We performed a comparison between Oracle HCM Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SAP SuccessFactors is the winner in the comparison. According to reviews, SAP SuccessFactors appears to be a more mature and powerful solution. Oracle HCM Cloud does come out on top in the ease of deployment category, however.
"The most valuable feature of Oracle HCM Cloud is the dashboards, customization, and configuration."
"Oracle is a strong option for purchasing or procurement."
"Since it is an integrated solution, it brings speed and efficiency to the business process."
"This product can greatly improve handling of human resources and efficiency."
"The solution has good integration with other applications."
"The most valuable features of Oracle HCM Cloud are the easy ability to customize the solution and applications. Additionally, the solution updates the solution"
"Oracle HCM has a great reporting platform, OTPI, with drag-and-drop functionality. I can design my own reports without relying on the technical team. This empowers HR users to create reports based on their needs, which is a huge advantage."
"It is a configurable, scalable solution."
"What I like the most is the KPI management formula."
"This solution is very user-friendly, and supports 60 plus languages."
"The tool is easy to use for performance management. We haven't experienced any issues with SAP SuccessFactors for performance management, which is great. However, since we're still learning to use it fully, we might not utilize all its available features yet."
"SAP SuccessFactors integrated solution, allows us to start the process from a recruitment marketing perspective and have our career site and candidate profile pull through into each other."
"This solution can be used for reporting related to employee information and contacts"
"It covers all the everyday functions of the employee life cycle."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its integration capabilities with on-premise ERPs and other systems."
"The self-service part is most valuable. Employees and managers can do a lot of things on their own, and they are not dependent on the HR organization."
"There should be more digital assistance included, like chatbots."
"The solution could improve by having better integration between on-premise and the cloud. It can be difficult and time-consuming to migrate our applications and interfaces."
"The initial setup is straightforward. However, it is more complex than Oracle Taleo because it has a lot more features have complexity."
"The performance and reaction time can be improved."
"I rate the technical support of Oracle HCM Cloud an eight out of ten. There is some room for improvement."
"The features available in EBS should be available on the cloud as well. When these features are not available on the cloud, it's hard to convince customers to migrate."
"The product needs to keep improving the integration tools and the tools to load the data - that whole mechanism - in order to allow for flexibility in the configuration."
"Visually, Oracle HCM Cloud needs improvement. For example, the employee portal looks rather old, so it would be awesome if Oracle refreshed its design or if the portal looked more modern. Oracle HCM Cloud works, but visually, it needs improvement."
"The reporting tool is not as good as IBM Cognos which is very, very powerful."
"The reporting and cloud integration could be done better in this solution."
"It's a bit complicated to make a change in the tool... It is time-consuming."
"Analytics could use some work."
"It is not that user-friendly. It can be made more user-friendly."
"SuccessFactors could be improved by making it usable on mobile and making its features less rigid."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The price could be lower."
Oracle HCM Cloud is ranked 4th in Cloud HCM with 65 reviews while SAP SuccessFactors is ranked 1st in Cloud HCM with 90 reviews. Oracle HCM Cloud is rated 7.8, while SAP SuccessFactors is rated 7.8. 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 SAP SuccessFactors writes "Offers many useful modules and integrations, and helps companies adhere to best practices". Oracle HCM Cloud is most compared with PeopleSoft, Workday, SAP HCM, Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Taleo, whereas SAP SuccessFactors is most compared with SAP HCM, Workday, PeopleSoft, UKG and Cornerstone Learning. See our Oracle HCM Cloud vs. SAP SuccessFactors report.
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