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Epicor HCM (discontinued)

Epicor HCM (discontinued)

Overview

What is Epicor HCM (discontinued)?

Epicor HCM supplied human resource management system (HRMS) capabilities, but Epicor has stopped offering this functionality and company's HR applications are no longer available.

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Recent Reviews

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The software has proven to be valuable for a wide range of use cases. Users have been able to mark employee records as confidential, …
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Epicor HCM: Avoid at all costs.

1 out of 10
September 30, 2015
Current HCM set-up as of July 2015.

We are utilizing the Performance, Position Control, and Recruitment modules. We are also "live" with …
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Epicor HCM 5.6

6 out of 10
April 08, 2015
We are using multiple modules of Epicor HCM: core HRIS, timesheets, performance, benefits, applicant tracking. The system is used by the …
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Popular Features

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  • Employee demographic data (9)
    10.0
    100%
  • Employment history (9)
    10.0
    100%
  • Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc. (9)
    10.0
    100%
  • Report builder (9)
    8.0
    80%
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What is Epicor HCM (discontinued)?

Epicor HCM supplied human resource management system (HRMS) capabilities, but Epicor has stopped offering this functionality and company's HR applications are no longer available.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Human Resource Management

Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.

10
Avg 7.8

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

10
Avg 8.0

Leave and Attendance Management

Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.

9
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

9.8
Avg 8.1

Asset Management

Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.

10
Avg 7.7

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

7
Avg 7.6

Onboarding

Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.

10
Avg 8.0

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

10
Avg 8.1

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

9.2
Avg 7.9

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

10
Avg 7.9

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

10
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Epicor HCM (discontinued)?

Epicor HCM supplied human resource management system (HRMS) capabilities, but Epicor has stopped offering this functionality and company's HR applications are no longer available.

Epicor HCM (discontinued) Competitors

Epicor HCM (discontinued) Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

Epicor HCM supplied human resource management system (HRMS) capabilities, but Epicor has stopped offering this functionality and company's HR applications are no longer available.

Sage People are common alternatives for Epicor HCM (discontinued).

Reviewers rate Employee demographic data and Employment history and Job profiles and administration highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Epicor HCM (discontinued) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

The software has proven to be valuable for a wide range of use cases. Users have been able to mark employee records as confidential, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access them. This feature has provided an added layer of security and privacy to sensitive employee information. Additionally, the FMLA tracking feature has allowed users to eliminate the need for spreadsheets and effectively manage leave of absence information within the system. This streamlining of processes has saved time and improved accuracy in tracking employee absences.

Integration with payroll and benefit provider exports has been another key use case of the software. Users have found this feature to be highly beneficial as it simplifies the management of employee data, ensuring consistency and accuracy across various systems. The software's compatibility with other systems such as ADP payroll, Concur Expense, BI, and Windows Active Directory has further enhanced its usefulness in maintaining consistent personnel data.

The software's self-service capabilities have also been widely utilized. Candidates have been able to easily apply for open positions and review their applications through the candidate self-service portal. Manufacturing floor employees have had access to view and interact with their HR-related information through the employee self-service interface. This has empowered employees to take control of their personal information, making changes as necessary and accessing relevant HR resources at their convenience.

Users have praised the software for providing a single integrated system with single sign-on functionality, resulting in an improved end-user experience and eliminating redundancies in maintaining HR data. The centralization of personnel and pay records within the system has served as a significant benefit, facilitating external payouts and ensuring accurate record-keeping.

Managers have also found value in the software's reporting capabilities. They have been able to easily view their employees' information and run various reports, aiding in decision-making processes and monitoring team performance. Additionally, managers have used the software for approving time-off requests and making changes to employees' data, streamlining administrative tasks.

While there are many positive experiences with the software, some users have encountered challenges. The integrity of information and complex report building have been cited as areas for improvement. Additionally, a few users have found the user interface to be in need of changes, which has occasionally led to potential data integrity issues. Despite these challenges, the software's overall efficiency in managing personnel information and actions has proven to be valuable, offering benefits that traditional paper processes cannot match.

