SAP SuccessFactors HCM vs. Seismic Learning

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
Score 8.4 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.
$75.60
per year per user (Up to 100 Employees)
Seismic Learning
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Seismic Learning (formerly Lessonly, acquired by Seismic in August 2021), is a learning management system (LMS). The vendor emphasizes eLearning for client-facing skills, as well as a drag-and-drop interface. Lessonly supports customizable learning paths and corporate onboarding processes.N/A
Pricing
SAP SuccessFactors HCMSeismic Learning
Editions & Modules
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Pro
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Pro + Coaching
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Enterprise Learning for Global Teams
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP SuccessFactors HCMSeismic Learning
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
SAP SuccessFactors HCMSeismic Learning
Considered Both Products
SAP SuccessFactors HCM

No answer on this topic

Seismic Learning
Chose Seismic Learning
Search function and troubleshooting is much easier in Lessonly.
Features
SAP SuccessFactors HCMSeismic Learning
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.1
806 Ratings
0% below category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.3713 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.1725 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.9699 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.8.1656 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting8.1735 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management8.1664 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.8415 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.7
463 Ratings
5% below category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.0355 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.4312 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.6313 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.6299 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.9296 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.0377 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.7274 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.3
463 Ratings
2% above category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
Approval workflow8.5459 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details8.2392 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment8.1350 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.3
644 Ratings
1% above category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.5488 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.8627 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.1426 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition7.9395 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.5602 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.4
3 Ratings
4% above category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.0
629 Ratings
8% below category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
Report builder7.3600 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.0569 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.8475 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
511 Ratings
0% above category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
New hire portal7.7497 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.6466 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.4
633 Ratings
4% above category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting8.1568 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.2626 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.0512 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking8.0590 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.2
664 Ratings
4% above category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
Performance plans8.2639 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans8.0550 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking8.0605 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders7.9598 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency8.1497 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
457 Ratings
2% above category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools8.1423 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking8.1399 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search7.9407 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development8.0385 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.7
530 Ratings
1% below category average
Seismic Learning
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management7.9504 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.8481 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.8419 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.7462 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.5431 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.8486 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.0490 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
-
Ratings
Seismic Learning
6.9
110 Ratings
17% below category average
Course authoring00 Ratings9.5108 Ratings
Course catalog or library00 Ratings9.3106 Ratings
Player/Portal00 Ratings5.785 Ratings
Learning content00 Ratings3.6104 Ratings
Mobile friendly00 Ratings9.058 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings9.896 Ratings
Assignments00 Ratings2.8107 Ratings
Compliance management00 Ratings9.563 Ratings
Learning administration00 Ratings7.2100 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings6.795 Ratings
Social learning00 Ratings2.672 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors HCMSeismic Learning
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(768 ratings)
6.5
(114 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(52 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(291 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Availability
8.5
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.5
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
3.6
(29 ratings)
9.7
(97 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
4.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.8
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
4.2
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
3.3
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.8
(420 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.5
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
5.2
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
4.5
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
3.5
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP SuccessFactors HCMSeismic Learning
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
It is a strong system that pays off once it's fully tailored to your organization. If your company has well-defined HR processes, SuccessFactors will likely integrate seamlessly. We've automated processes that previously required departments to spend weeks on back-and-forth emails. We've partnered with Capgemini to fully suck out the most out of its technical customization.
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Seismic
If you are onboarding new employees or consultants and you have a complex product, solution, or your business is layered and complex, this can help distill down the layers into basics so that new team or partners can build their knowledge base up the right way. This ensures they are learning what needs to be learned, and not what they surmise or assume, which can be incorrect and cause issues down the road - this is especially sensitive in our field. Training of all kinds can be done easily with this tool.
