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.
"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 tool's most valuable features are the recruitment module, performance module, and document storage."
"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."
"We use this solution for our end to end HR needs from onboarding and hiring to learning."
"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."
"This is a scalable solution. We have not experienced any issues."
"The product is user-friendly."
"This solution offers good flexibility and configurability. It can handle different types of performance management."
"SuccessFactors' best features are talent management and HR Analytics."
"The initial setup was pretty simple."
"SAP SuccessFactors, in my opinion, is the best cloud-based HR solution tool for any size business."
"SAP SuccessFactors is a stable solution."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten...It is a stable solution."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"The color palettes could be changed to make the solution a little more attractive and easier to use."
"We cannot add more questions to the assessments if we want to."
"The UI needs improvement because it needs to be more user-friendly."
"BambooHR could be improved by managing leave in a way that transfers remaining days at the end of the annual year to the following year."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"LMS, Learning Management Systems, needs improvement because there were some stability problems."
"There is an area of improvement in integrating SuccessFactors with different platforms."
"To explain one feature that I would like to see in SuccessFactors, I must describe a similar feature as seen in Oracle. In Oracle, there's a feature called Workforce Prediction, and with this feature, we can predict some of the behaviors of any employee. For example, the software can attempt to predict whether the employee might resign in future, or perhaps if they will start to perform better. This is something that is missing in SuccessFactors."
"SAP SuccessFactors is working on making beneficial changes but they are not fast enough. They can improve by making the improvements or updates quicker. Additionally, the user interface could improve, it is not something you want to return to when compared to a solution similar to Instagram."
"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 are a few features that are missing. There are specific features on the HTM, such as telecom safety, that just isn't there. It's not a very detailed solution in that sense. However, it is maybe not expected to have those kinds of features on the surface level of the product."
"We encountered challenges with the tool's integration with third-party applications and deployments."
"The process for long modules needs to be improved, because compared to how it's done with a competitor (Meta4), the competitor's process was simpler."
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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