SAP SuccessFactors HCM vs. symplr Talent Management Solutions

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)
symplr Talent Management Solutions
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
symplr acquired HealthcareSource in July, 2021. The former HealthcareSource now forms the foundation fo the symplr talent management suite.N/A
Pricing
SAP SuccessFactors HCMsymplr Talent Management Solutions
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP SuccessFactors HCMsymplr Talent Management Solutions
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
SAP SuccessFactors HCMsymplr Talent Management Solutions
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
767 Ratings
1% below category average
symplr Talent Management Solutions
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.3677 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.1690 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.8664 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.8.0629 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting8.1701 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management8.0630 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.7394 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
7.8
435 Ratings
4% below category average
symplr Talent Management Solutions
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.1329 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.4293 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.7292 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.6278 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.8277 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.0354 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.7251 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.2
434 Ratings
0% above category average
symplr Talent Management Solutions
-
Ratings
Approval workflow8.4430 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details8.1366 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment8.0324 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.3
614 Ratings
1% above category average
symplr Talent Management Solutions
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Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.4461 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.7597 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.0398 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition7.8368 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.4573 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
symplr Talent Management Solutions
-
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
599 Ratings
8% below category average
symplr Talent Management Solutions
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Ratings
Report builder7.2573 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.0543 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.7448 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
484 Ratings
0% above category average
symplr Talent Management Solutions
9.2
2 Ratings
23% above category average
New hire portal7.7470 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.7440 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Compliance tracking and reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.4
599 Ratings
4% above category average
symplr Talent Management Solutions
8.1
2 Ratings
11% above category average
Corporate goal setting8.2536 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.3592 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.0480 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking8.0557 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Subordinate goal setting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.2
632 Ratings
4% above category average
symplr Talent Management Solutions
9.0
1 Ratings
28% above category average
Performance plans8.1606 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans8.0518 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Review status tracking8.0572 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Review reminders7.9568 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Multiple review frequency8.1466 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Rater nomination workflow00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Workflow restrictions00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
8.0
430 Ratings
3% above category average
symplr Talent Management Solutions
6.5
2 Ratings
6% below category average
Create succession plans/pools8.1397 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Candidate ranking8.0376 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Candidate search8.0383 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Candidate development8.0362 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
4.2
507 Ratings
59% below category average
symplr Talent Management Solutions
6.8
2 Ratings
6% below category average
Job Requisition Management7.9483 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.8460 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.8400 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.7441 Ratings5.02 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.5411 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.9464 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.9467 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Customized Application Form00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Resume Management00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
Candidate Search00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Email Templates00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
User Permissions00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
-
Ratings
symplr Talent Management Solutions
8.4
1 Ratings
18% above category average
Course authoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Course catalog or library00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Player/Portal00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Learning content00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Mobile friendly00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Assignments00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Compliance management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Learning administration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Social learning00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP SuccessFactors HCMsymplr Talent Management Solutions
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(782 ratings)
6.1
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(53 ratings)
7.3
(5 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(304 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
8.8
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.8
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
5.4
(30 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
4.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.5
(15 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
5.2
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
2.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.9
(419 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.8
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
6.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
5.5
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
4.6
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP SuccessFactors HCMsymplr Talent Management Solutions
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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symplr
If their HRIS system holds all their data - employees, supervisors, positions then HealthcareSource can really take advantage of that data and save you a lot of time. We looked at a lot of systems and one of our needs was both Applicant Tracking and Performance Management and these systems work very well together. Other systems we looked at didn't have all our most needed features - we needed a vendor that could do both, integrate with our HRIS, report back data in a customizable fashion, and be user friendly. Some systems listed the features but during the demo and product reference calls we found they didn't perform as advertised. Some had reporting but the reporting was missing key data or didn't export in a data friendly manner. We have found HealthcareSource to be not only "pretty" - aka user friendly/non-cluttered but also had the engine under the hood as well that met our data analyst needs.
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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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symplr
  • When any company implements a new program they have specific needs that they want customized for them. Healthcare source did a great job providing excellent customer service to our HR and IT professionals working behind the scenes to help us maximize the programs potential at our organization. They did not limit us to any standard uses or prohibit us from reaching our internal goals. Some examples include specialized reports, data uploads of employee data and time frames for our annual reviews.
  • They provided us with training and retraining and more training on using the system. This included training new members of our team when we had turnover in HR and inviting us to conferences and webcasts regularly.
  • The presentation of the software was very appealing and that may seem small but it really helps appeal to the employees that use it for their reviews.
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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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symplr
  • To allow our team members choice, we offer training as either/or. The current system does not record either/or completions
  • To end enrollment of new hires for training at a set date, requires also ending the training of all those not yet completed.
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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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symplr
Looking back we can say that every year we used Performance Manager and other products too like HeathcareSource's Compensation and Position Manager we saw the ease of use for employees and HR staff members increase, we saw employees getting more comfortable with the product and HR Staff getting better at expressing their needs to the HealthcareSource team and this made us want to stay with the same company, when things are getting better each year we know we are in the right place.
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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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symplr
The product is very intuitive to the end users and our online documentation seems sufficient to train our new 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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symplr
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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symplr
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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symplr
On the previous rating scale, I kept thinking "it depends". If I know it's an easy question or easy fix, the response is super fast. If I know I am asking something complex, custom or I just know it's not going to be able to be answered by 1st tier, it can take some time. I have worked on these issues with them (they are all very nice) I do now have avenues for finding things out from one person. We had one issue where we had a major problem and it required a software patch and their support team worked throughout the weekend to create, QA, and deliver the patch as promised. I was very impressed
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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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symplr
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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symplr
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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symplr
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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symplr
Both Health Stream and Healthcare Source have to-do lists, completion lists, and tracking. However, the functionality of Healthcare Source is far superior to HealthStream. The notifications are much better and helpful. The tracking on Healthcare Source is easy to use and see. Overall the interface in Healthcare Source is more intuitive.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
SAP
Not applicable.
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symplr
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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symplr
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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symplr
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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symplr
  • NetLearning has increased our nursing CEU credits with the most efficiency. Now nurses can take courses on NetLearning and have it track their hours.
  • On a compliance standpoint, NetLearning has benefited us when we are being audited and we have to show what trainings or classes an employee has made. Also, to make sure that their certifications are up to date.
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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