Hadoop vs Workday HCM

What users are saying about

Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 267 reviews and ratings

Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 453 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Human Resource Management

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.3

Workday HCM

83%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 7/7 features

Employee demographic data

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

66 Ratings

Employment history

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

74 Ratings

Job profiles and administration

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

76 Ratings

Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

73 Ratings

Organizational charting

N/A

0 Ratings

8.8

88%

71 Ratings

Organization and location management

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

71 Ratings

Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)

N/A

0 Ratings

6.9

69%

46 Ratings

Payroll Management

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.6

Workday HCM

86%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 7/7 features

Pay calculation

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

55 Ratings

Support for external payroll vendors

N/A

0 Ratings

8.4

84%

44 Ratings

Off-cycle/On-Demand payment

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

90%

6 Ratings

Benefit plan administration

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

52 Ratings

Direct deposit files

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

56 Ratings

Salary revision and increment management

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

90%

53 Ratings

Reimbursement management

N/A

0 Ratings

8.8

88%

31 Ratings

Leave and Attendance Management

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.7

Workday HCM

87%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 3/3 features

Approval workflow

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

90%

59 Ratings

Balance details

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

59 Ratings

Annual carry-forward and encashment

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

47 Ratings

Employee Self Service

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.2

Workday HCM

82%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 5/5 features

View and generate pay and benefit information

N/A

0 Ratings

8.7

87%

68 Ratings

Update personal information

N/A

0 Ratings

8.8

88%

76 Ratings

View company policy documentation

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

58 Ratings

Employee recognition

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

44 Ratings

View job history

N/A

0 Ratings

8.4

84%

67 Ratings

Asset Management

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.5

Workday HCM

85%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 1/1 features

Tracking of all physical assets

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

17 Ratings

HR Reporting

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.8

Workday HCM

78%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 3/3 features

Report builder

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

60 Ratings

Pre-built reports

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

62 Ratings

Ability to combine HR data with external data

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

52 Ratings

Onboarding

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.5

Workday HCM

85%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 2/2 features

New hire portal

N/A

0 Ratings

8.7

87%

42 Ratings

Manager tracking tools

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

41 Ratings

Performance and Goals

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.7

Workday HCM

77%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 4/4 features

Corporate goal setting

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

39 Ratings

Individual goal setting

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

48 Ratings

Line-of sight-visibility

N/A

0 Ratings

6.9

69%

41 Ratings

Performance tracking

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

47 Ratings

Performance Management

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.3

Workday HCM

83%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 5/5 features

Performance plans

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

49 Ratings

Performance improvement plans

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

41 Ratings

Review status tracking

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

45 Ratings

Review reminders

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

45 Ratings

Multiple review frequency

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

39 Ratings

Succession Planning

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.1

Workday HCM

81%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 4/4 features

Create succession plans/pools

N/A

0 Ratings

8.8

88%

26 Ratings

Candidate ranking

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

26 Ratings

Candidate search

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

27 Ratings

Candidate development

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

77%

26 Ratings

Recruiting / ATS

Hadoop

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.4

Workday HCM

84%

Workday Human Capital Management ranks higher in 7/7 features

Job Requisition Management

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

32 Ratings

Company Website Posting

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

26 Ratings

Publish to Social Media

N/A

0 Ratings

9.7

97%

23 Ratings

Job Search Site Posting

N/A

0 Ratings

8.9

89%

27 Ratings

Duplicate Candidate Prevention

N/A

0 Ratings

6.6

66%

26 Ratings

Applicant Tracking

N/A

0 Ratings

8.4

84%

27 Ratings

Notifications and Alerts

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

31 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Apache Hadoop is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Performance
Workday Human Capital Management is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Renew, Support Rating, Online Training

