SAP SuccessFactors Reviews

We use SAP SuccessFactors modules. For example, the employee central for employee repository and HR purposes, performance and goal management modules for appraisals, and LMS modules for all learning needs.

What I appreciate most about SAP SuccessFactors is that it has all the modules in one platform.

SAP SuccessFactors is the best option in the market for HR use cases.

I also find the solution user-friendly.

An area for improvement in SAP SuccessFactors is that it has a lot of quarterly updates. Still, the updates need to be more industry-specific because every industry has specific compensation modules. For example, every organization has a different compensation structure and incentives, so the compensation module and other modules still have room for improvement in SAP SuccessFactors.

What I want to be added to SAP SuccessFactors is a chat box where SAP staff can give support to users.

I've been using SAP SuccessFactors for ten years. I'm also implementing it for customers because my company is a consultant for module executions.

Stability-wise, SAP SuccessFactors is still a work in progress, mainly because it has a lot of enhancements required, so my company creates tickets for the enhancements. In terms of stability, SAP SuccessFactors is an eight out of ten.

You can choose to scale up or scale down SAP SuccessFactors nowadays. The solution is much more scalable, so if today you want to start with one hundred users, then tomorrow you want to go up to five hundred, then you can do that. Scalability-wise, I'm rating SAP SuccessFactors nine out of ten.

I'm satisfied with the SAP SuccessFactors knowledge base and support.

Setting up SAP SuccessFactors is easy, and it has zero downtime. It generally takes three months to deploy any talent module or employee central of SAP SuccessFactors.

I'm a consultant for SAP SuccessFactors, which means I use it in my company and implement it. I'm working with the latest version of the solution because my company upgrades it quarterly.

Deploying each SAP SuccessFactors module requires at least one expert, and there can be cross-functional resources, especially for the talent modules. Still, the SAP SuccessFactors employee central needs at least one person dedicated to the project.

I advise anyone planning to implement SAP SuccessFactors to evaluate it first. Ask yourself what the company's requirement is. You need to confirm the requirements and needs of your organization before choosing which SAP SuccessFactors modules to use.

My rating for the solution is eight out of ten.

My company is an SAP SuccessFactors partner.

We use this solution for all required actions around people-related activities, such as on-boarding new staff and transferring internal position changes.

This solution provides up with an easy way to on/off-board staff, as well as actioning internal transfers.

We find the customization of the database to be very useful for our organization.

We would like to see improvement in the initial launch of the product, as it is currently quite slow.

We would like to see the addition of a dashboard feature, to enable faster access to regularly performed tasks.

We worked with this solution for two years.

We have found this to be a stable product; we haven't experienced any issues with performance.

This is a very scalable solution.

The customer support for this solution is good. When we submit a request to them, they provide a timeline for the work to be completed and always come back to us.

Positive

The implementation of this solution was carried out in-house.

This is a more costly solution than comparable products, and training is not available in the open-market, so this has to be purchased separately from the vendor.

We would advise organizations to look into the full costs of this product, including the cost of training their employees to use its features . They should also ensure that they can meet the bandwidth requirements of the solution before implementation.

We would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use this solution to provide HR application functions.

This solution is very user-friendly, and supports 60 plus languages.

There is not much scope for enhancements, personalization, or customization with the cloud-based variant of this solution, which could be improved.

We would like there to be better integration with this solution and our existing systems.

We would also like the option of whether to implement new features, or not, when they are released.

We have been working with this solution for four and a half years.

This is a very stable solution.

In our experience, this product is scalable and very adaptable.

We have found tehtechnical support team for this solution

Speaker 2:

Because they are responsive, they would be very approachable as well. But yeah, sometimes the SAP case, it goes across multiple geographies, across multiple points of contact, from development team to the product team or to the cross-functional teams. It floats around until a resolution or until it reaches out to the correct point of contact. So considering those cases, it may take a while for them to come up with a resolution for some cases. Otherwise, in most of the cases, pretty much the resolution is maybe in a latency of six to seven days it gets resolved.

Positive

The ease, or complexity, of the initial setup is dependent on the expertise level of the implementation partners, who will need to be certified in at least one module being deployed.

There are standard test cases, test scripts, best practices, implementation metrics, phases, timelines, and the way the project is generally executed. As long as these are adhered to, then the implementation is straightforward, but it is not admin-friendly and cannot be carried out solely in-house.

We would advise organizations that while this is user-friendly, in-house admin teams may find the technical dependencies of this solution to be challenging.

We would also suggest that that anyone involved in the implementation of this software becomes familiar with the best practice for this product, via the knowledge-base articles and help guides provided.

We would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We have found objects like Foundation and MDF most valuable.                                                 

In the next release, I would like to be able to configure objects from instances, not from import and export files. That would be easy to do and make the application mobile available for anyone who wanted to hire and recruit, not only employees of companies with the SuccessFactors system.

We have been using this solution for almost three months.

The solution is stable.

More research, more reading about SuccessFactors products, and a deeper understanding of human resources have increased my knowledge. The product is also scalable because it feeds to bigger companies.

On a scale of one to 10, I would give the product an overall rating of nine.

The overall interface is easy and user-friendly. 

I would advise future SAP SuccessFactors users to gain more skills in Employee Central solutions and issues and the customization of many projects because not all companies have the same customization. It's very different.

We are using SAP SuccessFactors for many of its modules, such as payroll and recruiting.

The SAP SuccessFactors integration with old versions can improve. We are using an older finance module but we are having migration issues.

The problem we are facing is with our employee culture. It is difficult for some users to use the solution. 

I have been using SAP SuccessFactors for approximately three years.

SAP SuccessFactors is stable, we have not found any bugs or glitches.

