Oracle E-Business Suite vs Oracle HCM Cloud comparison

Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle HCM Cloud are both solutions in the Benefits Administration category. Oracle E-Business Suite is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.7, while Oracle HCM Cloud is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2. Oracle E-Business Suite holds a 4.8% mindshare in BA, compared to Oracle HCM Cloud’s 13.1% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Oracle E-Business Suite users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Oracle HCM Cloud users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle HCM Cloud compete in the enterprise software solutions category. Oracle HCM Cloud seems to have the upper hand with its adaptability and ease of access, making it particularly effective for HR tasks and mobile access.

Features: Oracle E-Business Suite provides integrated solutions ideal for streamlining information and connecting modules across finance, HR, and supply chain management. It ensures stability and efficient integration of processes. Oracle HCM Cloud stands out with robust talent management and mobile capabilities, offering a user-friendly experience for HR management and data access on the go.

Room for Improvement: Oracle E-Business Suite is often criticized for its outdated user interface, requiring costly upgrades and expensive integration-related customizations. It lacks advanced automation and real-time reporting features. Oracle HCM Cloud needs improvements in system integration, localization for international markets, and faster mobile access and reporting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle E-Business Suite is primarily on-premises, leading to complex and lengthy deployments, with customer service affected by slow response times due to technical support challenges. Oracle HCM Cloud benefits from faster, flexible cloud-based deployment and generally responsive support, though customization can be challenging and support service quality fluctuates.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle E-Business Suite's complex licensing models make it cost-prohibitive for smaller businesses, although it yields high ROI through operational efficiencies. Oracle HCM Cloud offers competitive pricing against direct competitors and delivers strong ROI by streamlining HR processes and reducing the need for on-premises infrastructure. Its pricing structure is considered more adaptable to various business needs.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle E-Business Suite

Ranking in Benefits Administration

6th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

153

Ranking in other categories

Field Service Management (1st), ERP (6th), Activity Based Costing Software (1st), Enterprise Resource Planning for Manufacturing (1st), Product Configuration and Quoting (3rd)

Oracle HCM Cloud

Ranking in Benefits Administration

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Talent Management (4th), Cloud HCM (4th), HR Analytics Software (2nd), Talent Acquisition (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Benefits Administration category, the mindshare of Oracle E-Business Suite is 4.8%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle HCM Cloud is 13.1%, down from 17.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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James Balbach

Executive Director, Decision Support at Community Health Network

Centralizes our enterprise-wide functions but could benefit from cloud migration

We have dealt with customer service, and it was awful. For a system this size, it felt like we were merely buying software from them. They weren't really partnered with us on it. Reporting bugs and getting feedback, as well as having engineers work on issues, was very transactional. There was no real ownership on Oracle's part. During several support cases, it became difficult to determine ownership at Oracle and get status updates. The on-premises Oracle support is not great in my experience, and I think this is true in the industry. We've read about their software as a solution, and theoretically, their SaaS portal support is a lot better.

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OswinSteve

Lead Digital HR Transformation, Product Owner at Chubb

Capable of consolidating data from all countries and providing access to any employee information across locations but poor user experience

Oracle HCM Cloud definitely has a lot to improve from a user experience perspective. The platform is huge and feature-rich, but is it truly appealing to an end user? Is it a two-click solution? Does it match current market trends in user experience? No, it has a lot of catching up to do. For example, is the screen catchy for an employee to see their details or access essential information? No. The user experience is zero. An employee needs training to apply for leave, something as simple as that. They shouldn't need training materials or user guides to navigate the system. We're moving towards empowering users, especially with end-user-facing systems. People should be self-reliant and not need to rely on manuals. Oracle HCM Cloud is very old-school in this regard. It's still stuck in the "PeopleSoft" mentality instead of focusing on a user-friendly experience for employees and managers. So, the user experience needs a major overhaul. So, to summarize, it needs to be more user-friendly and present key information on the login screen. In future releases, I would like to see employee dashboards. Oracle HCM should come up with ready-made employee dashboards, like very simple ones. Right now, an employee dashboard or a manager dashboard, but these should be readily available. You shouldn't expect a customer to go and design something they need. There are a few basic things any employee or manager in any company would want to see. One of the best things would be a very simple org chart. Now, the org chart is quite poor on Oracle. There are applications that focus only on org charts and look really good, giving a lot of details about a team and its employees. But Oracle's org chart is bad, so to be specific, they should improve it a lot.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Finance, HRMS, and payroll are all great, and Oracle EBS is fantastic."

