Lever vs. SAP SuccessFactors

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lever
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Lever is a Talent Acquisition Suite designed to help talent teams to reach their hiring goals and to connect companies with top talent. Lever provides ATS and applicant CRM capabilities, in LeverTRM. The Lever Hire and Lever Nurture features allow leaders to grow their people pipeline, build long-lasting relationships, and source the right people. Lever Analytics provides customized reports with data visualization, see offers completed and interview feedback, and it informs strategic decisions…N/A
SAP SuccessFactors
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
SAP SuccessFactors is a suite of HR/HCM products covering these capability areas: core HR and payroll, recruiting and onboarding, learning and development, performance and compensation management, workforce analytics and planning, and employee experience management.
$85
per year Up to 100 Employees
Pricing
LeverSAP SuccessFactors
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LeverSAP SuccessFactors
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Considered Both Products
Lever

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SAP SuccessFactors
Chose SAP SuccessFactors
Lever is mainly an applicant tracking system but it is way easier to use, faster, and more visually appealing compared to SAP SuccessFactors. There are also lots of small features like email templates and "@" for a colleague that is not in SAP SuccessFactors.
Chose SAP SuccessFactors
In my opinon, More robust and deeper, but less progressive hurting edge features.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
LeverSAP SuccessFactors
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Lever
7.2
32 Ratings
10% below category average
SAP SuccessFactors
4.0
294 Ratings
64% below category average
Job Requisition Management6.829 Ratings7.6274 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.529 Ratings7.8260 Ratings
Publish to Social Media5.919 Ratings7.3219 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.021 Ratings7.6248 Ratings
Customized Application Form7.927 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management7.730 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.428 Ratings7.3223 Ratings
Candidate Search6.331 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.730 Ratings7.4261 Ratings
Collaboration5.830 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation6.120 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates8.926 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions7.129 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.730 Ratings7.6264 Ratings
Reporting6.928 Ratings00 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors
7.6
422 Ratings
3% below category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.1369 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings7.9375 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings7.4363 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings7.4342 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings7.8389 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings7.6343 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings7.1213 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors
8.0
223 Ratings
0% below category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings8.2160 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.1137 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings8.0135 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.2142 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.5139 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.1170 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings8.1122 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors
8.4
224 Ratings
4% above category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings8.5222 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings8.1181 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings8.5154 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors
7.9
344 Ratings
3% below category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings7.8244 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings7.8331 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings7.9206 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings8.1186 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings8.1316 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors
8.4
3 Ratings
8% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings8.43 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors
6.4
340 Ratings
17% below category average
Report builder00 Ratings6.6325 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings6.3301 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings6.3244 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors
7.7
273 Ratings
4% below category average
New hire portal00 Ratings7.2262 Ratings
Manager tracking tools00 Ratings7.3239 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors
8.2
350 Ratings
1% above category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.8308 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.2346 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.9279 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings7.6323 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors
8.1
371 Ratings
2% above category average
Performance plans00 Ratings7.8354 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings7.7299 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings7.9330 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings8.0334 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.8264 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Lever
-
Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors
7.7
249 Ratings
2% below category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings7.9228 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.7209 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings7.6218 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings7.7198 Ratings
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User Ratings
LeverSAP SuccessFactors
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(33 ratings)
8.2
(478 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(34 ratings)
Usability
5.0
(1 ratings)
8.4
(16 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
1.1
(5 ratings)
8.0
(25 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(11 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(5 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
5.8
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(390 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(5 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
LeverSAP SuccessFactors
Likelihood to Recommend
Lever
I think Lever is great for any sized company, but especially strong for smaller, growing teams. It's a very simple system, but clean, sleek, and very useful in any scenario. They have great support whenever you need it so those with smaller HR or People teams could easily benefit from their help. Can't think of too many scenarios where Lever wouldn't be well-suited, but maybe once you grow to International growth and hiring, it may be better to have a more Enterprise style business, set up for larger scaling.
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SAP
SAP Success Factors has a robust framework which makes it an absolute platform for scaling and scaled companies, including the ones of larger sizes. Success Factors is contributing to maintain the data quality and automated workflows. SF had almost automated every single HR process which has removed the manual intervention altogether. It's time consuming to implement so if you're loooking for a quick fix or quick results it may not be for you.
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Pros
Lever
  • Great integration: Keeps a list of Outlook email communication along with LinkedIn and other data sources
  • Is fairly lively, not too much lag between screens even though it is looking through a lot of data.
