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Salesforce Community Cloud vs Workday 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 (3rd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (8th)
Workday
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
Benefits Administration (1st), Talent Management (2nd), Cloud HCM (3rd), Talent Acquisition (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Salesforce Community Cloud and Workday aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Salesforce Community Cloud is designed for Community Platforms and holds a mindshare of 18.8%, up 17.7% compared to last year.
Workday, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud HCM, holds 10.8% mindshare, down 17.9% since last year.
Community Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Salesforce Community Cloud18.8%
Zendesk15.2%
Sprinklr14.5%
Other51.5%
Community Platforms
Cloud HCM Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Workday10.8%
SAP SuccessFactors11.3%
Oracle HCM Cloud6.0%
Other71.9%
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."
"I'm happy with the features Workday offers. But in particular, Core HCM is the best."
"The platform itself is very robust and I generally like the reporting and analytics capability."
"I like its UI and UX. When we were using Oracle or SAP, the UI/UX wasn't very user-friendly for the employees."
"It's intuitive, a very usable tool and it's easy to find the data you're looking for."
"The interface of Workday is superior; it is easy and clear, everything is organized effectively, and I enjoy using Workday extensively."
"The user interface is good and very easy to use."
"It's a fully consolidated system. All the transactions and configuration are co-located in one fully in-memory system, so there is no need to go to different data sources (multiple DBs) to pull data; it’s all in one place."
"It is a one-stop solution for everything. You can look for information about other employees or you can track your information. There is a directory, so you can search for other employees. You can also see and track your personal details and salary details on the employee profile page."
 

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."
"The product must include payroll features."
"Setting up reports can be a bit tricky."
"There is a lot of complexity in the configuration of this solution."
"It is very unique as compared to other tools in terms of the employee master data and how it is organized. That's why sometimes the information needs to sit in two different systems because, in Workday, it is organized differently. This issue is not related to benefits. It is more or so related to how you categorize employees. I don't think this is a problem that could be solved. Workday is aware of this. It is one of those kinds of situations that you just got to live with."
"In a future release we could like to have access to asset, supply and treasury management functionalities."
"The implementation could have gone a little smoother."
"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."
"The cost of Workday is certainly not inexpensive. It's very pricey."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing for Salesforce CRM is extremely expensive."
"I would rate the solution’s pricing a six out of ten."
"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."
"It's very, very expensive."
"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."
"I need to pay for a license. It is expensive."
"Workday is moderately priced - I'd rate its pricing three out of five."
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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
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
University
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise42
 

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What are the biggest differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors?
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 effi...
What do you like most about Workday?
I like its UI and UX. When we were using Oracle or SAP, the UI/UX wasn't very user-friendly for the employees.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Workday?
If you go with the launch implementation approach, the solution is generally not very expensive. If you want to add more features to your subscription, Workday becomes expensive. The solution is fl...
 

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