Compare SuccessFactors and Brightspace - Feb 2023

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - SuccessFactors or Brightspace?

Brightspace is more expensive to implement (TCO) than SuccessFactors, and SuccessFactors is rated higher (94/100) than Brightspace (79/100). SuccessFactors offers users more features (19) than Brightspace (7). There is a clear winner in this case and it is SuccessFactors!

Looking for the right Human Resources solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

SuccessFactors Ltd. Vs. D2L Corporation

SuccessFactors Ltd.: The SuccessFactors Management Team is led by Shawn Price, president of SuccessFactors. The team aims to fulfill the company’s mission of helping organizations of all sizes run their business better.SuccessFactors has established significant relationships with industry leaders in sales, consulting, and complementary business solutions through our gl...

D2L Corporation: D2L was founded in 1999 by John Baker. At the time, his engineering class was being challenged to look at the world in a new way. Instead of coming up with answers, they were asked to come up with questions—questions that nobody had really even asked. John realized that despite all the changes technology was facilitating in the world, the Univer...

Who is more expensive? SuccessFactors or Brightspace?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Human Resources software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for SuccessFactors and Brightspace.

SuccessFactors price starts at $6.30 per user/month , On a scale between 1 to 10 SuccessFactors is rated 6, which is similar to the average cost of Human Resources software. Brightspace price starts at $15,000 per year , When comparing Brightspace to its competitors, the software is rated 10 - much higher than the average Human Resources software cost.

Bottom line: Brightspace is more expensive than SuccessFactors.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared SuccessFactors Vs. Brightspace based on some of the most important and required Human Resources features.

SuccessFactors: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Appraisal Performance, Employee Self-Service, HR Management, Payroll, Performance Record, Recruiting, LMS, Collaboration Management.

Brightspace: LMS, Communications, Blended Learning, Course Authoring, eLearning.

Target customer size

SuccessFactors is a cross industry system which supports scalability for all business sizes by offering three different software suits: Small Business for less than 200 employees, SMEs with 200-1500 employees, and Enterprise companies with larger employee bases. Customers of the software include small and medium businesses as well as large enterprises.