We performed a comparison between BambooHR and SAP HCM 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."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 tool's most valuable features are the recruitment module, performance module, and document storage."
"I can easily go to BambooHR to search for any staff member in the company."
"This is a scalable solution. We have not experienced any issues."
"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 performance goals and personal features of every employee with the dashboard is most valuable."
"The solution's technical support is super responsive and helpful. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"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."
"We've found that the solution has the capability to scale."
"It has the best data management features."
"The most valuable feature, in my view, is the level of exceptions or error messages that come back when something goes wrong."
"They have some interesting features in the learning space."
"It is a pretty stable solution."
"The platform is simple to use and has a user-friendly dashboard and integration features."
"The integration between the different models like personnel administration, work management, payroll, and time management are the most valuable and key features."
"Recently, the localization versions for different countries were increased, and that added value to the solution."
"We cannot add more questions to the assessments if we want to."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I'm currently working for a state-owned government company, and we need to follow some standards and regulations. We also have a strategy to be followed. Sometimes the template and the format are not available in the SAP HCM, so we have to work around this limitation. The tax also sometimes changes in my country, and we have to redo everything to change the payroll calculations, benefits, and things like that. The talent management feature can be improved. It is currently very simple in SAP HCM. SAP is also very hard to integrate. In terms of monitoring, there are no monitoring tools, but as long as we take care of the disk capacity, there is no problem."
"It needs a lot of end user training as it is not intuitive at all."
"It was difficult to deploy. There were challenges regarding configurations and implementation. So, we had a lot of issues."
"The breadth of functionality offered by SAP HCM comes at a cost."
"It takes a long time to apply an update patch to the system."
"The extensibility of the integration could be improved."
"The speed of technical support can be improved."
"SAP HCM's long and tedious transactions can be improved."
BambooHR is ranked 7th in Benefits Administration with 31 reviews while SAP HCM is ranked 4th in Benefits Administration with 46 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 "Efficiently handles the entire hire-to-retire cycle management within an organization and the ability to scale is outstanding". 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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