Hadoop

83%

37 Ratings

8.2

Workday HCM

82%

91 Ratings

Hadoop

96%

8 Ratings

10.0

Workday HCM

100%

17 Ratings

Hadoop

85%

5 Ratings

8.0

Workday HCM

80%

11 Ratings

Hadoop

N/A

0 Ratings

6.6

Workday HCM

66%

16 Ratings

Hadoop

80%

2 Ratings

7.3

Workday HCM

73%

14 Ratings

Hadoop

74%

6 Ratings

8.1

Workday HCM

81%

42 Ratings

Hadoop

N/A

0 Ratings

9.6

Workday HCM

96%

6 Ratings

Hadoop

61%

2 Ratings

7.0

Workday HCM

70%

7 Ratings

Hadoop

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Workday HCM

80%

33 Ratings

Hadoop

N/A

0 Ratings

7.3

Workday HCM

73%

1 Rating

Pros

Handles large amounts of unstructured data well, for business level purposes
Is a good catchall because of this design, i.e. what does not fit into our vertical tables fits here.
Decent for large ETL pipelines and logging free-for-alls because of this, also.

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Joe Hughes

Senior DevOps Engineer

Simpli.fiOnline Media, 201-500 employees

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Groups employees in management hierarchies and creates Org Charts that are easy to navigate and allow for visualizing management chains regardless of employee locations
Intuitive and easy to use. The Workday search functionality works very much like Google; one can search for anything that they have access to in the database and drill down into the various details. All information is connected through hyperlinks and users can easily keep digging into the details for as far as their security access would take them.
Tasks such as to do, review or approve items are sent to the user's Workday Inbox, very much resembling email. Notifications about outstanding "to do" items are also sent to each the user's work email address on a daily basis.

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Monika Ganeva

HR Technology Change Management and Training Lead

Indeed.comHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Less organizational support system. Bugs need to be fixed and outside help take a long time to push updates
Not for small data sets
Data security needs to be ramped up
Failure in NameNode has no replication which takes a lot of time to recover

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Bharadwaj (Brad) Chivukula

Sr. Engineering Manager/Delivery Manager

Nisum Technologies, Inc.Retail, 10,001+ employees

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The web interface is awful
Terrible, terrible, UI. No modern features like auto-save. I can't count the times I have lost work.
Their UX team (if it even exists) must be aliens, because I can't see how humans would have come up with the UI conventions they have.
Who creates a website application where you can't open stuff in multiple browser windows and tabs easily?

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Verified User

Manager in Customer Service

Printing Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

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Likelihood to Renew

Hadoop 9.6

Based on 8 answers

Hadoop is organization-independent and can be used for various purposes ranging from archiving to reporting and can make use of economic, commodity hardware. There is also a lot of saving in terms of licensing costs - since most of the Hadoop ecosystem is available as open-source and is free

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Bhushan Lakhe

Senior Vice President

IpsosInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Workday HCM 10.0

Based on 17 answers

It is work to make one system the source of truth for our data, but now that it is done, there is less work involved in staying on this path. This means for us that maintaining and/or implementing new modules like performance, finance, talent, etc. is simple. It's a no-brainer

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Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Hadoop 8.5

Based on 5 answers

Great! Hadoop has an easy to use interface that mimics most other data warehouses. You can access your data via SQL and have it display in a terminal before exporting it to your business intelligence platform of choice. Of course, for smaller data sets, you can also export it to Microsoft Excel.

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Blake Baron

Senior Financial Analyst

Lowe's Companies, Inc.Retail, 10,001+ employees

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Workday HCM 8.0

Based on 11 answers

Workday's on a great path in terms of user experience. Their goals is to deliver a use experience that doesn't require training or instruction, like Amazon on the consumer side for example. That's hard to do when you're talking about complex business processes and important and sensitive employee information, but they're doing it well

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Amanda Easton

Associate Director, Human Resources

SNL FinancialFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Workday HCM 6.6

Based on 16 answers

In 2014, Workday has changed the update process. There will be two updates a year; the updates will be delivered to customers typically in a 24 hour window during these two weekends a year. They also keep the Community up-to-date about any planned outages, etc. There is weekly scheduled downtime on Friday night.

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Jeff Greening

Engagement Manager, Workday Implementations

MeteorixInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Performance

Hadoop 8.0

Based on 2 answers

No answer on this topic is available.

