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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASmartRecruiters was acquired by SAP in late 2025, and its functionality will be integrated into SAP SuccessFactors HCM. Check out the Sap SuccessFactors HCM listing for the latest updates.N/A

    Workday Adaptive Planning

    Score7.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Workday Adaptive Planning streamlines planning workflows, using AI and real-time data integration to improve collaboration and provide predictive forecasts for better strategic analysis.N/A
    Pricing
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactorsWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactorsWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsThe software subscription is determined by the number of a company's full time employees. There is a one time cost to set up software, including customizations, integrations, data migration and training.—
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    Community Pulse
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactorsWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
    No answer on this topic
    Workday
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    55 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    56 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    57 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    Features
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactorsWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    8.6
    127 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    -
    Ratings
    Job Requisition Management9.8109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company Website Posting9.9114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.5112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting8.0116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customized Application Form9.7104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resume Management5.6119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.6114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate Search8.1122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking9.9126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration9.6117 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation9.997 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Templates9.7114 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Permissions9.7109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts9.9119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting1.7105 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    8.1
    4 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    8.1
    4 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    7.5
    5 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    7.8
    196 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Long-term financial planning00 Ratings7.8182 Ratings
    Financial budgeting00 Ratings8.6193 Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings8.0188 Ratings
    Scenario modeling00 Ratings7.0177 Ratings
    Management reporting00 Ratings7.7193 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    7.5
    161 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Financial data consolidation00 Ratings8.0121 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports00 Ratings7.782 Ratings
    Multi-currency management00 Ratings7.995 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings7.273 Ratings
    Minority Ownership00 Ratings7.843 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings6.6108 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings7.6134 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    8.1
    184 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings8.3162 Ratings
    Management Reporting00 Ratings8.8177 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings7.4177 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings8.1154 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings7.733 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    7.6
    153 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Personalized dashboards00 Ratings8.0135 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings7.7112 Ratings
    KPIs00 Ratings7.1126 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings6.8127 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.1109 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    7.1
    174 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Flat file integration00 Ratings6.8137 Ratings
    Excel data integration00 Ratings8.2167 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings6.5124 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactorsWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (129 ratings)
    7.3
    (225 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (46 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (12 ratings)
    7.2
    (131 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.2
    (34 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.6
    (27 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (17 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (17 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.1
    (12 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactorsWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    SmartRecruiters has allowed us to enable our hiring managers to self-service their requirements for recruitment, simplifying our internal processes. We have visibility of recruitment requirements and significantly improved our approvals process using the software. We have been able to configure our hiring processes relevant to different areas of the business. Collaboration for our hiring teams (managers and business partners) is simple and effective. Candidate experience is enhanced and engaging. The platform has brought many benefits to our Resourcing business partners and hiring managers. We have visibility and insightful data which has integrity, allowing us to make informed business decisions. Our offer process has seen significant improvements and provides an engaging candidate experience, previously this was a labour-intensive process that is now streamlined and automated. The recently launched Community for collaboration amongst customers is very helpful and insigtful for how other people are using the software and exploring ideas with each other
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    Workday
    It's well suited to any business where you have defined inputs, a layer of structured calculations and a defined output. In other words, any business situation! We use it in a law firm setting where it enables us to import staff plans, assign targets to each individual, thereby generating a revenue forecast linked to business capacity. From there, global assumptions determine staff and direct costs, with the user overlaying discretionary costs to arrive at a final P&L forecast. This is then summarised using the reporting and dashboarding layer to provide outputs to senior leaders for sign off.
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    Pros
    SAP
    • Job Referrals - can easily refer others to a job posting and view the status
    • Job Postings - can easily search for job openings and read job description and criteria
    • Application online - Can easily apply for the job directly and see who the hiring manager and hiring recruiter is
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    Workday
    • It helps create dynamic plans for finances, operations and various functional units in an organization all under one platform
    • It helps in scenario modeling to help analyze various business events and report by any number of business dimensions including channel, customer or product
    • It can be integrated with any system including ERP, BI or CRM
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    Cons
    SAP
    • Settings page can be difficult to navigate & find what you're looking for
    • Job approval chains would be better with additional qualifying fields so that we can segregate different areas of the business better
    • The ability to edit an existing offer template in-system would improve the experience, rather than having to edit offline and upload a whole new version.
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    Workday
    • Budgeting either isn't included or an extra fee.
    • Expense reporting aspects are repetitive and hard to fully optimize.
    • Finance tracking is limited to basic reports with multiple levels or drill-down...hard to fully grasp without exporting data and massaging in something else (like Excel).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    I thoroughly enjoy using SmartRecruiters and have shared this feedback with those responsible, however I am not a decision maker in the process. I understand that at the moment there are lots of factors affecting the economy and business outcomes, so I cannot comment with certainty on the renewal of SmartRecruiters at this time, not involved in the confirmation of renewal.
