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Salesforce Community Cloud vs Workday comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Salesforce Community Cloud
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Community Platforms (1st), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (3rd)
Workday
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
55
Ranking in other categories
Benefits Administration (1st), Talent Management (2nd), Cloud HCM (2nd), Talent Acquisition (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Salesforce Community Cloud and Workday aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Salesforce Community Cloud is designed for Community Platforms and holds a mindshare of 18.8%, down 34.2% compared to last year.
Workday, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud HCM, holds 18.0% mindshare, down 18.9% since last year.
Community Platforms
Cloud HCM
 

Q&A Highlights

Ariel Lindenfeld - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 24, 2020
 

Featured Reviews

Julio Divietro - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps us with sales management of customer life cycles with good business intelligence
Our primary use case for the solution is sales management of customer life cycles. We deploy the solution on cloud The stability and ease of use are valuable. Additionally, the granularity of the tool provides a great experience because of the several variables we can manage during the process.…
Sarvesh Kumar Jha - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use and provides great flexibility and security
Implementing the solution is generally not easy because it depends on our client's landscape. In the last one and a half years, Workday has started a new implementation approach called launch implementation. This approach allows you, as a client organization, to implement Workday in a shorter amount of time, given that you fulfill certain criteria. It depends on the number of subsidiaries and employees you have and their compensation structure. If it's not too complex, Workday provides its clients with this new approach called launch, where they can quickly onboard with the Workday without many complex requirements. The general implementation for Fortune 500 companies is always complex.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"All the business intelligence included in the tool gives more information about the cycle of the sales stage."
"What I found most valuable in Salesforce CRM is its reporting feature because it's extensive and it's very accurate. I also like that you can move opportunities by stages. I find that feature very important and very useful because it helps you understand where opportunities get stuck, and at what stage it is currently."
"The product is useful for storing employee records."
"The platform itself is very robust and I generally like the reporting and analytics capability."
"We like the fact that this solution is very user-friendly, with a straightforward user interface."
"It stores everything for the employee. It has also been able to store the information that we use for our payroll demand."
"The user interface is good and very easy to use."
"It is easy to use and straightforward."
"It's intuitive, a very usable tool and it's easy to find the data you're looking for."
"Workday is easy to use. Timesheet and resource management are also easy."
 

Cons

"An area for improvement in Salesforce CRM is that there's still a lot of manual input you need to make. If it could pick up things automatically from an email and auto-populate, that would make the tool better. Another area for improvement is that the Salesforce CRM connector for G-suite does not work effectively."
"The user interface can be improved."
"The user interface can be enhanced."
"My only suggestion might be to include a brief description of any new fields we introduce, making it easier for people to use them. Perhaps this is something they can consider implementing."
"The implementation could have gone a little smoother."
"Workday has several helpful features. It has categorized payroll processes into sections, such as CTC separation and pay slips. It also provides detailed information on promotions and salary hikes, showing changes from the previous year to the current year. This includes a clear view of the new CTC and the monthly paycheck breakdown."
"It is very unique as compared to other tools in terms of the employee master data and how it is organized. That's why sometimes the information needs to sit in two different systems because, in Workday, it is organized differently. This issue is not related to benefits. It is more or so related to how you categorize employees. I don't think this is a problem that could be solved. Workday is aware of this. It is one of those kinds of situations that you just got to live with."
"This solution could be improved by providing user-level access to customization capabilities. Users currently rely on more technical teams to customize reports, for example."
"This solution could be made easier to use by continuing to release new improvements."
"Reporting systems should be improved. If you want to report it on paper, if you want something more BI oriented, more high level predictive or more data-driven, it should be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing for Salesforce CRM is extremely expensive."
"Its price is pretty high. It is more expensive than what is offered by other competitors in the market."
"The pricing is good from an HR perspective, although management gets upset after spending $500,000 a year, every year."
"I would rate the solution’s pricing a six out of ten."
"I rate the product’s pricing a ten out of ten."
"The pricing for this solution is fairly high. It is not affordable for small and mid-sized companies."
"With a bigger budget, I would recommend SAP."
"It has an annual subscription rate, but I'm not sure how it will work."
"By and large, Workday is expensive. It is based on the headcount. I'd probably rate it a three or four out of five in terms of pricing. It'd be like buying a Mercedes or a high-end car. It's expensive, but there's a specific value that you're getting with additional features and things of that nature. Using that metaphor, Workday probably tends to be more of a luxury. There are others like ADP that can do your payroll, your time off, and other things, but they don't do it as well."
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Answers from the Community

Ariel Lindenfeld - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 24, 2020
Jan 24, 2020
Workday is more geared towards human capital management and salesforce is more geared towards CRM. Depends on what you need.
2 out of 4 answers
it_user1118469 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 20, 2020
Hi Valon Besides the fact that both are extremely sophisticated SaaS there is nothing in common in terms of product. Salesforce is a CRM system and Workday an HCM and ERP system. If you want to establish comparisons "apple to apple" I would recommend to compare Salesforce against Oracle Sales/Marketing cloud, SAP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 On the Workday side I would compare it with: a) HCM - Oracle , Bamboo HR, ADP workforce Now, Ascentis and SAP HCM b) ERP - Oracle ERP cloud, Netsuite (owned by Oracle), SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Sage. Hope this helps
it_user1165806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 20, 2020
Workday is more geared towards human capital management and salesforce is more geared towards CRM. Depends on what you need.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
University
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Educational Organization
32%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Salesforce Community Cloud?
All the business intelligence included in the tool gives more information about the cycle of the sales stage.
What needs improvement with Salesforce Community Cloud?
The user interface of the screenshots feature is a little bit old and hasn't been updated for a long time.
What is your primary use case for Salesforce Community Cloud?
Our primary use case for the solution is sales management of customer life cycles. We deploy the solution on cloud.
What are the biggest differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors?
Differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud,w and SAP SuccessFactors:w Oracle: "simple interface and deep customization to suit the purpose." SAP: Multiple functionalities that increase process effi...
What do you like most about Workday?
I like its UI and UX. When we were using Oracle or SAP, the UI/UX wasn't very user-friendly for the employees.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Workday?
If you go with the launch implementation approach, the solution is generally not very expensive. If you want to add more features to your subscription, Workday becomes expensive. The solution is fl...
 

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