PiiQ by Cornerstone vs SAP SuccessFactors

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for:

A busy environment where you want learners to be self-sufficient and to be able to access learning solutions at a time that suits them.
For anyone who wants to access learning using different platforms such as iPad, mobile, PC, etc
Anyone who needs a more in-depth learning solution rather than an overview of key learning points.

Verified User

Professional in Human Resources

Staffing and Recruiting Company, 51-200 employees

Success Factors is really well suited to handling needs of my organization. They've done a good job integrating with our course catalog and making it easy to book courses right from within the application. It falls short in letting managers cascade their objectives easily. When I cascade an objective, the cascaded objective will often inherit comments from my own objective and share them down to my reports - not ideal behavior.

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Engineer in Research & Development

Pharmaceuticals Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

PiiQ by Cornerstone

SAP SuccessFactors

Course authoring

Course catalog or library

Player/Portal

Learning content

Mobile friendly

Progress tracking & certifications

Assignments

Compliance management

Learning administration

Learning reporting & analytics

PiiQ by Cornerstone

SAP SuccessFactors

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.)

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SAP SuccessFactors

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

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SAP SuccessFactors

Approval workflow

Balance details

Annual carry-forward and encashment

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SAP SuccessFactors

View and generate pay and benefit information

Update personal information

View company policy documentation

Employee recognition

View job history

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SAP SuccessFactors

Tracking of all physical assets

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SAP SuccessFactors

Report builder

Pre-built reports

Ability to combine HR data with external data

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SAP SuccessFactors

New hire portal

Manager tracking tools

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SAP SuccessFactors

Corporate goal setting

Individual goal setting

Line-of sight-visibility

Performance tracking

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SAP SuccessFactors

Performance plans

Performance improvement plans

Review status tracking

Review reminders

Multiple review frequency

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SAP SuccessFactors

Create succession plans/pools

Candidate ranking

Candidate search

Candidate development

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SAP SuccessFactors

Job Requisition Management

Company Website Posting

Publish to Social Media

Job Search Site Posting

Duplicate Candidate Prevention

Applicant Tracking

Notifications and Alerts

Pros

Enables employees to draft work goals and collaborate with their supervisors on a final version - improves mutual understanding right up front.
Combines performance goal ratings with competency ratings and provides a blended score. Simplifies the goal weighting so you don't have to do any calculations.
9-box matrix provides useful definitions and descriptions so managers can prepare development notes or plans for individual employees.

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Gene Aldava, SPHR

Director, Human Resources and Administration

Abode CommunitiesReal Estate, 51-200 employees

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Assignment Profile: This is an automated way of assigning courses and activities to users (through user interface configuration or through data feed synchronization).
Plateau Reports Designer: A client tool to customize the reports in SAP SuccessFactors Learning, widely used by most of the large organizations.
BizX integration: It's a SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) platform to connect the talent management and human resource management. It has a comprehensive view of the organization's resources skills, expertise, experience, and competency, etc.
Domain, Domain Restrictions and Roles: This is mainly to create an organizational structure and to provide the needed security permissions.
Integration with Jam, Skype and WebEx, etc.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Would be good to have have a virtual "top level" (eg board) user built in to allow senior execs without a direct manager to be able to be set up with KPIs instead of having to create a dummy user
Reports have difficulty downloading if pop ups disabled or in some browser environments
When competencies are updated while a cycle is open, any changes don't effect that open cycle but only future ones. Would be nice to be able to have the option to apply changes to existing "open" cycles

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C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

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The app for ios and android have room for improvement. They are aware of the limitations but amount of access and functionality is not where it needs to be.
The homepage of Successfactors takes longer to load and refresh itself. Especially true when viewing employee files. That is partially due to how much information is having to show on the page but it still seems to take more time than usual to show each screen.
You can't change the amount of time the homepage will lock you out from inactivity. This might seem minuscule but it causes so many painful re-logins and time wasting effort to login again. There currently isn't an option to change the time before lockout.

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Adam Kasten, PHR

Human Resources Manager

CintasFacilities Services, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

PiiQ by Cornerstone 3.0

Based on 2 answers

It's not that CSB isn't a decent performance management system, but we have decided to go with just one vendor (Workday) for an HRIS/performance management/payroll system so we can directly relate pay to performance. We are more interested in having just one system that "talks" to the other pieces instead of having to work with several vendors. It reduces the hassle of having to communicate with different support teams, having different contracts, and so on.

