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Executive Summary
Updated on Jan 18, 2023

We performed a comparison between BambooHR and PeopleSoft based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Ease of Deployment: Reviewers find the deployment of BambooHR very straightforward. PeopleSoft's setup is said to be a complex and time-consuming process.


  • Features: BambooHR is a very easy-to-use product with valuable features for reports, onboarding, an applicant tracking system (ATS), and email alerts. As a drawback, users point out the need for outsourcing payroll integrations and the difficulty of exporting and importing documents on the platform. PeopleSoft is described as a customizable and adaptable solution with valuable features for accounting and HR. Reviewers wish the product would improve in terms of user experience and accessibility on the cloud and mobile.


  • Pricing: Even though BambooHR can get more expensive with the fees for add-ons, the prevailing opinion is that it is fairly priced. PeopleSoft's licensing is paid per user and the higher-end price is justified by the quality of the product.

  • Service and Support: BambooHR support answers in a timely manner and users rate the overall services as very good. The reviews about PeopleSoft's technical support differ, as some describe it as good, and others as too expensive and not worth its price.

Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, BambooHR came out ahead of PeopleSoft, as our reviewers found PeopleSoft more complex to deploy, overall more expensive, and requiring improvement in its user experience and cloud and mobile accessibility.

To learn more, read our detailed BambooHR vs. PeopleSoft Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"I can easily go to BambooHR to search for any staff member in the company.""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.""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 product is user-friendly.""The solution's technical support is super responsive and helpful. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.""The scalability of BambooHR is good."

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"The most valuable feature for us is the integration between the HR Payroll and Financials modules""The feature that I have found most valuable is having the sources so that you're able to adapt the product to your needs. That was a big benefit.""This solution integrates very well with other products which is helpful.""The PeopleSoft interface is very good.""It is a very stable ERP solution. It is also supported on Oracle Cloud and provides extensive features.""PeopleSoft is easy to understand, where any end user that is logged in can easily navigate through the menus.""I would recommend the solution. It's very stable and scalable, which makes it a reliable solution.""The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability."

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Cons
"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 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.""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.""BambooHR needs to have more flexibility around performance management.""There are some issues with the job tab under my info where you add the salary.""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."

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"This solution could be improved by lowering the cost of support.""Stability is an area where the solution lacks and needs to be improved.""The API integration could be better.""If there is another release, they should look at going to mobile computing to stay competitive.""The product is not intuitive, and finding the right candidate can be arduous.""PeopleSoft lacks integration capabilities.""I would like to see it become available again in Mexico.""The area that could be improved is the upgrade process, it's not the easiest. Oracle stopped supporting our version. So we have to move either to the cloud or work in a non-supported situation. That was certainly a disadvantage. That's also the reason why we decided not to stay with Oracle. Now we are moving to SAP."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We pay a monthly subscription to use the solution. The subscript model is based on how many employees we have active."
  • "Price-wise, the solution is in the middle compared to other tools offering similar functionalities."
  • "I rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."
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  • "Check all options before a decision is made."
  • "It's approximately $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 USD per year."
  • "The licensing cost for PeopleSoft is 3,500 per course and the annual subscription fee is 6,500."
  • "I don't know if they are still providing licenses or if they have suspending licenses."
  • "There are no additional costs for licensing."
  • "We are a University and the cost and license are negotiated privately."
  • "The main issue we have with the solution is that it is very expensive."
  • "One of the cheapest solutions available and also one of the best."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Organizations of all sizes, especially those that are experiencing rapid growth, want to have a way to effectively manage their HR operations. Our organization feels that BambooHR is an HR management… more »
    Top Answer:The tool's most valuable features are the recruitment module, performance module, and document storage.
    Top Answer:BambooHR needs to have more flexibility around performance management.
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    Overview

    BambooHR is an all-around end-to-end talent management and benefits administration tool. This solution provides many use cases as it accompanies employees’ work journeys from onboarding to training, to day-to-day administration, and offboarding. This solution benefits the HR team as it provides them with a system that consolidates all of their employees’ information. This information includes, but is not limited to, contact information, bank details, schedules, language ability, vacation, sick days, and more. BambooHR can as well be used for reporting purposes, tracking leave, performance reviews, announcements to employees, and group emails.

    BambooHR Features:

    BambooHR has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:


    • Limiting Accessibility - An employer is able to limit access for certain users. This allows employers and the HR team to restrict information from employees. This as well helps with salary and payroll information as this tends to be the most sensitive and restricted information.


    • Support - BambooHR offers good support. The support team is helpful and answers any inquiry.


    • Information Storage - This solution can be used to store any information and documents. This includes job descriptions, employee manuals, etc.


    • Reporting and Metrics - The solution provides HR metrics and reports for the management teams.


    • Applications - An employee is able to apply easily for sick leave, annual leave, and vacation days.


