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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP SuccessFactors HCM

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASAP 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)

    SumTotal (legacy)

    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    The SumTotal Talent Expansion Suite included SumTotal (LMS), and was supported by Skillsoft since the October 2014 acquisition. Acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand in 2022, it is a legacy product, and Cornerstone recommends upgrading to their modern platform.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP SuccessFactors HCMSumTotal (legacy)
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    SAP SuccessFactors HCMSumTotal (legacy)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SAP SuccessFactors HCMSumTotal (legacy)
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
    Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    As a services provider, we are an exclusive SAP SuccessFactors implementer. Formerly we have either implemented or supported customers who have used the other products. Our organization uses Oracle for our ERP and it is terrible as a user.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    With SAP SuccessFactors having a full suite capability has made it easy for my organization to select them as our HR System.
    Incentivized
    Discontinued Products
    Chose SumTotal (legacy)
    In our case SumTotal platform seemed to be more complete and robust to provide the right features for managing complex ILT plans and blended programs, which was an important thing for us. It was also very easy to deploy mobile and to increase learning options for all users, …
    Incentivized
    Chose SumTotal (legacy)
    SumTotal Talent Development is a very competitive product. In my opinion SumTotal Talent Development is better than Freshteams, Darwinbox, but not as good as Skillate, SAP SuccessFactors. SAP SuccessFactors is enterprise grade and used only by large organizations and has too …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    862 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    644 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    848 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    381 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    487 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    SAP SuccessFactors HCMSumTotal (legacy)
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    8.1
    861 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Employee demographic data8.2763 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employment history8.1776 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration7.9744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.8.1702 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organizational charting8.1785 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organization and location management8.1709 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.8441 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    7.7
    497 Ratings
    6% below category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation7.9383 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors7.3330 Ratings00 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.5336 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration7.6318 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct deposit files7.8311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management7.9404 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reimbursement management7.5291 Ratings00 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    8.3
    498 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Approval workflow8.5494 Ratings00 Ratings
    Balance details8.2425 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment8.1380 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    8.4
    688 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    View and generate pay and benefit information8.5524 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update personal information8.7670 Ratings00 Ratings
    View company policy documentation8.1456 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee recognition7.8421 Ratings00 Ratings
    View job history8.5644 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Tracking of all physical assets8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    7.0
    669 Ratings
    8% below category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Report builder7.3639 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-built reports7.0607 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data6.8503 Ratings00 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    8.0
    541 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    12% above category average
    New hire portal7.7527 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools7.5495 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    8.3
    667 Ratings
    3% above category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Corporate goal setting8.1600 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Individual goal setting8.1660 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility7.9541 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Performance tracking7.9621 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    8.2
    699 Ratings
    3% above category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Performance plans8.2674 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans8.0578 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Review status tracking8.0638 Ratings7.92 Ratings
    Review reminders7.9630 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency8.1524 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    8.0
    489 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools8.0452 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Candidate ranking8.1426 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate search7.8433 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Candidate development7.9411 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    7.7
    564 Ratings
    3% below category average
    SumTotal (legacy)
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Job Requisition Management7.8535 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Company Website Posting7.8508 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.7444 Ratings7.92 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting7.7489 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.6456 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking7.7514 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.9519 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of SAP SuccessFactors HCM and SumTotal (legacy)
    Feature
    SAP SuccessFactors HCM
    -
    Ratings
    SumTotal (legacy)
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Course authoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Course catalog or library00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Player/Portal00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Assignments00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Compliance management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Learning administration00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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    UZIO
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    Zoho People
    Score8.6 out of 10
    ClearCo
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PeopleStrong
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAP SuccessFactors HCMSumTotal (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (894 ratings)
    7.5
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (59 ratings)
    6.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (414 ratings)
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.1
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.5
    (29 ratings)
    3.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    3.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.7
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    3.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.8
    (420 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    4.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    2.1
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    4.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP SuccessFactors HCMSumTotal (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    I recommend SAP SuccessFactors HCM to businesses seeking a functional HR solution. It combines various functionalities, including Payroll, workforce planning, talent management, recruitment, and more. It ensures smooth HR processes and, in the same spirit, proper employee engagement. Most businesses would benefit from this tool.
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    Very good for learning and development and training of employees. For Applicant tracking, recuirement, onboarding, and enablement, I prefer SAP SuccessFactors or Skillate. I also found that the SumTotal app is not very friendly on android and crashes sometimes and it is not optimized for mobile. Hence I end up never using it.
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    Pros
    SAP
    • It's a well integrated tool and the synchronization between the modules is seamless.
    • We have a good experience with the onboarding.
    • We have a good experience with employee cycle management.
    • There is no match for the SAP payroll system. It takes care of all the legislation, it takes care of all the payroll related activities. So altogether it's a very good tool to work with.
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    • Assign complete learning plans to users so they don't have to spend time searching for courses.
    • Export learner's transcripts so managers can easily see their employee's progress.
    • Embed Social Media feeds that are relevant to their business.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Reporting
    • Mass importing of manual checks to be issued in California
    • Ability to fund pay cards immediately
    • Perform gross-up calculations within the payroll system automatically
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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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    I have transitioned from a position who supported the product to a position where I use the product. I continue to be impressed with the robustness of the product and how efficient it is. It is a user friendly software that can be used to navigate and accomplish tasks to meet organizational requirements.
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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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    I do not find SumTotal to be intuitive. I feel we need to adjust our needs to meet the functionality available in the tool.
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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
    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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    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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    Discontinued Products
    We have our own IT support to assist in SumTotal issues, however, we have had to log in cases directly. Support is mediocre at best.
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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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    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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    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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    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
    When I came to my company, they had been using a "light" LMS called Articulate. It was cheap and bare bones; i.e. not a lot of features, really just a platform to launch eLearning from and not real interface for student to utilize. When I began to overhaul the training department, this was one of the first things I changed. Articulate would only run courses built in their software, and the software was not 508 compliant. In addition, we had no ability to create learning plans, house transcripts, customize the interface, or manage the students. I made the choice to select and LMS that was a true LMS with all of the features that were critical to our clients' needs. Thus far, SumTotal has been able to support all of our needs, except one; mobile learning that is media rich
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    SAP
    Not applicable.
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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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    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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    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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    Discontinued Products
    • Clean front-end user interface for easier course catalog management.
    • Reporting has been more difficult than previous LMS.
    • Audience building has more variables making it more difficult to manage.
    • Slower overall client turnaround due to admin side interface.
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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.Product screenshot

    SumTotal (legacy) Screenshots

    Screenshot of SumTotal Learning Management: Deliver the learning your organization needs including skilling/upskilling/reskilling, career planning & development. All delivered with our engaging learner experience across all modalities (desktop, tablet & mobile) and in the flow of workScreenshot of SumTotal Onboarding: Foster learning before day one with our robust onboarding solution. Build culture, complete necessary paperwork and begin the path to productivity for all your new and returning employees.Screenshot of SumTotal Performance: Performance management that meets the needs of today’s forward-thinking organizations. Align the goals and performance of your entire workforce with those of the broader organization for better business outcomes.Screenshot of SumTotal Succession: Make succession planning an organizational strength. SumTotal allows you to better understand your workforce now and better plan for your future with our intuitive succession planning tools.Screenshot of SumTotal Recruiting: A modern recruiting solution that delivers a powerful candidate experience, recruiter productivity, job matching and internal mobility.Screenshot of SumTotal Compensation: SumTotal makes compensation planning easier and less time consuming. Build a pay for performance culture that meets your organizations goals and objectives while keeping you competitive in the ever-changing marketplace.