BigCommerce vs Workday

BigCommerce and Workday both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

BigCommerce (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Workday (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 46). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), BigCommerce is ahead of Workday. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Workday is ahead of BigCommerce. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), BigCommerce is slightly ahead of Workday. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Workday is slightly ahead of BigCommerce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), BigCommerce is clearly ahead of Workday.

BigCommerce carries 3,505 GitHub stars across 281 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 51 external contributors on record. Workday shows 1,102 stars across 57 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but BigCommerce's footprint is roughly 3.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

BigCommerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Workday looks better where education is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.