Overall, the software's key use cases encompass a wide range of HR functions including core HRIS, performance management, benefits administration, applicant tracking, and self-service capabilities. From organizing and retrieving HR demographic data to tracking time off, generating reports, and managing employee and manager self-service, the software has been utilized organization-wide for various HR processes.

In addition to its extensive HR functionality, the software has seamlessly integrated with other systems such as ADP Payroll, medical insurance, and office space software/visual employee directory. This integration has ensured consistent personnel data across multiple platforms, eliminating discrepancies and improving efficiency.

Users have commended the software for enabling an efficient employee experience through real-time access and self-service capabilities. Employees have been able to view their own records, make changes to personal information, access performance reviews, and even apply for internal positions through the software. This self-service aspect has empowered employees to take control of their HR-related tasks and provided them with a sense of ownership over their information.

Managers have benefited from the software's reporting features, which have allowed them to generate various reports related to their employees. They can also approve time-off requests directly through the system, eliminating manual paperwork and streamlining processes. Making changes to employees' data has become easier and more efficient within the software as well.

The HR department often serves as the administrator of the system, utilizing it for performance management, applicant tracking, reporting, and leave of absence tracking. The software has served as a central hub for capturing accurate employee data and interfacing with the payroll system.

Other departments within organizations have also found value in limited access to the system for specific data maintenance purposes. This restricted access allows different departments to maintain relevant information while ensuring data consistency throughout the organization.

While there have been some challenges reported by users regarding data integrity issues and complex report building, the overall benefits of using this software have outweighed these concerns. The ability to streamline processes, improve efficiency in managing personnel information, provide self-service capabilities to employees, integrate with other systems seamlessly, and offer extensive HR functionality make this software a valuable tool for organizations of all sizes.

In conclusion, the software's key use cases encompass various HR processes, self-service capabilities, integration with other systems, and reporting features. Despite some challenges reported by users, the software has proven to be a valuable solution for managing HR operations effectively and efficiently.

Based on user feedback, the following recommendations have been made:

  1. Users recommend conducting a 3-month trial before making a decision. This allows for a thorough evaluation of the software's suitability for HR needs.

  2. Users suggest customizing the product to maximize its capabilities. By tailoring it to specific HR requirements, users believe they can enhance its effectiveness and efficiency.

  3. Users who already use other Epicor products recommend implementing this software. They believe integrating multiple Epicor solutions can provide a seamless experience and streamline overall HR operations.

Some users mention that minor lagging may occur during peak usage times but suggest closing unnecessary programs to address this issue. Overall, users find the software excellent from an employee standpoint, supporting various HR functions effectively.

