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Sapling by Kallidus

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What is Sapling by Kallidus?

A suite of HR and L&D software that supports the entire employee lifecycle. It offers functionality to support onboarding and upskilling, performance reviews and employee farewells, and boasts over 2 million users worldwide.Sapling provides onboarding and offboarding experiences that aim…

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Pretty Good for certain use cases!

Rating: 7 out of 10
October 29, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We utilize Sapling HR as a more user friendly and intuitive layer on top of ADP Workforce Now and as a partner in digital onboarding for new hires.
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Adrienne Barnard
Vice-President - Human Resources
SVP, People Operations & Experience
AdmitHub

Great observability and async onboarding tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 10, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Sapling HR is used across most of the organization departments. It's a career development, onboarding, and administrative changes hub. It has a nice ability of planning future...
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Sergi Sparks
Manager - Information Technology
Engineering Manager
98point6 Inc.
Sapling by Kallidus1 year of experience

Simple place for storage

Rating: 4 out of 10
December 2, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Sign and hold documents. Whole organization. Paper files, online organization, collective place for HR documents for company across the US. Does allow for quick review and fre...
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Michelle Thornton
Technician - Professional Services
Registered Behavior Therapist
Alternative Behavior Support

A highly customizable tool that allows teams to work together to ensure a smooth employee onboarding

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 18, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Sapling HR is used by Medely to onboard healthcare staff that accept work assignments at hospitals and other healthcare facilities all over the country. Assignments typically ...
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Aldo Gomez
General Manager - Human Resources
Human Resources & Recruiting
Medely Inc.
Sapling by Kallidus1 year of experience

Sapling HR is simple to use and so organized!

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 25, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Used for every onboarding employee to keep their contact and personal information in an organized space. The business problem it seems to address is employee personal informat...
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Danny Eng
Program Manager - Product Management
Product Manager
Credit Karma
Sapling by Kallidus2 years of experience
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What is Sapling by Kallidus?

A suite of HR and L&D software that supports the entire employee lifecycle. It offers functionality to support onboarding and upskilling, performance reviews and employee farewells, and boasts over 2 million users worldwide. Sapling provides onboarding and offboarding…

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  • No setup fee
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  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

What is Sapling by Kallidus?

A suite of HR and L&D software that supports the entire employee lifecycle. It offers functionality to support onboarding and upskilling, performance reviews and employee farewells, and boasts over 2 million users worldwide.


Sapling provides onboarding and offboarding experiences that aim to create a unique and engaging experience for employees, helping HR teams automate workflows, support data-driven decisions and be more strategic. The vendor states the platform is used by Degreed, 15Five, Versapay and 98point6.

Sapling by Kallidus Features

Human Resource Management Features

  • Supported: Employee demographic data
  • Supported: Employment history
  • Supported: Organizational charting
  • Supported: Organization and location management

Leave and Attendance Management Features

  • Supported: Approval workflow
  • Supported: Email notifications
  • Supported: Balance details

Employee Self Service Features

  • Supported: Employee login
  • Supported: Update personal information
  • Supported: Request time off
  • Supported: View company policy documentation
  • Supported: View company news and information

Asset Management Features

  • Supported: Tracking of all physical assets

HR Reporting Features

  • Supported: Pre-built reports
  • Supported: Ability to combine HR data with external data

Onboarding Features

  • Supported: New hire portal
  • Supported: Manager tracking tools

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Sapling by Kallidus Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish

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Reviewers rate Update personal information highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Sapling by Kallidus are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Pretty Good for certain use cases!

