PiiQ by Cornerstone vs SAP SuccessFactors

What users are saying about

Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 64 reviews and ratings

Score 7.7 out of 10

Based on 253 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Learning Management

6.6

PiiQ by Cornerstone

66%

SAP SuccessFactors

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

PiiQ by Cornerstone ranks higher in 10/10 features

Course authoring

6.0

60%

11 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Course catalog or library

6.8

68%

11 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Player/Portal

6.8

68%

10 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Learning content

6.6

66%

11 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Mobile friendly

7.9

79%

8 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Progress tracking & certifications

6.2

62%

10 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Assignments

6.7

67%

11 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Compliance management

5.8

58%

9 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Learning administration

6.6

66%

11 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Learning reporting & analytics

6.9

69%

11 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Human Resource Management

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.8

SAP SuccessFactors

78%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 7/7 features

Employee demographic data

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

24 Ratings

Employment history

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

26 Ratings

Job profiles and administration

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

26 Ratings

Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.

N/A

0 Ratings

6.6

66%

25 Ratings

Organizational charting

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

29 Ratings

Organization and location management

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

21 Ratings

Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.9

89%

12 Ratings

Payroll Management

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.2

SAP SuccessFactors

82%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 7/7 features

Pay calculation

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

15 Ratings

Support for external payroll vendors

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

11 Ratings

Off-cycle/On-Demand payment

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

6 Ratings

Benefit plan administration

N/A

0 Ratings

8.4

84%

16 Ratings

Direct deposit files

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

11 Ratings

Salary revision and increment management

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

77%

15 Ratings

Reimbursement management

N/A

0 Ratings

9.1

91%

12 Ratings

Leave and Attendance Management

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.5

SAP SuccessFactors

75%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 3/3 features

Approval workflow

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

18 Ratings

Balance details

N/A

0 Ratings

7.4

74%

17 Ratings

Annual carry-forward and encashment

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

14 Ratings

Employee Self Service

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.9

SAP SuccessFactors

79%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 5/5 features

View and generate pay and benefit information

N/A

0 Ratings

7.4

74%

21 Ratings

Update personal information

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

25 Ratings

View company policy documentation

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

16 Ratings

Employee recognition

N/A

0 Ratings

8.4

84%

17 Ratings

View job history

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

24 Ratings

Asset Management

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.4

SAP SuccessFactors

84%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 1/1 features

Tracking of all physical assets

N/A

0 Ratings

8.4

84%

3 Ratings

HR Reporting

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

6.9

SAP SuccessFactors

69%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 3/3 features

Report builder

N/A

0 Ratings

6.5

65%

23 Ratings

Pre-built reports

N/A

0 Ratings

6.7

67%

22 Ratings

Ability to combine HR data with external data

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

20 Ratings

Onboarding

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.2

SAP SuccessFactors

82%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 2/2 features

New hire portal

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

25 Ratings

Manager tracking tools

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

27 Ratings

Performance and Goals

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.5

SAP SuccessFactors

85%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 4/4 features

Corporate goal setting

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

37 Ratings

Individual goal setting

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

42 Ratings

Line-of sight-visibility

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

36 Ratings

Performance tracking

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

40 Ratings

Performance Management

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.1

SAP SuccessFactors

81%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 5/5 features

Performance plans

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

42 Ratings

Performance improvement plans

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

33 Ratings

Review status tracking

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

42 Ratings

Review reminders

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

41 Ratings

Multiple review frequency

N/A

0 Ratings

7.3

73%

33 Ratings

Succession Planning

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.6

SAP SuccessFactors

86%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 4/4 features

Create succession plans/pools

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

26 Ratings

Candidate ranking

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

27 Ratings

Candidate search

N/A

0 Ratings

8.7

87%

25 Ratings

Candidate development

N/A

0 Ratings

8.7

87%

25 Ratings

Recruiting / ATS

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

4.1

SAP SuccessFactors

41%

SAP SuccessFactors ranks higher in 7/7 features

Job Requisition Management

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

20 Ratings

Company Website Posting

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

19 Ratings

Publish to Social Media

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

14 Ratings

Job Search Site Posting

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

18 Ratings

Duplicate Candidate Prevention

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

17 Ratings

Applicant Tracking

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

20 Ratings

Notifications and Alerts

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

22 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

PiiQ by Cornerstone is rated higher in 6 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Likelihood to Renew, Usability, Support Rating, Online Training, Implementation Rating

PiiQ by Cornerstone

86%

40 Ratings

7.6

SAP SuccessFactors

76%

64 Ratings

PiiQ by Cornerstone

30%

2 Ratings

2.7

SAP SuccessFactors

27%

13 Ratings

PiiQ by Cornerstone

85%

37 Ratings

2.7

SAP SuccessFactors

27%

3 Ratings

PiiQ by Cornerstone

100%

2 Ratings

SAP SuccessFactors

N/A

0 Ratings

PiiQ by Cornerstone

70%

2 Ratings

SAP SuccessFactors

N/A

0 Ratings

PiiQ by Cornerstone

88%

71 Ratings

6.2

SAP SuccessFactors

62%

26 Ratings

PiiQ by Cornerstone

90%

1 Rating

8.0

SAP SuccessFactors

80%

1 Rating

PiiQ by Cornerstone

90%

4 Ratings

3.6

SAP SuccessFactors

36%

1 Rating

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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This software offers us the ability to raise questions during the appraisal cycle, as well as give us an overview of the various steps we follow during the appraisal process and also provides one-stop solutions for all my needs, such as applying for leave and checking salary slips.
The onboarding and hiring process was changed with this tool, and it also generated attendance reports and performance reports for employees.
There are a number of training courses available in the SAP Learning Hub that can help you improve the configuration. If you are familiar with them then you can easily fix it yourself first. Unless something needs to be modified in Provisioning.

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Manager in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 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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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$1,000

Starting Price

$8 per user per month

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

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

—

SAP SuccessFactors Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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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 2.7

Based on 13 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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Manager in Human Resources

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

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Usability

PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.5

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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Employee in Human Resources

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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SAP SuccessFactors 2.7

Based on 3 answers

For Key users, it is not really friendly. There are lot of hidden buttons which makes the experience difficult.For end user, it is quite easy.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Human Resources

Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

PiiQ by Cornerstone 10.0

Based on 2 answers

So far 100%.

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Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Performance

PiiQ by Cornerstone 7.0

Based on 2 answers

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

No answers on this topic

Support Rating

PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.8

Based on 71 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 6.2

Based on 26 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 4 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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SAP SuccessFactors 3.6

Based on 1 answer

We had to delay go live of EC due to bad councelling of our implementation partner.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Human Resources

Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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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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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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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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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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