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Verified User

Employee in Human Resources

Marketing and Advertising Company, 201-500 employees

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SAP SuccessFactors 7.0

Based on 12 answers

Support is still lacking. If we don't have a critical business need where we're looking to license something new, there is no partnership with SuccessFactors. Unless of course you purchase the Platinum Support which we did not. It is difficult for us to take advantage of new functionality when we have professional services fees that will be incurred as a result. We're in a tough economy and our budgets are slim. We don't have wiggle room to add $5k here or $10k there. The overall integration into a total HCM solution is also lacking.

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Verified User

Manager in Human Resources

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.1

Based on 37 answers

There are specific things within the goals and competencies that are user-friendly. For example, the rating slider isn't great in my opinion. You can slide in between ratings which can create some odd scoring (if you use scoring). It seems a better solution would be a drop down where you select your rating.There are also some glitches in the system and have been told Cornerstone is aware of them but are focused on delivering new features. There are workarounds, but that doesn't seem to be a great answer.

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Verified User

Employee in Human Resources

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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SAP SuccessFactors 8.0

Based on 2 answers

To develop all objectivity of researches.

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Anton Smorodin

Project Manager

ACIG JSCManagement Consulting, 201-500 employees

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Reliability and Availability

PiiQ by Cornerstone 10.0

Based on 1 answer

So far 100%.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Performance

PiiQ by Cornerstone 7.0

Based on 1 answer

The saving process slows it down. It doesn’t auto save. If you leave a page, it will sometimes warn you, but not always. When you hit the save button, a window pops up that says creating/saving packets. It feels very archaic.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.4

Based on 36 answers

My assistant could better address this issue. My perception is that there is not immediate assistance, and that there can be a wait for help. That is not a negative, just a perception. I have not used support in two years.

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John Gwynn

Director, Human Resources

Viewpointe Archive Services L.L.C.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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SAP SuccessFactors 6.6

Based on 21 answers

The overall platform could use the updates, so the overall look of it seems more modern. Also, the number of possible customizations could be made more simple to implement. SAP SuccessFactors does have a helpline that is helpful and free. On a positive note, it is beneficial in our performance reviews and recruiting efforts.

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Verified User

Administrator in Human Resources

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Online Training

PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0

Based on 1 answer

We bought training provided by 3rd party – it was fabulous.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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SAP SuccessFactors 8.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Implementation Rating

PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0

Based on 2 answers

I think we could have done a better job of rolling out the tool to our managers. We were under a tight timeline. In the training, we showed them everything and said go do it by this date. Looking back, I would have done it in pieces: for example, 2 weeks to write goals, 2 weeks to get sign-off from direct reports. I just let them go at it. Since then we’ve moved to agile development environment and are applying the technique to everything. In future would only do through change sprint. It is a big change I didn’t take it seriously enough.

I had a team of 3 project managing. You need a champion from every department to make sure you’re getting it right and to make sure what’s happening is communicated. It’s not something you can do without input from department heads

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Verified User

Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

Lesson.ly has been great to work with but it is a very clear and simple, user-friendly system that anyone can pick up with very little training as it is self-explanatory. It also has a great mobile interface and lots of different features that are easy to add for the admin but really impactful for the user.

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Verified User

Administrator in Other

Food & Beverages Company, 51-200 employees

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As a whole, SuccessFactors is tough to beat. It's at its best when all of the modules are working together. There are few competitors that offer the full talent suite.Individually, the quality of the modules can vary. The performance and goal management modules perform well but the recruiting one significantly lags its competitors. The recruiting world has seen a lot of advances in technology over the last few years but these have yet to trickle down into the SuccessFactors module.

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Verified User

Administrator in Human Resources

Furniture Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

It's tool and it's only as good as the person wielding it. The investment in PiiQ was accompanied by a quarterly cadence and manager feedback training. We feel like our employees are given regular feedback and bonuses are tied to objective accomplishment.

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Verified User

Executive in Manufacturing

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Visibility to the organization was an immediate impact and socialized the value of the product immediately.
A common and aggregated performance process reduced time and energy spent on quarterly goal setting.
Consolidating performance to pay outputs reduced time in some manual audit processes.

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Tony Deblauwe

HR and OD Operations

HortonworksComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$1,000*

* per installation

PiiQ by Cornerstone Editions & Modules

Edition

PiiQ Performance	$8.00¹
PiiQ Learning + Content & Performance	$15.00¹
PiiQ Learning + Content	$8.00¹

per user per month

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

SAP SuccessFactors Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

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