PerformYard vs. UKG Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PerformYard
Score 6.7 out of 10
N/A
PerformYard, headquartered in Arlington, VA, providesperformance management software aimed at providing features for HR and a simple employee experience. It offers HR teams tools to build out any performance management strategy so employees get a streamlined experience so they can focus on quality feedback and effective performance discussions.
$5
per month per employee
UKG Pro
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
UKG delivers cloud-based HCM solutions including UKG Pro that help businesses simplify payroll computations, accelerate talent acquisition, manage time and attendance, and support proactive, strategic talent management on a global level.N/A
Pricing
PerformYardUKG Pro
Editions & Modules
Professional
$5-$10
per month per employee
Enterprise
Custom Quote
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PerformYardUKG Pro
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
PerformYardUKG Pro
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
8.4
820 Ratings
7% above category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.7746 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings8.7777 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings8.2748 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings8.5735 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings7.9658 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings8.6670 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings8.4530 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
8.7
761 Ratings
8% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings9.1723 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings8.9347 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings9.0245 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.2656 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.3715 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.7585 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings8.057 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
8.2
577 Ratings
2% above category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings8.6517 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings8.1540 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings7.8443 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
8.7
813 Ratings
7% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.9784 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings8.9790 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings8.7576 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings8.1296 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings8.8774 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
8.8
196 Ratings
10% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings8.8196 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
8.0
751 Ratings
6% above category average
Report builder00 Ratings8.0730 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings8.0741 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings7.9509 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
8.7
571 Ratings
9% above category average
New hire portal00 Ratings8.5568 Ratings
Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.9454 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
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Ratings
UKG Pro
8.1
387 Ratings
2% above category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings8.4300 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings7.9368 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings8.2259 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings7.9342 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
8.3
476 Ratings
5% above category average
Performance plans00 Ratings8.1424 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings8.1334 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings8.5445 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings8.0408 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings8.7343 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
9.0
193 Ratings
14% above category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings9.0159 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings9.1169 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings8.8168 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings9.1157 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
PerformYard
-
Ratings
UKG Pro
8.3
470 Ratings
7% above category average
Job Requisition Management00 Ratings8.4446 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.9434 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings8.4344 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings8.7402 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.2334 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.3433 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings8.5401 Ratings
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User Ratings
PerformYardUKG Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(35 ratings)
8.3
(947 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(3 ratings)
8.3
(196 ratings)
Usability
9.5
(3 ratings)
9.0
(189 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(75 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(332 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(3 ratings)
5.6
(495 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(87 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.5
(204 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.9
(86 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(76 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(66 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(94 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(56 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(49 ratings)
User Testimonials
PerformYardUKG Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
PerformYard
Perform Yard is best suited for business managers to monitor the performance of their employees, set and review goals as well as implement performance improvement plans. It’s not so ideal for small groups. The precise questions asked of the employees makes it perfect for the responses to paint the overall picture of the progress and production of the employee, and helps supervisors really gauge the output from their employees. Overall, it is a great tool to utilize for monitoring employees progress, as well as evaluate the employee at your end to assist with setting goals for the new year.
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UKG
As a hospital with 1300 employees, we find that UKG is fully scalable and addresses all our needs with one product. UKG offers the Ready solution, which is aimed at smaller organizations. There are several different benefit solutions. Because of the other offerings, UKG products would work well for large, global organizations and smaller businesses that need automation and technology for payroll and timekeeping.
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Pros
PerformYard
  • Customer Service! The service support is unmatched compared to other vendors! Our rep is nothing short of amazing with her timeliness, helpfulness, and ability to navigate the issues we encounter!
  • Streamlining automated reviews - Effortlessly send out a whole years reviews in one sitting!
  • Auto updating from our HRIS system - Automated SFTP integration with our HRIS system to auto update employee fields and keep the system up to date with less manual process!
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UKG
  • UKG has an amazing support team to reach out to if assistance is needed
  • All add-ons of UKG Pro integrate seamlessly making it a powerful software program
  • UKG Pro is very configurable to meet the specific needs of companies
  • It is easy to use and navigate
  • The mobile app is loved by all employees and provides on-demand access
  • The Ultimate Community is amazing!! On-demand information on all products and how they are used. Connect with other companies that use UKG Pro and learn from each other.
  • The Learning Centre is also amazing!! Learning right at your fingertips anytime, anywhere.
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Cons
PerformYard
  • Don't really need to have multiple team member selection options in the dashboard. Would be more efficient to drill down from the team member selected rather than have to scroll through the list amongst all other team members data files.
  • Would be nice if contributors could also opine as to the perceived level of performance for the person they are commenting on, i.e., unsat, sat, excellent.
  • Those are my only issues at this time.
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UKG
  • Onboarding and recruiting need an environment that is more stable and dependable.
  • Core Benefits could be enhanced to allow OE and LE events via the mobile app.
  • Service and support need to be increased; days and weeks now, when we first went live, it was minutes and hours.
  • Adapting all version of time management into one or two versions, at no cost to the customer would allow the resources from UTA, UTM and WFM Classic to be directed to future enhancements and would allow support services to be increased for the 2 remaining platforms.
