We performed a comparison between Oracle E-Business Suite and Workday based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Benefits Administration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Oracle EBS provides the customer with faster financial closing because of its accurate calculations."
"The on-premise is very similar to the cloud version."
"EBS has lots of application families and lots of features. It is modular in deployment and flexible enough to let the customer increase the built-in capabilities and enable new applications when needed. These are very important things at hand in case there will be a need to expand the product capabilities and/or implement new projects."
"The most valuable features of the Oracle E-Business Suite are best practices, built-in processes, and easy configuration. Plenty of system functionality and customization."
"The most valuable features are straight-through processing because we need to make sure that we have a good end-to-end process."
"The new Subledger Accounting feature is very strong."
"The supplier invoice payment process is very easy and is integrated from the requisition to the payment (and to creating the asset)."
"ERP is a valuable feature of this product."
"It's actually a cloud-native solution and based on the community for development. It is a very good open architecture and able to interconnect with other systems. And it is very stable and very fast in terms of response."
"We like the fact that this solution is very user-friendly, with a straightforward user interface."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"Workday is easy to use. Timesheet and resource management are also easy."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of reporting."
"The reporting feature is quite easy for a layman to use, and the look and feel of the application is good. Its security is robust. You will never find a use case that cannot be covered."
"The most helpful Workday features for our HR processes were in HCM, particularly in areas like talent, compensation, benefits, and learning."
"The most valuable feature of Workday is the ease of navigation to browse the application. The solution can hold information about the company and people with accounts can be discovered by others in the whole company."
"The way things are going, Oracle is not putting much effort into their master data management. They need to look into machine data and then the integrated data domain."
"Standard reporting needs to be changed. Many of the standard reports look the same as they did in version 10.7, 20 years ago."
"On-site cloud support is slow and unresponsive."
"I would rate the support for Oracle E-Business Suite a four out of five."
"Oracle E-Business Suite's stability could be improved as they have a lot of bugs that need to be fixed."
"More flexibility in configuration related to the Payroll module, in order to easily implement the local legislation."
"Oracle E-Business Suite could improve the tables. When we remove some of them sometimes they cloud the modules into one. It becomes a little difficult to segregate."
"The solution needs to be updated with modern technology as it currently runs on the Java platform, JWE, which is obsolete and requires you to need an API supported browser."
"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 expenses and reimbursements module could be improved. Creating expense reports is time consuming and inefficient compared to other expense solutions."
"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."
"There were a lot of issues. There were consistency or accuracy issues with the data we had, and every time we had to pull reports in Workday, it was difficult."
"It's possible that the way things are integrated could be improved"
"The UI, UX (user experience) is very bad. It is not very interactive."
"The user interface could be modernized somehow."
"This solution could be made easier to use by continuing to release new improvements."
Oracle E-Business Suite is ranked 5th in Benefits Administration with 141 reviews while Workday is ranked 1st in Benefits Administration with 51 reviews. Oracle E-Business Suite is rated 7.8, while Workday is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle E-Business Suite writes "Offers valuable finance tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workday writes "The solution's interface is clean, organized, and easy to use ". Oracle E-Business Suite is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP, Oracle HCM Cloud, NetSuite ERP and Microsoft Dynamics GP, whereas Workday is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft and Gloat. See our Oracle E-Business Suite vs. Workday report.
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