We performed a comparison between SAP HCM and Workday based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Workday comes out on top in this comparison. Users say it offers robust security features, is very easy to use, and has excellent compliance features. The tool enables companies to save time and help with financials, payroll, and even recruiting. Many users feel SAP HCM can be a bit bulky and slow, and there can also be a steep learning curve to getting the solution up to speed.
"The most valuable feature is the Personnel Administration."
"The payroll and time management features are useful."
"The platform is simple to use and has a user-friendly dashboard and integration features."
"It simplifies everything for human capital management, and all users can do self-enrollment for leaves and those kinds of things. The employee self-service feature is quite a powerful feature for me. You can install it on your mobile phone or iPad and do your employee service activity there."
"The most valuable feature, in my view, is the level of exceptions or error messages that come back when something goes wrong."
"SAP HCM has valuable features for analytics data management."
"The tool's most valuable features for our HR operations include easy reporting capabilities, which allow us to generate reports for management meetings and auditing purposes. Additionally, it supports appointment preparation and processing benefits."
"It has the best data management features."
"The payroll and benefits engine is the most valuable Workday solution in my opinion. It is also easy to access."
"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."
"We like the fact that this solution is very user-friendly, with a straightforward user interface."
"It is easy to use and straightforward."
"Workday is highly intuitive from a customer experience perspective. It was effortless for us to understand what to do even though we didn't have any related training. It was easy to use without guidance."
"The platform itself is very robust and I generally like the reporting and analytics capability."
"We use this solution to manage financials, payroll and recruiting."
"We have fewer systems, less manual data entry, and less processing."
"The product's license is very expensive."
"It would be very helpful for our company if a new version was released with the ability to contain all of the things that we have newly introduced in our company."
"It was difficult to deploy. There were challenges regarding configurations and implementation. So, we had a lot of issues."
"I would like it to move more towards a single data space, a single data source. SAP as a platform relies on multiple data sources because traditionally, it's been bolted together by the acquisition of other products rather than a single database. That's why there are lots of points of failure and lots of required points of integration. They need a single integration point."
"It is a bit tedious and manual to work with."
"We find some challenges in the integration between SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors."
"On the personnel administration side, it's very difficult to do custom development."
"There are already success factors for the cloud solution which cannot be integrated into S/4 HANA."
"They don't have worker payroll in the product. We have to solve our payroll. I hope one day they will be able to have their own localized standard payrolls for all countries."
"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."
"The price could be lower."
"The user interface could be modernized somehow."
"Analytical tools have needed improvement. Workday has just released Prism Analytics, to replace the current analytical tools, so it’s in the early stages."
"There is a lot of complexity in the configuration of this solution."
"The UI, UX (user experience) is very bad. It is not very interactive."
"There were a lot of issues. There were consistency or accuracy issues with the data we had, and every time we had to pull reports in Workday, it was difficult."
SAP HCM is ranked 4th in Benefits Administration with 45 reviews while Workday is ranked 1st in Benefits Administration with 49 reviews. SAP HCM is rated 7.6, while Workday is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP HCM writes "Efficiently handles the entire hire-to-retire cycle management within an organization and the ability to scale is outstanding". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workday writes "The solution's interface is clean, organized, and easy to use ". SAP HCM is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM Cloud, ADP GlobalView Payroll, PeopleSoft and UKG, whereas Workday is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft, UKG and Cornerstone Learning. See our SAP HCM vs. Workday report.
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Hi, is HCM the only requirement with the organization, or are other solutions also required? As far as HCM is concerned, SAP is comprehensive and can be tailored as per requirements. Thanks - Ashwin