Would NOT recommend
April 17, 2020

Would NOT recommend

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Recruiting
  • Onboarding

Overall Satisfaction with SAP SuccessFactors

We utilize SAP SuccessFactors for recruiting, recruiting marketing and onboarding globally for a company with over 35,000 employees. It was purchased to assist with providing a consistent method for requisition approvals and to allow us to better understand our recruiting needs and to ensure consistency across posting.
  • We rarely experience system down time.
  • Customer Support Representative Knowledge - they know very little about the actual functionality of the software.
  • Customer Support Knowledge base accuracy and volume - when you search for something and get over 1,000 matches as often happens - you waste so much time just trying to find an answer - then you end up putting in a ticket with support - see above.
  • Integration between Recruiting and Onboarding is terrible - they are two different systems, so you are administering twice as much.
  • Very clunky - click click click click click - our users do not like the system at all and only use it for the bare necessities.
  • Unexplained issues - if you ask why something happened they state that "they don't have to provide that to their customers" - no joke, it has happened several times when I ask why functionality changed.
  • We had no SAP support during our implementation - then we asked them to review our setup and they wanted to charge us thousands of dollars to fix it - when our implementation was done by one of their "trusted, talented and certified" support partners - that they RECOMMENDED to us.
  • SAP SuccessFactors has created a lot of frustration for our company. End user engagement and acceptance is low.
  • Our setup was built by a recommend and certified SAP partner - but we have had so many issues we asked SAP to review and offer insight for fixing it - they want to charge us thousands upon thousands of dollars to undo and fix what the certified and recommended SAP partner developed for us.
I have used WorkDay, Infor, ADP, Kronos, SilkRoad, Cornerstone and many other smaller platforms. None are nearly as bad as SAP at customer service. Trying to find something on their support site is like trying to find a needle in haystack. Trying to get a support representative or engineer who has any understanding of actually using the software is even more difficult. HR did not choose this software at our company - it was picked by IT - yet they played no role in implementation or administration.
Please see previous statements about support.

Do you think SAP SuccessFactors delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with SAP SuccessFactors's feature set?

No

Did SAP SuccessFactors live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of SAP SuccessFactors go as expected?

No

Would you buy SAP SuccessFactors again?

No

This software may be good for a small company where all support is outsourced and your users have very low standards for HRIS software.

SAP SuccessFactors Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
1
Employment history
Not Rated
Job profiles and administration
1
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
Not Rated
Organizational charting
Not Rated
Organization and location management
Not Rated
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
Pay calculation
Not Rated
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Salary revision and increment management
Not Rated
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
Approval workflow
Not Rated
Balance details
Not Rated
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
View and generate pay and benefit information
Not Rated
Update personal information
Not Rated
View job history
Not Rated
View company policy documentation
Not Rated
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
Not Rated
Report builder
1
Pre-built reports
1
Ability to combine HR data with external data
1
Performance plans
Not Rated
Performance improvement plans
Not Rated
Review status tracking
Not Rated
Review reminders
Not Rated
Multiple review frequency
Not Rated
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
Not Rated
Candidate development
Not Rated
New hire portal
1
Manager tracking tools
1
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
Job Requisition Management
1
Company Website Posting
1
Publish to Social Media
1
Job Search Site Posting
1
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
1
Applicant Tracking
1
Notifications and Alerts
1