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Question: What are the biggest differences between Salesforce and Workday?
Answer: Workday is more geared towards human capital management and salesforce is more geared towards CRM. Depends on what you need.
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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."

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"The product is useful for storing employee records.""It's intuitive, a very usable tool and it's easy to find the data you're looking for.""It is quite user-friendly.""In terms of customization, while it may not be fully customizable, you can configure the features based on the foundation that Workday offers. This allows you to take the basic features and tailor them to the specific needs of your company or business. It provides a lot of configuration flexibility.""This product is leaps and bounds above the competition. Part of the reason is that it is built with modern technology. It has no legacy coding in it at all.""We use this solution to manage financials, payroll and recruiting.""It's easy to set up.""The most valuable feature is the ease of reporting."

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Cons
"The user interface can be improved.""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."

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"The user interface could be modernized somehow.""The finance module of this solution is not great and needs improvement.""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.""I would be happy if it was faster. Currently, when I try to navigate within the solution itself, it is a bit slow in terms of the page load time. When I click on something, it usually takes time to load. When you click on different icons or areas on the website, it is slow. Even when you navigate between different models, it is a bit slow. I would like to see a bit faster performance and a better user experience.""My opinion is that this solution can improve the overall integrations and add more automation. I think anything that could be on a self-serve basis would work quite well.""It's possible that the way things are integrated could be improved""The solution has to work a lot on financial integrations, material management and CRM modules.""The solution can be improved by speeding up the load time when pulling up information."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Pricing for Salesforce CRM is extremely expensive."
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  • "With a bigger budget, I would recommend SAP."
  • "Workday is an expensive solution."
  • "You have the license fee per module, and then you have a kind of annual training fee, which is a kind of add-on. I wouldn't say it is exhaustive; it is minor. Licensing is pretty transparent for most of the part."
  • "The pricing is good from an HR perspective, although management gets upset after spending $500,000 a year, every year."
  • "Its price is pretty high. It is more expensive than what is offered by other competitors in the market."
  • "It has an annual subscription rate, but I'm not sure how it will work."
  • "The pricing for this solution is fairly high. It is not affordable for small and mid-sized companies."
  • "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
    Russell Rothstein - PeerSpot reviewerRussell Rothstein (PeerSpot)
    Vendor

    @Valon I suggest you submit a new question asking about the differences between successfactors and workday. Best if you provide a bit of context - you'll get better answers that way!

    Valon Hyseni - PeerSpot reviewerValon Hyseni
    User

    correction: please read successfactors instead of salesforce (typo/autocorrect)

    it_user1118469 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user1118469 (Partner - Co-Founder at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees)
    Real User

    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

    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:All the business intelligence included in the tool gives more information about the cycle of the sales stage.
    Top Answer:We pay the license annually for Salesforce CRM. Pricing is extremely expensive. I'm not aware of any hidden costs besides the cost of the license.
    Top Answer:The user interface of the screenshots feature is a little bit old and hasn't been updated for a long time.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:We use the platform for tasks, including applying for leaves, communication, and adhering to our organization's policies through efficient goal setting and reviews.
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    Overview
    Salesforce Community Cloud, a social platform, that connects and collaborate with customers, partners, and employees. Build a community for everyone critical to your business ecosystem, from agencies, vendors, and suppliers, to patients, job applicants, and even retail locations. Community Cloud employs Salesforce's Chatter social CRM platform for chat and screensharing, allowing users to exchange data and images in real time throughout an ongoing conversation. The platform supports customer relationship management (CRM) and provides channels for customers to find information and communicate with other customers. The console also includes a "Buy" button to enable e-commerce.

    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:

    • Flexible framework that lets you organize your staff according to different criteria. You can group employees by function, hierarchy, or department.
    • Personalized career guidance: Knowledge management and career guidance that can be easily customized for each staff member and also done at scale.
    • Augmented reporting and analytics: Configure, change, update, and publish reports, scorecards, and dashboards. The system centralizes the transactional and analytical data so you can act on the data from anywhere.
    • Compensation tools: Compensatio, payroll, and time tracking are automated and simplified.
    • Workforce planning allows you to uncover and address talent gaps and get visibility of your staff.
    • Mobile-first ensign approach: Users can access all resources from any device, and they are always in sync.
    • Machine learning capabilities enable personalized enterprise experiences and faster business processes.

    Workday smart platform consists of the following modules:

    • Human resource management
    • Business process management
    • Reporting and analytics
    • Benefits administration
    • Compensation management
    • Talent management
    • Survey framework
    • Employee and management self-service

    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.

    Sample Customers
    Brown-Forman, GE Aviation, Pernod Ricard, Toyota, Virgin America, GE, IAVA
    AAA, Allied Global, Avago Technologies Limited, Aviva, Cardinal Health, CareFusion, Chiquita Brands International, Equifax, Flextronics, HP, Life Time Fitness, McKee Foods, MGM Resorts International, Sanofi, ServiceSource International, Symantec, TripAdvisor, Yahoo!
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    University12%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Government7%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm27%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Transportation Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization26%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise71%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise32%
    Large Enterprise53%

    Salesforce Community Cloud is ranked 1st in Community Platforms with 2 reviews while Workday is ranked 2nd in Cloud HCM with 49 reviews. Salesforce Community Cloud is rated 9.0, while Workday is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Salesforce Community Cloud writes "Helps us with sales management of customer life cycles with good business intelligence". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workday writes "The solution's interface is clean, organized, and easy to use ". Salesforce Community Cloud is most compared with Magnolia CMS, Adobe Experience Cloud and Lithium, whereas Workday is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft and UKG.

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