SAP SuccessFactors HCM vs. UKG Ready

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)
UKG Ready
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The UKG Ready® software suite is a centralized HCM solution designed for small to mid-sized businesses. It automates and streamlines HR, payroll, benefits, time, talent, and scheduling processes. UKG Ready's suite of tools offer actionable insights while helping to ensure compliance. Using AI, it draws on work, people, and culture data to boost efficiency and productivity. For example, UKG Ready streamlines core HR functions by centralizing…N/A
Pricing
SAP SuccessFactors HCMUKG Ready
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP SuccessFactors HCMUKG Ready
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
SAP SuccessFactors HCMUKG Ready
Considered Both Products
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
SAP SuccessFactors has a much better user experience than UKG. UKG Is harder to use, more complicated, and less visually appealing. Self-service was difficult, if not impossible for some users with UKG while SAP tends to be fairly easy for most users, though the populations I …
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 …
UKG Ready
Chose UKG Ready
Based on previous experiences with the other software that we have used and the customer service that we received with that software, we selected UKG Ready (formerly Kronos Workforce Ready). Because it is known as an industry leader in timekeeping, and due to positive customer …
Chose UKG Ready
We selected UKG Ready (formerly Kronos Workforce Ready) over SuccessFactors for the way it would function for our company. Although I still think our current solution will do that, there are some things that we have not been able to utilize even though we were told we purchased …
Features
SAP SuccessFactors HCMUKG Ready
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
780 Ratings
1% below category average
UKG Ready
8.4
247 Ratings
4% above category average
Employee demographic data8.3691 Ratings8.9217 Ratings
Employment history8.1704 Ratings8.4211 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.9677 Ratings8.3211 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.8.0640 Ratings8.3197 Ratings
Organizational charting8.1714 Ratings8.0161 Ratings
Organization and location management8.1643 Ratings8.3186 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.8403 Ratings8.8159 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.8
448 Ratings
4% below category average
UKG Ready
8.5
240 Ratings
4% above category average
Pay calculation8.1340 Ratings8.6222 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.4302 Ratings8.1135 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.7302 Ratings8.0116 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.6287 Ratings8.5176 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.8286 Ratings8.7182 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.0365 Ratings8.8166 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.8261 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.2
445 Ratings
1% above category average
UKG Ready
8.0
216 Ratings
2% below category average
Approval workflow8.5441 Ratings7.6198 Ratings
Balance details8.1376 Ratings7.6206 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment8.0334 Ratings8.9177 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.3
626 Ratings
1% above category average
UKG Ready
8.2
229 Ratings
0% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information8.4473 Ratings8.1209 Ratings
Update personal information8.7609 Ratings8.4216 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.0410 Ratings7.9177 Ratings
Employee recognition7.8380 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.4585 Ratings8.5185 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
UKG Ready
8.9
88 Ratings
11% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets8.43 Ratings8.988 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.0
612 Ratings
7% below category average
UKG Ready
8.2
232 Ratings
9% above category average
Report builder7.3585 Ratings8.0225 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.0555 Ratings8.5225 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.7461 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
496 Ratings
0% above category average
UKG Ready
7.8
161 Ratings
2% below category average
New hire portal7.8482 Ratings8.0159 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.7451 Ratings7.7131 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.4
611 Ratings
4% above category average
UKG Ready
7.0
99 Ratings
14% below category average
Corporate goal setting8.2548 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.3604 Ratings7.091 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.0492 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking8.0569 Ratings7.098 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.2
644 Ratings
4% above category average
UKG Ready
7.5
125 Ratings
5% below category average
Performance plans8.2619 Ratings6.7113 Ratings
Performance improvement plans8.0531 Ratings6.7103 Ratings
Review status tracking8.1585 Ratings8.3112 Ratings
Review reminders8.0580 Ratings8.4116 Ratings
Multiple review frequency8.1479 Ratings7.1101 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
443 Ratings
3% above category average
UKG Ready
6.7
51 Ratings
15% below category average
Create succession plans/pools8.1409 Ratings5.743 Ratings
Candidate ranking8.0388 Ratings6.624 Ratings
Candidate search8.0396 Ratings7.230 Ratings
Candidate development8.0374 Ratings7.125 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
4.2
518 Ratings
58% below category average
UKG Ready
7.5
131 Ratings
2% below category average
Job Requisition Management7.9493 Ratings7.5111 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.8471 Ratings7.8107 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.8410 Ratings7.283 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.7452 Ratings7.589 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.5422 Ratings7.384 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.8475 Ratings7.8112 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.9479 Ratings7.2120 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors HCMUKG Ready
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(769 ratings)
8.3
(259 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(53 ratings)
7.9
(19 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(292 ratings)
8.6
(138 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(7 ratings)
5.2
(4 ratings)
Performance
7.6
(7 ratings)
5.0
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
5.1
(30 ratings)
5.1
(75 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
Online Training
4.4
(5 ratings)
6.0
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.5
(15 ratings)
5.0
(11 ratings)
Configurability
4.7
(7 ratings)
5.1
(5 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
3.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.8
(420 ratings)
6.3
(111 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.7
(7 ratings)
3.2
(4 ratings)
Professional Services
5.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
5.0
(6 ratings)
5.1
(4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
4.1
(6 ratings)
5.1
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP SuccessFactors HCMUKG Ready
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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UKG
