SAP HCM vs SAP SuccessFactors
We performed a comparison between SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SAP SuccessFactors comes out on top in this comparison. It offers a wider variety of features than SAP HCM does and is easier to configure. SAP SuccessFactors also receives higher marks in the pricing department, thanks to its various licensing options.
"Customers can create custom infotypes to store any custom data points."
"It is a pretty stable solution."
"When you maintain your data in SAP, you can generate any kind of HR report with one click."
"The valuable features of SAP HCM include managing employee data from hiring to retirement."
"They have some interesting features in the learning space."
"All of the core processes are very valuable aspects of the solution. These include personnel, administration, organizational structure, and payroll."
"All our employee data, like performance and payroll, is managed through SAP HCM."
"SAP HCM can handle a large number of employees. We can easily process payrolls and check the arrangements, and the client can also check the performance of the employees. Additionally, it has some advanced features."
"The best features that were working well for us was the Goal Management and Performance Management. They were the most valuable to our organization."
"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."
"Easy to use and user-friendly."
"The UX in SAP SuccessFactors is good."
"They have succeeded in sustaining a powerful system supporting their philosophy."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its integration capabilities with on-premise ERPs and other systems."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten...It is a stable solution."
"SAP SuccessFactors integrated solution, allows us to start the process from a recruitment marketing perspective and have our career site and candidate profile pull through into each other."
"The product's license is very expensive."
"It would be very helpful for our company if a new version was released with the ability to contain all of the things that we have newly introduced in our company."
"It is a bit tedious and manual to work with."
"The extensibility of the integration could be improved."
"It needs a lot of end user training as it is not intuitive at all."
"I'm currently working for a state-owned government company, and we need to follow some standards and regulations. We also have a strategy to be followed. Sometimes the template and the format are not available in the SAP HCM, so we have to work around this limitation. The tax also sometimes changes in my country, and we have to redo everything to change the payroll calculations, benefits, and things like that. The talent management feature can be improved. It is currently very simple in SAP HCM. SAP is also very hard to integrate. In terms of monitoring, there are no monitoring tools, but as long as we take care of the disk capacity, there is no problem."
"It was difficult to deploy. There were challenges regarding configurations and implementation. So, we had a lot of issues."
"The product's learning and development features could be better, including new exclusive LMS tools."
"There's room for improvement in SAP SuccessFactors, particularly in terms of innovation. I'd like more flexibility in its functionality and more customization. In terms of what additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of the product, it depends on the module because you have various modules in SAP SuccessFactors, so it's easier to go module by module and understand what features you have in each module. The product has a lot of features coming up, but the product being more mobile, or having mobile features would be nice."
"Analytics could use some work."
"One area for improvement is making SuccessFactors more compatible with other countries, especially in terms of payroll and other functionalities."
"Overall, the documentation could be improved, and I think the learning management module needs to include more capabilities when it comes to matching an organization's particular learning approach."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"One of the most essential features that needs improvement right now is the reporting functionality. SuccessFactors' reports seem to be lagging a bit behind and we are very interested in customizing the reporting mechanism such that it pushes reports through quickly and automatically."
"LMS, Learning Management Systems, needs improvement because there were some stability problems."
"The data management part can be improved in terms of how you can manage data from the HR admin's or HR team's perspective. It has some limitations in the reporting part in terms of how you can update the data and fetch the data. SAP HCM comparatively has a lot of capabilities in terms of backup loads, data management, data changes, etc. You can do these things easily, which is not the case with SAP SuccessFactors. Data management should be simplified in SAP SuccessFactors in terms of accessing the data, reporting, and then manipulating the data."
SAP HCM is ranked 3rd in Cloud HCM with 48 reviews while SAP SuccessFactors is ranked 1st in Cloud HCM with 90 reviews. SAP HCM is rated 7.6, while SAP SuccessFactors is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP HCM writes "Allows you to generate reports, easy integration and offers out-of-the-box support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP SuccessFactors writes "Offers many useful modules and integrations, and helps companies adhere to best practices". SAP HCM is most compared with Workday, Oracle HCM Cloud, ADP GlobalView Payroll, PeopleSoft and UKG, whereas SAP SuccessFactors is most compared with Workday, Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft, UKG and Cornerstone Learning. See our SAP HCM vs. SAP SuccessFactors report.
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When it comes to user experience, SuccessFactors is unquestionably superior, as it provides end users with a new experience and an advanced user interface. Additionally, the entire concept of SF is to simplify the process, giving life back to HR systems so that they can be more modern and flexible, and rely more on the heart of HR – the employee.
On the other hand, while SF is technically less complex than SAP HCM, it also has significantly less capability, particularly when it comes to integration with other SAP modules. For example, while SAP's integration between the SAP Project system and the SAP HCM process is robust, SuccessFactors' integration is limited and still in its early stages.
In all circumstances, SAP SF represents the future of HR, with a highly promising road map. I believe that if SAP continues to create more features, SF will have greater functionality than SAP HCM in 5 years.