SAP SuccessFactors HCM vs. Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
Score 8.2 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
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Kronos Workforce Dimensions, later UKG Dimensions was a solution used to automate critical workforce processes such as timekeeping, scheduling, and leave management. The product has been discontinued, and is no longer available for purchase.N/A
Pricing
SAP SuccessFactors HCMKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP SuccessFactors HCMKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
SAP SuccessFactors HCMKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Considered Both Products
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
We actually use UKG Dimensions as our timekeeping system. We have found the flow of EC data into the timekeeping system relatively easy. In my opinion, I think both systems face challenges with user-friendliness, but I have used UKG products for years and SAP SuccessFactors for …
Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
Not even close.
Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
At City, we currently use SAP on-premise applications for all HCM functionalities, and we have already implemented SF Onboarding, Recruitment, and Employee Central. Since we are long-time customers using all on-premise HCM applications, it's easy for business users to choose …
Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
To open as a question, the selection process was very complex and involved a lot of checks. In the end, SF was a plus for us because we manage a lot of processes on SAP products.
Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
More easy now to work on SAP then Kronos. It took me a while but we did it previously It was difficult for me but as time flies we did it
Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
The connected modules and UI set SAP SuccessFactors apart.
Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
This is in the top 3 systems I have ever worked on.
Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
I used both ADP and UltiPro in previous roles and did not have the full integrated experience that I do with SuccessFactors. I believe SuccessFactors is more powerful from a custom configuration standpoint and is more user friendly.
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
SAP SuccessFactors HCMKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.6
556 Ratings
4% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Employee demographic data8.0491 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history7.9498 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.4477 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.5448 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.8512 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management7.6455 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.0276 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.6
300 Ratings
6% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Pay calculation8.1225 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.1201 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.4194 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.3186 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.8188 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management7.9237 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.6173 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.9
301 Ratings
3% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Approval workflow8.2298 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details7.7254 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment7.7219 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.9
441 Ratings
3% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.0323 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.3425 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation7.6277 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition7.8246 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.1409 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.4
3 Ratings
6% above category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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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
6.5
443 Ratings
16% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Report builder6.8426 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports6.5395 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.3320 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.7
350 Ratings
5% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
New hire portal7.3335 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.2314 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.1
442 Ratings
0% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.6393 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.0438 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility7.7354 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.6410 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.9
466 Ratings
1% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Performance plans7.7447 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.5377 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking7.7417 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders7.7420 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.6339 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.7
318 Ratings
3% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Create succession plans/pools7.7294 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking7.6276 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search7.6282 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development7.7260 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
4.1
369 Ratings
63% below category average
Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
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Ratings
Job Requisition Management7.8349 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.7332 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.5288 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.6319 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.1290 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.7334 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.7338 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
SAP SuccessFactors HCMKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Dayforce Powerpay
Dayforce Powerpay
Score 9.1 out of 10
When I Work
When I Work
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.6 out of 10
Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Infor Human Resources
Infor Human Resources
Score 7.1 out of 10
Playvox
Playvox
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors HCMKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(619 ratings)
7.2
(32 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(40 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(131 ratings)
6.9
(2 ratings)
Availability
9.2
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.2
(29 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.6
(15 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
2.8
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.9
(420 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.7
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.5
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.5
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP SuccessFactors HCMKronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
It is user-friendly and Improves every person's experience, decision, and process. With SAP SuccessFactors solutions, the ease with which our people data flows throughout our organization is superb. This is key to helping us ensure compliance and high data integrity throughout the employee lifecycle, such as recording attendance at a talent review.
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Discontinued Products
UKG Dimensions will work well with a company size of [fewer] than 10,000 employees. Once you hit over 10K, you start to notice that batch jobs will time out, clocks will perform slower or become unresponsive requiring manual restarts and the employee demographic will take hours to complete. Will the vendor has on their roadmap to increase the performance of the product, it is not at that point.
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Pros
SAP
  • It is a comprehensive HRMS tool which helps manage employee related activities more efficiently and effectively
  • Downtime is not too frequent which helps in providing superior employee experience
  • Its UI has gotten better as compared to what it used to be previously
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Discontinued Products
  • rule analysis- the rule analysis in this product is much cleaner and easy to follow compared to WFC
  • The level of granularity on FAPs is very helpful for configuring access compared to other platforms
  • UI is very easy to follow and intuitive
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Cons
SAP
  • I think because this is such a robust and powerful product that it is quite intricate and it is quite sophisticated, so you do have to stop and take time to learn it. I don't think you can go in with any assumptions that it's like anything else you've used. It's quite intricate and involved and complex. So I think sometimes you need to take a step back and be intentional in taking time to learn it properly because in doing that you'll be able to leverage it to its fullest capacity. That's been a lesson we've learned throughout time that we really do have to slow down and take time to learn it as users and as people that support users.
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Discontinued Products
  • You got to have a solution for employees with multiple jobs
  • Need to allow customers to easily access your integration technology
  • Your business structure is too restrictive and making the application far less flexible
  • Your professional service team needs a lot of improvement, especially in the execution part
  • Need to have a proven and working interface for business structure automation.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Discontinued Products
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Usability
SAP
This platform for human capital management is one of the best available in the Industry right now. The workflow for each facilitation offered is well-defined and time-effective. Comprehensive data management for key stakeholders is readily available for effective decision-making. Moreover, the service provider offers easy modifications and good support.
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Discontinued Products
UKG Dimensions is very user-friendly from an employee and supervisor standpoint. It is very robust on an admin level and can get complicated; however, you can do so many things with it that is outweighs the complexity. The security for UKG Dimensions needs to be revamped however. It is very cumbersome and not user-friendly.
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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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Discontinued Products
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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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Discontinued Products
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Support Rating
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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Discontinued Products
  • Kronos Workforce Dimensions a new product, and it has a lot of scope for improvement, with future releases. One of the best tools to perform time tracking.
  • Their support team is very knowledgeable, and their SLA's are pretty tight. Any query raised would be addressed in a few hours.
  • Timeclock configuration can be complicated; however, their support team knows the processes and guidelines.
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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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Discontinued Products
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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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Discontinued Products
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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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Discontinued Products
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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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Discontinued Products
UKG Dimensions provides an enterprise-wide integrated suite for timekeeping, staff scheduling, and clocks. We were an existing Workforce Central customer for timekeeping only and were interested in providing holistic experience between staff scheduling and timekeeping. In addition, [UKG] Dimensions established a great foundation for transitioning our organization from departmental focused scheduling solutions to enterprise.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
SAP
Not applicable.
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Discontinued Products
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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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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
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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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
SAP
  • As far as ROI, I don't know what the investment is in the product, so I can't give you an exact number of profitability, but I can tell you for ease of use, it has been a lot easier to use the product. I think the only thing that I would prefer is instead of having the print screens, I'd prefer having video modules to explain how to use the different aspects of it.
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Discontinued Products
  • It is neutral. We enjoy having somewhat of a seamless system between HR, PR, and timekeeping.
  • When a person uses the Reset Password link, the system sends the user an email with a link to set their password. Then when the person logs in with their new password, the system forces the user to change their password a second time. This second password change is unnecessary and creates confusion.
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ScreenShots

SAP SuccessFactors HCM 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.

Kronos Workforce Dimensions / UKG Dimensions (discontinued) Screenshots

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