SmartRecruiters and Workday are two competitors in the HR technology space. SmartRecruiters has the upper hand due to its ease of use and cost-effectiveness, while Workday stands out for its advanced features despite its higher price point.
Features: SmartRecruiters offers easy-to-use candidate sourcing features, strong collaborative tools, and effective job posting interfaces. It allows for seamless feedback sharing and simplifies hiring processes. Workday provides comprehensive Human Capital Management, efficient reporting, and excellent mobile usability, supporting a wide range of HR management activities and integration capabilities.
Room for Improvement: SmartRecruiters could enhance system integration and address configuration complexity, particularly for global deployment. Workday users suggest improvements in pricing, system integration, and analytical tools, though frequent updates show ongoing development efforts.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SmartRecruiters is deployed mainly in public and private clouds with notable responsive technical support, though detailed requests sometimes face challenges. Workday supports multiple deployment types, and while praised for strong support, it is noted for some longer response times.
Pricing and ROI: SmartRecruiters offers competitive pricing with discounts for specific organizations, showing a strong return on investment by boosting recruitment efficiency and lowering costs. Workday has a higher pricing tier, justified by its extensive features and risk management capabilities, providing value to organizations requiring comprehensive functionalities and an integrated HR solution.
With Workday, I can pick up the phone, call them on Teams, and they answer immediately.
If implemented, it would help many people in companies with high populations and big teams.
The ease of use is notable because seeing all the videos and demos, the user interface is quite simple to use.
The interface of Workday is superior.
Comparing Workday to other products, I am taking a positive note about Workday and it is the first priority that I suggested compared to Oracle or other products.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Workday | 20.7% |
| SmartRecruiters | 2.3% |
| Other | 77.0% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 4 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 4 |
| Large Enterprise | 8 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 16 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 6 |
| Large Enterprise | 41 |
Workday is a cloud-based software solution that specializes in developing applications for capital and finance management applications. The system is built to work in global workforces and is adaptable. The global system ensures that users are up to date and can manage internal career-related information, and everyday business problems like timesheets, payrolls, and time off.
“A Pioneer in Software-as-a-Service”
Workday Human Capital Management tool is designed to simplify and streamline your work. It leverages machine learning to adapt capital management to a changing environment.
The Workday model is based on delivering a single system that uses a single source of data and a single security model to deliver a unique user experience. The system is user-friendly and ensures that employees and management can use it from any and all devices. Workday HCM integrates into a central system that includes financial management, payroll, recruiting, learning, and planning. Managers and employees can provide feedback to one another, too.
Workday’s features include:
Workday smart platform consists of the following modules:
Reviews from Real Users
Many organizations choose Workday because it provides an all-in-one modular solution for human capital and finance management. Our users say they like the ease of use for time-off requests, career and development segments, and overall HR management. The records and reporting capabilities are another popular feature.
"The solution was very good at reconfiguration and customization of their software. It helped us to meet federal regulations," said one user. Another said that the best feature is the optimization of the work day experience with a unified platform that can be applied across different business units. “You will never find a use case that cannot be covered," said a third.
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