BrightHR vs. SAP SuccessFactors HCM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BrightHR
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
British company BrightHR offers a human resources platform which helps replace paper documents with edocuments and contains features for managing employee scheduling and ROTA, sick leave and tardiness, vacation and holiday shift planning, as well as providing employment law legal advice.
$4.50
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
SAP SuccessFactors is a suite of HR/HCM products covering these capability areas: core HR and payroll, recruiting and onboarding, learning and development, performance and compensation management, workforce analytics and planning, and employee experience management.
$75.60
per year per user (Up to 100 Employees)
Pricing
BrightHRSAP SuccessFactors HCM
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BrightHRSAP SuccessFactors HCM
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPrices start at £4.50 (per employee/per month)
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BrightHRSAP SuccessFactors HCM
Features
BrightHRSAP SuccessFactors HCM
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.7
31 Ratings
19% below category average
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
766 Ratings
1% below category average
Employment history6.726 Ratings8.1689 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.324 Ratings7.8663 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.6.813 Ratings8.0629 Ratings
Organization and location management5.924 Ratings8.0630 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)6.611 Ratings7.7394 Ratings
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.3677 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings8.1700 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.8
12 Ratings
18% below category average
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.8
435 Ratings
4% below category average
Pay calculation7.010 Ratings8.1329 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors5.66 Ratings7.4293 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management7.57 Ratings8.0354 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.06 Ratings7.7251 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings7.7292 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.6278 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings7.8277 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.9
43 Ratings
17% below category average
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.2
434 Ratings
0% above category average
Approval workflow6.342 Ratings8.4430 Ratings
Balance details7.137 Ratings8.1366 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment7.421 Ratings8.0324 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
7.8
43 Ratings
5% below category average
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.3
614 Ratings
1% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information6.713 Ratings8.4460 Ratings
Update personal information7.941 Ratings8.7598 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.941 Ratings8.0397 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings7.8367 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings8.4572 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.6
17 Ratings
13% below category average
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.0
599 Ratings
8% below category average
Pre-built reports6.617 Ratings7.0542 Ratings
Report builder00 Ratings7.2573 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings6.7448 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
7.0
13 Ratings
13% below category average
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
484 Ratings
0% above category average
New hire portal7.011 Ratings7.7470 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.010 Ratings7.6440 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
7.1
14 Ratings
11% below category average
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.2
632 Ratings
4% above category average
Review reminders7.314 Ratings7.9568 Ratings
Multiple review frequency6.911 Ratings8.1466 Ratings
Performance plans00 Ratings8.1606 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings8.0518 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings8.0572 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
5.7
13 Ratings
30% below category average
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
4.2
505 Ratings
59% below category average
Job Requisition Management5.36 Ratings7.9481 Ratings
Applicant Tracking5.15 Ratings7.9462 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts6.812 Ratings7.9465 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings7.8458 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings7.8399 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings7.7439 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.5410 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.4
3 Ratings
5% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings8.43 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.4
599 Ratings
4% above category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings8.2536 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.3592 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings8.0480 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings8.0557 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
430 Ratings
3% above category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings8.1397 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings8.0376 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings8.0383 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings8.0362 Ratings
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User Ratings
BrightHRSAP SuccessFactors HCM
Likelihood to Recommend
6.8
(47 ratings)
8.4
(783 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.7
(53 ratings)
Usability
6.7
(32 ratings)
8.0
(305 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(7 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
5.7
(4 ratings)
5.4
(30 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.7
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
6.5
(15 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
5.2
(7 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
2.9
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(419 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(7 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
6.1
(5 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
5.6
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
4.6
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
BrightHRSAP SuccessFactors HCM
Likelihood to Recommend
BrightHR
I feel Bright HR is well suited to most small/medium sized businesses where they have a 'straight' forward resource set up. For larger businesses or for complex businesses similar to ourselves, where we operate 24 hours per day, rotational shift patterns, ambulatory staff, locums etc...we have to 'fudge' the way we use the information sometimes to make it work for us.
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SAP
It is a strong system that pays off once it's fully tailored to your organization. If your company has well-defined HR processes, SuccessFactors will likely integrate seamlessly. We've automated processes that previously required departments to spend weeks on back-and-forth emails. We've partnered with Capgemini to fully suck out the most out of its technical customization.
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Pros
BrightHR
  • BLIP is working very well. Staff find it easy to use and the geo-fencing that can be set up is very useful.
  • Reporting, in particular reporting of Absence. We run this monthly and the information we can download is flexible and useful.
  • Sick analysis - helps in controlling absence.
  • Holiday planning and authorization is very helpful and details including date booked helps manage requests.
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SAP
  • The product is straightforward to use. The product allows instant edits if a mistake is made and is very helpful in keeping track of individual employee working hours.
  • Use of the platform ensures that your business is connected to a global workforce experience powered by modern HR technologies and AI.
  • Implementation of the software ensures an excellent workforce experience and accelerates overall business performance.
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Cons
BrightHR
  • Notifications for requests should be optional based on individual employees. For example an admin won’t necessarily want every staff members leave requests by email and push notification. The settings only currently allow for notifications for everyone or no one. Being assigned as a manager may not allow data viewing required of wider staff.
  • Toil should automatically be accrued into a balance if the employees clocked in time amounts to more than the target hours. It shouldn’t have to be calculated and requested.
  • When reviewing hours worked for the week, the history calculation should take into account approved leave and sickness etc. I have a staff members target of 37 hours, but if their hours show 29 hours worked then I have to work out why they worked less. It should account for this if the absence is approved.
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SAP
  • I think just overall the configuration can be a little bit hard on the backend user, like myself, knowing which screens to go to. Better documentation on how we configure things would be a great resource for employees in the HR field that are making those backend changes.
