We performed a comparison between PeopleSoft and Workday based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Benefits Administration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I would rate scalability a nine out of ten."
"PeopleSoft is scalable."
"Its user interface is impressive."
"Job data is a valuable feature."
"The recruiting is most valuable. It saves time in having easy and fast applicants tracking as well as candidates' contact plus pipeline management."
"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 customizations allow us to come up with a lot of complex labor rules. In the Philippines, there's a lot of different kinds of rules you need to be in compliance with. The solution offers up a lot of flexibility and customization that is perfect for our region's requirements."
"The most valuable feature of PeopleSoft is the functionality that allows the ability to find all the data about employees that are needed."
"In the process of obtaining representative sites in NaviNet, it assists us in facilitating decision-making and taking action."
"The payroll and benefits engine is the most valuable Workday solution in my opinion. It is also easy to access."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the usability, learning, and compliance tools."
"There is a lot of scope for customization with this solution"
"It is easy to use and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of reporting."
"The solution is stable."
"It's actually a cloud-native solution and based on the community for development. It is a very good open architecture and able to interconnect with other systems. And it is very stable and very fast in terms of response."
"An area for improvement would be that it's quite difficult to learn how to use this product, and the documentation provided isn't helpful in giving you practical advice."
"Response time takes very long and requires a person to be awake night and day to benefit from it."
"Having applications which provide more enhanced features and user-friendly elements."
"Initial setup can be complex without training or use of consultants."
"The product was too complicated when it came to navigating through multiple places and the search filters weren't great."
"The whole systematic flow of any query raised to HR should be improved."
"PeopleSoft could improve by being more user-friendly. It's somewhat awkward to navigate."
"It would be nice if it became even more declarative in its development."
"The cost of Workday is certainly not inexpensive. It's very pricey."
"This solution could be improved by providing user-level access to customization capabilities. Users currently rely on more technical teams to customize reports, for example."
"Workday could improve by adding other features, such as messaging to candidates and other recruiting capabilities that other new-age solutions have."
"It's possible that the way things are integrated could be improved"
"The solution needs to be updated with generative UI."
"The solution has some features missing when you put them in the test studio or Confluence Studio. I would like the tool’s coding to be easier to understand and automated. Most of the coding these days is automated. Any query given can pull the answer directly which can make the solution easier to understand."
"Analytical tools have needed improvement. Workday has just released Prism Analytics, to replace the current analytical tools, so it’s in the early stages."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
PeopleSoft is ranked 3rd in Benefits Administration with 17 reviews while Workday is ranked 1st in Benefits Administration with 27 reviews. PeopleSoft is rated 8.0, while Workday is rated 8.2. 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 Workday writes "Offers good business process framework and out-of-the-box reporting, and brings operational efficiencies". PeopleSoft is most compared with Oracle HCM Cloud, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite, whereas Workday is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, Oracle HCM Cloud, UKG and Cornerstone Learning. See our PeopleSoft vs. Workday 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”.