We performed a comparison between Dayforce HCM and Workday based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud HCM solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Statutory holiday pay is calculated automatically."
"Ceridian Dayforce HCM is a stable product."
"Great time and attendance payroll and benefits administration which has improved our efficiency."
"The fact that the time and attendance system is built into the HRIS is very valuable because, in the past, we had to use two different systems."
"Our employee benefits enrollment is managed through Ceridian Dayforce, which makes for a limited manual process."
"Configuring your HR policies and rules is straightforward."
"Dayforce has transformed how we operate by saving us time, paper, accuracy, money, and the employee/supervisor experience."
"The tool has improved a lot in the area of its mobile application, especially considering its added security features, like single sign-on capabilities."
"It stores everything for the employee. It has also been able to store the information that we use for our payroll demand."
"The most valuable feature of Workday is the ease of navigation to browse the application. The solution can hold information about the company and people with accounts can be discovered by others in the whole company."
"There is a lot to like about it. I really enjoy the business process framework. It's something that's really seamless. It allows you to have people within the flow. They get assigned a task to complete something to approve, etc. That's a really good piece of functionality that Workday offers. Their out-of-the-box reporting framework is also really powerful in terms of what it provides. These would be two things that I would highlight."
"It helps the users to enroll for the benefits automatically and update their life events without the involvement of HR individuals or back-office staff. It enables a person to take action on their own. It reduces the administrative burden on HR and puts the ownership on the person that is going through the life event, whether it is having a child, taking a leave of absence, or something else. There are easy ways to integrate Workday with your common benefits. At least in the USA, it can be integrated with common benefits providers such as Fidelity, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, etc. It has got a connector that is able to connect with the vendor or the third party to which you are trying to send the eligibility file. It basically allows us to automate or set up the tool, and the integration with the provider is a lot quicker than competing tools. When it comes to reporting on just eligibility and SLSA, it is a lot more user-intuitive. Depending on the purpose of what you are doing, you can grant security rights or roles, for example, you can control whether someone is a benefits administrator doing an independent audit. Workday makes it very easy to do that. It significantly simplifies the reporting process."
"It is a one-stop solution for everything. You can look for information about other employees or you can track your information. There is a directory, so you can search for other employees. You can also see and track your personal details and salary details on the employee profile page."
"Performance and good usability are the two most valuable features of this solution."
"Provides flexibility to integrate with the product. It has several tools, out-of-the-box, for integrations. It delivers pre-built interfaces for specific vendors, pre-built generic integrations to extract or push data into Workday through configuration."
"The most valuable feature of Workday is the ease of use which is overall user-friendly."
"I would like to continue to see improvements in the Recruiting module. I would like to see this module interact with Calendars, such as Outlook, etc."
"Dayforce has its gaps like every HR system, but nothing comes to mind at the moment."
"One area to be improved is the solution's reporting function, which can be cumbersome."
"The reporting could be improved."
"Management and reporting of the GL costing could be improved."
"An area for improvement could be a little more testing before implementing hotfixes to make sure they do not interfere with any active customized products."
"Many things are presented as though they will be included with the system but then require costly upgrades."
"I would like the solution to improve its customer service communication."
"The security console should be made less complex."
"I'm not sure they have added this feature yet, but there should be a cellphone version, so we do not need to do it on a laptop. I'd like to log in on a cellphone and have the same features. I'm not sure if that is already available or if it's on the roadmap, but that would be a great feature."
"The solution can be improved by speeding up the load time when pulling up information."
"There is a lot of complexity in the configuration of this solution."
"One potential feature that could be added is the ability to streamline business processes through quick tips and guided tours. This would allow for a smoother and more guided experience for colleagues as they navigate through different processes and steps. It would be similar to a guidance system or a step-by-step tutorial that could be added after the business process to guide users through it."
"One area that could be improved with Workday is the analytics side."
"We would like to see improvement in the mobile app variant of this solution. The time sheet entry and approval, and the geo-tagging features all need to have their functionality updated, in order to be comparable with other products on the market."
"Workday could improve by adding other features, such as messaging to candidates and other recruiting capabilities that other new-age solutions have."
Dayforce HCM is ranked 7th in Cloud HCM with 14 reviews while Workday is ranked 2nd in Cloud HCM with 51 reviews. Dayforce HCM is rated 8.6, while Workday is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dayforce HCM writes "Greatly improved our efficiency with its integrated time and attendance module". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workday writes "The solution's interface is clean, organized, and easy to use ". Dayforce HCM is most compared with UKG, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM Cloud, Alight and Netsuite SuitePeople, whereas Workday is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft and SmartRecruiters. See our Dayforce HCM vs. Workday report.
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