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Likelihood to Renew
BrightHR
It's not entirely my decision - we are members of a 'community' of veterinary practices who have signed up to the contract with pensinusla and have bright hr as part of that contract however, I am usually involved in the tender process as I am one of the biggest users of both bright hr and the services from peninsula
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SAP
It is the product that the Business is fully committed to for co-ordinately HR processes. Employee and Manage Self-Service has allow our business to reduce the overheads in our HR operating mode. The integration with 3rd party products is now in place and further developments will only increase its importance. SuccessFactors provide regular enhancements and has a support model in line with our business requirements.
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Usability
BrightHR
It is quite good. Has alot of useful features such as the inbuilt learning / trainings. I really like the clock in function where admin can update or edit staff clock in times. I love the easily accessable annual leave section where we can easily see wat annual leave a staff has. However what would be useful is for 0 hour staff due to them not automatically having 17/28 days annual leave, if it can calculate itbased on hours they work
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SAP
Generally works as it needs to but there is room for improvement. Notifications are an example where they come from different places whereas they should be centralised and standardised. We would love to have time management and award interpretation in SAP SuccessFactors HCM instead of a third party system however the lack of rostering functionality makes this unusable
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Reliability and Availability
BrightHR
No answers on this topic
SAP
Until now we have not had serious availability problems with SuccessFactors, we had Microsoft Active Directory and SSO with ADFS and we had availability problems but because of problems with ADFS, we migrated to Azure AD and with that the availability problems of SuccessFactors because of ADFS went away. The only windows of unavailability that we have had are those that we are communicated to do maintenance and upgrades.
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Performance
BrightHR
No answers on this topic
SAP
The performance is very good, the truth is that we have not had serious performance problems, some complex reports may take a little longer, but considering the complexity and the amount of records it is an acceptable time. We have never received a complaint from users regarding page loading speed.
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Support Rating
BrightHR
The team are proactive, having an advocacy team is just amazing and a great way to really understand their product roadmap and have input into useful features or feedback
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SAP
SAP SuccessFactors has been a easy to implement tool with low risks for a sensitive thing like employee feedback. It provides powerful performance in the backend functionalities, and at the same time a great look and feel for the employees. Totally recommended.
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In-Person Training
BrightHR
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SAP
The in-person training was with a consultancy, we have taken several courses, all very specific. They have been reports in ecp, general configuration of ec, reports and IAS
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Online Training
BrightHR
No answers on this topic
SAP
We use SAP Learning, and we like it very much, the topics are updated along with the products, we have access to the SFX customer certifications and we have done them all, in general the SAP learning platform is very good and complete.
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Implementation Rating
BrightHR
it was fairly easy to do but timely as i had to enter everything from scratch - i didn't at the time realise how important it was to set up the variable or fixed working pattern correctly given future changes as this is very tricky once it has been set up and i wished i had been aware that sometimes you can't make future changes without deleting the whole profile and starting again
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SAP
As we were new with all this, we would greatly appreciate if we had assitance directly from SAP so we can implement the modules with all of its features and best practices. Unfortunately, we notice that the partner left some thing incomplete.
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Alternatives Considered
BrightHR
I chose BrightHR as it offered a one-stop platform for HR management for which we have dedicated UK and ROI HR specialists who not only give HR advice but also write policies and handbooks, etc. They are a one-stop-shop, which was very important as when I signed the contract I did not have an HR person in my team and they were essentially my back office. Also, by signing up, I got access to Bright Safe too; which is great as again it's a one-stop-shop for Health and Safety in the workplace. So I can roll out toolbox talks, training, and accident management.
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SAP
SAP SuccessFactors is a very user-friendly application, it stacks up very well against competition, such as Oracle PeopleSoft HCM. We selected SAP SuccessFactors because we are already using a lot of other SAP solutions, such as SAP S/4 HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform. It allows us to have single-sign on and one vendor with multiple solutions.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
BrightHR
No answers on this topic
SAP
Not applicable.
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Scalability
BrightHR
No answers on this topic
SAP
The scalability and flexibility of SuccessFactors is unbeatable. It is very easy to scale the product to new countries and areas, and with the help of CPI it can be easily integrated.
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Professional Services
BrightHR
No answers on this topic
SAP
Once time we need to change the datacenter and we made this with the professional services from SAP... everything goes just fine. excelent service.
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Return on Investment
BrightHR
  • Able to reduce one member of staff in personnel from 5 days to 3 days.
  • Able to reduce time spent by payroll on holiday records significantly and improve accuracy significantly.
  • Able to improve control of sick absence and improve record keeping.
  • BLIP meant we did not need to buy expensive attendance software.
  • Looking at possible use of payroll and other aspects of Bright HR not used at present.
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SAP
  • It helps better in the tedious task of job posting, it's automated to social handles.
  • Better performance in speed, UI, performance management, skill management, talent onboarding, and finding candidates in the talent pool.
  • Reduces most of the cost in HR operations and future-proof technology with continuous improvement.
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ScreenShots

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SAP SuccessFactors HCM Screenshots

Screenshot of how to navigate to all SAP SuccessFactors solution modules and complete tasks using natural language—thanks to Joule, the AI copilot with generative AI.Screenshot of where to acquire future-ready skills by sourcing, engaging, and hiring top talent, as well as save time evaluating candidates and match skills to roles more efficiently with AI-powered applicant screening.Screenshot of some of the metrics that empower HR professionals, analysts, and business partners to answer questions about a workforce, or that influence business decisions with data-driven insights and an evidence-based approach to HR.Screenshot of the mobile interface, which also helps automate processes to improve employee and manager self-service, and strengthen compliance.Screenshot of