- All features are available on mobile and also on cloud (internet); no need to connect any server or application systems. All HR business processes across the customers are available.
- Cross-module integration
- Updated with all industry best practices
- Less cost compared to the on-premise products
Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Features are available on mobile and also on cloud (internet).
What is most valuable?
How has it helped my organization?
I’m a consultant from Wipro, an implementing partner of SuccessFactors; hence, we take the feedback from customers.
What needs improvement?
Customers are expecting more features in these modules:
- Employee Central
- Succession and CDP
- RCM integration with Indian job portals
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used it for three years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We encountered stability issues in integration of SuccessFactors with SAP ECC HCM via Dell Boomi middleware; still more standard integrations are expected from customers.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have not encountered any scalability issues.
How are customer service and support?
I rate technical support as medium.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
- WFA, WFP and Onboarding modules pricing and licensing to be very specific
What other advice do I have?
It is the best cloud product in the market, with strong support from SAP, which is a market leader in the world. Integrating SuccessFactors with any other systems/applications should be understood clearly.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Wipro is an implementing partner of SAP SuccessFactors.
Sap Hcm/Success Factors Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Employee Central has customisation options. Reporting should be reduced to one tool.
What is most valuable?
Employee Central is the core of the product and is the best developed. This module is well worked out and has a lot of customisation options, which makes SuccessFactors an ideal solution for many customers.
How has it helped my organization?
It provides us with a way of visualising all our employees.
What needs improvement?
Reporting is done in several tools and should be reduced to one tool. Time management is currently not sufficiently developed for a Belgian company.
For how long have I used the solution?
I’ve been using SuccessFactors for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We had stability issues very often during the end of the year and after updates.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We did not have any scalability issues.
How are customer service and technical support?
Technical support is very good for things that are not urgent. When urgent problems occur, they are not handled very well.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I only worked with SuccessFactors.
How was the initial setup?
If you do a good analysis, the setup is never hard. The most difficult thing is the analysis.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I never do sales. I only do implementations.
What other advice do I have?
It’s better to spend more time in the analysis phase than to reanalyse in the implementation phase.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We are a reseller.
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Founder at a tech company with 51-200 employees
We use it for quick and dirty solutions as well as complex services.
What is most valuable?
A. SAP is making a firm commitment to creating a new single unified platform for every app it owns, based on the top of Hana in Memory Platform. In the future I aspect HR connected with IOT with Leonardo platform.
B. SAP is asking to professional to rethink HR, less transactional and more "Conversational". In SF, the architecture of the system allows to have very structured vertical functionalities (Learning, Performance, Compensation, etc.), but you can draw new service models using together the individual modules (you can design a “Pay per performance” process for example with Performance Goal Compensation)
C. SAP SF includes libraries of free contents (different data structure in Employee Central according to local laws, competencies libraries, goals libraries, etc.)
D. The usage of HCI and HCP (from HANA Cloud family) will extend the functionality of the product connecting with third-parties software or by extending the features of the individual modules. SAP has created a market place with dozen of 3rd parties apps
E. Artificial Intelligence is the new horizon:
Intelligent Services can automatically connect all actions that the system must take when an event occurs: have a new assignment. In less than two years, SF has released 40 predefined services.
In "Business Beyond Bias" against gender and race discrimination. The recruiting module has a feature that highlights a discriminatory language for example in the job description.
BOT. I saw some test where is possible interact with the system in natural language where for instance you can require to the system a Time OFF and the system will run all the appropriate actions.
F. Collaboration with Microsoft, Apple, Slack
Microsoft, with its technology Azure, is one of the partners to improve the data center services, I suppose also that we will see a better integration with Office world.
Apple, mobile first is the claim, is working to redesign the mobile user experience. At the end of June 2017 FIORI for IOS available.
Slack, we have already discussed about the bot: in the future I assume that the interaction will be made by voice with Siri or Cortana, or Google As.
How has it helped my organization?
We can design a “quick & dirty solution” or “very complex services”, we can manage small enterprise projects (in our experience 150 users) as the big organization (in our experience 40000 users), all with the same solution. This is a big saving of time, costs, and team usage optimization.
What needs improvement?
Employee Central made an incredible improvement, but still is behind the SAP HCM “On Prem” solution.
For how long have I used the solution?
5 years - the full suite. 10+ years Learning Management System module (formerly Plateau Software).
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Not on the platform side. At the end of 2015 there are been issues in the Data Center based in Germany with access problems.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
No.
How are customer service and technical support?
On a scale from 1-10: 7/10
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
a. 10 years ago we used SABA, due to a cut costing program they moved all the developers from US to India, the result was a release with hundreds of bugs.
b. 3 years ago we tested Cornestone for a premiere Insurance and we recorded some issues when the new releases went live and a weak technical support service in Europe.
How was the initial setup?
a. Employee Central is critical, you need to have a good experience to work on it. Is very powerful because the choices will impact also on the other modules. We are called to support some projects that were in fact blocked for wrong configurations due to limited product knowledge by other partners.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
a. Price is based on: Number of users and number of modules. Other companies like Oracle or Cornestone are very aggressive, but it’s only is a business practice that cannot go on forever. For instance, Cornestone is under pressure to be sold to investors.
What other advice do I have?
Invest the right time on Employee Central, looking for a competent partner with a proven experience on real projects.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We are SF Var, SAP Gold Partner Level
Manager Finance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalable, reliable, and good overall functionality
Pros and Cons
- "The overall functionality of the solution is very good."
- "The reporting and cloud integration could be done better in this solution."
What is our primary use case?
We are using the solution for management services.
What is most valuable?
The overall functionality of the solution is very good.
What needs improvement?
The reporting and cloud integration could be done better in this solution.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable in my experience.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have found the solution to be scalable.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend the solution to others and I plan on continuing using it.
I rate SAP SuccessFactors an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
IT System Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Maintains employee records, and payroll but the analytics should be improved
Pros and Cons
- "We use the cloud version to maintain all the employee records, payroll, etc. We use everything that comes with the HR suite."
- "Analytics could use some work."
What is our primary use case?
We use the cloud version to maintain all the employee records, payroll, etc. We use everything that comes with the HR suite.
What is most valuable?
I like that everything is delivered to the employee.
What needs improvement?
Analytics could use some work.
For how long have I used the solution?
We've been using this solution for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
There are regular updates and obviously you have to keep it up yourself on a quarterly basis. That's a bit of pain, but at the end of the day it's all about digitalization and HR transformation.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's currently fine. It depends upon your client base. You could have 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, or more users.
How are customer service and technical support?
Their technical support is good.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward. It's not that complex.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend this product. I would rate it as seven out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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