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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft SQL Server

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft SQL Server is a relational database.

    $1,418

    Per License

    Workday Financial Management

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AWorkday Financial Management is a cloud-based financial software platform built on an in-memory architecture and an object-oriented data model. The system unifies transaction processing, multidimensional reporting, and consolidation into a single environment accessible via web and mobile interfaces. Financial Operations and Automation The platform employs Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and specialized financial agents to manage core business cycles. These…N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft SQL ServerWorkday Financial Management
    Editions & Modules
    Subscription
    $1,418.00
    Per License
    Enterprise
    $13,748.00
    Per License
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    Microsoft SQL ServerWorkday Financial Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft SQL ServerWorkday Financial Management
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    45 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft SQL ServerWorkday Financial Management
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Microsoft SQL Server and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Microsoft SQL Server
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.1
    23 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings8.423 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.220 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Microsoft SQL Server and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Microsoft SQL Server
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.2
    20 Ratings
    9% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings8.417 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings7.919 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Microsoft SQL Server and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Microsoft SQL Server
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    9.0
    25 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.225 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.823 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Microsoft SQL Server and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Microsoft SQL Server
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.1
    27 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.227 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.924 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.122 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Microsoft SQL Server and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Microsoft SQL Server
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    7.8
    23 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings7.618 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings6.918 Ratings
    Global Financial Support00 Ratings7.519 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings7.419 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings7.716 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings7.719 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings7.920 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Microsoft SQL Server and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Microsoft SQL Server
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings7.711 Ratings
    Automatic reordering00 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    Location management00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Microsoft SQL Server and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    Microsoft SQL Server
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Credit card processing00 Ratings7.311 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft SQL ServerWorkday Financial Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (107 ratings)
    8.4
    (27 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (17 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (26 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft SQL ServerWorkday Financial Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft SQL is ubiquitous, while MySQL runs under the hood all over the place. Microsoft SQL is the platform taught in colleges and certification courses and is the one most likely to be used by businesses because it is backed by Microsoft. Its interface is friendly (well, as pleasant as SQL can be) and has been used by so many for so long that resources are freely available if you encounter any issues.
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    Workday
    Workday is well suited for managing employees throughout their full life cycle. It excels at housing employee data from the start of their time with the company through their departure. Workday is less suited to payroll functions, which could be more robust.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Easy to configure and use with Visual Studio and Dot Net
    • Easy integration with MSBI to perform data analysis
    • Data Security
    • Easy to understand and use
    • Very easy to export database and tables in the form of SQL query or a script
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    Workday
    • The flexibility of going beyond handling the accounts, where we can handle cash, assets, and accounting simultaneously for the customer.
    • The single platform offers grants management where you can organize the lifecycle of the grants and synchronize it with any criteria of grant closing out scheme.
    • I personally liked Project billing with the essence of evaluating project revenue and nice reporting templates that can be shared with the customer at any stage of the project while having the flexibility of auditing the reported cost.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition has a high cost but is the only edition which supports SQL Always On Availability Groups. It would be nice to include this feature in the Standard version.
    • Licensing of Microsoft SQL Server is a quite complex matter, it would be good to simplify licensing in the future. For example, per core vs per user CAL licensing, as well as complex licensing scenarios in the Cloud and on Edge locations.
    • It would be good to include native tools for converting Oracle, DB2, Postgresql and MySQL/MariaDB databases (schema and data) for import into Microsoft SQL Server.
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    Workday
    • Some of the Workday updates last till like 10 in the morning which prevents employees to clock in and check their times and some cases their schedules
    • Workday can work on opening documents quicker instead of taking couple of minutes or notifying the user when they are ready to download
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    We understand that the Microsoft SQL Server will continue to advance, offering the same robust and reliable platform while adding new features that enable us, as a software center, to create a superior product. That provides excellent performance while reducing the hardware requirements and the total cost of ownership of our solution.
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    Workday
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    SQL Server mostly 'just works' or generates error messages to help you sort out the trouble. You can usually count on the product to get the job done and keep an eye on your potential mistakes. Interaction with other Microsoft products makes operating as a Windows user pretty straight forward. Digging through the multitude of dialogs and wizards can be a pain, but the answer is usually there somewhere.
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    Workday
    Workday is easy enough navigate, as long as it is properly set up. With that said, it can be put together in a modular fashion as well, allowing for a very high degree of flexibility in terms of design and process delegation. Finally, it makes consolidation achievable in times previously unthinkable.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    Its does not have outages.
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    SSAS data cubes may some time slow down your Excel reports.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    We managed to handle most of our problems by looking into Microsoft's official documentation that has everything explained and almost every function has an example that illustrates in detail how a particular functionality works. Just like PowerShell has the ability to show you an example of how some cmdlet works, that is the case also here, and in my opinion, it is a very good practice and I like it.
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    Workday
    Our support team has been awesome. They are extremely knowledgeable and have been able to guide us through all of the challenges we have faced. Workday's community online is also extremely helpful with many trainings and help topics that can be reviewed at your convenience.
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    In-Person Training
    Microsoft
    It was good
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    Workday
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    very hands on and detailed training
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    Workday
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Other than SQL taking quite a bit of time to actually install there are no problems with installation. Even on hardware that has good performance SQL can still take close to an hour to install a typical server with management and reporting services.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    [Microsoft] SQL Server has a much better community and professional support and is overall just a more reliable system with Microsoft behind it. I've used MySQL in the past and SQL Server has just become more comfortable for me and is my go to RDBMS.
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    Workday
    Despite Airtable also being easier to use one thing that differentiates and put forth Workday Financial Management tool above is it's key features and better suited functionality for handling confidential data. The other positive note where Workday Financial Management performs high is it key analytics tool that's easier to use and representation of information into insightful dashboards.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    SQL server does handle growing demands of a mid sized company.
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    Workday
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Increased accuracy - We went from multiple users having different versions of an Excel spreadsheet to a single source of truth for our reporting.
    • Increased Efficiency - We can now generate reports at any time from a single source rather than multiple users spending their time collating data and generating reports.
    • Improved Security - Enterprise level security on a dedicated server rather than financial files on multiple laptop hard drives.
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    Workday
    • We were able to combine 4 different HR modules into one system.
    • We reduced data breach incidents by 95% after shifting to Workday. One of our legacy softwares had vulnerabilities.
    • The initial learning curve was higher than projected. We spent about a week to 10 days extra time deploying it, which affected the profit center that year.
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