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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allows our users to set and manage personal & career goals, and track their progress.
  • It improves efficiencies, productivity, and overall satisfaction of our employees, which ultimately drives better quality work.
  • This tool helped improve our ROI by utilizing best-practice programs to identify and match qualified talent with the company's ultimate goals.
  • Their support team can be challenging with delayed response time.
  • The front-end user presentation could use some updates; The visuals seem old and outdated.
  • The reporting doesn't cover some of the OOB requirements, so most of the time, the team members will need to be pulled in and develop custom queries to fit our needs.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Lots of room for configuration
  • The system is flexible and can be configured as needed
  • Have nice reporting capability
  • Epicor customer support is absolutely terrible. Unable to respect their committed delivery date.
  • The overall interface is very dated and not intuitive.
  • Alerts are limited
Joseph Moeller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The database relational structure and schema. Spending several years as a database engineer, I appreciate the normalized design of the underlying database structure. I feel that when compared with many other information systems, Epicor HCM is a model that I frequently reference to other people as an example of a "properly built" database schema.
  • The out of the box customization tools. Although they do not always work as well as intended, HCM is a product that understands that every business runs a little differently. The ability to rename fields and manipulate variables using tasks in the front-end interface does allow for some easier tailoring of the out of the box processes to terms that our business users were familiar with (resource editor, global variable editor). The task editor also provides good promise to be a tool to customize the interface to see what you want to see on the form. However, this is somewhat limited in potential and is subject to frequent bugs as of 5.8. Customization of menu items and menu tabs on the main menu is possible, which is a perk, but can be a bit confusing when compared to other systems. Some bugs required manipulation through the database in order to get them to fall into place properly.
  • The ease of use. Once properly oriented with the product, adept computer users should have no problem navigating through the main page and flowing through the steps to complete maintenance on records or enter personnel actions, etc.
  • Configurability. Because of the database structure, code tables and data tables allowed us to enter data that matches our business model and properly maintain the personnel information in the way we found suited us best.
  • Limitations of ad hoc query potential. The visual builder should have an option to "go advanced" and allow more complex queries to be written. The SQL-entry does not allow more than basic subqueries and joins. Compound queries, which are used by salary grade information, are not supported through this interface. All reports are run through SSRS, which is fine to be embedded on the screen, but I felt that the transition from query information from user's superview to some viewable information has some room for improvement.
  • End-user experience with record manipulation user interface flow / structure. I understand what developers were going from with the one screen record selection on the left navigation panel with record data on the right side. This sounds good in theory and works well with technically-savvy users. However, I found that with less technically oriented users, the visual flow of this was not as intuitive and accepted by the users (including candidates of the company), frequently making mistakes and being unable to complete required tasks. Because this interface is prevalent throughout the system, I would recommend focus-group testing redesigned versions of the interface with general information to see which redesign potential, or even just visual styling to the existing interface, could be cascaded through the software.
  • Out of the box reporting and configuration. This is something that is difficult to nail down in a software because every customer is different and will use the system a bit differently. However, I felt that the standard product comes with tons of reports enabled on the menu, but most are of little value if not first edited. This needs to be done by exporting, manipulating using report developer tools, and re-imported. This is not unexpected, but I think that it would add value for HCM to provide a tool which assists in the configuration of the reports.
  • Security flaws or limitations of functionality. In an organization where some HR users should have access to see some or most users' information, there is not this security also embedded on important features like "routing history" or "audit" tasks. For example, if the enterprise president receives a bonus, an HR manager who must field weekly audits in a branch location will have access to see that bonus if they are granted access to the routing history or audit tasks.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Good, solid HCM system
  • Easy to use and navigate
  • All in one system
  • Reports, the built in reports are useful but creating new reports is a bit more challenging. You have to either use an outside system like Crystal Reporting to get detailed reports that are not part of the package. If you have someone that knows Crystal it is easy if you do not then you have to take a class to learn it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Timesheets show everything that time has been charged to in a quick glance. There is a lot of information displayed onscreen and is very easy to decipher.
  • Employees charge their time on a well-designed front end program, and data is gleaned from that and dispersed into the various timekeeping and expense tracking modules.
