Oracle HCM Cloud Other Advice

OswinSteve - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Digital HR Transformation, Product Owner at Chubb

This is completely based on an organization's culture. It depends on how the company is. So if a company is really huge, and they have a lot of varied processes, but from a culture perspective, if they are willing to change, if they are willing to move into one common practice, one common platform, which will have a lot of restrictions, then yes, they can definitely go for Oracle. 

Because what Oracle offers will be very less from a flexibility perspective, but it's more stable. It's quite a stable platform. So you will not have usability issues in the system. 

Once you've set up something, they want you to agree that's what you can configure and can't do anything beyond that. So you live with that once you've agreed to it. And once you have configured it, then the system will work as it is. It won't change abruptly like some new systems in the market. So you won't face that kind of issues on this because they're quite standardized. So, stability-wise, it's quite good. So it worked very well for us in our company in that sense. 

From a cultural perspective, we set expectations very clearly to our HRs. There are restrictions, but it is what it is. We took a hit and accepted it. This is what we get out of it, and you all are moving towards one culture, one process. And then HR is able to accept it. So that's how the solution is working for us. 

So it's a complex decision, but in certain companies, it's not worth it. I've worked in another company earlier. In my previous company, it's very difficult to bring them back to a new culture. HR would not really agree to be so flexible. So those companies, it won't really work. 

So my suggestion would be, if the company is flexible and huge, then they can go for Oracle. If the company is huge but not really flexible, then they will have hundreds of other solutions available, definitely not Oracle.

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. There is room for improvement.

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Claudia  Schlesinger - PeerSpot reviewer
Programme Lead- People, Change and Communications - GMM at AIA

All solutions have room for improvement and there are lots of solutions coming out with additional enhanced usability or capability at the moment. The reason a lot of people have moved on from SAP is that they didn't stay with the times and the likes of Workday and Oracle filled in that gap by being able to provide something that was more modern, and more on trend at that point in time. It is important to keep up to date with those trends.

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud an eight out of ten.

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Barış Ergün - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner - Business Development & Project Director at Athena IT Solutions

The product itself is very powerful, innovative, and easy to use. And in terms of total cost of ownership, it offers significant advantages. However, to truly maximize the benefits, a proper and accurate implementation is crucial. That's where partnering with a highly skilled consultancy and implementation team becomes vital. It highly impacts the project's overall success.

So, a customer who wants to invest in Oracle HCM solutions should first have a clear and defined Oracle HCM strategy for their specific HCM processes. Based on that strategy, they can then choose the appropriate modules. Collaborating with a competent and experienced implementation partner is highly recommended. 

Moreover, we highly advocate for a phased implementation approach. We don't endorse or believe in the "big bang" projects. Instead, handling the project in stages or in a step-by-step manner, aligned with the company's HCM strategy, is a much more effective approach.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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March 2024
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Muhammad Haris Salman - PeerSpot reviewer
Results-Driven Associate Software Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

When I came into the organization and was introduced to HCM Cloud, they showed me how it works. I didn't read the documentation in-depth because my colleagues were using specific procedures, so they just guided me through the system. 

However, if the organization starts using a completely new module in the same cloud, I would definitely read the documentation and follow the learning path provided by Oracle. 

Additionally, the company still uses HCM EBS (e-Business Suite), which is the HRMS system. While HCM Cloud seems better in my assessment.

Based on my experience, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

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AK
Delivery Manager at Brillio

I rate this solution six out of 10 because it's lacking in certain areas and not at the cutting edge in terms of market needs. I've seen many other tools that really serve our needs but we don't have that here because of their old-fashioned approach. 

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Thomas Joe - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Finance Project Manager at Cerebrae

We have a team of five that does the maintenance of the solution.

My advice to others is for them to try out the solution to see if it fits their use case.

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud a five out of ten.

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KN
Coach, Mentor, Owner at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The timeline that they give you to implement is always too compact.

I would rate Oracle HCM Cloud a seven out of ten.

