We performed a comparison between PeopleSoft and SAP SuccessFactors based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Talent Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."A valuable feature is FSCM."
"Its user interface is impressive."
"It's very fully featured. It has more features and more configurability than SAP."
"The synchronization of business processes, and the software, streamlined the shared service departments to run 40% leaner."
"PeopleSoft has been fairly reliable for us. We haven't had any issues with stability."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability."
"A solid and mature product."
"It is a very stable ERP solution. It is also supported on Oracle Cloud and provides extensive features."
"The most valuable features of SAP SuccessFactors are onboarding, recruiting, marketing, and performance."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance management module."
"Compared to other on-premise solutions, the first advantage of SAP SuccessFactors is that it is a SaaS-based solution."
"They have succeeded in sustaining a powerful system supporting their philosophy."
"The performance goals and learning management solutions are the product's most valuable features."
"Provides an open architecture and an open platform so it can coexist with other systems."
"The performance of the solution is very good."
"The solution is scalable. We have about 1,300 people using the solution."
"I would like to see it become available again in Mexico."
"Global payroll could be easier to use."
"I would like to see improvement in the UI."
"PeopleSoft lacks integration capabilities."
"We have already deployed it and we have had it for several years but we are switching to a modern HCM SaaS cloud product."
"There can occasionally be complexity in the initial setup."
"Services that need improvement include PeopleSoft Query, Pivot Grids, and PeopleSoft Test Framework."
"PeopleSoft should be more flexible with the configuration. There should be less coding and more configuration."
"User experience for this solution needs to be improved."
"The solution needs more localization, especially for the Middle East and Russia."
"Everything, including the provisioning dependency, should be moved to the instance, and coding should be kept to a minimum. Wherever possible, coding should be minimized, and everything should be a drag-and-drop."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The user experience could be simplified."
"I would like to be able to configure objects from instances, not from import and export files."
"There is not much scope for enhancements, personalization, or customization with the cloud-based variant of this solution, which could be improved."
PeopleSoft is ranked 5th in Talent Management with 80 reviews while SAP SuccessFactors is ranked 1st in Talent Management with 90 reviews. PeopleSoft is rated 8.0, while SAP SuccessFactors is rated 7.8. 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 SAP SuccessFactors writes "Offers many useful modules and integrations, and helps companies adhere to best practices". PeopleSoft is most compared with Oracle HCM Cloud, Workday, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite, whereas SAP SuccessFactors is most compared with SAP HCM, Workday, Oracle HCM Cloud, UKG and Cornerstone Learning. See our PeopleSoft vs. SAP SuccessFactors 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”.