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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AEmburse Professional (formerly Certify) aims to help make expense reporting easier with its automated expense report creation and mobile receipt capture. Employees, managers and accountants can create, submit and approve expense reports, check the status of expense reports and access reports on demand.N/A

    Workday Financial Management

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AWorkday Financial Management is a cloud-based financial software platform built on an in-memory architecture and an object-oriented data model. The system unifies transaction processing, multidimensional reporting, and consolidation into a single environment accessible via web and mobile interfaces. Financial Operations and Automation The platform employs Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and specialized financial agents to manage core business cycles. These…N/A
    Pricing
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)Workday Financial Management
    Editions & Modules
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    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)Workday Financial Management
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$8 Expense reportNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCertify AP has volume based pricing based on processed invoices
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    Community Pulse
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)Workday Financial Management
    Considered Both Products
    Emburse
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    Workday
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    63%
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    75%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)Workday Financial Management
    Expense Management
    Comparison of Expense Management features of Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    7.6
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    -
    Ratings
    Employee Expense Reporting8.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Corporate Card Reconciliation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    7.7
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    -
    Ratings
    Customizable Approval Policies9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Document Management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail5.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced OCR6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.1
    23 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings8.323 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.220 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.1
    20 Ratings
    7% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings8.517 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings7.819 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    9.0
    25 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.225 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.823 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.0
    27 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.227 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.924 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    7.7
    23 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings7.518 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings6.918 Ratings
    Global Financial Support00 Ratings7.519 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings7.419 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings7.716 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings7.719 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings7.920 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    7.2
    11 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings7.611 Ratings
    Automatic reordering00 Ratings7.211 Ratings
    Location management00 Ratings6.810 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Credit card processing00 Ratings7.311 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)Workday Financial Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (57 ratings)
    8.4
    (27 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (41 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.9
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)Workday Financial Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Emburse
    Certify is not well suited for multi-dimensional ERPs. Although Certify 'offers' general ledger dimensions GLD, the use of them is extremely limited. Filtering on any GLD can only be done once. There is not the possibility for creating hierarchies with the dimensions. The only method of exporting is via a flat file or the open API, which I understand is quite limited. This software is for a smaller scaled business that is not trying to track across dimensions or create hierarchies. Data flow is one directional. I cannot emphasize enough the shortcomings of the reporting. The parameters are mostly based on expense dates rather than expense reports. There are entirely too many of them, and some of them perform the function!
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    Workday
    Workday is well suited for managing employees throughout their full life cycle. It excels at housing employee data from the start of their time with the company through their departure. Workday is less suited to payroll functions, which could be more robust.
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    Pros
    Emburse
    • Integration with Amtrav or other travel booking systems. Certify has a tight integration with travel systems that makes it feel nearly like one cohesive tool.
    • Easy expense options. Use OCR on receipts, import from credit cards and merge items, approve and inquire about expenses. Track your submissions.
    • Easy UI. Friendly and easy to navigate without getting lost.
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    Workday
    • The flexibility of going beyond handling the accounts, where we can handle cash, assets, and accounting simultaneously for the customer.
    • The single platform offers grants management where you can organize the lifecycle of the grants and synchronize it with any criteria of grant closing out scheme.
    • I personally liked Project billing with the essence of evaluating project revenue and nice reporting templates that can be shared with the customer at any stage of the project while having the flexibility of auditing the reported cost.
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    Cons
    Emburse
    • Reporting: I would like to see more chart availability from the program. We include various data points from Certify in our monthly financial statement package. Currently, we export data from the program and create our own pivot tables to create charts.
    • Dashboard feature: It would be nice to be able to use the data for a specific date and then be able to print that information.
    • Can't think of another one. As stated before, they listen to their customers so prior issues have been addressed and implemented.
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    Workday
    • Some of the Workday updates last till like 10 in the morning which prevents employees to clock in and check their times and some cases their schedules
    • Workday can work on opening documents quicker instead of taking couple of minutes or notifying the user when they are ready to download
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    Usability
    Emburse
    If the integrations with our card programs had succeeded, I expect [Emburse] Certify would have worked well for expense submitters and approvers. During the short time that the American Express Business integration was active, transactions flowed smoothly, and the expense reporting and receipt matching functions were quite good. The [Emburse] Certify mobile app was particularly powerful and easy to use.
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    Workday
    Workday is easy enough navigate, as long as it is properly set up. With that said, it can be put together in a modular fashion as well, allowing for a very high degree of flexibility in terms of design and process delegation. Finally, it makes consolidation achievable in times previously unthinkable.
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    Support Rating
    Emburse
    The measure of support is how well they respond when you really need them, like when the system is not performing correctly. We have been on the platform less than a year, and there have been at least 2 instances, where the platform was down. The 2nd time was the day before out fiscal year end. And they need a development website. When they are making changes to your LIVE instance, and things go wrong, the client is the first to know about it! I've come to understand that Certify has tiers of support. Those in tier 1, barely know more about the software than the users. I sent a request for a report that shows expense reports currently pending approval and after 5 days of back and forth I was told to build it myself.
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    Workday
    Our support team has been awesome. They are extremely knowledgeable and have been able to guide us through all of the challenges we have faced. Workday's community online is also extremely helpful with many trainings and help topics that can be reviewed at your convenience.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Emburse
    Before Certify, there was only manual expense reports entered for our company. This took too much time for employees too finish and caused a delay of efficiency. With Certify, it is easier to access and finish each report with the right amount of effectiveness and efficiency it needs. Certify is really helpful in saving a lot of time for employees that do not have time.
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    Workday
    Despite Airtable also being easier to use one thing that differentiates and put forth Workday Financial Management tool above is it's key features and better suited functionality for handling confidential data. The other positive note where Workday Financial Management performs high is it key analytics tool that's easier to use and representation of information into insightful dashboards.
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    Return on Investment
    Emburse
    • The organization and automatic flow of the expense report to approvers and then AP saves time for all. The user has agreed that it is easier and quicker to prepare the expense report and the managers and AP department finds the automated process to be quicker and more efficient. Time saved is money saved.
    • Certify can recognize if a duplicate expense is submitted or if an expense is submitted too late to be reimbursed according to our policies. This prevents us from reimbursing an expense in error.
    • We use a customized report to track a specific type of expense that gets submitted by our sales team. There is a limit on what can be spent on specific expenses that fall into an entertainment category and the report helps us to stay within the limits. Previously, without this tool, we had spent so much more time manually tracking these expenses and had gone over the limits, creating a deficiency in our processes.
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    Workday
    • We were able to combine 4 different HR modules into one system.
    • We reduced data breach incidents by 95% after shifting to Workday. One of our legacy softwares had vulnerabilities.
    • The initial learning curve was higher than projected. We spent about a week to 10 days extra time deploying it, which affected the profit center that year.
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    ScreenShots

    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Certify Homepage - User interface for all users that includes a quick view of their expenses, pending expense reports and approval requests.Screenshot of Certify Mobile - Snap photos of receipts on the go and upload them instantly to your virtual Certify Wallet.Screenshot of Certify Travel - Now, corporate travel is even easier. Introducing Certify Travel, your end-to-end corporate travel solution to simplify bookings for employees while helping your company manage travel practices and costs. All for one low monthly fee and no booking fees! Certify Travel is easy to use, yet it is also a powerful enhancement to your company’s expense management system.Screenshot of Certify Reporting & AnalyticsScreenshot of Certify AP- manage cashflow with accounts payable automationScreenshot of Certify AP- streamlining employee purchasing

    Workday Financial Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of a discovery boardScreenshot of financial resultsScreenshot of operational analysis