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Mayank Mathur - PeerSpot reviewer
HR Transformation Lead at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I would tell potential users that not every requirement can be fulfilled. It's best to keep customizations to a minimum. If the product is used as it is, I think it could be much easier to maintain. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Oracle HCM Cloud an eight.

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Trang Tran - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst Programmer at Ambulance Victoria

I would rate this solution 7 out of 10.

For those who want to start using this solution, I recommend that they train and set aside some time for the upgrade testing.

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WILSON WILSON - PeerSpot reviewer
HR Lead, Citizens Services at SERCOP

I can recommend Oracle HCM Cloud to others, because it helped us in some of our projects. People should use this product because it can help make them productive.

I'm rating Oracle HCM Cloud an eight out of ten.

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SehrishTahir - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at Jaffer Business Systems

I would recommend this solution to others.

This is the solution we are currently using and we would like to encourage others to implement it as well. With half of our team working from home, it is important for our HR staff to be accessible through the cloud. There is no need for them to physically come to the office as they can easily access their service apps and dashboards remotely.

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud a nine out of ten.

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RD
Senior VP, Human Resources at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I rate the overall product an eight out of ten. 

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MA
Lead Functional Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

I specialize in HCM. The solution is cloud-based. It gives us a heads-up about interruptions. We cannot just be functional consultants. We must know the technical aspects. From an implementer’s point of view, some businesses want the solution but don't have their processes streamlined. So it becomes a problem, and we end up spending a lot of time on the project. Before choosing a solution, it would be good to do the groundwork by testing the client’s business process and streamlining it as much as possible.

Apart from my reservations about the performance module, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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JK
Technical Team Lead at Rotary International

Oracle HCM Cloud can be a viable option for organizations, provided the configurations and rules are properly implemented. The solution tends to work better when an organization does not have much employee turnover or churn rate. However, once a year, in the event of a churn-out of 60,000 employees in a single day, there may be delays in synchronizing certain details. Overall, I rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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Kumar Madhur - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Project Manager at HCL Technologies

I would recommend Oracle HCM Cloud to others.

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud an eight out of ten.

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Daphne Navarro - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at Quanam

Those considering using this solution should have a clear idea of exactly what they are looking for and follow good processes when it comes to setting it up. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten because it is a really good solution with small areas of improvement. 

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EH
Software Developer

We make a lot of effort in finding what is the best suitable solution for a company. I would recommend others to do their best and research what solution best suits their company's use case and proceed from there. 

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud a nine out of ten.

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Sadiq K - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle HCM Lead Consultant at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

I'm a developer and lead consultant. 

I'm currently working with the latest version of the solution. 

In comparison to other solutions, this product is very beautiful. It's a pretty good product overall. 

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. 

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RK
Assistant Manager Business Applications at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I would recommend this solution to others. Oracle provides a roadmap for every release and publishes it on its website. You can also give inputs in terms of new features that you are expecting. If a certain number of users are looking for the same feature, Oracle will incorporate it into the subsequent releases. 

I would rate Oracle HCM Cloud an eight out of ten.

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NC
Product Owner / HR / Project Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would recommend taking the time to really discover the product that is being offered. There are a lot of products and features available. Take that time to really understand how they all bundled together before you decide. In addition, the sequence in which it is recommended to implement the different modules is important. I would rate Oracle HCM Cloud a seven out of ten.

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SV
Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I would recommend Oracle HCM Cloud to my clients and would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.

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Anna Reynolds - PeerSpot reviewer
Creative Lead at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

I advise others to experiment with the platform. Most people think that using this system is complex.

It's a management system that keeps track of all the essential things. It is a great tool and has a lot of potential. I rate it a seven out of ten.

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MA
Senior Oracle HCM Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We are an Oracle partner and an implementer. I'm an Oracle, HCM, and cloud consultant.

We're working with the latest version of the solution. 

I'd recommend the solution to other users. It's easy to use. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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GM
IT Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud as a three out of ten. 

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MZ
IT Director at Guangdong Technion Institute of Technology

Oracle HCM Cloud is a part of Oracle Cloud ERP.

Definitely, I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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AM
Senior ERP Manager at Capital Group Properties

This is a perfect product that I recommend to any company that is trying to implement a solution for better management of HR and human capital management.

