We performed a comparison between PeopleSoft, SAP HCM, and Workday based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Workday, Oracle, SAP and others in Benefits Administration."PeopleSoft is an amazing solution. Its users can have total control of the system, including PeopleCode, Application Engine and Component Interface, along with many other tools delivered by PeopleSoft."
"The time system is what we get the most benefit from."
"PeopleSoft is a good core system. 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."
"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."
"Scales up very well."
"I use the reporting feature occasionally to check for potential improvements in timesheets. We have integrated it with Power BI."
"Peoplesoft is the best payroll software in the market."
"PeopleSoft is easy to understand, where any end user that is logged in can easily navigate through the menus."
"The most valuable feature, in my view, is the level of exceptions or error messages that come back when something goes wrong."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"The platform is simple to use and has a user-friendly dashboard and integration features."
"SAP HCM has a good performance."
"SAP HCM can handle a large number of employees. We can easily process payrolls and check the arrangements, and the client can also check the performance of the employees. Additionally, it has some advanced features."
"We have managed to consolidate our payroll for all India operations on this platform."
"All our employee data, like performance and payroll, is managed through SAP HCM."
"We have features such as ABKRS based on the client's requirement, tariff and TMSTA, and so on."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the usability, learning, and compliance tools."
"The solution is stable."
"The platform itself is very robust and I generally like the reporting and analytics capability."
"Workday is easy to use. Timesheet and resource management are also easy."
"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 fairly easy to set up"
"It is easy to use and straightforward."
"This product is leaps and bounds above the competition. Part of the reason is that it is built with modern technology. It has no legacy coding in it at all."
"Areas that need improvement are the add-ons to the fluid pages and additional features in SCM and finance, both functionally and technically."
"There can occasionally be complexity in the initial setup."
"It would be nice if it became even more declarative in its development."
"PeopleSoft should be more flexible with the configuration. There should be less coding and more configuration."
"The biggest disadvantage with things like PeopleSoft is that they do continuous support and fixes and upgrades. You get to choose when you want to implement that upgrade. However, in order to keep up, you have to upgrade."
"The product is not intuitive, and finding the right candidate can be arduous."
"Global payroll could be easier to use."
"The solution's initial setup is not straightforward."
"There needs to be a renovation of the interface and functionalities of the talent management modules."
"SAP HCM has many different channels for communication with the consultants which makes it complex. There are delays when there is a problem."
"SAP now does the most innovation for the cloud solution and less innovation for the on-premises client."
"It takes a long time to apply an update patch to the system."
"The setup comes with a set of challenges as well."
"The current platform is quite rigid and not as flexible and end-user friendly as other HR solutions."
"We find some challenges in the integration between SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors."
"System usability is a challenge."
"In a future release we could like to have access to asset, supply and treasury management functionalities."
"For time management, it does not have a calendar generator. For example, if you want to have a shift calendar for an entire year, you need to push the entire year's calendar into the system instead of being able to generate it using a time management pattern."
"They could provide a web chatbot feature in the dashboard for Workday."
"It's possible that the way things are integrated could be improved"
"My opinion is that this solution can improve the overall integrations and add more automation. I think anything that could be on a self-serve basis would work quite well."
"It is very unique as compared to other tools in terms of the employee master data and how it is organized. That's why sometimes the information needs to sit in two different systems because, in Workday, it is organized differently. This issue is not related to benefits. It is more or so related to how you categorize employees. I don't think this is a problem that could be solved. Workday is aware of this. It is one of those kinds of situations that you just got to live with."
"There is a lot of complexity in the configuration of this solution."
"The expenses and reimbursements module could be improved. Creating expense reports is time consuming and inefficient compared to other expense solutions."
