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Eightfold Talent Intelligence Platform vs Oracle Taleo comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Eightfold Talent Intelligen...
Ranking in Talent Management
16th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Talent Acquisition (8th), Talent Intelligence (1st)
Oracle Taleo
Ranking in Talent Management
13th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Benefits Administration (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Talent Management category, the mindshare of Eightfold Talent Intelligence Platform is 1.7%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Taleo is 1.9%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Talent Management
 

Featured Reviews

Luis Nino - PeerSpot reviewer
Talent intelligence platform that optimizes the matching of talent with opportunities in a scalable way
This solution is easy to use for our business case. Not all of our employees have used Eightfold's features yet. It is still contained to talent-related professionals who have found it easy to use. It only takes a couple of hours for people with no knowledge at all to start to leverage the benefits of this solution. The platform's ability to understand skills versus keywords as a talent intelligence platform is its key differentiator. The power of Eightfold is that you get to understand skills in a dynamic way and in real-time. This solution has allowed our team to focus on higher-value activities and to make sure that they are optimizing time to identify talent and match it to opportunities. They can then focus on the layers where humans are necessary. One of the valuable aspects of solutions like Eightfold is their ability to talk to and integrate with other solutions. It has increased the opportunity for candidates to find jobs that they are genuinely interested in.
NiranjanP - PeerSpot reviewer
Has good features like OCR, single source of truth, and simplicity of the workflows
The solution should be more intuitive and user-friendly when navigating the different pages within Oracle. If someone wants to exit the organization, they have to go to different pages and look very in-depth to find specific pages. It's not very open enough to identify those buttons, which becomes a challenge.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It really expedites the whole process and helps the end-customer hone in on what they need. With the evolution to remote work that we are currently going through, there's much more of a need to tailor recruiting."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is the insight we receive on current employees."
"The most valuable feature has been the ease at which people can set up their profiles by simply uploading their CV or Linkedin profile. We previously had very low levels of adoption."
"This solution has made our team more collaborative. The recruiting team is easily able to see what the other team members are working on, what candidates are in process and how they can share candidates amongst themselves. They are now able to prevent work duplication due to increased visibility. Eightfold is candidate centric."
"This solution has allowed our team to focus on higher value activities and to make sure that they are optimizing time to identify talent and match it to opportunities. They can then focus on the layers where humans are necessary."
"Stability is fantastic. In the two years we've used it, I've only experienced one outage."
"I really like the ability to run campaigns with pipelines and events. Matching prospects based on skills and the calibration process has been most valuable."
"The ability to get matched to candidates is certainly valuable. In real time, you are able to adjust your description of the work and the project you need done in order to match you with the best candidates."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"ATS is used to track candidates. We've used it for job requisitions, getting candidates for those requisitions, moving them through different interview stages, and then handling their onboarding process."
"It is easy to use. Requisition management and pre-screening are the two most valuable features."
"Performance and goal management are good to have, based on certain client requirements where the user base isn't too large, but the most workable domain of Taleo is the recruiting module."
"The solution's most valuable features are the OCR, single source of truth, and simplicity of the workflows."
"The product's stability is good."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"The Talent Acquisition and Headhunting features are good."
 

Cons

"The tagging feature is not as in depth and easy to use as I would've hoped for. Although you can create tags for candidates, there's no way to report all those tags and see what tags are already created."
"We have had a couple of challenges with some of the things that we're currently trying to build out in our HCM application, and other things within the portfolio, but those aren't customer-facing issues."
"From my perspective, I think the usability could use some attention. Eightfold.ai offers modules for talent acquisition, talent management, and other areas like projects. They try to use a common UI for all of them, but it really needs to be more persona-based. That's the thing that I struggle with the most."
"Eightfold could be improved by focusing on the employee experience. It is important that Eightfold understands how it forms part of the entire experience, especially as they continue to scale. Eightfold should make sure they understand how it connects with other solutions in our technology ecosystem to drive the full user experience."
"There are some small product features that could be enhanced. Ease of use and the recruiter user experience could be improved. Moving through certain stages involves many clicks which can be time consuming."
"Eightfold could be improved if they had more round table conversations about features and their roadmap. They should actively seek out feedback from their customers."
"It would be interesting to enable Eightfold to have a user experience that is seamless in terms of single sign on to and from core systems of record. That is, the ability for a user or hiring manager/recruiter to go in and out of Eightfold back into their core system, whether that be Oracle, Workday, SuccessFactors, Cornerstone, etc. It would great to be able to go back and forth with a single sign on capability so that you don't have to log in and out of applications, where it's a bidirectional single sign on."
"An opportunity for Eightfold to improve on is to open up their environment to allow us to own our application maintenance and development environment. We would like to be able to make some of the configuration changes and improvements ourselves."
"Oracle Taleo felt a bit outdated, and we didn't use it for every step of the candidate process. We mainly used it to track job IDs, create job requisitions, and add candidates when making an offer. It wasn't very user-friendly for moving candidates through different stages of the recruitment lifecycle."
"The solution should be more intuitive and user-friendly when navigating the different pages within Oracle."
"In terms of Oracle Taleo as a product, there are a lot of things which can be developed; most feedback which I have heard from customers is about the dashboard and the home page, both of which are quite basic."
"Lacks some systems that we need."
"The bulk recruitment feature does not work well."
"The pricing could be improved."
"I don't see very valuable features in this product because it has an old way of interpreting ATS. It should be more flexible in managing datasets and data searches. The screening data is a long process in Taleo."
"The product was not very sophisticated in terms of what it could do."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is fairly competitive. The licensing is fairly flexible to have all employees take advantage of it in any given capacity."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being cheap and ten being expensive."
"This is a fairly expensive solution compared to others on the market. However, the solution offers functionality of a number of other different solutions combined. From that perspective, it is competitively priced."
"The pricing is fair compared to the market."
"Whether you pay annually or on some other payment schedule depends on the license model you choose. Typically, clients pay a yearly subscription."
"Oracle Taleo is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about eightfold.ai?
Stability is fantastic. In the two years we've used it, I've only experienced one outage.
What needs improvement with eightfold.ai?
From my perspective, I think the usability could use some attention. Eightfold.ai offers modules for talent acquisition, talent management, and other areas like projects. They try to use a common U...
What is your primary use case for eightfold.ai?
We've done some customizations on top of it, but it really focuses on leader management at the executive level – things like succession planning and leader development. We haven't used it from a ta...
What needs improvement with Oracle Taleo?
It is difficult to say whether the product can be improved in any areas since we are not using some of the free features of the product in our company. I could have suggested something that could h...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Taleo?
I use the solution in my company for recruitment purposes.
What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Taleo?
The product was moderately sufficient for my company's talent acquisition needs. The product was not very sophisticated in terms of what it could do. The performance of the product was okay, in my ...
 

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Taleo, SonicRecruit
 

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Sample Customers

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ICA Fluor, Monsanto Company, Hitachi Consulting, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Kalpataru Ltd, DELL Inc., JSR Micro Inc., Skanska AB, Acciona, Baloise Group, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, Logicalis Inc., Garmin International, Intuit Inc, The Dow Chemical Company
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