  • The abilities to charge time to direct, indirect and downtime are all valuable- see where time is being spent and use it as a coaching tool.
  • Graphical representations of data would be appreciated, as it would make analysis more streamlined
  • Not sure that this would be a useful program for a company with all exempt employees
  • Personalization of screen layouts should not cause issues with the database, but they have been seen to cause that
Gary Siebenlist | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Highly configurable to meet needs of nearly any company
  • Easy to use interface, with alerts and approval routing for common tasks
  • Comes with pre-built reporting model which facilitates generation of custom reports
  • Ability to interface with 3rd party software, such as organization charting and payroll
  • Web-based so no client side software to install
  • Has pre-built Employee and Manager self-service features
  • I would like to see better quality of first line support staff. Many times they are not able to answer questions about the product and escallation is required to find a person with knowledge to resolve problems.
  • Upgrades rarely go smoothly. Usually we find bugs and have to get patched versions before we can upgrade our live system.
  • Standard reports do not cover most requirements so custom report development is usually needed.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting capability is robust if you know SQL.
  • Client relationship manager is involved and knowledgeable.
  • There has been little or no investment in development/upgrades in this product for 4 years.
  • The overall interface is very dated, not user friendly and clunky. The time-off interface is so confusing that employees have a difficult time just trying to figure out what their time-off balance is. We typically field 5 questions a week about time-off. This is frustrating to both employees and HR staff.
  • The open enrollment module is out dated to say the least. We have a 5 page document and instructional video on submitting elections for open enrollment but we still have a 50% rate of employees who "think" they completed the process, but did not. It takes about 40 hours of follow-up (emails and phone calls) to ensure elections have been submitted correctly.
  • In general, Epicor HCM is grossly understaffed. It takes at least 3-weeks to get on a calendar for an interface developer.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Lots of room for configuration such as routing, auto-alerts, training competencies, FMLA tracking, security rights, etc... But good luck getting those set-up.
  • Administrative set-up is a nightmare --> Set-up such as e-mail templates (routing, candidate communication, alerts) and configuring security rights for users, includes looking at list of approximately 100 fields some of which seem like duplicates. Interestingly, you may find that the field you need is missing. You'll need to create a work-around or pay Professional Services to get it set-up correctly, even though they should logically be available. Another alternative is that you need to go to an obscure task under Utilities that you've never used before so you can uncheck a box.
  • Auto alerts seem like a great idea, but the set-up is limited in such a way that you will probably need a Filter SQL statement to get it the way you want. (Ex: No way on the birthday alert to simply filter to active employees. Get ready to send out over 500 alerts for ALL employees and dependents.) You can either ask someone in your IT department or again, go to Professional Services ($$$).
  • Routing also seems like a great idea but if you make too many changes in the routing set-up, it errors out and doesn't allow you to submit changes. Instead you must make only a few changes, submit, then go to the task again. Efficiency is not a concern for HCM. If you have more than 5-10 routes in the system for certain tasks, this can slow down the entire routing page, making you wait between 20-40 seconds to approve and go to the next route. This will make for a fun time during your annual review process when you've got 100+ reviews routed to you.
  • Epicor staff (except for customer support) are salespeople--first and foremost --> Glassdoor reviews show that Epicor "emphasizes billable hours above all else" -- we've experienced this firsthand. Most account managers, implementation and interface consultants will try get you on the phone (at a whopping $100-$300/hr) to talk about nothing and avoid delivering what you've paid them for. If they're not doing that, they may just ignore your e-mails and never get back to you.
  • Unreliable customer support --> Customer support staff seems understaffed and sometimes lack technical knowledge. Not surprising considering that HCM is so convoluted and frustrating. Even the most expert support reps are stumped by questions--the system is just that confusing. Sometimes there is no resolution at all so your call is turned into a service change request. Then you cross your fingers and hope it gets addressed in the next upgrade. I submitted one support call over two months ago. It is still open. Sadly that is not out of the norm.
  • Unexplainable errors in interfaces --> Payroll and benefits interfaces have been unreliable. Employee data changes are dropped with no explanation; ergo, there is no possible solution. Unless of course you want your benefits consultant to spend several hours ($$$) researching it or very, very slowly talking you through it over the phone.
  • Customizations that keep on breaking and breaking and breaking --> HCM releases updates almost twice a year, with "new and improved" features. Sometimes the features don't work, as if the software was updated without any testing or foresight. You'll find that customizations you've paid for have broken inexplicably and need to be re-done. Of course you will be charged for the extra hours needed to fix the customizations.
April 29, 2015