    • Onboarding and Offboarding - The solution offers onboarding and offboarding tracking functionalities. This eases employee orientation and any employee’s departure.


    • Email Automation - Automatic emails can be sent out to job applicants and employees.


    • Scheduling - The solution helps with scheduling meetings and interviews easily.


    • Dashboard - BambooHR has a nice dashboard with each employee’s personal features.



    BambooHR Benefits:

    There are many benefits to implementing BambooHR. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:


    • Accessibility - BambooHR is accessible and easy to navigate. This especially benefits any employee or employer who may not have a technical background.


    • Efficiency - Employees have access to their information. They can review documents, update their information and look at their benefits on their own without the need to reach out to the HR department or management directly.


    • Visibility - An employer is able to view all of their employees’ annual days including annual leave and sick days. They can see which days were put on hold and how many an employee has left.


    Reviews from Real Users:

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the BambooHR solution.

    An HR Officer at a small financial services firm comments: “In the past, we managed all this [HR] information using Excel. Switching to BambooHR made it easier to access the information. It's easier to use and share reports. I can allow people to do their own reports so they don't need to deal with HR. BambooHR puts everything into one place, so I don't have to comb through several Excel files to collect all the information I need to make a report.”

    A Director of Human Resources at a large construction company says: “I would recommend this solution to other users. It has given me the ability to run a lean team and add automation to the way that we work.”

    PeopleSoft is an ERP solution that provides businesses with tools for managing their entire workforce including human resources and financial operations, such as payroll, benefits, talent management, and supply chain management. Originally developed by PeopleSoft, Inc., and later acquired by Oracle Corporation, the software helps address talent management needs and maximize employee productivity and efficiency.

    PeopleSoft Features

    PeopleSoft has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:


    • Simple and intuitive: PeopleSoft HCM delivers a clean, consistent, and user-friendly design, resulting in greater user satisfaction that leads to higher adoption without the high cost of training employees.


    • Anywhere, anytime mobility: With mobile devices being such an integral part of today’s modern work life, PeopleSoft offers today’s mobile and wireless managers and employees an effective and secure method for accessing the information they need, with the ability to effectively execute HR transactions from anywhere, at any time.


    • Flexible and configurable: PeopleSoft enables you to leverage a single application optimized for all form factors that works on any mobile device – no need for separate applications for mobile and desktop.


    • Robust: Because the solution is robust, you can use it to increase retention and improve employee engagement.


    • Powerful and actionable, embedded analytics: PeopleSoft’s actionable, embedded analytics help you spend less time gathering data and more time analyzing and executing employee data.



    PeopleSoft Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing PeopleSoft. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:


    • Greater employee satisfaction: Users will find PeopleSoft’s software easy to use, leading to better productivity levels and also increased employee satisfaction.


    • Manage dynamic workforce: The solution provides secure access to employee information so users can manage essential HR functions effectively.


    • Increased administrator productivity: PeopleSoft empowers employees and managers by enabling them to execute common HR tasks so administrators can focus on other top priorities.


    • Quickly make informed decisions: By using PeopleSoft’s embedded, real-time, multidimensional analysis capabilities, users can make more informed business decisions.


    Reviews from Real Users

    PeopleSoft is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Some of its major advantages are that it has a lot of functionality and is customizable.

    A Regional Director at a tech services company mentions, “The most valuable feature is that it's wide and broad and it does about everything anybody needs in a major organization from a back-office systems point of view.”

    "PeopleSoft is a good core system. It has a lot of functionality. "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," says another reviewer who is an HR/Pay Systems Administrator/Director at a university.


    A Senior Manager for DevOps Infrastructure at a financial services firm, explains why he finds the solution so beneficial: "It is a customizable product. We can customize it based on our needs, which is one of the features that I like about PeopleSoft. As far as financial accounting is concerned, the user interface is very good. You can also configure a Chart of Accounts for all performance insights."

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    Construction Company20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Retailer10%
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    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Educational Organization6%
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    University12%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company10%
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    Computer Software Company11%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government9%
    University9%
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    Small Business69%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise6%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise55%
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    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise71%
    Buyer's Guide
    BambooHR vs. PeopleSoft
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about BambooHR vs. PeopleSoft and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    BambooHR is ranked 7th in Benefits Administration with 31 reviews while PeopleSoft is ranked 3rd in Benefits Administration with 80 reviews. BambooHR is rated 8.2, while PeopleSoft is rated 8.0. 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 PeopleSoft writes "Comprehensive solution for SCM but requires add-ons for fluid pages". BambooHR is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, HiBob, Workday, SunFish DataOn Philippines Inc. and Netsuite SuitePeople, whereas PeopleSoft is most compared with Oracle HCM Cloud, Workday, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP SuccessFactors and SAP ERP. See our BambooHR vs. PeopleSoft report.

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