"Oracle EBS adapts to our business rules, so we don't have to change them, whereas SAP is rigid. We need to change our business rules to implement SAP. Oracle's reporting is also excellent and it's easier for our technical team to customize the solution compared to SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, and other products."

"Before, we used a lot of manpower in our operations, in the backend, but this is a service. We have eliminated some unnecessary processes."

"The new Subledger Accounting feature is very strong."

"Valuable features include expense management and the accounting suite of products."

"The most valuable features of Oracle EBS are its ease of use, integration capabilities, and the General Ledger reporting, including the FSG reporting."

"The most valuable features are the financial-related capabilities."

"You can group them into the BIs, which is business intelligence. You get your own key performance indicators and build your own reports or you could have your own screens, and it changes in real time."

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"The most valuable feature of Oracle HCM Cloud is the dashboards, customization, and configuration."

"All the features are good."

"Job postings and links to job boards are very helpful for talent acquisition."

"I like the interfaces, and they are fine. I would like to see more interfaces."

"The solution's most valuable features are all the human resources aspects and access management, as well as the talent review. The solution's talent management is very, very good."

"Oracle is a strong option for purchasing or procurement."

"HCM solution that's easy to set up and scale, with good data integration and technical support."

"We haven't had a single issue with stability, and we've been using it for more than three years."

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Cons

"Sometimes I have issues with the performance tuning."

"It's difficult for some customers to understand in the beginning. A user really has to understand the processes."

"In SAP, when customization or work is done in an instance, it can be automatically copied to the production instance. Such automation would be a very good future addition to Oracle."

"From the business processes, there are areas where you could streamline new processes."

"It's not easy for people without technical knowledge to understand how to implement it."

"Oracle E-Business Suite uses an old technology (Forms), which is Java-based."

"The way things are going, Oracle is not putting much effort into their master data management. They need to look into machine data and then the integrated data domain."

"Oracle E-Business Suite could improve the tables. When we remove some of them sometimes they cloud the modules into one. It becomes a little difficult to segregate."

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"Oracle should have different bundles to provide access to courses. Then, we would be able to increase our knowledge on how to use Oracle applications."

"We have received some unfavorable feedback regarding Oracle HCM Cloud's performance. This has led us to investigate alternative solutions. In my own experience, I have struggled with the slowness of the cloud assessment and the overwhelming complexity of the software's robust architecture. I have reservations about sharing any positive experiences I may have had with the solution."

"I think it could use more features, perhaps artificial intelligence, since that's becoming more prominent in the world, and it's not yet implemented in HCM."

"Oracle needs to make some sort of support repository that is up to date."

"The data uploading part and backup could be better. They are a bit complex. Oracle is continuously changing it from one functionality to another. It's a bit unstable right now, and it's basically on the backend data upload part. If I have to upload, for example, data for 100 employees, it's a bit of a challenge for an end-user. It can be difficult if you're not a technical person and an end-user like me. I administer the platform, and if I get a request to upload and I'm not a technical person, then I'm just lost. I have to do some research and then complete the task. But it's evolving, and I hope it's more user-friendly in the future. In the next release, I would like a more stable mobile application. The current version isn't very stable. It takes time to open, and although they have come up with new UI pages, a few open areas need to be addressed. I would also like to see more robust and user-friendly data uploading techniques that would be helpful for end users like us. We don't have a technical background, and we just want to upload the data for our day-to-day operations."

"It's not so easy to customize as it's cloud-based."

"Once we are done working on a template, we can't change it unless we create a new one."

"The support from Oracle HCM Cloud is great, they are responsive and helpful. However, they still could improve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In order to minimize the implementation and consultancy costs, business lines should have proper definitions. They need to have a proper way of retrieving their data, which should be structured well."

"The pricing is high."

"In my opinion, the prices for Oracle ERP are reasonable, especially considering the various discounts that are often available."

"At our various customers, the software tends to pay for itself in less than two years."

