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ADP Workforce Now vs Oracle E-Business Suite comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

ADP Workforce Now
Ranking in Benefits Administration
8th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Talent Management (9th), Cloud HCM (9th), HR Analytics Software (3rd)
Oracle E-Business Suite
Ranking in Benefits Administration
6th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
151
Ranking in other categories
Field Service Management (2nd), ERP (6th), Activity Based Costing Software (1st), Enterprise Resource Planning for Manufacturing (1st), Product Configuration and Quoting (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Benefits Administration category, the mindshare of ADP Workforce Now is 3.2%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle E-Business Suite is 5.0%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Benefits Administration
 

Featured Reviews

Vineeth John - PeerSpot reviewer
May 21, 2024
Custom reporting tool with field grabber, easy modules for recruitment and provides numerous options for integration
The complexity is the key challenge with a tool like ADP because it has all the bells and whistles and all the key features you can possibly think of. If it isn't there, there's always a third-party vendor you can integrate that way. But the only issue is that because it's complex, there needs to be some sort of system, at least on the back end, for the admins to understand what leads to what. We expect AI to improve multiple things with HR processes. The most obvious and common one would be the self-service function for employees, like a chatbot to help with FAQs. We are also building an AI tool that can possibly help managers make better talent management decisions. This tool will pull from the performance management tool, the talent profile, and the reports that we generally have to score employees across all different dimensions.
Nandan Gopalakrishna - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 1, 2024
Offers a wide range of functionalities for large enterprises but system requires expertise to implement and configure
In the past few years, the main challenge has been the annual maintenance cost. We've often replaced Oracle with Dynamics, which is cheaper than Oracle but still expensive for governments in Africa with limited budgets to sustain it. So, the main challenge is the cost versus the value. We don't get lower value with Dynamics 365, and I've seen governments implement other alternatives like Odoo, too. They don't see the value in paying millions of dollars in maintenance fees. Oracle needs to understand the reality of the situation. In the African market, Oracle is the least of the considerations. People don't even want to consider Oracle. They need to come up with something more cost-effective because people do not see the value in paying those maintenance fees. As a system integrator, I don't gain anything because most of the money gets transferred to Oracle. They need to relook at their licensing models. NetSuite is pretty rigid for a cloud-based suite. There are varying requirements to make changes to the configuration, which becomes a hassle compared to even Dynamics. They need to relax how they handle this. The licensing is also very complicated, with so many parameters that it's confusing, and sizing becomes confusing. Streamlining the licensing would be helpful so that it becomes transparent for the customer.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature to me is performance management because we just started using that."
"In my day-to-day work, attendance tracking would be most important. That's because I have a really diverse group of employees, and I have a subset of younger folks who are struggling with their attendance. So, that's the thing that I'm most involved with currently."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and benefits piece."
"The most interesting feature for me on ADP is the custom reporting tool. It's got something called a field grabber, which makes it so much easier to generate your own custom reports simply by pulling tabs from any feature."
"The way that ADP helped us improve our organization is by making the payroll process clean and efficient because if you make a mistake there, you're in big trouble."
"The platform is on a private cloud that is fully secure with no way for hacker penetration."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The procure-to-pay is core to our business and relevant to us."
"The solution has strong financial models and a strong database."
"It is quite stable."
"Payroll and online benefits enrollment"
"Rapidly implement jobs, positions, grades, and steps within setup of organizational structure."
"E-Business Suite's best features are the standard process, the table dictionary, and the ability to work with the SQL language to correlate data."
"The financial module has excellent features that many find valuable, while the HCM module is also highly regarded."
"I think one of the best use cases is centralizing supplier and customer data into our finance system. We identified there were so many duplicate suppliers and customers and so a lot of time was spent reporting."
 

Cons

"The ease of developing and creating reports could definitely use some improvement."
"The complexity is the key challenge with a tool like ADP ."
"The report functionality is not as good as competitive products."
"I would like to see the payroll side improved and there are a few kinks that need to be worked out."
"Its benefits portal could be user-friendly."
"When I'm not working with the implementation team and I'm just talking to customer service or something, they're just not a lot of help. They don't understand how it works. They'll tell you to do something that I know would affect something else. So, it's less about the software and more about just training their folks to a higher level."
"Sometimes I have issues with the performance tuning."
"The user interface could be better. It's not good because they made their interface all in one, and my customers don't want to use it. I have to customize the interface and personalize it to hide some fields on the screen. It has lots of information on the screen, and the user can't easily navigate it. It's very difficult to use. I think that Oracle should have something like best practices. They need to provide some patches to simplify the interface based on the industry niche. Because now we see everything on the same screen, but the users don't need all that information. It's complicated to use for end-users, and we have to spend more time training them. In the next release, I think they should implement most of the features in the mobile app. It should be better. Oracle didn't update their mobile application for a very long time. Connecting the mobile application is complicated."
"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."
"A downside of Oracle E-Business Suite is its interface because it's less user-friendly than the latest cloud solutions. As an organization, Oracle now has more interest in cloud applications, so nowadays, it doesn't focus much on Oracle E-Business Suite, an on-premises solution, so this is another downside."
"There are some enhancements in the process itself that is needed in the application. In the cloud version, they covered some of these areas and requirements but the on-premise version has to catch up."
"E-Business Suite's user experience and interface could be improved."
"On-site cloud support is slow and unresponsive."
"The initial setup was a little complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."
"It is expensive."
"The pricing is expensive and I would say it is below average for the value it provides based on the high cost."
"The solution is expensive and everyone complains about the price."
"I give the pricing a seven out of ten."
"I know some of what we're currently paying. Most customers would say it's too high, but I don't have a comparison to know that."
"The pricing of Oracle E-Business Suite is too high."
"We pay about $300 a year in order to license the solution."
"I have found the solution overall to be expensive. There are additional fees on top of the standard license."
"Oracle generally gives a lot of discounts."
"Compared to other vendors like SAP or Microsoft, the prices for Oracle are reasonable, but they could always be lower."
"It's quite expensive, even though they gave us a discount."
"The license is very expensive and I think that it needs to be cheaper to get a wider range of users or customers."
"At the time of purchasing the license the price was reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Recruiting/Hr Firm
8%
Educational Organization
63%
Computer Software Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ADP Workforce Now?
The licensing is on the pricer side, given that there aren't a lot of other tools out there that are applicable, we just decided to go ahead with ADP anyway. I would definitely recommend ADP to oth...
What needs improvement with ADP Workforce Now?
The complexity is the key challenge with a tool like ADP because it has all the bells and whistles and all the key features you can possibly think of. If it isn't there, there's always a third-part...
What do you like most about Oracle E-Business Suite?
It was very easy to integrate the product into our existing infrastructure.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle E-Business Suite?
Oracle ERP is very expensive. The licensing fees are particularly high, making it challenging to buy new licenses. We often seek internal solutions to avoid purchasing additional licenses due to th...
What needs improvement with Oracle E-Business Suite?
An area for improvement is related to the flexibility of the processes in Oracle ERP. It is challenging to change processes within the system, which sometimes hampers our ability to quickly adapt t...
 

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Oracle EBS, OEBS
 

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Sample Customers

Lawrence and Schiller, The Children's Center, The Kansas City Royals
Colab, Portobello, Saudi Telecom Company, DG Khan Cement, Dubai Holding
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