Epicor HCM review

Amy Stuart, HRIP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Epicor adds many enhancement requests made by its user base, and involves users in beta testing to ensure users get what they need
  • The system is customizable by the Administrator, and those customizations carry forward to future versions without needing to be re-written, saving time and money
  • The SQL database is easy to integrate with other internal systems
  • The user interface is simple and easy to use
  • Users can use an integrated ad-hoc query tool, which is very easy to use
  • I wish the system recognized holidays when employees enter time off requests
  • I wish that Open Enrollment did not require a two step process to submit choices to HR
April 08, 2015

Epicor HCM 5.6

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Epicor HCM is a solid integrated system. One of our major benefits was the single sign-on. It reduced the amount of time the HR team spent on reminding people what system they had to use for different things and because of the integration with Active Directory everyone knows their username and password, so we rarely, if ever have to answer questions about the login.
  • The system has great flexibility and can be customized to a large extent, from setting up routes and notifications to customizing what employees and managers see, sharing reports with certain roles, or specific users. Great flexibility means lots of options and require an admin to be intimately familiar with the system in order to customize it.
  • The routing and notifications are very good and easy to set-up. You can route any task in the system to either be approved or reviewed. If an approval process is not needed, then an alert can notify specific roles or users of specific changes. For example: when an employee's status is changed to "Terminated" the system automatically sends a notification to IT, security, compliance, corporate admin to make all the necessary updates in their specific areas.
  • Integration with other systems. Epicor HCM can send information to other systems either by API or by setting up file exports.We're using the Link Export function to export time and demographic data for payroll processing and updating our learning management system.
  • Compliance is one area that needs further attention. For example in candidate self-service, the admin and managers can see the candidate's demographic information as part of their application, which shouldn't happen. If an internal candidate applies for a job, the hiring manager automatically gets access to that employee's record just like their regular manager.
  • On the timesheets module, there are issues with CA specific OT calculation rules on a bi-weekly payroll, where it does not calculate OT for time worked in excess of 5 consecutive days. Also, the application has random (but rare) occurrences where it resets the time zone to the server time zone for users that clock-in/ out.
  • Customizations that require professional services contracts can be somewhat difficult in terms of getting resources assigned. When upgrading the system to a new version, the admin has to conduct its own testing, including all and any customizations made to the system and then work with Epicor on resolving any issues.
  • Customer Support structure could be better. Currently there is no official filtering of issues and expected response time for different kinds of issues, except for system access. When offering payroll and time keeping, the customer support should reflect reduced time for resolution of issues in these time sensitive areas.
  • User training. Epicor HCM offers no free training, aside from webinars on new version releases. While they do offer training sessions, users have to pay for it. From a customer perspective this is difficult to accept. You pay to purchase the system/ module, but if you want to learn how to use it, you have to pay again.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Security is always an issue with payroll/HR software. Security in Epicor HCM is very robust. In our manufacturing facility it is important that supervisors have access to their employee's information and the software allows me to limit access to only the correct department. There is also menu security that will allow me to remove access to features by user and grant access only to what they require to do the job.
  • This software is the repository for many different types of employee information. For example in the past we have tracked skills training by employee in either an Access database or an Excel spreadsheet. We are currently in the process of loading individual employee skill information which will allow us to query the database to pull any information that is not already a canned report in the system.
  • Payroll tax reports are handled by the system seamlessly. In our old system I had to keep confidential employees in a different "company" which meant I had to combine the two companies and do quarterly and year end tax reporting manually. The confidential flag in Epicor HCM allows me to utilize reports directly from the system and also creates the files needed to file online for both my quarterly SUI and W-2 reporting to SSA at year end.
  • Epicor HCM has both query and report writing functionality. The quantity of information contained in the database is enormous and can sometimes make it difficult to locate the correct fields for writing custom reports. Within the Vantage product there is a data dictionary which displays each table and the information contained therein. It would be very helpful if it also covered the fields within the tables in Open4.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • There are absolutely no advantages to selecting Epicor as your primary HRIS.
  • In my personal opinion, avoid Epicor. Simple tasks become impossible.
  • The HRIS is inefficient and replete with major issues.
  • Embedded report building: when it comes to my organization's reporting needs, we are instructed by Epicor to utilize Microsoft Report Builder instead of the Epicor reporting function.
  • Payroll interfacing: Monthly my organization transmits several payroll cycles. Often this carries great risks as Epicor and our ADP Payroll system do not communicate seamlessly. There tends to be errors with Epicor not transmitting data accurately to ADP.
  • Integrity of reports: Epicor is notorious for dropping employees from reports. Unfortunately, because of this issue, you have to comb through every single report which negates any efficiency whatsoever.
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