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ADP Streamline vs Workday HCM comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 21, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

ADP Streamline
Ranking in Benefits Administration
24th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Global Payroll (5th)
Workday HCM
Ranking in Benefits Administration
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Talent Management (2nd), Cloud HCM (1st), Talent Acquisition (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Benefits Administration category, the mindshare of ADP Streamline is 1.7%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Workday HCM is 9.2%, down from 18.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Benefits Administration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Workday HCM9.2%
ADP Streamline1.7%
Other89.1%
Benefits Administration
 

Featured Reviews

Abdul-Rauf - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Payroll Services & Operations at Meshsol Technologies
Simplifies payroll processing and reduces the need for extensive marketing efforts while providing scalability, compliance, and excellent stability
I believe there is room for enhancement in the scope of services. We encountered challenges at times in clearly defining it, particularly because the firewall domain is extensive and demands localization for this service. Consequently, there is occasional confusion regarding whether a service falls under the standard category or is considered an add-on. I think there is a need for a deeper level of comprehension.
Eslam Abo Elnaga - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior people and systems analyst at B_labs & Mylo
Has improved HR process efficiency through intuitive workflows and responsive support
There is something that could be improved in Workday, specifically in the time tracking module. While I am not working on Workday now, I was a regional HRIS working for Egypt, Malta, India, and China. I mention these countries to relate to high population countries and companies. In our company, we use assigned work schedules for our teams. Because we work with the time tracking module, we need to assign shifts. In the manufacturing industry, we might need to change shifts every day or week. Manufacturing teams are huge, approximately 50 to 200 people in one team. If this team has one leader, the leader needs to assign a work schedule for each person individually. While there is mass upload functionality where we can load shifts for all people or specific groups, we need to select multiple people and assign them to a schedule from the interface itself. I have requested this functionality many times. When extracting business processes awaiting actions report, I can select different processes in one box, hit okay, and the report comes up. However, the same functionality does not work for work schedule assigning. If implemented, it would help many people in companies with high populations and big teams.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product is good, user-friendly, and effective."
"The ability to have one reporting for all countries is valuable."
"They are very strong in terms of having a central regional system, where a regional person can see and monitor the calendar for each different country and know what stage they are in, if the process has been finalized and approved, and if the process has gone back to the bank, all monitored regionally."
"The advantage was that ADP Streamline was inherently designed to serve as a marketing engine for the company."
"The product allows you to create and manage shared services centrally even in small countries."
"The most valuable feature was that everything was in one system."
"I like the reporting feature as it allows me to generate reports independently without relying on a payroll consultant."
"Workday Human Capital Management's most valuable feature is self-service."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a cloud-based system and easy to use."
"The product is useful for storing employee records."
"It helps the users to enroll for the benefits automatically and update their life events without the involvement of HR individuals or back-office staff. It enables a person to take action on their own. It reduces the administrative burden on HR and puts the ownership on the person that is going through the life event, whether it is having a child, taking a leave of absence, or something else. There are easy ways to integrate Workday with your common benefits. At least in the USA, it can be integrated with common benefits providers such as Fidelity, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, etc. It has got a connector that is able to connect with the vendor or the third party to which you are trying to send the eligibility file. It basically allows us to automate or set up the tool, and the integration with the provider is a lot quicker than competing tools. When it comes to reporting on just eligibility and SLSA, it is a lot more user-intuitive. Depending on the purpose of what you are doing, you can grant security rights or roles, for example, you can control whether someone is a benefits administrator doing an independent audit. Workday makes it very easy to do that. It significantly simplifies the reporting process."
"The solution is easy to use and provides great flexibility and security."
"Overall, it delivers a really seamless solution that allows for operational efficiencies and operational excellence."
"It was more efficient for the agents for their performance reviews, but when it came to HR and the recruitment team, it sometimes worked, and sometimes, it didn't work."
 

Cons

"We had to scrap plans to integrate Brazil because it was not doable."
"The product is not quite up to our expectations."
"The UI could be improved to be a bit more modern or trendy because it looks old-fashioned compared to other systems."
"They could improve the service relationship manager (SRM), because they have an SRM which is not familiar with Simple."
"The reporting tool could be improved as it currently is just a data dump and much manipulation is required."
"The pricing is high as compared with other products in the market. For a small service that is out of scope, it has a huge service charge."
"Having more clear guidance on design and training would be beneficial."
"I think there is a need for a deeper level of comprehension."
"It does not integrate with some of the career management softwares, like LinkedIn."
"We would like to see improvement in the mobile app variant of this solution. The time sheet entry and approval, and the geo-tagging features all need to have their functionality updated, in order to be comparable with other products on the market."
"If you want to add more features to your subscription, Workday becomes expensive."
"Analytical tools have needed improvement."
"In Workday Human Capital Management, I feel that the security part needs to be improved."
"Analytical tools have needed improvement. Workday has just released Prism Analytics, to replace the current analytical tools, so it’s in the early stages."
"Workday could give us industry-specific or vertical-specific solutions."
"The dashboard is fine, but the dashboarding and other aspects could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our company had a standardized pricing model based on the number of employees."
"The amount we pay is not low, and it is not high. It is average."
"I rate the product’s pricing a ten out of ten."
"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."
"With a bigger budget, I would recommend SAP."
"I would rate the solution’s pricing a six out of ten."
"It has an annual subscription rate, but I'm not sure how it will work."
"Workday is an expensive solution."
"The solution’s pricing is better than SAP SuccessFactors."
"Workday is moderately priced - I'd rate its pricing three out of five."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
19%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Healthcare Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise50
 

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