We performed a comparison between BambooHR and SAP SuccessFactors based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, BambooHR came out ahead of SAP SuccessFactors, as our reviewers found SAP SuccessFactors more difficult to deploy, more expensive, and in need of general improvement.
"The performance goals and personal features of every employee with the dashboard is most valuable."
"The tool's most valuable features are the recruitment module, performance module, and document storage."
"The HR metrics that this solution provides has been most useful. We also really like the fact that employees have the ability to be self sufficient and manage their own information."
"We use this solution for our end to end HR needs from onboarding and hiring to learning."
"I can easily go to BambooHR to search for any staff member in the company."
"The product is user-friendly."
"This is a scalable solution. We have not experienced any issues."
"The scalability of BambooHR is good."
"SAP SuccessFactors is a very reliable and stable solution."
"It's a uniform user interface."
"All of SuccessFactors' features are useful, but there are several modules within SuccessFactors that I find handy. You have Employee Central, which manages employee records within the system. It manages all the information about an employee, including names, addresses, account numbers, positions, org charts, etc. It also handles performance reviews and KPIs for employees within an organization. Then you have succession planning and development as well."
"Easy to use and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of SAP SuccessFactors is that it is a full suite of applications to enable your employees. Additionally, it has good integration with S4 HANA. Our payroll solution is from SAP and the integration becomes much easier when using SAP SuccessFactors."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its integration capabilities with on-premise ERPs and other systems."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance management module."
"BambooHR could be improved by managing leave in a way that transfers remaining days at the end of the annual year to the following year."
"The UI needs improvement because it needs to be more user-friendly."
"I would like to be able to export some documents into PDFs a little easier. Right now, only HR can update the training record and as you scale your company, managing the system can be manual and time consuming."
"In the BambooHR performance management annual evaluations we have some limits to the questions. We can only add four extra questions, and they already have three basic questions, this is not easy for us. We would like to have more flexibility with the questions."
"We cannot add more questions to the assessments if we want to."
"It would be useful to have the possibility to assign a task to the different users within the software."
"The performance could be improved. When you save some documents, it takes longer to store them in BambooHR's systems than it used to. Something needs to be upgraded or fixed in the code. Alow, we provide services to other companies, so Bamboo isn't able to help us in many areas because of the way we work."
"It would be good to include more options for approvals and workflows. They are deliberately not the most sophisticated version of anything that they do, but it is like 80/20. They hit the vast majority of all the needs, but I have started to run up against the limits of their functionality. It has forced me to start paying attention to the marketplace or sending feedback to BambooHR. Clients are still happy though. Timesheets is a new area in which they're slowly expanding. It is currently very limited, but it meets the needs of standard nine-to-five salary employees who just want to be able to key in their time, have it approved, and then pushed off to payroll. It does not have any of the bells and whistles that an hourly employee or hourly worker might need. That is one area that is currently limited, but they have integrations with some of the best companies that do that."
"They should be more user friendly and give us more tools to make it more flexible."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"They should improve the reports."
"We encountered challenges with the tool's integration with third-party applications and deployments."
"SAP SuccessFactors could improve learning management. The module is desperate and should be included in the primary solution. Additionally, it is missing some business use cases."
"Forms cannot be edited once submitted."
"Analytics could use some work."
"SAP should also look into easily integrating with other applications or other tools. Technology has changed now, and it should be easier for any application to integrate with other apps. There needs to be more flexibility."
BambooHR is ranked 8th in Talent Management with 31 reviews while SAP SuccessFactors is ranked 1st in Talent Management with 90 reviews. BambooHR is rated 8.2, while SAP SuccessFactors is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BambooHR writes "HRIS software used for a company of 300 employees that offers employee tracking, data insights and automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP SuccessFactors writes "Offers many useful modules and integrations, and helps companies adhere to best practices". BambooHR is most compared with HiBob, Workday, SunFish DataOn Philippines Inc., DarwinBox and Netsuite SuitePeople, whereas SAP SuccessFactors is most compared with SAP HCM, Workday, Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft and DarwinBox. See our BambooHR vs. SAP SuccessFactors report.
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