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.
"We use this solution for our end to end HR needs from onboarding and hiring to learning."
"The tool's most valuable features are the recruitment module, performance module, and document storage."
"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."
"Leave management is the most valuable as they all started with leave management and then progressed to performance management. Of course, employee profiles are central to everything. It is also very easy to use. Customers get on board with it very quickly. One of the selling points for BambooHR is that they have a very wide partner network. There are lots of other partners that have integrations with BambooHR. They have an open API. This is one of the things that is driving its growth because lots of people and companies are literally just building integrations of BambooHR to ride the wave. If you have an integration with BambooHR, you get sales. People are more likely to choose your product because they've already chosen BambooHR. That's how it is happening. It is a cloud deployment, so there is only one version. They do the updates every month, and because of this, you are encouraged to send them feedback all the time. You never know. Your feature may be included in the next release."
"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 HR metrics that this solution provides has been most useful. We also really like the fact that employees have the ability to be self sufficient and manage their own information."
"This is a scalable solution. We have not experienced any issues."
"The most valuable features of the solution are GUI and OData API."
"What I like the most is the KPI management formula."
"The performance goals and learning management solutions are the product's most valuable features."
"This solution can be used for reporting related to employee information and contacts"
"All of SuccessFactors' features are useful, but there are several modules within SuccessFactors that I find handy. You have Employee Central, which manages employee records within the system. It manages all the information about an employee, including names, addresses, account numbers, positions, org charts, etc. It also handles performance reviews and KPIs for employees within an organization. Then you have succession planning and development as well."
"The overall functionality of the solution is very good."
"Currently, we are using the performance and goals management functionality the most. It is connected with the enterprise solution, and it is seamless. It can be easily accessed because it is available via the net. It is readily available, provided you have an internet connection. Their technical support is also very good."
"Provides an open architecture and an open platform so it can coexist with other systems."
"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."
"BambooHR needs to have more flexibility around performance management."
"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."
"The UI needs improvement because it needs to be more user-friendly."
"It would be useful to have the possibility to assign a task to the different users within the software."
"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."
"The color palettes could be changed to make the solution a little more attractive and easier to use."
"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."
"Integration between Employee Central and Compensation in SAP SuccessFactors is one area of the solution that has room for improvement."
"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."
"We encountered challenges with the tool's integration with third-party applications and deployments."
"SAP resources are at the high end and anything you want to change or any customization is expensive."
"SAP SuccessFactors could improve learning management. The module is desperate and should be included in the primary solution. Additionally, it is missing some business use cases."
"The Onboarding module must be improved."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"he user interface could be improved."
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, SunFish DataOn Philippines Inc., DarwinBox and Netsuite SuitePeople, whereas SAP SuccessFactors is most compared with SAP HCM, Workday, Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft and DarwinBox. See our BambooHR vs. SAP SuccessFactors report.
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