Calabrio WFM vs. SAP Core HR and Payroll

Calabrio Teleopti WFM is widely used in our organization, and once we've gotten the hang of it, it's very simple to use. We can manage the entries to each employee's task lists, plan the turns that each teleworker will cover, and swap turns as needed. We can also automate the completion of scheduled management tasks and calculate how much time each employee spends at the company. This application, in general, ensures increased productivity on the call center platform.

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SAP HR can be well suited for global companies with operations in multiple countries. The Payroll module needs to be limited to one instance per country, otherwise trying to maintain multiple countries on the same instance is too complicated. I would not recommend using SAP HR and Payroll for smaller companies because the total cost of ownership and the lack of flexibility will make it unfeasible. There are many cloud-based options now a days available that would fit better for this type of scenario.

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• Schedule management is intuitive and easy to follow
• The ability for agents to request and swap shifts works well
• Agent tools for viewing schedules and requests is user friendly

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• Payroll processing
• Employee lifecycle management
• Grant compliance

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• System uptime. We use their cloud solution and unfortunately there's been a number of outages.
• PTO management, could use more features like waitlisting, time off canceling and offline management

• The design looks outdated
• Could add more functions like PTO tracking
• The help sections aren’t very helpful

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It serves my needs perfectly, but it sometimes glitches where you press a link and it downloads the page instead of opens it.

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The system helps solve common nonprofit challenges

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I have worked for other smaller companies that have just used excel sheets to manage scheduling and it was a complete mess. This is a complete and utter 180 in that scheduling is so simplified and creates/causes basically zero conflict among staff.

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SAP is very intuitive to use and allows us to achieve our goals.

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• They must work to update the characteristics of the integrated items so that they can be better in general based on user demand.
• In general, the software is very easy to use and offers a wide range of working functions.

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• SAP HR is suited for large companies with a sufficient budget. Small budgets will not be able to cover the expensive licensing, technical personnel and consultants required of an SAP installation.
• In regards to the total cost of ownership, my ROI experience has been that by replacing SAP HR modules with cloud solutions we have been able to reduce the cost up to 60% while modernizing our systems and improving the employee experience.
• I would encourage decision makers to look for cloud-based alternatives with a robust system integration, before believing that supporting every area of HR with a single SAP installation is a good long-term strategy. Having SAP HR as the core integrated to best-in-class cloud-based systems is a very valid and effective system strategy.

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