SAP SuccessFactors HCM vs. Tableau Desktop

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)
Tableau Desktop
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.
$75
per month
Pricing
SAP SuccessFactors HCMTableau Desktop
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Tableau
$75
per month per user
Tableau Enterprise
$115
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP SuccessFactors HCMTableau Desktop
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAll pricing plans are billed annually.
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Community Pulse
SAP SuccessFactors HCMTableau Desktop
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SAP SuccessFactors HCM
Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
SAP SuccessFactors scores over Workday Human Capital Management on multiple features such as application tracking & recruiting, benefits management, learning management, compensation management, performance management, succession management and workforce management, driven by …
Tableau Desktop

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Features
SAP SuccessFactors HCMTableau Desktop
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
726 Ratings
1% below category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.3646 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.0656 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.8627 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.9596 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting8.1665 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management8.0598 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.6368 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.7
413 Ratings
6% below category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.0309 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.4277 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.7274 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.6262 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.8262 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.0335 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.7237 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.1
411 Ratings
1% below category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Approval workflow8.4407 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details8.1346 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment8.0305 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.2
584 Ratings
0% below category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.3435 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.7568 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation7.9375 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition7.8345 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.3543 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.4
3 Ratings
5% above category average
Tableau Desktop
-
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
571 Ratings
8% below category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Report builder7.2546 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.0517 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.7425 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
460 Ratings
0% above category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
New hire portal7.7446 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.6417 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.4
567 Ratings
4% above category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting8.1506 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.2561 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.0455 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking8.0528 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.1
599 Ratings
2% above category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Performance plans8.1575 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.9489 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking8.0543 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders7.9538 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency8.0441 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
406 Ratings
3% above category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools8.1375 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking7.9355 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search7.9362 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development7.9340 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
4.1
478 Ratings
61% below category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management7.8454 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.7432 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.8376 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.7416 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.4386 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.8438 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.9441 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
8.4
175 Ratings
3% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.1145 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.1174 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.1151 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
8.3
172 Ratings
3% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.5167 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.4170 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.0126 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.5165 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
8.3
166 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.0155 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.0154 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.3120 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.6128 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.678 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
8.3
164 Ratings
4% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.5162 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.5156 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.6131 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
8.9
149 Ratings
4% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.0145 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.8125 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.7136 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.183 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
7.9
141 Ratings
2% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.7130 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.3101 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.5122 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
7.9
67 Ratings
2% above category average
REST API00 Ratings8.259 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings7.953 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings7.251 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings8.548 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.754 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.248 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors HCMTableau Desktop
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(709 ratings)
8.4
(203 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(43 ratings)
7.5
(41 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(235 ratings)
8.0
(72 ratings)
Availability
8.8
(7 ratings)
10.0
(11 ratings)
Performance
7.8
(7 ratings)
8.0
(10 ratings)
Support Rating
5.5
(30 ratings)
1.0
(57 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
9.4
(4 ratings)
Online Training
4.8
(5 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.5
(15 ratings)
8.0
(34 ratings)
Configurability
5.3
(7 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
2.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.9
(419 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.9
(7 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Professional Services
6.2
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
5.6
(6 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
4.7
(6 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP SuccessFactors HCMTableau Desktop
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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Tableau
The best scenario is definitely to collect data from several sources and create dedicated dashboards for specific recipients. However, I miss the possibility of explaining these reports in more detail. Sometimes, we order a report, and after half a year, we don't remember the meaning of some data (I know it's our fault as an organization, but the tool could force better practices).
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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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Tableau
  • An excellent tool for data visualization, it presents information in an appealing visual format—an exceptional platform for storing and analyzing data in any size organization.
  • Through interactive parameters, it enables real-time interaction with the user and is easy to learn and get support from the community.
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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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Tableau
  • Pricing should be more user-friendly and usage-driven
  • Making edits to the production reports is fairly tough and has a vast scope of additional capabilities
  • Tableau Desktop should be able to differentiate itself from the Tableau server else there is no major meaning of two different products being offered
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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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Tableau
Our use of Tableau Desktop is still fairly low, and will continue over time. The only real concern is around cost of the licenses, and I have mentioned this to Tableau and fully expect the development of more sensible models for our industry. This will remove any impediment to expansion of our use.
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Usability
SAP
1. User training is required to be acquainted with the technology, but better output is achieved while automating most tasks. 2. Data-driven decision making in terms of performance, hiring, review, and compensation. 3. Better scale-based talent search from the talent pool. 4. better integration performance with SAP products like SAP MM, SAP FICO, SAP Sales, SAP SD, etc.
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Tableau
Tableau Desktop has proven to be a lifesaver in many situations. Once we've completed the initial setup, it's simple to use. It has all of the features we need to quickly and efficiently synthesize our data. Tableau Desktop has advanced capabilities to improve our company's data structure and enable self-service for our employees.
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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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Tableau
When used as a stand-alone tool, Tableau Desktop has unlimited uptime, which is always nice. When used in conjunction with Tableau Server, this tool has as much uptime as your server admins are willing to give it. All in all, I've never had an issue with Tableau's availability.
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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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Tableau
Tableau Desktop's performance is solid. You can really dig into a large dataset in the form of a spreadsheet, and it exhibits similarly good performance when accessing a moderately sized Oracle database. I noticed that with Tableau Desktop 9.3, the performance using a spreadsheet started to slow around 75K rows by about 60 columns. This was easily remedied by creating an extract and pushing it to Tableau Server, where performance went to lightning fast
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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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Tableau
Tableau support has been extremely responsive and willing to help with all of our requests. They have assisted with creating advanced analysis and many different types of custom icons, data formatting, formulas, and actions embedded into graphs. Tableau offers a weekly presentation of features and assists with internal company projects.
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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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Tableau
It is admittedly hard to train a group of people with disparate levels of ability coming in, but the software is so easy to use that this is not a huge problem; anyone who can follow simple instructions can catch up pretty quickly.
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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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Tableau
I think the training was good overall, but it was maybe stating the obvious things that a tech savvy young engineer would be able to pick up themselves too. However, the example work books were good and Tableau web community has helped me with many problems
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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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Tableau
Again, training is the key and the company provides a lot of example videos that will help users discover use cases that will greatly assist their creation of original visualizations. As with any new software tool, productivity will decline for a period. In the case of Tableau, the decline period is short and the later gains are well worth it.
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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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Tableau
I have used Power BI as well, the pricing is better, and also training costs or certifications are not that high. Since there is python integration in Power BI where I can use data cleaning and visualizing libraries and also some machine learning models. I can import my python scripts and create a visualization on processed data.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
SAP
Not applicable.
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Tableau
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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Tableau
Tableau Desktop's scaleability is really limited to the scale of your back-end data systems. If you want to pull down an extract and work quickly in-memory, in my application it scaled to a few tens of millions of rows using the in-memory engine. But it's really only limited by your back-end data store if you have or are willing to invest in an optimized SQL store or purpose-built query engine like Veritca or Netezza or something similar.
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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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Tableau
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
SAP
  • We can clearly outline our objectives, targets, and methods to accomplish the same, grades and reviews, and overall progress.
  • Helps identify areas of strengths and weaknesses, constructive criticism.
  • Increases motivation and confidence, which is then reflected in our daily work routine.
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Tableau
  • Tableau was acquired years ago, and has provided good value with the content created.
  • Ongoing maintenance costs for the platform, both to maintain desktop and server licensing has made the continuing value questionable when compared to other offerings in the marketplace.
  • Users have largely been satisfied with the content, but not with the overall performance. This is due to a combination of factors including the performance of the Tableau engines as well as development deficiencies.
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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