One big lesson we learned from implementing this product is that this was the first implementation for me on the cloud. I learned about cloud-based technologies, and I learned many things about modular HR. Working this way it helps to scope and plan a good project to make it easier and better to implement and to realize.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Oracle HCM cloud as an eight. To become a ten, they have to work on small things. For example, sometimes users get errors where they make simple mistakes like their location. It could just continue to improve and to be more user-friendly. Their file interface is not user-friendly and they should replace it with a better file app.

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it_user452343 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chairman at Certus Solutions

If somebody asks me to rate HCM Cloud from 1 to 10, I think at this point I'd give it an 8 out of 10. It's getting there. It's a really good product. My company implements it frequently. We've got a lot of business out of it and it's only getting better all the time. The only reason I wouldn't give it 9 or 10 is that I still think there's more that can be done, but I think it's a brilliant product. One of the important things about implementing the HCM Cloud solution is that you need to have a slightly different mind-set, a different approach to implementing it.

The traditional on-premises implementations often took maybe a year or more, would involve a great team of people who would be camped on the customer's site for the whole period, and it would be expensive. I think with cloud, you've got to think of it different because from day 1 that application will work. You need to configure it, but you can customize it, so you have to really understand the product. That's the key to it. We at Certus really understand the product set and we can get the most out of it for our customers because we know we cannot fall back on the option of customizing it because you just can't do that in the cloud. I think it's a different mind-set, really.

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WS
Account Manager at Qualogy

I would advise others to try to stay with the best practice business flows as much as possible. Try the standard product as much as possible before considering to make small changes that are required by one or two people. One of my customers had a requirement of making customizations to the forms, such as removing fields, but after a year or so, they suddenly realized that those fields could be very useful. They had to be enabled again. So, it's better to stay with the standard product and provide correct instructions for the users.

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.

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Rajkumar V P - PeerSpot reviewer
Director & CHRO at Tecple Innoventive Solutions Pvt Ltd

I would recommend this solution to others if it fits their organization's use case.

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud an eight out of ten.

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it_user417114 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engagement Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The future is the cloud, so if you, as an organization, are reluctant to go on the cloud and adopt that, the only advice there is to get on the bandwagon and adopt this product. Be an early adopter to reap the benefits. Don't wait. If you miss the train, you miss the train.

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GG
Chief Technology Officer at IT Convergence

Have a knowledgeable partner who knows your HR processes. Don’t select a partner just because of their technical skills with the product or knowledge of the product.

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RT
Sales manager SW CEE at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I can't recall the version of Oracle HCM Cloud I implemented, but it was the version between October 2021 to June 2022.

The product was deployed on the cloud, and the local application was on-premises.

Oracle HCM Cloud requires maintenance. Every application requires maintenance, even SaaS, because you still need an administrator who can communicate with support. In Central Europe, you'll find local solutions with better maintenance and support models than what Oracle offers. Oracle is a huge company that has its policies. Oracle-accredited implementation companies in the Czech Republic need to be better.

My company is a partner of Oracle.

I'd give new or potential users of Oracle HCM Cloud the same advice I'd share on other software, HCM, HRRS, or ERP solutions. A coherent and in-depth analysis has to be made, with all the requirements well-defined. Otherwise, the customer will be eaten alive by any implementation company. After all, Oracle HCM Cloud is a global solution, and Oracle has its policies and standards based on good practices, especially in terms of implementation. If you don't define your requirements well for Oracle HCM Cloud, you'll get the standard setup from the implementer, which you may not need at all, or you may want some changes that would cost you a lot. Knowing your complete requirements and communicating those to the implementation team, even at the local level, is essential, or the whole solution would be very pricey.

My rating for Oracle HCM Cloud is eight out of ten.

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LV
Partner at a non-tech company with 51-200 employees

Oracle HCM Cloud is a part of Oracle Cloud Fusion. There are many parts such as Financials, Project Accounting, and more. 

You need to have a good, clear design done upfront, and that is well understood by the business. You will need a good system implementation partner. And you must have some level of control over not making changes to standard products. Keep it as close to the standard as possible.