"The price of the solution is extremely high."

"Oracle's licenses are not straightforward."

"Whatever the products you use, you'll be paying a yearly maintenance price or a support price."

"Oracle's pricing is lower than that of its competitors."

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"The product could be more affordable."

"It is definitely super expensive. Oracle is very, very expensive for what they offer."

"The solution is expensive."

"Oracle HCM offers many features at a low price."

"The solution is quite expensive for small and medium-sized companies."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."

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

"It has a licensing cost. It has a cloud-based subscription, which is quite cheap."

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Educational Organization

67%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

55%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle E-Business Suite?

It was very easy to integrate the product into our existing infrastructure.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle E-Business Suite?

Oracle pricing is comparatively high to other vendors.

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What needs improvement with Oracle E-Business Suite?

Oracle E-Business Suite should be more detailed and user-friendly. I should be able to customize the screen or application without needing technical support. The configuration and setup process is ...

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What are the differences between Oracle HCM Cloud and PeopleSoft?

Although both are solutions to manage HR, their differences make each one suitable for different companies. Oracle Cloud HCM is a platform for connecting all human resource processes in your organ...

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What do you like most about Oracle HCM Cloud?

The most valuable features of the solution are the core HR, absence, payroll, and recruitment modules.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle HCM Cloud?

Oracle HCM Cloud pricing is a bit expensive compared to newer solutions.

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

Oracle EBS, OEBS

Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud

Overview

Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is considered the most extensive offering of amalgamated worldwide business applications available. Oracle EBS helps facilitate medium to large business enterprise organizations with the ability to enhance critical decision-making processes, streamline business procedures, minimize costs, and improve overall performance and productivity.

Oracle EBS runs as a complement to Oracle Database software. The applications serve to automate such processes as supply chain management (SCM), human resource management (HRM), customer relations management (CRM), project portfolio management (PPM), financial management, service management, and more.

Oracle EBS runs best in the cloud. It is a cost-saving option that offers greater productivity and can immediately and easily respond to changing dynamic business needs with an intuitive, automated scalable cloud infrastructure.

Below are some of the valuable features of popular application offerings available within Oracle EBS:

Supply Chain Management (SCM): Every possible supply chain process can be fully automated, from planning, creation, and appropriation to development and fulfillment, delivering a comprehensive solution application to ensure organizations have robust, intelligent-driven, value-added chains. Some applications include:

Manufacturing
Value Chain Planning and Execution
Procurement and Fulfillment
Lifecycle Management
Business Intelligence and Analytics

Human Resource Management (HRM): The solution offers a sturdy group of outstanding human resource processes that enable users to improve productivity, enhance overall business performance, and lower TCO. Some processes include:

Workforce Management
Talent Management
Global Personnel Policy Management
Human Resource Analytics

Customer Relations Management (CRM): This application provides for a streamlined, unique global gathering of information that will ensure all selling channels are continually following the organization's objectives and protocols. Some features include:

Oracle Service
Oracle Marketing
Oracle Order Management
Oracle Channel Revenue Management

Project Portfolio Management (PPM): Oracle EBS provides a comprehensive, full lifecycle offering of project and portfolio management. Users get a single fully transparent view of all project-related ventures coupled with a superb performance process that grants users the ability to choose the best, most dynamic portfolio ventures.

Project Collaboration
Project Management
Project Analytics
Project Cost
Project Billing

Financial Management: Users are able to perform more effectively, improve productivity and efficiency, develop productivity tools and integrated performance management, and develop processes for shared services to reduce overall operating costs. Some features include:

Asset Lifecycle Management
Financial Control and Reporting
Travel and Expense Management
Lease and Finance Management
Risk Management and Compliance

Service Management: This application allows users access to the best data necessary to provide correct, precise, reliable information to their clients to ensure that every expectation is exceeded and consistently satisfied.

Inbound and outbound telephony
Project Collaboration
Project Cost
Billing
Project Management

Reviews from Real Users:

Kopano R., Freelancer at a tech services company, says, “What I found most valuable in Oracle E-Business Suite is the patching because it is straightforward. As long as you follow Oracle's best practices, you are able to finish the task of patching without a problem. I like that it's also easy to add products, e.g. if you want to add on financials, you can, or if you don't have financials, you can expand on that. I like that Oracle E-Business Suite is really scalable.”