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Pros
SAP
  • The product is straightforward to use. The product allows instant edits if a mistake is made and is very helpful in keeping track of individual employee working hours.
  • Use of the platform ensures that your business is connected to a global workforce experience powered by modern HR technologies and AI.
  • Implementation of the software ensures an excellent workforce experience and accelerates overall business performance.
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Seismic
  • Open to feedback and ideas and constantly innovating and iterating on their product to serve new needs that arise
  • Making me feel like more than just a customer: They aren't transactional and focus on building the relationship and making me feel heard.
  • Extremely easy to use product so building content takes little time, and I can leverage other subject matter experts to build content as well.
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Cons
SAP
  • I think just overall the configuration can be a little bit hard on the backend user, like myself, knowing which screens to go to. Better documentation on how we configure things would be a great resource for employees in the HR field that are making those backend changes.
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Seismic
  • Media import (audio, video) are still in infancy. Reliability of uploaded content isn't 100%.
  • The Events function lacks some features that are more built out in other platforms.
  • Reporting interface has a bit of a learning curve, but overall isn't bad.
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Likelihood to Renew
SAP
It is the product that the Business is fully committed to for co-ordinately HR processes. Employee and Manage Self-Service has allow our business to reduce the overheads in our HR operating mode. The integration with 3rd party products is now in place and further developments will only increase its importance. SuccessFactors provide regular enhancements and has a support model in line with our business requirements.
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Seismic
Worried about its acquisition by Seismic and hope that they don't change the product or the terms drastically.
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Usability
SAP
Generally works as it needs to but there is room for improvement. Notifications are an example where they come from different places whereas they should be centralised and standardised. We would love to have time management and award interpretation in SAP SuccessFactors HCM instead of a third party system however the lack of rostering functionality makes this unusable
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Seismic
It's completely simple and intuitive, anyone can pick it up. The hardest part is looking for a save button and finally figuring out you don't need one. We don't provide training for users and never have complaints. For creators, we provide best practices, but using Lessonly itself requires nothing .
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Reliability and Availability
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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Seismic
No answers on this topic
Performance
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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Seismic
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
SAP
SAP SuccessFactors has been a easy to implement tool with low risks for a sensitive thing like employee feedback. It provides powerful performance in the backend functionalities, and at the same time a great look and feel for the employees. Totally recommended.
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Seismic
The support team is very friendly and eager to help you learn the ins and outs of Lessonly. They can set up training for large groups or send links in a chat for individual help. They are quick to respond and if one person doesn't have the answer, they will collaborate with others to help find the answer.
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In-Person Training
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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Seismic
No answers on this topic
Online Training
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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Seismic
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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Seismic
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
SAP
SAP SuccessFactors is a very user-friendly application, it stacks up very well against competition, such as Oracle PeopleSoft HCM. We selected SAP SuccessFactors because we are already using a lot of other SAP solutions, such as SAP S/4 HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform. It allows us to have single-sign on and one vendor with multiple solutions.
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Seismic
I felt some of these products had more features than were necessary and needed for our team. Some of them were limited on the number of content creators that were allowed which to me forces you to use one or two people to create content where I would rather see it done by key members of each department.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
SAP
Not applicable.
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Seismic
No answers on this topic
Scalability
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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Seismic
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
SAP
Once time we need to change the datacenter and we made this with the professional services from SAP... everything goes just fine. excelent service.
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Seismic
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
SAP
  • It helps better in the tedious task of job posting, it's automated to social handles.
  • Better performance in speed, UI, performance management, skill management, talent onboarding, and finding candidates in the talent pool.
  • Reduces most of the cost in HR operations and future-proof technology with continuous improvement.
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Seismic
  • We've had an increase in quality overall as a company, as we are able to continually train our employees outside of our New Hire Training program.
  • We've seen stronger communication as we are able to send out material to our stylists about products, policies, procedures, etc. and they are able to provide us with feedback. After all, it is their tool for learning and we want to know the best way to provide that information to our Team Members.
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ScreenShots

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Screenshots

Screenshot of how to navigate to all SAP SuccessFactors solution modules and complete tasks using natural language—thanks to Joule, the AI copilot with generative AI.Screenshot of where to acquire future-ready skills by sourcing, engaging, and hiring top talent, as well as save time evaluating candidates and match skills to roles more efficiently with AI-powered applicant screening.Screenshot of some of the metrics that empower HR professionals, analysts, and business partners to answer questions about a workforce, or that influence business decisions with data-driven insights and an evidence-based approach to HR.Screenshot of the mobile interface, which also helps automate processes to improve employee and manager self-service, and strengthen compliance.Screenshot of