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    Workday
    For one we're in way too deep to not move forward with Adaptive. We're integrated with Workday, we do a ton of reporting with Adaptive, and it's working very well for planning and forecasting. No reason to look back or change course.
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    Usability
    SAP
    I would give this rating as overall it a great combo of all your problems. With just one click you can get away with all your problems such as recruitment, candidate update, Interview scheduling, updating candidates, reports of a job perspective, and recruiters perspective. Usability is worth of SmartRecruiters. The dashboard is also very attractive and once you open you will love working on this platform again and again. I would say it is the best platform to use once for smooth work in your organization.
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    Workday
    It is an easy transition for Excel users, with more built-in analytical tools and no need to build formulas. It also has built-in reporting and integration with Microsoft Office products such as Excel and PowerPoint. For non-Finance users, there's an initial learning curve to get used to the tool.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    Rarely is there an issue and if the product is down, it typically is restored quickly.
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    Workday
    There haven't been any lately. The only one issue I can think of is when there was an update in Adaptive that altered our reports. Before I realized there was an issue, Adaptive reached out to let me know, so that it could be fixed.
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    Performance
    SAP
    I have no complaints about performance. The system works virtually flawless.
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    Workday
    All aspects of Adaptive Insights perform well. One area that I wish was quicker was integration. When importing data from Intacct our accounting ERP platform, it can sometimes take 4 hours for the import to process. The earlier imports are done, the quicker they complete. My estimate for a quick upload is about two hours.
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    Support Rating
    SAP
    Response is normally very fast. There are times, however, when the response is not useful. It is difficult to work with the reporting and the offer letter templates, and the front line support agents usually are not very knowledgeable. Second, if there are any issues with integrations, the regular support agents will not be able to help you. You'll have to create that ticket and ask them to escalate it to an integration specialist.
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    Workday
    Whenever we have had any questions, issues, or concerns, the support has been quick and thorough. [This] allow[s] us to be able to fully resolve any issues, or be connected with the right group quickly to attain the result we were after; be it from simple formatting to adding new detailed reporting.
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    In-Person Training
    SAP
    Quick and easy to learn.
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    Workday
    This was extremely helpful so that they could walk you through the model and teach you more about the complexity of various areas. It is most helpful when it is specific to your organization's model. The larger in-person trainings were helpful but they tended to be more generic and entry level. The trainings that are more tailored to your specific needs are the most helpful.
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    Online Training
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    They often times tended to be way too generic or entry level. They would also become sales pitches to upgrade or get new Adaptive Planning products. The questions in the training would be very niche and specific to other organizations. They were rarely helpful to the group at large.
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    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    It really was a painless and easy process to switch to SmartRecruiters.
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    Workday
    Trust the expertise of very strong 3rd party implementers. Having deployed Adaptive at a separate company before, I thought I knew it all (hubris, I know). Fortunately, I began to (very quickly) trust the judgment of our Carlson implementation team, and they provided invaluable insights and best-in-class processes that have benefitted me and my team greatly.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    I've really enjoyed using SmartRecruiters, but these other ATSs that we've checked out offer better reporting features and price points. Over time, we may be transitioning off of SmartRecruiters to one of these ATSs because the price is a set price where SmartRecruiters has employee-based pricing model. Also, these other software products offer better reporting features that would eliminate some of our manual tracking process that we're currently doing.
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    Workday
    Workday became our choice because it is fully web-based and easily integrates with other systems. The learning curve for Workday was shorter than that of Dynamics. The reporting tools in Workday are more user-friendly than that of Dynamics. However Workday did not have Check Printing tools which are available in Dynamics. The organization started a project to digitize all financial transactions so it was not a priority feature. When it comes to scaling up the functionalities of Workday it was much easier than Dynamics.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    Good read only seat access
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    Scalability
    SAP
    No explanation really, just a great product.
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    Workday
    We went from 2 users to 70+ users over a 2 year period of time. The application scaled wonderfully. 65 of those users were non-finance users so they were able to quickly learn the software and prepare budgets quickly and efficiently. That is the power of Adaptive and its ability to scale
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    Professional Services
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    This is now available in house at Workday which is convenient.
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    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • In terms of ROI, SR helped our business greatly in returning precious time to my productivity in business management, as well as my team's, so that we could get back to the main work we were hired for. The SR process did most of the heavy lifting.
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    Workday
    • It's facilitated a better financial literacy and management by the non-financial managers in the company, giving them a much better ability to see what they're spending, control it, and plan better in the future.
    • It's hard to quantify the ease of model and version management, but we could never do what we're doing now with our current staff. It would take a small army to replicate anything close to what Adaptive pulls off using Excel, if it's even possible.
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