CATS ATS vs Workday HCM | TrustRadius

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Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 44 reviews and ratings

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 379 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

CATS ATS

Workday HCM

Job Requisition Management

Company Website Posting

Publish to Social Media

Job Search Site Posting

Customized Application Form

Resume Management

Duplicate Candidate Prevention

Candidate Search

Applicant Tracking

Collaboration

Task Creation and Delegation

Email Templates

User Permissions

Notifications and Alerts

Reporting

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Workday HCM

Employee demographic data

Employment history

Job profiles and administration

Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.

Organizational charting

Organization and location management

Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)

CATS ATS

Workday HCM

Pay calculation

Support for external payroll vendors

Off-cycle/On-Demand payment

Benefit plan administration

Direct deposit files

Salary revision and increment management

Reimbursement management

CATS ATS

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Approval workflow

Balance details

Annual carry-forward and encashment

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View and generate pay and benefit information

Update personal information

View company policy documentation

Employee recognition

View job history

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Tracking of all physical assets

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Workday HCM

Report builder

Pre-built reports

Ability to combine HR data with external data

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New hire portal

Manager tracking tools

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Corporate goal setting

Individual goal setting

Line-of sight-visibility

Performance tracking

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Workday HCM

Performance plans

Performance improvement plans

Review status tracking

Review reminders

Multiple review frequency

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Create succession plans/pools

Candidate ranking

Candidate search

Candidate development

Pros

Custom fields for all entities of any data type let's you track what you care about. Also customizable workflow with triggers can save a ton of time in automating processes and also ensuring steps aren't missed/established processes and protocols are adhered to.
Support is extremely responsive, knowledgeable and committed to resolving any issue.
Integrations with LinkedIn, job boards etc. is a big time saver and helps bring it all to one place.

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Verified User

Executive in Other

Staffing and Recruiting Company, 1-10 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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HR Technology Change Management and Training Lead

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

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Cons

Reporting has improved over the years but could still be better. It is what I would call "semi-customizable" in terms of what I can generate a report on, but would like full customization capability.
Mobile access is OK but not slick. Usually I don't need mobile access but every once in a while I'm out somewhere, need to grab something out of CATS and I can get it but I think there's a good opportunity to make it better.

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Staffing Manager

KBACE TechnologiesInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 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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Likelihood to Renew

CATS ATS 8.4

Based on 10 answers

Our company has been using it and enjoying the benefits for a few years now. Its a perfect system for our end goal of finding the best candidate effectively and being able to track and write reports on our progress.

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Caitlin Hostetter

RPO Specialist

TriStarr StaffingStaffing and Recruiting, 11-50 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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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

CATS ATS 2.7

Based on 1 answer

not recruiter friendly. workflow is not good

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Employee in Human Resources

Human Resources Company, 1-10 employees

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Workday HCM 8.6

Based on 12 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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Associate Director, Human Resources

SNL FinancialFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

CATS ATS 9.1

Based on 2 answers

No answer on this topic is available.

Workday HCM 10.0

Based on 18 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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Engagement Manager, Workday Implementations

MeteorixInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Performance

CATS ATS 5.9

Based on 2 answers

No answer on this topic is available.

Workday HCM 10.0

Based on 16 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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Engagement Manager, Workday Implementations

MeteorixInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

CATS ATS 4.5

Based on 1 answer

I've had mixed results with asking for support. Sometimes they gave a quick answer and sometimes my emails were never responded to. Some responses were a single word.

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Bill Branstetter

Managing Director

The Six Second ResumeDefense & Space, 51-200 employees

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Workday HCM 8.2

Based on 44 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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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

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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

CATS ATS 9.1

Based on 1 answer

This is an incredibly easy system to implement. There is no hardware or software required, it's entirely SaaS based. Compared to other systems I've implemented, it's breathtaking. Customization can all be done directly in the tool, there is no need for any involvement of consultants and most of the information you cannot figure out intuitively is covered in the knowledge base

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Randall Kooistra

Talent Management Lead

Market TrackMarket Research, 501-1000 employees

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Workday HCM 10.0

Based on 36 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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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

I find CATS ATS easier to use then Salesforce, on the recruitment side. It's hard to create pipelines like you can in CATS ATS. I, however, have used other customized ATS using Microsoft Access. I have used HRConnect which was developed by a firm I worked for using MS Access. It which was a great tracking and reporting tool. It logged calls out, calls in, length of calls, job orders, candidate submissions and tracked all the status automatically.

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Ashley Thompson

Senior Public Sector Recruiter - Technical & Professional Services

NewFound RecruitingStaffing and Recruiting, 11-50 employees

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I believe [Workday Human Capital Management] is probably the industry benchmark of excellence and has features that can easily be customized to meet the needs of organizations. It has strong and knowledgeable account teams that work closely with customers to develop the most efficient solutions. I believe oracle systems come the closest but they aren't smart and the technology still needs to be developed further.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Manufacturing

Semiconductors Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Workday HCM 10.0

Based on 2 answers

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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Engagement Manager, Workday Implementations

MeteorixInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

We were able to reduce the amount of time we spent posting to various job boards by more than 75%.
We were able to reduce the time it takes to find, engage, submit and ultimately hire candidates.
We were able to recoup the entire cost of the tool within less than 2 months.

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LeQuay Marsh, MHCS, TAS, ECRE

Principal Recruitment Consultant

International PaperHuman Resources, 11-50 employees

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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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Verified User

Executive in Finance and Accounting

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

CATS ATS Editions & Modules

Edition

Monthly Pro Plan	$99¹
Annual Pro Plan	$69¹

per user, per month

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Entry-level set up fee?

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