SAP SuccessFactors vs. Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP SuccessFactors
Score 8.1 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
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform is a solution to educate, engage, and retain everyone a business interacts with. Skilljar is an external LMS that is purpose-built for customer and partner education. It enables the user to build courses, design learning paths, monetize training, and improve the customer experience through actionable analytics. Turn new buyers into successful users: Skilljar’s external LMS helps onboard customers and partners and turn them…N/A
Pricing
SAP SuccessFactorsSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP SuccessFactorsSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
SAP SuccessFactorsSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Considered Both Products
SAP SuccessFactors
Chose SAP SuccessFactors
We actually use both but since we operate very heavily in an SAP ecosystem it makes more sense for us to stick with SAP products due to the heavy investment financially speaking in addition to the fact that the colleagues used to SAP interfaces for the most part by now.
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
SAP SuccessFactorsSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
7.6
422 Ratings
3% below category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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Ratings
Employee demographic data8.1369 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history7.9375 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.4363 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.4342 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.8389 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management7.6343 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.1213 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
8.0
223 Ratings
0% below category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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Ratings
Pay calculation8.2160 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.1137 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.0135 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.2142 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.5139 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.1170 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management8.1122 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
8.4
224 Ratings
4% above category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
-
Ratings
Approval workflow8.5222 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details8.1181 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment8.5154 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
7.9
344 Ratings
3% below category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information7.8244 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information7.8331 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation7.9206 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition8.1186 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.1316 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
8.4
3 Ratings
8% above category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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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
6.3
340 Ratings
19% below category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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Ratings
Report builder6.5325 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports6.3301 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.2244 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
7.7
273 Ratings
4% below category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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Ratings
New hire portal7.2262 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.3239 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
8.2
350 Ratings
0% above category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.8308 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.2346 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility7.9279 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.6323 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
8.1
371 Ratings
2% above category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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Ratings
Performance plans7.8354 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.7299 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking7.9330 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders8.0334 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.8264 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
7.7
249 Ratings
3% below category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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Ratings
Create succession plans/pools7.9228 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking7.7209 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search7.6218 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development7.7198 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
4.0
294 Ratings
64% below category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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Ratings
Job Requisition Management7.6274 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.8260 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.3219 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.6248 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.3223 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.4261 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.6264 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
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Ratings
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
7.5
22 Ratings
0% above category average
Course authoring00 Ratings7.318 Ratings
Course catalog or library00 Ratings8.521 Ratings
Player/Portal00 Ratings8.817 Ratings
Mobile friendly00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings8.522 Ratings
Assignments00 Ratings7.415 Ratings
Compliance management00 Ratings4.613 Ratings
Learning administration00 Ratings9.420 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings7.322 Ratings
Social learning00 Ratings3.811 Ratings
Gamification00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Customer Training Tools
Comparison of Customer Training Tools features of Product A and Product B
SAP SuccessFactors
-
Ratings
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
7.0
1 Ratings
0% above category average
Customer Feedback Collection00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Customer Training Library Curation00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
User Permissioning00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP SuccessFactorsSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(478 ratings)
8.9
(76 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.4
(34 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(16 ratings)
8.7
(53 ratings)
Availability
8.8
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.9
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(25 ratings)
9.0
(54 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.8
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(11 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
7.9
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
5.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.4
(390 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.3
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP SuccessFactorsSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
SAP Success Factors has a robust framework which makes it an absolute platform for scaling and scaled companies, including the ones of larger sizes. Success Factors is contributing to maintain the data quality and automated workflows. SF had almost automated every single HR process which has removed the manual intervention altogether. It's time consuming to implement so if you're loooking for a quick fix or quick results it may not be for you.
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Skilljar
Skilljar is fantastic for structured onboarding processes. If you're
looking to streamline and standardize the onboarding experience for your
customers, especially for software or complex products, this platform
is a gem. It allows you to create step-by-step courses guiding users
