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Oracle E-Business Suite vs Oracle Taleo comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

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 (2nd), ERP (6th), Activity Based Costing Software (1st), Enterprise Resource Planning for Manufacturing (1st), Product Configuration and Quoting (3rd)
Oracle Taleo
Ranking in Benefits Administration
10th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Talent Management (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Benefits Administration category, the mindshare of Oracle E-Business Suite is 4.8%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Taleo is 3.1%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Benefits Administration
 

Featured Reviews

James Balbach - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
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

"Financial and asset management features are valuable."
"The financial module has excellent features that many find valuable, while the HCM module is also highly regarded."
"The solution has other core processes that can be implemented with customers according to their needs."
"Has good dashboard and drill-down features."
"It's quite secure and fast, and we get an end-to-end solution."
"E-Business Suite's best features are BAT functionality, flexibility, configurability, and integration with Oracle Database."
"The procure-to-pay is core to our business and relevant to us."
"This is a world-class application that includes a lot of business processes from other ERPs that Oracle has acquired."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"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."
"Good integration capabilities and extensibility."
"The product's stability is good."
"The Talent Acquisition and Headhunting features are good."
"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 is stable and reliable."
"The solution offers good benefits for administrators."
 

Cons

"I would like an end-to-end in terms of processes. There are different modules, however, there's not that end-to-end that we are looking for in terms of process automation."
"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."
"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."
"The integration features of the tool on on-premises weren't that great, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There are some business-specific processes still not implemented."
"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."
"A lot more automation can be brought into E-Business Suite."
"Some of my clients report that the overall ease of use could be simplified."
"Lacks some systems that we need."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The product was not very sophisticated in terms of what it could do."
"The solution should be more intuitive and user-friendly when navigating the different pages within Oracle."
"It would be ideal if we could integrate the solution with Olympia. It would be helpful if we could add another support desk for an IT person. It would be great if the product was more interdisciplinary and could include IT."
"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."
"There are always going to be little caveats here and there that you might not have known about as far as changes are concerned, however, it's not business-oriented to the point where the business shuts down."
"The bulk recruitment feature does not work well."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of the solution is at about $700-$750 per year."
"It costs too much."
"USD $100,000 annually."
"We pay about $300 a year in order to license the solution."
"Oracle E-Business Suite is heavy subscriptions based and the solution's upgrades, under the technology licensing, are quite costly. Additionally, support is an extra cost. The price of the solution could be reduced."
"E-Business Suite's pricing could be lower."
"We have an annual license to use the Oracle E-Business Suite and we have an enterprise license."
"Oracle scales the pricing, but E-Business Suite is still very expensive for small to mid-sized businesses."
"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
Educational Organization
66%
Computer Software Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
4%
Comms Service Provider
13%
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 Oracle E-Business Suite?
It was very easy to integrate the product into our existing infrastructure.
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 ...
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 ...
 

Also Known As

Oracle EBS, OEBS
Taleo, SonicRecruit
 

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Sample Customers

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