BrightHR vs. Workday Human Capital Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BrightHR
Score 6.1 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
Workday HCM
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Workday Human Capital Management is built as a cloud-based system with global consistency in user experience. Workday HCM is part of a broader system with other Workday products.
$100
per year per user
Pricing
BrightHRWorkday Human Capital Management
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BrightHRWorkday HCM
Free Trial
NoNo
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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Community Pulse
BrightHRWorkday Human Capital Management
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BrightHR
Workday HCM

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Features
BrightHRWorkday Human Capital Management
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.5
30 Ratings
20% below category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.3
96 Ratings
5% above category average
Employment history6.125 Ratings8.491 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.123 Ratings8.293 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.6.412 Ratings8.988 Ratings
Organization and location management6.723 Ratings8.684 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)6.210 Ratings6.759 Ratings
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.281 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings9.187 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.3
11 Ratings
24% below category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.7
80 Ratings
8% above category average
Pay calculation6.69 Ratings8.268 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors5.66 Ratings8.456 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management6.96 Ratings8.966 Ratings
Reimbursement management6.25 Ratings9.243 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings9.718 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.163 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.469 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.8
42 Ratings
18% below category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.5
74 Ratings
5% above category average
Approval workflow6.741 Ratings8.573 Ratings
Balance details6.436 Ratings8.473 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment7.421 Ratings8.459 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
7.6
42 Ratings
6% below category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.3
94 Ratings
2% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information6.713 Ratings8.883 Ratings
Update personal information7.340 Ratings8.692 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.740 Ratings7.673 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings7.857 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings8.883 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.7
16 Ratings
12% below category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.2
78 Ratings
8% above category average
Pre-built reports6.716 Ratings8.376 Ratings
Report builder00 Ratings8.674 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings7.664 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.9
12 Ratings
14% below category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.5
56 Ratings
7% above category average
New hire portal7.110 Ratings8.352 Ratings
Manager tracking tools6.79 Ratings8.652 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.6
13 Ratings
18% below category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.7
63 Ratings
9% above category average
Review reminders6.513 Ratings8.958 Ratings
Multiple review frequency6.710 Ratings8.751 Ratings
Performance plans00 Ratings8.862 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings8.654 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings8.658 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
5.7
13 Ratings
30% below category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.2
48 Ratings
6% above category average
Job Requisition Management5.36 Ratings8.145 Ratings
Applicant Tracking5.15 Ratings8.040 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts6.812 Ratings8.544 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.439 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings8.634 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings8.540 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.539 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
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Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.0
25 Ratings
1% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings8.025 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.3
60 Ratings
3% above category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings8.650 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.659 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.651 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings8.558 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
7.7
40 Ratings
1% below category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings9.134 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.235 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings7.838 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings6.737 Ratings
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User Ratings
BrightHRWorkday Human Capital Management
Likelihood to Recommend
6.1
(46 ratings)
9.0
(108 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Usability
6.5
(31 ratings)
7.0
(13 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
6.6
(8 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
5.7
(4 ratings)
8.0
(22 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(6 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.0
(11 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
BrightHRWorkday Human Capital Management
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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Workday
I would say it's well suited in every environment because I think it does so much. It's like the holy grail of HRIS systems is what I like to call it because thinking about all parts of the employee lifecycle, it lives here in Workday Human Capital Management. So I love the fact that you can do the people data analytics, you can store employee records, the talent acquisition pieces there. I'm thinking I can't think of anything negative right now except for the fact that I can't drill down into the data for the people analytics side. Other than that, I think it's literally, yeah, the holy grail of HRIS systems, I love it and I would highly recommend it.
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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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Workday
  • 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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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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Workday
  • Should have more option in time sheet like choose project code or something.
  • On The pay page, it should have options to view past salaries; it may be there already but not in the version that I use.
  • The employee information page does not have a back button to navigate to the previous page.
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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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Workday
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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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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Workday
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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Reliability and Availability
BrightHR
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Workday
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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Performance
BrightHR
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Workday
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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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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Workday
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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In-Person Training
BrightHR
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Workday
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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Online Training
BrightHR
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Workday
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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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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Workday
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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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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Workday
Unfortunately, I do not recall the brands of the other human capital management software programs or tools I used at my current company or workplaces prior. I do think that is a testament to Workday with its strong branding and compelling features. I was not part of the selection process of Workday but have enjoyed my experience.
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Scalability
BrightHR
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Workday
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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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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Workday
  • Positive ROI, we were one of the first organizations that went with Workday HCM, and we received numerous discounts. Cloud systems are the way to go and we feel the system is stable for our growing work force.
  • The user conferences have been helpful to network and learn more deepness in the modules and functionality.
  • Right off the bat, our implementation costs were lower than budgeted and we had less 'billing' surprises.
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