The scalability of SAP SuccessFactors is good.

The technical support has been helpful.

SAP SuccessFactors is simple to set up.

I rate SAP SuccessFactors a nine out of ten.

I primarily use this product for employee management. This includes an objective assessment of money made, creating performance reviews, and recruiting new employees and management.

It has improved my organization by enabling us to efficiently manage our personnel.

The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to set and review goals, and the ability to manage performance in general.

In terms of what needs improvement, in Employee Central, one of the features that I think SuccessFactors really lacks is the ability to view the time off of all employees at an organizational level. We have had instances where some of our clients wanted a version where at a glance, we can have an HR analytics that shows who is on leave, or has been on leave and when. You have that at a team level and at a peer level, but you don't have it at an organizational level. When you have to put together an agreement on leave with your client this is very lacking.

Also, it would be helpful if they could improve its ability to localize the product to Nigeria.

I have been using this solution since early 2017.

I think it's a stable solution. We have not had any issues with its deployment or use. It's been stable, so I don't know if there are any issues because we haven't had any challenges around it. 

My impression of SuccessFactors is that it is quite scalable. For example, we have clients who have slightly above 800 employees who are using it. We have clients that have over 1000 users using this. I also read online a few months back about a Russian bank that uses SuccessFactors with about 75,000 employees. It's the same product. All you need to do is to get different licenses.

If we had any issues that we were unable to resolve, we can always receive support from SAP. We raise an incident with them, and they respond depending on your priority. If you put priority one, it's almost an instant response. They reach out to you within an hour. On that call they asses the true priority level. If it's something we have to resolve as soon as possible, they will. While if it's something that is less of a priority, they will change the priority to something lower. But what I find is that at the end of the day, you always get a very good response from SAP.

Actually I haven't used a different solution.

The initial setup is straightforward because there are templates and best practices. We can just click on the button from the online center, deploy it into the system, and it sets it up for us.

The time it takes to deploy depends on the requirements and it depends on the number of modes that you deploy. As long as you have clear requirements from the client, it can take between three and four months. It doesn’t take too much time to deploy as long as you have clear requirements.

I work for a partner. I did the deployment with some of my team members.  

Before choosing SuccessFactors, we compared other industry solutions, including Microsoft. But Microsoft's HR product is really not top line in this part of the world.

I think the advice I'd give is that it's a nice solution. It's easy to deploy. It's so easy to use. You really don't need to know much about coding or be a highly technical team to be able to use it. It’s very easy to use. For example, for the traditional ERP that SAP had before, you had to be instructed to work with it. This one is really straightforward.

SuccessFactors is a good ERP system where you can handle all the employee records from the hire date to the retire date.

We like that all the employee events, everything, can be managing on one single system and it is very user-friendly and very agile.

The integration between the modules is very simple if it is a standard integration. 

The product supports third-party integrations.

The recruiting module has vastly improved since I initially started my career with SuccessFactors.

The initial setup was pretty simple.

This is a cloud product. Every six months or so, or very close to quarterly, they issue a new release. Different customers will therefore have different views. 

The pricing could be lowered a bit. It's a little expensive for many companies.

The stability could be a bit better.

When they try to do enhancements, they work to take every customer requirement and request into account. However, it might take a long time for clients to actually see the enhancement come to fruition.

I've been working with the solution for about six years at this point. 

The solution is mostly stable in the sense. That said, in some areas, it is not stable. When instability is detected, patches are released that can make the system more stable and more user-friendly.

The solution offers very good scalability. A company shouldn't have any issues with expanding.

So far, technical support has been good. Based on the priority of the ticket, we get issues resolved rather quickly. If it is a very high priority, we can get a resolution within three or four hours. They are helpful and responsive. We're satisfied with the level of support.

The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult. We found it straightforward. It's simple to set up. A company shouldn't have any issues with the process.

The pricing is a bit high for smaller to mid-sized companies. Larger organizations may find the solution reasonable. 

The licensing is based on the number of users. Therefore, the higher the number of users, the higher the cost to the company. If they could come down a bit on pricing, they may expand their market share as more companies could afford it.

We are SAP partners.

There are different ERP systems that are available in the market. Each one is unique with respect to all the features they have in-build in the system. With SAP, what we can tell the clients or customers is that they have a seamless integration between the modules. The data is very secure. They have business logic, which they can configure based on different events. All the records of the employee will show up in one single profile view. They don't need to go to different screens or different systems. It's very convenient.

I'd recommend the solution to other companies.

I'd rate the product at an eight out of ten.

We are using the solution for management services.

The overall functionality of the solution is very good.

The reporting and cloud integration could be done better in this solution.

I have been using the solution for two years.

The solution is stable in my experience.

We have found the solution to be scalable.

I would recommend the solution to others and I plan on continuing using it.

I rate SAP SuccessFactors an eight out of ten.

We are partners with a company and we are responsible for using this software for our clients.

It's very user-friendly.

The initial setup could be simplified.

I have been using the latest version of this solution for approximately one month.

It's a stable product.

It's a scalable solution. We have three users for the recruitment.

We have plans to continuing using it in the future.

The technical support is good.

The installation was a bit complex. They are more complicated than other cloud solutions.

It could be cheaper.

I would recommend this solution to others who want to start using it.

I would rate SAP SuccessFactors a nine out of ten.

We are using this solution for performance management. 

One of the most valuable features of this solution is the performance management workflow. 

I think there is room for improvement in user friendliness. In my experience, users are sometimes confused about how to use the solution. 

We have been using this solution since last year. 

This solution has always been stable for me. 

I think the initial setup is straightforward, but they could give users some direction for setting it up for the first time.