We performed a comparison between Oracle HCM Cloud and Workday based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle HCM Cloud comes out on top in this comparison. Compared with Workday, it is easier to deploy and it receives higher marks for its pricing and support.
"The most valuable feature is fast reporting."
"The application design is beautiful."
"Its drag-and-drop reporting is great."
"It is very user-friendly. Most of the UI is very intuitive so you don't need to follow a course to follow it up."
"Since it is an integrated solution, it brings speed and efficiency to the business process."
"This solution is user friendly and can be used on a mobile phone without a computer."
"Offers a good balanced scorecard capability."
"The initial setup or implementation process of the solution is fine. The deployment process took place in two days. So, once one has the runbook and everything in place, it is not that difficult."
"We like the fact that this solution is very user-friendly, with a straightforward user interface."
"The payroll and benefits engine is the most valuable Workday solution in my opinion. It is also easy to access."
"Provides flexibility to integrate with the product. It has several tools, out-of-the-box, for integrations. It delivers pre-built interfaces for specific vendors, pre-built generic integrations to extract or push data into Workday through configuration."
"It's easy to set up."
"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."
"I would say that we have definitely seen a return on investment."
"It helps the users to enroll for the benefits automatically and update their life events without the involvement of HR individuals or back-office staff. It enables a person to take action on their own. It reduces the administrative burden on HR and puts the ownership on the person that is going through the life event, whether it is having a child, taking a leave of absence, or something else. There are easy ways to integrate Workday with your common benefits. At least in the USA, it can be integrated with common benefits providers such as Fidelity, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, etc. It has got a connector that is able to connect with the vendor or the third party to which you are trying to send the eligibility file. It basically allows us to automate or set up the tool, and the integration with the provider is a lot quicker than competing tools. When it comes to reporting on just eligibility and SLSA, it is a lot more user-intuitive. Depending on the purpose of what you are doing, you can grant security rights or roles, for example, you can control whether someone is a benefits administrator doing an independent audit. Workday makes it very easy to do that. It significantly simplifies the reporting process."
"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."
"I would focus on making high volume recruitment more bulky."
"I believe what could be improved is the EX portion of Oracle HCM Cloud and how it can more easily integrate with other tools."
"Occasionally there are problems with stability."
"Exposure to users on the volume or utilization of servers and memory is necessary. Currently, when users hit the threshold, the system experiences a slowdown."
"In some cases, the price may be lower depending on what is negotiated."
"The performance and reaction time can be improved."
"We have received some unfavorable feedback regarding Oracle HCM Cloud's performance. This has led us to investigate alternative solutions. In my own experience, I have struggled with the slowness of the cloud assessment and the overwhelming complexity of the software's robust architecture. I have reservations about sharing any positive experiences I may have had with the solution."
"The support from Oracle HCM Cloud is great, they are responsive and helpful. However, they still could improve."
"Reporting systems should be improved. If you want to report it on paper, if you want something more BI oriented, more high level predictive or more data-driven, it should be improved."
"The implementation could have gone a little smoother."
"The security console should be made less complex."
"The expenses and reimbursements module could be improved. Creating expense reports is time consuming and inefficient compared to other expense solutions."
"The cost of Workday is certainly not inexpensive. It's very pricey."
"The user interface could be better. Everything else was fine."
"The solution has some features missing when you put them in the test studio or Confluence Studio. I would like the tool’s coding to be easier to understand and automated. Most of the coding these days is automated. Any query given can pull the answer directly which can make the solution easier to understand."
"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."
Oracle HCM Cloud is ranked 2nd in Benefits Administration with 62 reviews while Workday is ranked 1st in Benefits Administration with 49 reviews. Oracle HCM Cloud is rated 7.8, while Workday is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle HCM Cloud writes " Capable of consolidating data from all countries and providing access to any employee information across locations but poor user experience". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workday writes "The solution's interface is clean, organized, and easy to use ". Oracle HCM Cloud is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, PeopleSoft, SAP HCM, Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Taleo, whereas Workday is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, PeopleSoft, UKG and Cornerstone Learning. See our Oracle HCM Cloud vs. Workday report.
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