Workday Financial Management vs Backstop: Which is a better fit?

Nick C.: My name is Nick. I am an IT security specialist. I work in higher education and I give Workday Financial Management a four out of five. When looking at different products between Workday and also we are looking at a product called PeopleSoft. And we moved off of PeopleSoft, an older version, but their newer version did not meet all of our needs. We ended up going with Workday because they provided a fully cloud solution that alleviated any problems we had with on-premise things, like servers and workstations. With the nature of things like Workday, the integration for programs that replaced financial management are going to be very involved. So, it was quite a long process for us to integrate Workday into our environment. But it's definitely something that we enjoyed the change. When looking into Workday as a financial solution, definitely going to be, know all of the requirements that your finance team requires and all of the things that will be needed to continue support for this product. (silence)

Kenneth L.: Hello, my name is Ken. I'm a senior product manager. Backstop, I'm going to give a four out of five. For more reviews like this, please click below. Before we had Backstop, we were using Excel, we were using share folders in analog and exchange. We were using Access Database. It was a hybrid of technologies, but none of that worked really well. The reason why we chose Backstop, we want some CRM that just works, and we would need to be able to have some document management and also the contact management, and most important, the relationship management, so we can see the progression of the buyer's journey and all the user engagement behaviors. And Backstop does it wonderfully. How we started to bring Backstop on board, we engaged with the professional services team. And it's a top notch of consultants that we're working with. They took our requirements, they took our data, Excel, attachments, PDFs, and all those kind of documents that we had on the numerous share drives and stuff like that. And they were able to put some metadata around and did the mass import for us. And then nothing went as planned, but we did a couple iterations and we were able to get all the information in pretty much in bulk. And I say the first run, we were able to get about 80%, 85%, which was very good. And the next round was some scrubbing, some massage to get it exact shape that we wanted. In terms of recommendations and suggestions if you're thinking about deploying it, I think the, again, the professional services team top notch. Really recommend them. Also, I think some planning ahead is just really imperative. The information, there's so many ways to get into Backstop because it's so flexible, but the more shape that you're thinking about how you want it to get it out and how you want to do reporting on, those pre-planning is really key in terms of getting a successful implementation. And highly recommend you spend some time doing the pre-planning. After the implementation, the knowledge management team from Backstop is, again, really wonderful to work with. Once you build the product, you're end users, they still need to get comfortable with it. And you can schedule one-on-one knowledge management sessions with the team, and then they will just give you the hand-holding. Highly recommend it.