We performed a comparison between PeopleSoft and Workday based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Benefits Administration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."PeopleSoft allows you to schedule upgrades and inform users beforehand. This gives your IT team time to manage the implementation and minimize disruption."
"The PeopleSoft interface is very good."
"I would rate scalability a nine out of ten."
"Job data is a valuable feature."
"The time system is what we get the most benefit from."
"I'd like PeopleSoft to be like on the cloud and more mobile-friendly. If I try to access it from a cell phone, it's a bit difficult, so it would be great if PeopleSoft could improve these features."
"It is a very stable ERP solution. It is also supported on Oracle Cloud and provides extensive features."
"The most valuable feature is that it's easy to use."
"We use the platform for tasks, including applying for leaves, communication, and adhering to our organization's policies through efficient goal setting and reviews."
"The platform itself is very robust and I generally like the reporting and analytics capability."
"We have fewer systems, less manual data entry, and less processing."
"I would say that we have definitely seen a return on investment."
"In the process of obtaining representative sites in NaviNet, it assists us in facilitating decision-making and taking action."
"Provides flexibility to integrate with the product. It has several tools, out-of-the-box, for integrations. It delivers pre-built interfaces for specific vendors, pre-built generic integrations to extract or push data into Workday through configuration."
"It saves a lot of time for onboarding processes."
"I like that it's easy to use and flexible."
"Stability is an area where the solution lacks and needs to be improved."
"The Time and Labor module is not that flexible."
"The biggest disadvantage with things like PeopleSoft is that they do continuous support and fixes and upgrades. You get to choose when you want to implement that upgrade. However, in order to keep up, you have to upgrade."
"I would like to see it become available again in Mexico."
"This solution could be improved by lowering the cost of support."
"It would be helpful for the end-user if the reports were customized. They would be able to select the fields while generating their reports."
"The solution needs to work on its mobile technology. We're hoping in the next version we're working on implementing, 9.2, will have more of this."
"The product was too complicated when it came to navigating through multiple places and the search filters weren't great."
"The product must include payroll features."
"This solution could be made easier to use by continuing to release new improvements."
"There is a lot of complexity in the configuration of this solution."
"I would be happy if it was faster. Currently, when I try to navigate within the solution itself, it is a bit slow in terms of the page load time. When I click on something, it usually takes time to load. When you click on different icons or areas on the website, it is slow. Even when you navigate between different models, it is a bit slow. I would like to see a bit faster performance and a better user experience."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The implementation could have gone a little smoother."
"In terms of reporting, we have to rely on a consultant to do the report customization. The most important thing is to be able to do your own reporting, which it can't do. We rely so much on our consultant to customize reports for us."
"The user interface could be better. Everything else was fine."
PeopleSoft is ranked 3rd in Benefits Administration with 80 reviews while Workday is ranked 1st in Benefits Administration with 50 reviews. PeopleSoft is rated 8.0, while Workday is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of PeopleSoft writes "Comprehensive solution for SCM but requires add-ons for fluid pages". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workday writes "The solution's interface is clean, organized, and easy to use ". PeopleSoft is most compared with Oracle HCM Cloud, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite, whereas Workday is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, Oracle HCM Cloud, UKG and Cornerstone Learning. See our PeopleSoft vs. Workday report.
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Big question but let me try to sum this up without diving too deep into the details.
1. Workday is the only fully in memory consolidated application on the market. It is an event-driven snapshot-based system and is SAAS only. Everything you do is an event and some of the events are exposed as business processes on the Workday business process framework. The only way to access data is through API operations.
2. PeopleSoft has been around a long time and is a database-driven application. You can access it through a browser and leverage PeopleTools to customize it to do what you need. PeopleSoft can be on-premise or hosted by Oracle. No new releases have come out in a while that I am aware of. I don’t know what the long term prospects of PS being around are. Different databases house different functional areas, i.e. HR, Financials, Student.
3. SuccessFactors is a consolidation of systems through acquisition. Its several databases being kept in sync under the covers with triggers and coding. I think parts of the application work well and others have a ways to go.
To me, the bottom line is really the technical aspects of the applications are hugely different in their approach. Workday being fully consolidated in memory SAAS solution,
PS being older highly customizable and SuccessFactors being a bunch of systems under the covers all pushing data between different databases to keep things in sync. Functionally I would say they each have their wheelhouse.
Workday is excellent for global implementations where you want to have employees from different geographies on the same HCM platform. Workday gives you the comfort of end to end global implementation on the same platform.
SAP SuccessFactors has strength in PMS and learning. India payroll is not so strong.
PeopleSoft (Oracle HCM) has strength in core HR data management, time and attendance, and recruitment, but their learning module is quite average.
I’m sharing my experience based on the evaluation I had conducted two years back.
I have compared some with Oracle Fusion and all have their pluses and minuses.
Workday was too complex for a company to maintain. They replaced PeopleSoft (old version) by Oracle Fusion because this was
preferred due to the integration and UX.
Currently, we applied the HCM - Oracle Fusion for Capital Management in our industry operation.
We already take time for package selections of HCM solutions then we understood for success to be deployed of solutions belongs to the implementation partners.
We based on the optimization triangle concepts are “SOLUTIONS – REALISTIC/APPLICABLE – COSTS”.