very good."
"A solid and mature product."
"I would rate scalability a nine out of ten."
"It's a fully consolidated system. All the transactions and configuration are co-located in one fully in-memory system, so there is no need to go to different data sources (multiple DBs) to pull data; it’s all in one place."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the usability, learning, and compliance tools."
"It's actually a cloud-native solution and based on the community for development. It is a very good open architecture and able to interconnect with other systems. And it is very stable and very fast in terms of response."
"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."
"It stores everything for the employee. It has also been able to store the information that we use for our payroll demand."
"The most valuable feature of Workday is the ease of use which is overall user-friendly."
"It helps the users to enroll for the benefits automatically and update their life events without the involvement of HR individuals or back-office staff. It enables a person to take action on their own. It reduces the administrative burden on HR and puts the ownership on the person that is going through the life event, whether it is having a child, taking a leave of absence, or something else. There are easy ways to integrate Workday with your common benefits. At least in the USA, it can be integrated with common benefits providers such as Fidelity, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, etc. It has got a connector that is able to connect with the vendor or the third party to which you are trying to send the eligibility file. It basically allows us to automate or set up the tool, and the integration with the provider is a lot quicker than competing tools. When it comes to reporting on just eligibility and SLSA, it is a lot more user-intuitive. Depending on the purpose of what you are doing, you can grant security rights or roles, for example, you can control whether someone is a benefits administrator doing an independent audit. Workday makes it very easy to do that. It significantly simplifies the reporting process."
"PeopleSoft should be more flexible with the configuration. There should be less coding and more configuration."
"Tools and UI could be enhanced."
"The biggest disadvantage with things like PeopleSoft is that they do continuous support and fixes and upgrades. You get to choose when you want to implement that upgrade. However, in order to keep up, you have to upgrade."
"I would like to see improvement in the UI."
"The implementation of PeopleSoft is quite complex and is not as easy as other cloud products such as SuccessFactor or Workday."
"I would like to see better support, bug fixing, and documentation."
"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."
"If there is another release, they should look at going to mobile computing to stay competitive."
"Reporting systems should be improved. If you want to report it on paper, if you want something more BI oriented, more high level predictive or more data-driven, it should be improved."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The user interface could be better. Everything else was fine."
"The user interface could be modernized somehow."
"The solution has to work a lot on financial integrations, material management and CRM modules."
"One area that could be improved with Workday is the analytics side."
"It is very unique as compared to other tools in terms of the employee master data and how it is organized. That's why sometimes the information needs to sit in two different systems because, in Workday, it is organized differently. This issue is not related to benefits. It is more or so related to how you categorize employees. I don't think this is a problem that could be solved. Workday is aware of this. It is one of those kinds of situations that you just got to live with."
"The security console should be made less complex."
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”.