I would rate Oracle HCM Cloud an eight out of ten.

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it_user419250 - PeerSpot reviewer
HRIS Analyst at Fannie Mae

Think long and hard about it, and consider a product that will integrate with payroll easily. I think the advantages are the consolidation of the HCM and functionality. So far the challenges have been more along the lines of support.

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KL
Associate Vice President at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We are a partner and have a relationship with a vendor.

As we use the cloud deployment model, we are always on the latest version of the solution. You don't have a choice. It automatically updates everything regularly.

This application is a software as a service model. Oracle hosts this. It's on their infrastructure. I'm not sure where they have their own infrastructure, however.  

I would rate this solution at an eight out of ten. It's my understanding that they are still enhancing a lot of things and there is still a lot of growth ahead for the product.

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it_user279870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Manager Payroll/T&L at KBACE Technologies

Make sure that your systems integrator-partner knows the product

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PA
Solution Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I would give HCM Cloud a rating of nine out of ten.

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OS
Senior Manager Strategy & Transformation at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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it_user279864 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Professional Services at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Now there's a couple of other companies have it, as well as some consulting companies that do, so get advice from them.

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MM
Oracle HCM technical functional at Mashura Consultants

I would advise you to use Oracle HCM Cloud as it is a user-friendly solution. On a scale from one to ten, I would give an overall rating of seven to this solution.

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IT
Manager

I would rate Oracle HCM Cloud an eight on a scale of one to ten.

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SO
Consultant at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

The number of users of Oracle HCM Cloud depends on the project. For example, it could be from five hundred employees to ten thousand employees. I'm not the one who decides on increasing the usage of the product.

My rating for Oracle HCM Cloud is nine out of ten because not everything can be perfect.

My company is an Oracle partner.

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AanilaNanda - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud a nine out of ten.

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it_user620598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Services Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Definitely use it.

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FA
Director : Oracle GRC at Technology Risk Partners

This is a good product and I recommend implementing it.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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it_user622734 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees

Forget about customization. If you are looking for a solution that can be changed and tailored according your company business rules, don't go with this solution. Overall, this solution provides Human Resources sub-processes best practices and a large amount of flexibility to attend to a lot of business process requirements.

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AV
HR Consultant with 11-50 employees

My advice would be: Keep it simple. Make sure that your customer is aware of the processes in the solution and show them those before asking them what they want.

Make sure that the customer understands what there already is so they don't start freewheeling. 

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

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SB
Regional Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

I rate this solution a three out of ten.

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AS
IT Project Manager at Appstec Technology Services

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud an eight out of ten.

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SR
HCM Consultant at a tech services company

We use the cloud deployment model. All Oracle HCM models are only available on the cloud.

Oracle has opened up their solution to allow for anyone to make enhancement requests. Oracle will analyze these requests, and, if it's feasible, they may work to implement the request in new builds.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

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it_user627054 - PeerSpot reviewer
EVP Oracle Cloud Applications Practice at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Use the right implementation partner and ADOPT rather than ADAPT. Take the solution as it is delivered and don’t try to adapt it to your needs.

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GA
General Manager - Software Solutions at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

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NA
Senior Oracle ERP Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Make sure that the person who implements it really knows the product.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of eight. I would give it a higher rating if they improved the UI and user experience, and reduced the price.

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MB
Technology Consulting Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud a ten out of ten.

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EY
Application Consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

We use the cloud deployment model.

We not only use the solution, but we also implement the solution. We are one of Oracle's partners.

I would recommend the product to others.

I would rate the solution nine out of ten.

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it_user716547 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle HCM Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Focus on training and materials from your implementation manager.

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RA
Oracle HCM Consultant

Good for an organization size of over 500. For best results, go with a seeded product implementation and try avoiding unnecessary customizations to the product.

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it_user521730 - PeerSpot reviewer
Qa at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Some companies have their own payroll systems, whilst some prefer Oracle Payroll Cloud. So, it all depends on their requirement.

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Buyer's Guide
Oracle HCM Cloud
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Oracle HCM Cloud. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.