I might recommend UKG to a larger organization than ours. The complexity is rich, but perhaps it is too powerful a tool for what we need. That or it's a bit messy in its construction, having so many tools available but difficult to find or not working appropriately. UKG Ready processes payroll efficiently and with ease, but unless you are using a simple accounting platform it may not be able to easily integrate with yours
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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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UKG
  • Support—UKG support, from the Account Managers to CSMs to Ready Support, is amazing. They are always willing to help!
  • Documentation—UKG has built-in online documentation, which is a live, easy-to-use version of a very lengthy manual.
  • Ease of use- the system is intuitive, easy to train others to use.
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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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UKG
  • We have had ongoing issues with our accruals.
  • Auto generate timesheets in the "Team Timesheets" view.
  • Granting manager access is cumbersome - access needs to be given in multiple places.
  • The sync between Pro and Ready in my opinion is terrible and needs much improvement.
  • Auto assign Employee Time Zones based on work location.
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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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UKG
We plan to renew our support and use of UKG Ready each year unless it becomes unavailable or the district seeks another vendor. As of now, there are no plans to changes vendors. The district staff is now familiar with using UKG. Another vendor will need to meet the same expectations we have come to enjoy with using UKG
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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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UKG
UKG is the platform with the best overall usability on both an admin and user side. Employees find it easy to update personal information, the dashboards are clear and easy to follow, and the navigation of it is also easy to follow. Overall my favorite platform to use and learn more about.
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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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UKG
The system seems very stable. Being hosted in the cloud, we are vulnerable to internet speeds and busy times. The system has been down a couple times over the 3 months we have been live, but Kronos resolved the issues very quickly. To have access from a desktop, tablet, time clock, or phone app is one of the best features....users have almost NO REASON they can't clock in.
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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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UKG
We were always told that Kronos was the best, but there are reports that we got out of ADP and other payroll providers that we cannot get out of Kronos. One example is a report of Productive/Non-productive hours by department. We also need the dollar amount associated with the hours. This is information that is required on our cost report and we were told that that report is unavailable. It is very frustrating when I can't get what I need.
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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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UKG
If I was only rating support itself that would be a 10. Every support case I have entered has been addressed efficiently and with the desired result. On the implementation and transition to support there were multiple issues that those doing the implementation or transition could not answer or workflows and various settings left undone only to be discovered later. We implemented 3 different modules and the expertise we got for each one varied widely.
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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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UKG
Our in-person training was a hybrid. Live online training with an instructor. They were very knowledgeable of the product & the area they were training on. I asked several specific questions and if they didn't know the answer immediately they followed up after class.
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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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UKG
Pretty good online training, you have many how to options and can watch them several times. It can be hard at times to dig through the amount of data online but can usually find what you are looking for. Also you can download documentation for setting up the profiles and policies.
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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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UKG
Make sure the people who are doing the build have extensive knowledge on employment law and asking the right questions. I would bet that the people who helped with our builds did not read any of our employment contracts or ordinances; and when I asked questions about how other companies handled certain basic dictates from federal employment laws, they didn't have any idea what FMLA, FLSA, etc were.
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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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UKG
We currently use Paycom and are extremely dissatisfied with the lack of functionality and poor customer service. Rippling and ADP were other vendors we evaluated who performed well and offer a lot of functionality but we decided UKG was the best fit for our needs now and to scale with our strategic growth plans.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
SAP
Not applicable.
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UKG
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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UKG
Thus far we are able to add as many users as necessary, implement 3 different bargaining units, 5 different types of user groups. Very flexible.
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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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UKG
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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UKG
  • This is basic, but we finally know how many employees we have! It sounds ridiculous, but prior to UKG Ready we were on a payroll system that's reports were only as accurate as the last payroll cycle, so they were always 2 weeks behind and static. UKG Ready allows for realtime, daily reporting of information.
  • We are able to get salary data for our various locations to be able to compare them to each other, as well as across our "competitors" and external competition.
  • The data provided allows us to be able to understand the trends at individual locations including attrition, advancement, raise information, and other data points that we haven't historically done comparisons on
  • We can see the demographic and geographical information for our employees and the benefits that they elect
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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

UKG Ready Screenshots

Screenshot of the employee mobile interface.Screenshot of trust index survey results.Screenshot of the manager dashboard.Screenshot of payroll analytics.