Workday HCM 7.3

Based on 14 answers

From my perspective, the system runs like a well oiled machine and I have not had any issues with customers complaining about speed. If a report is taking long to run, the report can run in the background and you can go about your business. For larger enterprises, there is additional space and machines to process the application in what Workday refers to it as Extended Configuration Tenant

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Jeff Greening

Engagement Manager, Workday Implementations

MeteorixInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Hadoop 7.4

Based on 6 answers

We went with a third party for support, i.e., consultant. Had we gone with Azure or Cloudera, we would have obtained support directly from the vendor. my rating is more on the third party we selected and doesn't reflect the overall support available for Hadoop. I think we could have done better in our selection process, however, we were trying to use an already approved vendor within our organization. There is plenty of self-help available for Hadoop online.

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Gene Baker

Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Workday HCM 8.1

Based on 42 answers

Workday is still learning about the needs of higher education. I have seen rapid improvement in support and knowledge over the last year so am confident this will continue to improve. Overall however, I have found the Support Team to be extremely responsive and Workday offers the advantage of having support across several timezones so that we never wait more than a few hours for a response.

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Linda Buckley

Associate Director, Financial Applications

Georgetown UniversityHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Workday HCM 9.6

Based on 6 answers

Some training is offered online. Cost is per-person. This also gets quite expensive. Training doesn’t follow a logical path A to B. Starts in middle. When you try to do it afterwards at your desk, difficult.
• Training scenarios are not very real

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Verified User

Analyst in Human Resources

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Online Training

Hadoop 6.1

Based on 2 answers

Hadoop is a complex topic and best suited for classrom training. Online training are a waste of time and money.

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Bhushan Lakhe

Senior Vice President

IpsosInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Workday HCM 7.0

Based on 7 answers

I have done for report writing and mass imports (EIBs). They give materials and you run through examples, i.e. you don’t just watch them do tasks, so that is helpful. Training is expensive – a single reporting writing class is $600 per person for virtual training

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Verified User

Program Manager in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Workday HCM 8.0

Based on 33 answers

It was implemented before my joining the company. At my last company, we used Workday professional services.

Based upon my experience at my last company, I would rate the implementation experience an 8/10. There are different ways to set things up and we had different people telling us different things. It set us back a couple of times.

Regarding configuration advice, we could set things up where every manager has supervisory organizations, or have it financially based i.e. aligned to cost center/department. We chose the individual manager path and I think we should have chosen a department route. Going down the individual manager path, to maintain the information, we have to inactivate a supervisory org whenever a manager changes/leaves.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Not used any other product than Hadoop and I don't think our company will switch to any other product, as Hadoop is providing excellent results. Our company is growing rapidly, Hadoop helps to keep up our performance and meet customer expectations. We also use HDFS which provides very high bandwidth to support MapReduce workloads.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Its core strengths met our functional, technical and implementation requirements, getting in early saved us money without putting it off and waiting until we HAD to select and implement. SAP doesn't stack up well and we wanted a US system. The cloud and its excellent functionality benefits for the Human Resources and Payroll departments was clear, and the users appreciate its generally good user interfaces and ease of movement within the system.

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Executive in Finance and Accounting

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Workday HCM 7.3

Based on 1 answer

Workday has released Financials and is continuing to develop it's Human Capital Management footprint with the addition of Workday Recruiting. I think customers will find that is easy to add on additional functionality in the system.Workday does make it easy for customers to make changes without relying on IT resources. The Business Process framework is a visual tool that allows functional resources to make changes and see the flow of the transaction

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Jeff Greening

Engagement Manager, Workday Implementations

MeteorixInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

There are many advantages of Hadoop as first it has made the management and processing of extremely colossal data very easy and has simplified the lives of so many people including me.
Hadoop is quite interesting due to its new and improved features plus innovative functions.

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Chantel Moreno

Finance & Accounting Professional

FagronPharmaceuticals, 1001-5000 employees

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Gave us almost 4 hours per HR rep back on new hire day 1. We have a start date every 4 weeks and the manual entry of paperwork that was able to be eliminated with Workday has allowed us to put more HR reps in the classroom to aid with more important day 1 tasks.
Simplified search - the backend information is now housed in a simple database that allows me to pull with employee first or last name, or user ID.
We paid more for this solution, but we've seen a 33% increase in employee interaction since doing so.

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Zach Wasson

Regional Learning & Development Leader

Total Quality LogisticsTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1001-5000 employees

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