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Salesforce Community Cloud vs Workday HCM comparison

 

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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

Salesforce Community Cloud
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Community Platforms (2nd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (7th)
Workday HCM
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Benefits Administration (1st), Talent Management (2nd), Cloud HCM (1st), Talent Acquisition (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Salesforce Community Cloud and Workday HCM aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Salesforce Community Cloud is designed for Community Platforms and holds a mindshare of 19.3%, down 29.5% compared to last year.
Workday HCM, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud HCM, holds 9.7% mindshare, down 18.5% since last year.
Community Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Salesforce Community Cloud19.3%
Sprinklr18.2%
Lithium15.9%
Other46.6%
Community Platforms
Cloud HCM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Workday9.7%
SAP SuccessFactors8.8%
UKG5.0%
Other76.5%
Cloud HCM
 

Q&A Highlights

Ariel Lindenfeld - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Product at PeerSpot
Jan 24, 2020
 

Featured Reviews

Julio Divietro - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer success manger at Peletex
Helps us with sales management of customer life cycles with good business intelligence
Our primary use case for the solution is sales management of customer life cycles. We deploy the solution on cloud The stability and ease of use are valuable. Additionally, the granularity of the tool provides a great experience because of the several variables we can manage during the process.…
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

"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."
"Workday's best features are planning and finance."
"I found the analysis features to be very useful for our company. I also found the modules installed to be aligned with our company's KPIs. These were the two features that stood out."
"We use Workday for HR services and found the software to be very user-friendly compared to the previous software."
"I like its UI and UX. When we were using Oracle or SAP, the UI/UX wasn't very user-friendly for the employees."
"There is a lot to like about it. I really enjoy the business process framework. It's something that's really seamless. It allows you to have people within the flow. They get assigned a task to complete something to approve, etc. That's a really good piece of functionality that Workday offers. Their out-of-the-box reporting framework is also really powerful in terms of what it provides. These would be two things that I would highlight."
"Workday is easy to use. Timesheet and resource management are also easy."
"With this solution, it's really nice; all of the learning content is there, it's much easier to consume, and I don't feel like I'm jumping around between different platforms."
"The solution has good accessibility; it's easy to use and not very confusing."
 

Cons

"The support for Salesforce CRM was not very prompt. It took us a lot of time to receive support."
"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."
"The solution can be improved by speeding up the load time when pulling up information."
"It would be good if the solution provided more extensive training sessions."
"Currently, the product's payroll feature works only in four countries. It should work for more countries."
"There is a lot of complexity in the configuration of this solution."
"There is so much information floating around Workday that it becomes overwhelming to digest all of it."
"This solution could be improved by providing user-level access to customization capabilities. Users currently rely on more technical teams to customize reports, for example."
"The UI, UX (user experience) is very bad. It is not very interactive."
"They don't offer any backend database access. This is one limitation that I found in this product. Workday hasn't opened up about what kind of database they are into, which can make it easy for the technical team to emulate issues. It would be good if they can offer backend access to the technical team. It would be helpful if they can also provide a Troubleshooting Guide that we can use to troubleshoot issues. When we have an issue, there are very limited resources to refer to."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing for Salesforce CRM is extremely expensive."
"Workday is an expensive solution."
"It is on a yearly basis."
"I need to pay for a license. It is expensive."
"I rate the product’s pricing a ten out of ten."
"The solution is flexible in terms of pricing."
"It's very, very expensive."
"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."
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Answers from the Community

Ariel Lindenfeld - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Product at PeerSpot
Jan 24, 2020
Jan 24, 2020
Workday is more geared towards human capital management and salesforce is more geared towards CRM. Depends on what you need.
2 out of 4 answers
it_user1118469 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner - Co-Founder at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 20, 2020
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
it_user1165806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President with 1-10 employees
Jan 20, 2020
Workday is more geared towards human capital management and salesforce is more geared towards CRM. Depends on what you need.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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

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