SAP Core HR and Payroll vs SAP SuccessFactors

Likelihood to Recommend

SAP HR can be well suited for global companies with operations in multiple countries. The Payroll module needs to be limited to one instance per country, otherwise trying to maintain multiple countries on the same instance is too complicated.I would not recommend using SAP HR and Payroll for smaller companies because the total cost of ownership and the lack of flexibility will make it unfeasible. There are many cloud-based options now a days available that would fit better for this type of scenario.

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Executive in Human Resources

Chemicals Company, 10,001+ employees

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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

SAP Core HR and Payroll

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.)

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

Pay calculation

Support for external payroll vendors

Benefit plan administration

Direct deposit files

Salary revision and increment management

Reimbursement management

Off-cycle/On-Demand payment

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

Approval workflow

Balance details

Annual carry-forward and encashment

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

View and generate pay and benefit information

Update personal information

View company policy documentation

Employee recognition

View job history

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

Report builder

Pre-built reports

Ability to combine HR data with external data

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

New hire portal

Manager tracking tools

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

Corporate goal setting

Individual goal setting

Line-of sight-visibility

Performance tracking

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

Performance plans

Performance improvement plans

Review status tracking

Review reminders

Multiple review frequency

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

Create succession plans/pools

Candidate ranking

Candidate search

Candidate development

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

Job Requisition Management

Company Website Posting

Publish to Social Media

Job Search Site Posting

Duplicate Candidate Prevention

Applicant Tracking

Notifications and Alerts

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

Tracking of all physical assets

Pros

Record Keeping of financial data.
Record keeping of personnel data.
Reports are very easily attainable.

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Manager in Human Resources

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ 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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Project Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

The interface and graphic look and feel are not very modern.
Provide more intuitive and easier screens and functionality - Too many scroll bars.
Make messages back to users more descriptive.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Medical Devices Company, 5001-10,000 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

No score

No answers yet

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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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Manager in Human Resources

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

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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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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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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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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Administrator in Human Resources

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We use SAP HR and Payroll because in our company it is the corporate mandate. However, based on our regional/business unit requirements and strategic plans other system would provide a better fit. However, just like in many large global corporations these type of decisions are made at the corporate level, many times giving priority to technology standardization instead of business priorities.

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Executive in Human Resources

Chemicals Company, 10,001+ 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

SAP is a very intuitive platform to use.
Saves money and time in record keeping.

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Manager in Human Resources

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ 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

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

SAP Core HR and Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors

Likelihood to Recommend