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.
"I like the fact that the annual days are calculated automatically and that if annual leave is taken in the future, those days are put on hold. You know at every point how many days of annual leave are you left with and how many are on hold."
"The solution's technical support is super responsive and helpful. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"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."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The performance goals and personal features of every employee with the dashboard is most valuable."
"The scalability of BambooHR is good."
"I can easily go to BambooHR to search for any staff member in the company."
"Leave management is the most valuable as they all started with leave management and then progressed to performance management. Of course, employee profiles are central to everything. It is also very easy to use. Customers get on board with it very quickly. One of the selling points for BambooHR is that they have a very wide partner network. There are lots of other partners that have integrations with BambooHR. They have an open API. This is one of the things that is driving its growth because lots of people and companies are literally just building integrations of BambooHR to ride the wave. If you have an integration with BambooHR, you get sales. People are more likely to choose your product because they've already chosen BambooHR. That's how it is happening. It is a cloud deployment, so there is only one version. They do the updates every month, and because of this, you are encouraged to send them feedback all the time. You never know. Your feature may be included in the next release."
"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 most valuable feature of this solution is the performance management module."
"In terms of user experience, it is quite good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is document generation."
"The solution is very intuitive. Many of the things we need to do are easily accessible."
"Currently, we are using the performance and goals management functionality the most. It is connected with the enterprise solution, and it is seamless. It can be easily accessed because it is available via the net. It is readily available, provided you have an internet connection. Their technical support is also very good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its integration capabilities with on-premise ERPs and other systems."
"The most important feature is the ability to follow up on the yearly performance of the team. It's very good for management to understand how people are performing."
"BambooHR needs to have more flexibility around performance management."
"There are some issues with the job tab under my info where you add the salary."
"If you are dealing with two or more businesses under one company name, it is not possible to transfer employees between companies if they have a separate bamboo set up."
"The color palettes could be changed to make the solution a little more attractive and easier to use."
"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."
"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."
"We cannot add more questions to the assessments if we want to."
"The UI needs improvement because it needs to be more user-friendly."
"Some of the screens aren't that user-friendly, older employees especially have a hard time with it. They have some problems with it."
"The SAP SuccessFactors integration with old versions can improve. We are using an older finance module but we are having migration issues."
"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."
"Also, it would be helpful if they could improve its ability to localize the product to Nigeria."
"The product doesn't have a modernized look and is not very user-friendly like other products."
"The solution needs more localization, especially for the Middle East and Russia."
"SuccessFactors feels rigid. It should be more streamlined. Also, the interface design is outdated and needs an upgrade."
"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."
BambooHR is ranked 9th in Cloud HCM with 31 reviews while SAP SuccessFactors is ranked 1st in Cloud HCM 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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