through functionalities, reducing confusion and accelerating their
learning curve.When you need versatility in content delivery, Skilljar is spot-on.
Whether it's video tutorials, interactive quizzes, downloadable
resources, or live webinars, the platform accommodates various formats.
It's perfect for accommodating different learning styles and ensuring
engagement.
For scenarios that demand highly complex simulations or immersive
learning experiences, Skilljar's capabilities might fall short. While it
supports interactive elements, extremely sophisticated simulations
might require additional specialized software or platforms.
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Pros
SAP
  • Streamlined access to HR data which can be used for deriving insights using SAP Analytics Cloud
  • End to end and seamless integration with SAP eco system and integration with other Microsoft solutions
  • Great learning experience for employees on SAP SuccessFactors platform
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Skilljar
  • Unlimited courses, learning paths, quizzes, pages, plans, and certifications
  • Ease of use for students, administrators, and content creators
  • Customer Success and Service are top notch. The CSMs are genuinely committed to helping you achieve your metrics and goals
  • Asking for and listening to customer feedback for enhancements
  • Developer Center where people with little to no coding experience can learn how to use and apply HTML templates and code snippets to customize your site
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Cons
SAP
  • The whole software is not user friendly from and admin side.
  • A lot of our problems have stemmed from our implementation partner not having the knowledge and experience we needed.
  • Updates to the system have been made and it’s affected too many entities in our learning module. Settings to previous uploads needed to be changed, the previous settings applied did not work the same, etc. constant updates are needed.
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Skilljar
  • Would love to see parent/child courses so that when something is updated in the parent course that change is automatically reflected in the clones of that course.
  • Features that allow for the translation of content to allow access to content across languages.
  • Re-onboarding process when the usage of Skilljar changes hands within out company in order to address knowledge gaps.
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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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Skilljar
I like what you are using and how we are doing it. Also, changing systems is a lot of work
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Usability
SAP
SSFF is very user friendly and intuitive even for a non tech employee. Also, there´s a complete database and community where we can find solution to common and uncommon issues
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Skilljar
The learning curve for Skilljar is not too steep, and I've renewed our contract twice now. I've been able to add additional administrators and get them up to speed on platform functionality within a day. Plus, Skilljar provides awesome resources to help you learn how to use is. The Help Center has articles for almost everything, and when in doubt, their amazing CSMs (like ours, ...) provide exemplary support/advice.
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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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Skilljar
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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Skilljar
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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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Skilljar
I have opened several support cases in the past and at times felt like little was being done to resolve the issues I was having. For example, when searching the use against a training credit, Skilljar said the code was fully used, yet only 1 had been used. The support team seemed to not have interest in learning why this was happening and ensuring it does not happen again. The issue was resolved with this particular case, but I have no idea if it was the only training credit having this issue. At times I feel like the issues we encounter do not seem as important to the support team
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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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Skilljar
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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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Skilljar
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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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Skilljar
Do a good job of preparing your internal teams (IT, Salesforce, etc.) about the work they will have in the process
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Alternatives Considered
SAP
SAP success factors provided robust talent management, global scalability and strong analytics capabilities. And they provide strong user experience options and there is no limitation on customisation as is the case with Oracle HCM Cloud. It has the specific modules which the organisation desires and has strong existing integration capabilities and with existing systems .
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Skilljar
Skilljar provides stronger customization features, more code snippet options, more styling tools, and more effective integrations. These include Credly, Salesforce, and SCORM. Additionally, the catalog is all part of the same system, making it easy to manage. The analytics tools are also more robust, and the customer service is much more helpful and responsive
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
SAP
I dont be part in te contract
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Skilljar
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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Skilljar
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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Skilljar
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Return on Investment
SAP
  • As my project was using SAP ECC system for ERP, SuccessFactors was well integrated with the overall project as a whole due to its compatibility being a SAP product.
  • As I have have highlighted multiple time, using SAP Analytics Cloud, we built multiple reports with help of the analytics team that presented detailed visualizations of the available HCM data
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Skilljar
  • Our customers seem to be getting onboarded efficiently. Giving our customers a good experience helps us retain them longer.
  • So far, we are still not able to come up with solid metrics that it provides evidence of ROI. If Skilljar could somehow come up with clear, actionable metrics about customer success and how that relates to ROI then I think it would be vastly better. To be fair, we roll the cost of using Skilljar in the overall price, otherwise, we would charge customers and have a revenue stream to measure.
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ScreenShots

SAP SuccessFactors 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.

Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of From the Skilljar Dashboard, all needed tools are accessed through a single interface.Screenshot of The training portal is the URL where published courses will be located, and where trainees can register for, access and complete training.

This URL can be set up as a custom domain using a website, like training.yoursite.com. Or a Skilljar domain can be used, like yoursite.skilljar.com. The look of the training portal can be customized to match a company's brand and colors.Screenshot of Business impact can be measured and learner progress can be tracked, and content success analyzed with the analytics suite and integrationsScreenshot of A variety of content types can be offered with Skilljar’s authoring tools. Multiple learning pathways based on user role, skillset, or use case can be created, as well as native video and audio with embedding from external hostsScreenshot of Built-in assessment & certifications engine enables users to showcase their expertise with our built-in assessment tools and verifiable badges and certificates.