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
October 29, 2021
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We utilize Sapling HR as a more user friendly and intuitive layer on top of ADP Workforce Now and as a partner in digital onboarding for new hires.
Pros
  • Time off management
  • On demand reporting
  • Onboarding workflow management
  • Offboarding workflow management
Cons
  • Deeper data management/review - dashboard experience could be better and deeper
  • Ability to drill into reports within the tool- right now it takes you out to a sheet to view
  • Org planning/org chart sharing
Likelihood to Recommend
I think for specific use cases it makes a lot of sense- I would blindly recommend it to anyone- I think it serves a purposes- has areas of growth potential and does some things well. So I'd want to spend some time understanding the users needs before recommending. That said- for a team that is locked into ADP I think it serves a great purpose as ADP is very non-user friendly for the average employee. And for a team that needs some workflows more automated because they don't have people to manage process, it is really helpful.
Most Important Features
  • Time off management
  • Workflow management
  • Reporting
  • Human data repository
Return on Investment
  • More people want to interact with the tool so we're better able to manage some processes
  • Saves us a headcount on some of the things it can automate
  • We don't have the ability to provision every account with them even though they said they could (slack) so we still need to do some manual work on account provisioning
Alternatives Considered
Very very similar- it is not worth switching from one to the other unless you want to have payroll in the same tool.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
84
Everyone uses it. The admins all sit in Business Operations
Support Headcount Required
3
HR Generalist, Accounting & Operations specialist and a Biz Ops Leader
Business Processes Supported
  • Automation of employee lifecycle activities
  • Storing employee data
  • Dashboard for employee info
Innovative Uses
  • To create workflows to support changes in the org
  • To automate the onboarding experience for employees
  • To track fun facts and data about our team
Future Planned Uses
  • Give managers more control on employee changes
Likelihood to Renew
10
It is hard to rip out and replace systems and Sapling is doing what we need.
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
We wanted something that had the features we were looking for to drive reporting and automation.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I would likely look at a few more vendors. We only looked at Sapling and it seemed to do what we needed. I know there are a lot of products on the market though and I may go deeper on others in the future.
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
Implementation Phases
Yes
I believe so- thought I didn't run it- someone on the team did.
Change Management Lessons
Change management was minimal
Implementation Issues
  • just time to get it done
  • planning to roll it out to the team
Implementation Rating
9
If you have someone internally that can run it that definitely helps!
Support Rating
7
I got what I needed from some chatting recently - but I know others on the team have had trouble getting support quickly.
Premium Support
no- we have a team capable to that.
Exceptional Examples of Sapling by Kallidus Support
I think our sales person was exceptional. she went above and beyond in getting to know our use case and providing us with thoughtful and honest responses to help support us seeing that the tool could provide what we needed.
Usability
8
There are some features and aspects of the tool that don't quite make sense. Like- when you update someone's comp- you have all these additional fields that if you leave the data in there it appears as if you're trying to update that too- but really it is the same- I wish you could just mark no change so the data stuck.
Easy Tasks
  • reporting
  • requesting time off
  • viewing employee profiles
Difficult Tasks
  • workflow requests
  • giving developer access/api

Simple place for storage

Rating: 4 out of 10
Incentivized
December 02, 2020
MT
Michelle Thornton
Registered Behavior Therapist
Alternative Behavior Support (Individual & Family Services, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sign and hold documents.
Whole organization.
Paper files, online organization, collective place for HR documents for company across the US.
Does allow for quick review and frequent alerts to keep all parties accountable. This means HR representatives don't have to alert new candidates as often as before. They can screen shot exactly what is missing for the candidate to review and update.
Pros
  • Organized documents.
  • Ability to DocuSign.
  • Email intra and inter.
Cons
  • Less email reminders to incomplete work.
  • Clicks must be specific to file, can't highlight and open file.
  • Too many add-ons in the system.
  • Have to upload and transfer too many documents.
Likelihood to Recommend
Less appropriate for small business/one location. Seems to make things more complicated by having to upload paperwork in different areas.
Specific scenarios: different locations, many employees, easy availability to organize employees.
Multiple people can access uploaded information which is helpful to follow the onboarding process. However, it doesn't allow for complete access all of files to be completed by HR.
Sapling by Kallidus Feature Ratings
Human Resource Management (3)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Employee demographic data
90%
9.0
Organizational charting
100%
10.0
Organization and location management
100%
10.0
Payroll Management
N/A
N/A
Leave and Attendance Management
N/A
N/A
Employee Self Service (2)
100%
10.0
Update personal information
100%
10.0
View company policy documentation
100%
10.0
Asset Management (1)
90%
9.0
Tracking of all physical assets
90%
9.0
HR Reporting (1)
70%
7.0
Ability to combine HR data with external data
70%
7.0
Integration with other HR capabilities
N/A
N/A
Performance Management
N/A
N/A
Succession Planning
N/A
N/A
Onboarding (2)
90%
9.0
New hire portal
100%
10.0
Manager tracking tools
80%
8.0
Performance and Goals
N/A
N/A
Recruiting / ATS
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Lost 12% by having to pay for another service.
  • Sign on bonus.
  • Additional cost to add other services.
Alternatives Considered
The platform is quick and easy on all sides. This works well for the employee and payroll team. It is nice to be able to access all the previous clock in and clock out quickly. A person can export a collection of specific dates to review. The system can be used from different outlets.
Usability
7
To use this system you need to buy several add-ons. If add-ons do not fit your business model you will have to access platforms from different companies. The system is not easy to use for onboarding. Candidates cannot change and update settings. To use the system a person must click in the correct spots. If not it leads you someplace else. Then you have to start clicking all over again.
Support Rating
9
The representatives at Sapling are quick to respond to the human resource team and new onboarding candidates. There is a list of FAQs easily accessed. A person can send a response through instant message and it connects to email so information is easily tracked and researched. The Sapling staff is patient and kind. This always helps when dealing with technical issues that may arise.
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