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 product is user-friendly."
"We use this solution for our end to end HR needs from onboarding and hiring to learning."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The performance goals and personal features of every employee with the dashboard is most valuable."
"We use the cloud version to maintain all the employee records, payroll, etc. We use everything that comes with the HR suite."
"One of the most wonderful features is the ability to customize the modules and workflows. So far, we've done a fair bit of customization and it is helping us a lot and really adds to the value we already get from SuccessFactors."
"What I like the most is the KPI management formula."
"They have succeeded in sustaining a powerful system supporting their philosophy."
"What I appreciate most about SAP SuccessFactors is that it has all the modules in one platform. SAP SuccessFactors is the best option in the market for HR use cases. I also find the solution user-friendly."
"SAP SuccessFactors is a very reliable and stable solution."
"This solution can be used for reporting related to employee information and contacts"
"It's very user-friendly."
"There are some issues with the job tab under my info where you add the salary."
"I would like to be able to export some documents into PDFs a little easier. Right now, only HR can update the training record and as you scale your company, managing the system can be manual and time consuming."
"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."
"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 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."
"BambooHR needs to have more flexibility around performance management."
"We cannot add more questions to the assessments if we want to."
"SuccessFactors could be improved by making it usable on mobile and making its features less rigid."
"SAP resources are at the high end and anything you want to change or any customization is expensive."
"There is an area of improvement in integrating SuccessFactors with different platforms."
"The back end for the administration and the front end is too overtly complex and it's not aligned with our operations and learning needs."
"The user experience could be simplified."
"SAP SuccessFactors' pricing structure could be improved."
"The pricing of SAP is quite high."
"There should be more connectivity with other systems."
BambooHR is ranked 8th in Talent Management with 31 reviews while SAP SuccessFactors is ranked 1st in Talent Management 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, UKG, ADP Workforce Now and Personio, whereas SAP SuccessFactors is most compared with SAP HCM, Workday, Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft and Oracle Taleo. See our BambooHR vs. SAP SuccessFactors report.
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