Oracle HCM Cloud Reviews

We use this solution to manage our employee's information and their salaries. 

Generally, we use it for payroll purposes.

The system is okay and works well for us.

I think they should have a larger data center in China, which would significantly increase the access speed from my current workspace.

The access and speed should be increased.

I have been using Oracle HCM Cloud for three years.

We are using the latest version. It's a cloud-based solution.

We have not had any issues with the stability of this solution.

As a cloud solution, it's definitely scalable.

If we pay more, we get more features and functionalities. These include options such as recruitment and performance reviews. In general, it's very scalable.

We have 185 users in our organization.

Technical support is fine. We are satisfied with the level of support that we have.

It's an additional cost for higher-level support.

There is no installation required, as it is a cloud-based solution.

Licensing fees are on a yearly basis.

The price could be cheaper. We want it to be as cheap as possible.

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.

We use Oracle HCM (Human Capital Management) to help set and maintain performance goals. This encompasses HCM, Human Resources, and critical learning.

This product has improved our handling of human resources. For example, before the implementation of this system, we submitted vacation requests on hard copy letters for approval. That took time and was a little clumsy. Now we do not have to call management for things like emergency leave. We just submit the requests and get permission without extra steps. It helps us to efficiently process these events.

If you deploy the product so that it is available from anywhere, employees can submit vacation requests so resources and expectations can be managed. What the most important thing is that we monitor goals, performance and prospective plans. But there are many, many valuable features.

The interface is easy already, but if you improve user interface  — any upgrade of that sort — they will improve the product. We notice an improvement with every update and they should continue to do that.

In our next phase of the deployment, we want to implement the financial modules which has been part of our plan for a while. That is just the deployment of something that already exists in the product. Oracle HCM in some countries only has the payroll module on-premises. We can use it that way, but we would like them to include all countries to be cloud so that it is available in our preferred deployment. Currently, payroll in Egypt is on-premises only because of regulations. We need to be on the cloud so we look forward to that.

Right now, we don't need anything that is really a new feature. Our company will start to more fully utilize the current features already available.

The stability is also very good. In some ways, this is like the scalability. We do not have trouble with load changes.

I think this product has great scalability. Expanding our usage to any number of employees has not been a problem with this product. Every day our employees submit various requests and the performance does not lag. For the modules that we use daily in our system with various loads, it really works as expected.

We have a service agreement with Oracle technical support. When we call them directly, they respond to us quickly and the support and answers they offer are good.

The implementation was complex. We needed a third-party Oracle partner to help us to set up the solution. It needed more analysis, more configuration, and more setup steps than most products we deploy, and it took a long time to go live.

It took three months to go to production live with our team of four and the partner's team of another five people. That included three consultants and one developer. Five or six were always on the project but it varied up to ten people.

We did seek assistance through an Oracle partner.

We negotiated to get a discount and we got a big discount. Normally this product is a little bit expensive something compared with similar solutions. But it is a good value because of what it does.

On an annual basis, we pay about $25,000 for our company. This includes the VAT, support, upgrades and everything else.

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.

Oracle have been spending a lot of time developing the HCM Cloud product, and it's now a full-featured product set as far as I'm concerned. It covers the core lifecycle of an employee, all the way through from hiring somebody, managing their employment during their time with the organization, all the way through to terminations at the end. Absences are managed, time and labor is there to manage people's working time. It's a fairly full-feature function set.

With the product being in the cloud, that means that the users don't have to worry about having servers on premises, they don't have to worry about all the infrastructure, all the upgrades. They have to test upgrades, but Oracle Cloud Services will provide all of those services as part of the subscription to the product. From a technical point of view, it's a really easy thing for an organization to manage. From a functional point of view, it's a really simply solution to use as well. From the current release, which is release 11, Oracle have introduced what's known as the simplified user interface. All of the screens that every type of user is going to use all look the same. They're really simple to use, so it does what it says on the box. Clean screens, not much information on each screen, and really intuitive to use.

I think Oracle HCM is a full-feature product. It's perhaps that some of the parts of the product need expansion. I come from the UK and we deal a lot with people who want a UK-based, legislatively-based payroll service. There are certain very specific things that have to be done that would be different from other countries. Currently, there are still some important gaps in that. Oracle are addressing that and they have a release program, and later this year we expect to see some of that come in. I think I'd like to see Oracle focus on the key components of the system rather than perhaps some of the more fluffy areas that not everyone is going to use.

