Best Payroll and Core HR operations management software for enterprises
Updated November 10, 2025

Best Payroll and Core HR operations management software for enterprises

Komal Pawar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Employee Central Payroll
  • Performance Management
  • Onboarding
  • Recruiting
  • Time Tracking

Overall Satisfaction with SAP SuccessFactors HCM

I use it mainly SAP SuccessFactors HCM for Core HR ,payroll, and Workforce management and analytics for one of our enterprise clients. As our client deals in multiple businesses they have various fulltime, part time and contractual employees to manage all these employees payroll, salaries, attendance regularization and in and out time and onboarding all activities are managed in the SAP SuccessFactors. Without the automated system like SAP SuccessFactors it wouldn't be possible to manage all the employees payroll and core HR activities, now hassle free single handedly I am able to manage all the employees payroll and attendance.

Pros

  • Onboarding process is very easy to learn and execute
  • Customer support is the top notch
  • Artificial intelligence features inside the software application is also good

Cons

  • Knowledge base can be improved and provide it in multiple languages so that it can be used widely across HR functions
  • Need domain specific features such as for healthcare recruitment credentialing is must haave requirement but SAP SuccessFactors is not providing these type of features for niche industries
  • User interface can be more better
  • We have increased HR productivity for sure by at least 30% more and now not required too many resources to manage the HRBP and payroll management
  • Able to track the candidates all information at one place and it's helped a lot at the performance review and appraisal time, it reducing the operational time by 20%
It provides all in one solution right from candidate searching to onboarding and managing the payroll and up to candidate release management everything can be done through only a single system and reduce the dependency on multiple software
Yes we have moved our SAP System on cloud and the process was very much smooth, everything migrated successfully on cloud platform. Now we have created multiple users and access for our SAP Successfactor and multiple stakeholder from our core team are now able to access the Successfactor from anywhere. Our main business areas is to manage the candidates for our clients and handle the end to end applicant tracking and Workforce management.
The cloud version is pretty much simple and more secured as compare to the previous. Our IT Team has collaborated with SAP team for firewall and cybersecurity related troubleshooting and the experience is really smooth.
We are planning to incorporate at the core HR funtionalities and while onboarding of the candidate want to reduce the operational time and it should be handle by AI agent
Zoho Recruit is not built for global talent management and law and compliance wise we think SAP SuccessFactors is very strong

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

Yes

Are you happy with SAP SuccessFactors HCM's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP SuccessFactors HCM live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP SuccessFactors HCM go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP SuccessFactors HCM again?

Yes

SAP SuccessFactors is more suited for enterprise capacity clients where workforce count is very high you can manage all onboarding payroll and Workforce very easily and hassle free, for enterprise clients its worth but for SME and small firms it's highly priced and not worth of you don't have the capacity

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Feature Ratings

9.9
Employee demographic data
10
Employment history
10
Job profiles and administration
10
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
9
Organizational charting
10
Organization and location management
10
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
10
9.7
Pay calculation
10
Support for external payroll vendors
8
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
10
Benefit plan administration
10
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
10
Reimbursement management
10
10.0
Approval workflow
10
Balance details
10
Annual carry-forward and encashment
10
9.0
View and generate pay and benefit information
9
Update personal information
8
View job history
9
View company policy documentation
9
Employee recognition
10
Asset Management ()
Not Rated
9.0
Report builder
10
Pre-built reports
9
Ability to combine HR data with external data
8
Integration with other HR capabilities ()
Not Rated
9.4
Performance plans
10
Performance improvement plans
10
Review status tracking
10
Review reminders
9
Multiple review frequency
8
8.5
Create succession plans/pools
9
Candidate ranking
8
Candidate search
8
Candidate development
9
9.5
New hire portal
10
Manager tracking tools
9
8.8
Corporate goal setting
9
Individual goal setting
8
Line-of sight-visibility
9
Performance tracking
9
9.3
Job Requisition Management
9
Company Website Posting
8
Publish to Social Media
9
Job Search Site Posting
9
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
10
Applicant Tracking
10
Notifications and Alerts
10

Using SAP SuccessFactors HCM

8 - The people who are using using the Successfactor are from administrative and Human resources team along with 2 business analyst who helps them with HCM operations and analytics.
6 - The skills which required for using SAP successfactors are payroll management, appraisal management, overall organizations appraisal management, scheduling and updating the appraisal formulas. Additionally if you have any basic human resource/ psychology degree anyone with strong excell and analytics skills can use SAP Successfactors
  • Payroll processing gor multiple time in a month
  • Workforce management including part time and contractual worker
  • Appraisal management at each level of hierarchy
  • Integrated SAP Successfactor HCM with our internal learning and recognition platform to personalize employee development plans
  • We leveraging analytics to predict workforce needs and plan internal mobility
  • Also our data sciene team is able to drive more insights from our client workforce metrics and suggest them better solution for 100% resource utilisation
  • We can use it for AI Driven insights by predicting skill gap and recommending targted learning and development plan
  • In future we can try to integrate it with our other suite of softwares for better productivity and reduce operational time
We will definitely renew the SAP Successfactor HCM because it's saving a lots of time of our team in managing workforce handling multiple payroll management

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