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Likelihood to Renew
PerformYard
It has been excellent among the employees. It is a great way to keep up with the tasks and goals throughout the year. Manager/employee communication can increase with this program. It is very easy to use and understand. Navigation can be a bit tricky but the overall ease of going through it is splendid.
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UKG
We have been a customer since 2015, we have gone to market and find that UKG Pro product is both user friendly for administrators as well as the employee. The qualify of support and service of UKG team is valued and we trust the product.
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Usability
PerformYard
This is one of the best features of PerformYard - it is extremely easy to use and intuitive. There was no learning curve. This is what is so phenomenal about PerformYard. Their layout, while offering so many features, is extremely simple.
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UKG
Mobile App: Really easy to use and its nice to have an HR software that actually has an mobile application to be able to enter time and to take care of everything with. Web App: The system is relatively easy to use with maybe a little training at the beginning if you have used another system. But the site is really easy to use and a lot better having everything under one roof
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Reliability and Availability
PerformYard
No answers on this topic
UKG
For the most part UltiPro has been reliable, but it could definitely be better. There have been several notable server issues where we were unable to access the product or unable to utilize some of the features. Customer support is usually quick to respond to questions about these issues, but they do not proactively reach out to customers whose environments have been effected by outages
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Performance
PerformYard
No answers on this topic
UKG
Normally UKG Pro loads quickly. We had been having major issues with reports running in a timely manner but recently they broke out our virtual server to another instance where is wasn't sharing resources and that seems to have helped reporting run more efficiently.
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Support Rating
PerformYard
The support from PerformYard is unmatched when compared to other systems I have worked with. Not to say that the support personnel always have an immediate answer, but they are so committed to solution and timeliness that it is not long before we are able to work through any issues. Emails are quickly returned for ease of access, and they never fail to offer to hop on a call and visually walk through something if that may help the issue!
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UKG
The quality of UKG Support is related directly to the UKG rep. who handles the issue. In some cases you get someone who really is good at supporting the product and others may not have as much experience and it shows
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In-Person Training
PerformYard
No answers on this topic
UKG
I've been to a few in-person (hands on) training sessions and it is very similar to the online classes. You have the same reference material to look back on after the training. So regardless of in person training or online you really get the same thing.
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Online Training
PerformYard
Training for PerformYard was fantastic and very easy to understand! I highly recommend this product to any company. It is super helpful for communicating with staff, for keeping track of your goals, tasks and reviews for the current (or past) year. Definitely get online training for implementation. You won't regret it!
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UKG
Most of the online training was very generic (to be expected) but we had specific requirements for configuration that could have been better addressed with more individual sessions earlier on from our project team. However, we did finally begin booking training sessions with our implementation team which were recorded, and so provided additional information for how to correctly configure and test the system.
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Implementation Rating
PerformYard
Our Human Resources department handled the implementation of PerformYard and they did a fantastic job. A tutorial was sent out via email to all employees with a requirement of viewing it. In additionto that, a ZOOM session was scheduled so that any questions or concerns could be answered after viewing the tutorial.
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UKG
Make sure you have all of your tax account information with all the states you are registered in available and that you are knowledgeable about the filing status, frequency, etc. We had some unique challenges with our state unemployment tax set up that I was not aware of and needed to be addressed prior to going live. Working with the state unemployment office can be a challenge.
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Alternatives Considered
PerformYard
PerformYard is much more specialized for feedback, where the rest seemed to add it as a lesser feature. I wanted a tool that’s built around making it easier to both give standardized feedback as well as receive and review it. This has helped streamline our practices and inspection on completion is easy as well.
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UKG
We used ADP WFN prior to switching to UKG. We interviewed three different payroll companies to see what our options were. UKG stood out and aligned with our company values. The sales team was very helpful and asked questions about what we were currently doing and how they could assist with simplifying things. I personally had a side meeting with them to see if there were options for a process that we manually process and if UKG could actually eliminate the process. We came to the conclusion that we weren't able to get it 100%, but we could pull 80% of what we needed from UKG, and then we would only need to manipulate 20% of the information. It was also determined from that meeting that we wouldn't need to pay extra to have a special report built. The customer service is what we were sold on. The other companies that we looked at didn't give us the confidence that their customer service would be any better than what we previously had.
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Scalability
PerformYard
No answers on this topic
UKG
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Return on Investment
PerformYard
  • It has encouraged me to actually complete goals rather than "almost" complete them because I want to be able to check off the box.
  • Sometimes it's difficult to track goals without clear metrics, however, this might be a positive thing because it encourages the user to create metric-based goals.
  • One positive impact is the impact this program has on extrinsically motivated employees.
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UKG
  • Personally as a veteran user of UKG Pro, in past employers I have seen many amazing increases in employee engagement and ROI.
  • With QuVa, we are still very new to the UKG Pro platform and are just now beginning to get out of the implementation phase where we can start measuring the change. I will be looking for changes in Overtime spending to reduce as a result of more informative and actionable dashboards for managers to monitor overtime and timeclock abuses in real time. I am also expecting employees to engage more with new features being pushed out to the mobile app.
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