A lot of people ask about scalability. That's one of the real benefits of Oracle in the cloud. Say you're an organization that's got 5,000 employees and you do an acquisition and you take on another 5,000. Then Oracle scales for you. You just raise a service request and say, "I need my database to be doubled in size." You haven't got to go through all the internal problems you would have if it was on premises. It's a highly scalable product.

When you're in the cloud you have a three-way relationship. Usually between the customer, their implementation partner, and Oracle themselves. Instead of Oracle just being a software vendor, they've now become a service provider. They have to provide the service to make sure it's up 24/7. They also have to provide the support. The support is really good for Oracle. People who use their older legacy system, E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, they use the same functionality within the system to record service requests so everything's exactly the same as it used to be. It's just it might be a different group of people supporting you. The product's now been out there for three or four years and it's becoming mature enough that there's people within Oracle who know how to support that.

One of the big issues at the moment that I think customers have is that the need to make a decision. If they've got an on-premises system, do they stay with that? Do they upgrade it? Get the next version, or do they move to the cloud? Now that's an individual decision for different companies and everybody will have their own reasons for why they decide to move to the cloud or why they don't. I think some of the benefits of moving to the cloud, that you don't have to manage that infrastructure anymore. Also, I think it's fair to say that Oracle really are developing the cloud. That's where all the innovation is going. Although they do update their legacy systems, we see more and more of the innovation going into the cloud first. I think that will just increase over time.

I think there comes a point when a customer who is thinking about moving to the cloud is going to think, "Well, if I buy an on-premises system and I keep that for the next five or 10 years, is that system going to be a bit of a dinosaur quite quickly?" Whereas cloud, it's in its infancy and I guess it's got a longer shelf life at this point. I think it's a decision that will be made differently by different companies. What we're seeing in the market is that more and more people seem to be moving to the cloud now.

I think when you're choosing a solution for the cloud, you've really got to look at is that vendor growing its application portfolio? Is it developing it? Is it bringing out new features? Is it giving you something that is scalable? If I want to grow my organization, will my application grow with me? I think they're the important things. Secondly, I'd look at support. Does my vendor provide the right level of support for me? If I'm a global organization, does it cover me following the sun around the world 24/7, 365 days a year?

I think when you're implementing in the cloud, it's a slightly different process to implementing on premises. There are still certain things about a project which will always be the same. For example, the customer has to do certain tasks and that will still take them as long as it always took them. The implementation partner will have to do tasks to ensure the customer understands what's going on so all of those things are the same. What you find in the cloud is you're buying a service. That service can be stood up almost immediately, and you're paying for it from day one, so the customer needs to see something, needs to see an ROI very quickly. What we do when we implement is we show them in week one what the system will look like. We put some of their own data into it and we go through quite a rapid implementation process.

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.

I am using the Oracle HCM Cloud mainly for the finance module, which covers areas, such as core HR and payroll.

Oracle HCM Cloud's most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly.

I have been using Oracle HCM Cloud for approximately eight years.

Oracle HCM Cloud is a stable solution. However, previously it was not. A lot of my clients have migrated from Oracle EBS to Oracle Fusion Cloud.

Oracle HCM Cloud is a scalable solution.

We have multiple clients using this solution.

The technical support from Oracle HCM Cloud is fine.

The initial setup is straightforward. However, it is more complex than Oracle Taleo because it has a lot more features have complexity. It does not take a long time to implement Oracle HCM Cloud. For the core modules, it takes 40 to 45 days to implement.

The cost of Oracle HCM Cloud is high, it could be reduced. There is an annual subscription and it is user-based.

I would recommend Oracle HCM Cloud to others.

I rate Oracle HCM Cloud an eight out of ten.

I'm helping customers with using the product. We are a reseller and implementation partner, and we also support  customers with the maintenance of the product. It is being used for core HR absence management and goal and talent management. We are currently also exploring the integration with a payroll system.

One of our customers is using version 21C, and two other customers are using version 21D. It is absolutely cloud-based.

Talent management is good to find top-performers and make improvement plans for and with other workers

The absence management can use some improvement. Due to all the flexible working, the part with work schedules could be a little bit more flexible. 

We were demonstrating the reporting tool, and there was one competitor that had a solution that was not yet included in Oracle. Its reporting tool is fine. We had to do a presentation, and there was some other company doing a presentation of a specific reporting tool, and they were able to show a window in a window. That feature was very impressive, and that's not yet possible within Oracle. It might get added in the future. It is nice when you have a kind of dashboard with a graph, and you can easily compare it with another graph.