  • Has excellent reporting on how well each email message is working.
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SAP
  • Streamlined access to HR data which can be used for deriving insights using SAP Analytics Cloud
  • End to end and seamless integration with SAP eco system and integration with other Microsoft solutions
  • Great learning experience for employees on SAP SuccessFactors platform
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Cons
Lever
  • [In my experience,] terrible customer support - pay more to get less...
  • Integrations are spotty and can break without reason
  • Lever has so much potential, but their Roadmap is lacking in ways that will really help customers succeed
  • Focuses on the number of candidates and not the company's need to build talent in a cost effective, data driven and collaborative way
  • Overpromised and underdelivered in [the] capability of the tool. [I believe that you should] not trust your sales team.
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SAP
  • The whole software is not user friendly from and admin side.
  • A lot of our problems have stemmed from our implementation partner not having the knowledge and experience we needed.
  • Updates to the system have been made and it’s affected too many entities in our learning module. Settings to previous uploads needed to be changed, the previous settings applied did not work the same, etc. constant updates are needed.
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Likelihood to Renew
Lever
No answers on this topic
SAP
We have put a vast amount of time and effort into our installation- and there is more work to be done, but the system has a lot of benefits that we plan to maximize and optimize in order to generate the greatest value for everyone involved
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Usability
Lever
It isn't difficult to use for the applicant processing, but [I feel] if you want to pull reports or use their tools, good luck!
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SAP
SSFF is very user friendly and intuitive even for a non tech employee. Also, there´s a complete database and community where we can find solution to common and uncommon issues
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Reliability and Availability
Lever
No answers on this topic
SAP
Until now we have not had serious availability problems with SuccessFactors, we had Microsoft Active Directory and SSO with ADFS and we had availability problems but because of problems with ADFS, we migrated to Azure AD and with that the availability problems of SuccessFactors because of ADFS went away. The only windows of unavailability that we have had are those that we are communicated to do maintenance and upgrades.
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Performance
Lever
No answers on this topic
SAP
The performance is very good, the truth is that we have not had serious performance problems, some complex reports may take a little longer, but considering the complexity and the amount of records it is an acceptable time. We have never received a complaint from users regarding page loading speed.
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Support Rating
Lever
What support? - Add a ticket and get links to [I believe] their unhelpful user guide. Add a charge if you want better support - afterward just got those links faster...
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SAP
SuccessFactors Employee Central gets a middle of the road rating from me because of the things it does really well - Training. It falls short with the objectives cascade and visibility amongst my reports. That's what brings it down to a 5. Objectives need to be clear and concise in order to gain buy-in from your reports, and SuccessFactors muddies that by poor delineation between cascaded attributes and my report's objectives. The whole objectives cascade can be reworked.
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In-Person Training
Lever
No answers on this topic
SAP
The in-person training was with a consultancy, we have taken several courses, all very specific. They have been reports in ecp, general configuration of ec, reports and IAS
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Online Training
Lever
No answers on this topic
SAP
We use SAP Learning, and we like it very much, the topics are updated along with the products, we have access to the SFX customer certifications and we have done them all, in general the SAP learning platform is very good and complete.
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Implementation Rating
Lever
No answers on this topic
SAP
As we were new with all this, we would greatly appreciate if we had assitance directly from SAP so we can implement the modules with all of its features and best practices. Unfortunately, we notice that the partner left some thing incomplete.
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Alternatives Considered
Lever
Lever is comparable to Greenhouse in its basic recruiting functions. I have found it to be WAY better than Bullhorn (clunky and overly-complicated with a very dated and non-intuitive interface) and Jazz HR (slick and pretty, but limited in its functions). The best ATS I've used is the proprietary tool at Meta, but alas, that tool is for internal use only
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SAP
SAP success factors provided robust talent management, global scalability and strong analytics capabilities. And they provide strong user experience options and there is no limitation on customisation as is the case with Oracle HCM Cloud. It has the specific modules which the organisation desires and has strong existing integration capabilities and with existing systems .
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Lever
No answers on this topic
SAP
I dont be part in te contract
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Scalability
Lever
No answers on this topic
SAP
The scalability and flexibility of SuccessFactors is unbeatable. It is very easy to scale the product to new countries and areas, and with the help of CPI it can be easily integrated.
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Professional Services
Lever
No answers on this topic
SAP
We did use this service to do analysis of the solution being implemented. It was a good check point during the project to see if everything is going as planned.
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Return on Investment
Lever
  • Lever provides an enormous ROI by getting us in front of the right candidates that are going to make us more money and more successful as an org.
  • I think that both the quality and quantity of new hires has gone up ever since we started using lever and involving the entire org in the process.
  • It also saves us a lot of time because we don't need to send referrals via email, while saving/attaching resumes and such.
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SAP
  • As my project was using SAP ECC system for ERP, SuccessFactors was well integrated with the overall project as a whole due to its compatibility being a SAP product.
  • As I have have highlighted multiple time, using SAP Analytics Cloud, we built multiple reports with help of the analytics team that presented detailed visualizations of the available HCM data
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ScreenShots

Lever Screenshots

Screenshot of Intelligently resurface high-value past candidates who fit open roles.Screenshot of Identify the top origin and sources of candidates in all stages, the Offer stage, and the Hired stage.Screenshot of Seamlessly schedule interviews with candidates.

SAP SuccessFactors Screenshots

Screenshot of SAP SuccessFactors Learning, which supports informal and collaborative learningScreenshot of the SuccessFactors LMS experience that puts learning opportunities at the center of business operations and goals.Screenshot of the learning dashboard and metrics in SAP SuccessFactors Learning.Screenshot of the SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace.Screenshot of information on employee requests, evaluations, and performance in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.