Mohammed G., Senior Oracle Application Consultant at a comms service provider, writes, “Oracle E-Business Suite consists of a lot of streams, such as financial and HR processes of the enterprise companies. We are using most of the Oracle financial modules, and we have an Oracle stream, FI procurement stream, and HR streams, which have a lot of applications. Oracle E-Business Suite has over 20 different modules to choose from, it is comprehensive. Additionally, the integration is very good. “

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Natively built for the cloud, Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management is a complete solution that connects every human resource process—and every person—across your enterprise. We help you create a community where people feel valued, heard, and like they belong. With a single user experience and data model and seamless processes and infrastructure, Oracle Cloud HCM can help you redefine what best looks like for your people.

Platform capabilities empower every HR process including: Global HR, Talent Management, Recruiting, Learning, Workforce Rewards, Workforce Management, Work Life Solutions, HR Help Desk, Workforce Health and Safety Incidents, Payroll Management, Benefits Management, Advanced HCM Controls, and Strategic Workforce Planning.

Top 10 Reason Why Customers Choose Oracle Cloud HCM:

Tailored User Experience

Employees expect tailored experiences from their work technology and want to feel supported by their organization regardless of where, when, and how they work. Providing employees with a tailored user experience is now a necessity—one that many HR teams are striving for as they evaluate their technology. That’s why Oracle Cloud HCM offers the only complete employee experience platform that empowers your people to connect, grow, and thrive.

Adaptable and Extensible

HR is at the forefront of navigating change and needs to be able to adapt quickly as new challenges arise. Oracle Cloud HCM delivers an adaptable and flexible solution to meet changing business practices, regulations, and environments.

Complete HCM Cloud Solution

Organizations that want to manage the entire employee lifecycle select Oracle Cloud HCM because it’s the most complete HR cloud solution on the market. Built as a single cloud solution for all HR functionalities, it connects every HR process from hire to retire.

Complete Enterprise Solution

One of the many things that sets Oracle apart from other vendors is that we natively built our software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications on our own cloud platform and infrastructure. With applications and data all on one platform, you can gain unobstructed visibility across your organization and increased data security

Improved Business Value

Oracle customers leverage our HCM cloud application to drive business value through better user engagement and adoption, streamlined processes, improved productivity, and lower total cost of ownership

Dedication to Innovation

Innovation is the biggest benefit of moving your systems to the cloud. Our quarterly updates allow us to continuously deliver new and exciting features. With a team of more than 20,000 engineers, Oracle delivers more than 1,000 innovation updates annually—80% of which are based on customer feedback.

Data Security and Privacy

Oracle has a strong security culture and is trusted by

organizations worldwide with strict security requirements. Stored in state-of-the-art data centers, Oracle Cloud HCM and our infrastructure have advanced multilayered security measures that can help customers meet both local and international regulations

Vibrant HR Community

Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a vibrant online

community of more than 40,000 HCM users and a great place to crowdsource information, discuss the latest releases, register for in-person or virtual events, and submit product suggestions.

Customer Success

Oracle customers have access to an implementation success manager, on-demand education, and success planning tools. We offer 24/7 customer service in 145 countries worldwide to help you maximize the value of your investment.

Global Capabilities

Most enterprises today operate at both the global and local levels, so our customers appreciate that Oracle Cloud HCM is designed to meet both international and regional needs for more than 200 jurisdictions and 27 languages.

Oracle HCM Cloud is a complete HR application suite which helps organizations become more strategic and agile with a best-in-class workforce experience. It integrates HR best practices and technology to provide an engaging, informative, and adaptive HR experience throughout the entire employee lifecycle. Oracle HCM Cloud allows organizations find, develop and retain the best talent, enable collaboration, deliver deep workforce insights, and increase operational efficiency

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Sample Customers

Colab, Portobello, Saudi Telecom Company, DG Khan Cement, Dubai Holding

Kovaion Consulting India Pvt. Ltd., eVerge Group, Kalpataru, Logicalis Inc., Macmillan Science and Education, Drivestream Inc., Kamal Osman Jamjoom Group LLC, WAXIE Sanitary Supply

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