I have been working with and using the product since it has been on the market.

Its stability is okay. That's not a problem.

Its scalability is also not a problem. If your business is growing and you get more employees, you just pay a little bit more contribution. The subscription will change. That's not a problem.

One of the clients has only 300 workers using the system, and the other one has something like 18,000 or 19,000 workers using the system. They do have plans to increase the usage.

Their technical support is okay. I don't have any problems with the Oracle support part. They are of great help.

Positive

They switched from another product to Oracle. A client has a combination of an HR and payroll product, and they are currently considering moving to Oracle HR for the core application and then integrating with the payroll provider.

I was involved with one of them, and it was quite straightforward. It was not that complex. Another one was done with another partner company and Oracle consulting, and that was a little bit more complex due to many countries and localizations that had to be used, especially as per all the local regulations for absence management, entitlements for all the employees, and stuff like that.

The environment was available within a few days. That was not a problem. The entire implementation was something about three to four months.

In terms of maintenance, for the smallest one, it was one worker doing it part-time. For the other one, it was a little bit more complex because they are in many countries. So, they have a kind of a global team, and they have local people working on it. The third client has something like three people for the payroll interface and maintenance of the system.

The contract for one of them will be extended for three years and for another one for two years. One of them is paying monthly, and another one is paying per quarter. I don't know about the third one. So, it differs.

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.

Oracle HCM Cloud can be used for workforce management.

The solution has good integration with other applications.

I was part of a program I went to where I had a discussion on the latest innovation of the Oracle HCM. I think some of the newer technology innovations, such as gamification and consumerization are areas that could be improved. Additionally, there are certain areas of global compliance where there could be improvements. We use a lot of standalone applications for these elements and we are looking forward to having those elements all in one application.

I have been using Oracle HCM Cloud for approximately eight years.

The solution is stable.

Oracle HCM Cloud is scalable. Oracle is spending a lot of effort in research and development to increase scalability and speed with the high demand for mobile usage.

We have approximately 30,000 users using this solution in my organization.

In a previous organization, I used Workday.

The implementation of the solution is easy because it is a cloud solution.

There is a license required for the use of this solution and we are on an annual license.

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.

Compared to earlier, older versions, HCM Cloud has built-in business intelligence and reporting capabilities, and not just transactional. In other words, it provides actual analytic capabilities that are pretty good. Insofar as specific functionalities go, it has on the accounts tables side built-in document image capturing tools. There's no need to rely on third-party products anymore.

I do quite a lot of work in the GL, general ledger. Oracle has built some Hyperion planning and budgeting capabilities into it, which, in older versions, were separate investment appliances. Every customer I've spoken with has really liked those features, at least in theory.

Lowering the total cost of ownership would be nice. We're a consulting organization, so we help implement Oracle HCM Cloud. We want to help our clients optimize and see reductions in execution times. Traditional ERP implementations released for global manufacturing companies used to take anywhere from eighteen months to two or three years. With HCM Cloud and some accelerators and other capabilities, we can reduce those execution times by at least six to eight months.

Also, the financial and supply chains need more integration with companies' business processes and their feedback provided to Oracle consulting partners like us. This helps with further improvements in the future.

I've been using it for about a couple of years.

We haven't had any issues with deployment.

There are some modules and suits that are more stable than others. HCM is very robust and stable, and that's why you soon many clients adopting it sooner. But when it comes to supply chain and financial clients, it's still something written with bugs. Oracle product development is obviously working hard to improve on that.

We see a lot of adoption from the clients going in for an on-premise, which means you have everything in-house at your own location, but then scaling it up to go to Oracle HCM Cloud and having Oracle host it. This mitigates some of the fears that clients have in terms of security and scalability and elasticity of the product. Once that is worked up, we have seen that the product supports any business decision in terms of scalability.

There are some areas that are more robust and more mature in terms of the offering than others. We do, obviously, based on our relationship with Oracle support, get ample support for what we want and when we want it, but because of the maturity levels in some of the offerings, like supply chain and financials, Oracle support themselves struggles sometimes, so we work to reach out to our counterparts in product development to get what we need.

It is actually much easier now than it used to be. It's all vanilla and it's pretty much straightforward. Obviously, there is a lot of training that is involved, but it's much easier and much less stringent than the previous versions in terms of navigation.

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.