BambooHR vs. Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BambooHR
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
BambooHR is an on-line human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.
$250
per month
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, or Oracle Taleo, is a cloud HCM solution with Talent Management solutions. Its talent management solution includes Recruiting, Onboarding, Learning, Career Development, Opportunity Marketplace, Performance Management, Compensation, Succession Planning, etc.
$4
Per Employee Per Month
Pricing
BambooHROracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Editions & Modules
Core
$250
per month
Pro
$250
per month
Help Desk
$4.00
Per Employee Per Month
Talent Management
$10.00
Per Employee Per Month
Global HR
$15.00
Per Employee Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BambooHROracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
Additional DetailsNo matter what HR looks like at your company, we have the perfect plan for you!Contact Oracle HCM for detailed pricing information at +1.800.392.2999
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Community Pulse
BambooHROracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Considered Both Products
BambooHR
Chose BambooHR
BambooHR was already in place when I started. BambooHR has much better intuitive navigation than any of the other systems but not as much customizability as something like Workday.
Chose BambooHR
BambooHR was a more inclusive package that was much easier to navigate and use according to the team that evaluated it, I was part of this effort. We spent a lot of time on this as we were ditching several other platforms to consolidate to one tool and wanted to make sure we …
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Chose Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Oracle stacked up really well. We went with Oracle because we already have oracle database and use APEX to integrate to our web application. So we already have worked with oracle in the past and got a package deal. Also the stability of Oracle is really what we were also …
Chose Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
I've used spreadsheets and ADP's enterprise level ATS back 4-5 years ago. Taleo is the 1st ATS I've used over time and I was looking forward to it because I had heard such great things about it. So, in fairness my ability to compare Taleo is limited. I like what I consider much …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
BambooHROracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.1
120 Ratings
3% above category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.7
177 Ratings
10% above category average
Employee demographic data7.7102 Ratings8.5166 Ratings
Employment history8.7109 Ratings9.0175 Ratings
Job profiles and administration8.4106 Ratings8.6168 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.8.293 Ratings8.9158 Ratings
Organizational charting7.1105 Ratings8.4160 Ratings
Organization and location management8.096 Ratings8.8165 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)8.557 Ratings8.3125 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.1
76 Ratings
1% above category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.6
120 Ratings
7% above category average
Pay calculation8.250 Ratings9.1107 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors8.244 Ratings8.595 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.030 Ratings8.333 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.859 Ratings8.6109 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.558 Ratings8.9101 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.060 Ratings8.9110 Ratings
Reimbursement management6.730 Ratings8.292 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.8
104 Ratings
9% above category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.8
123 Ratings
9% above category average
Approval workflow9.1102 Ratings8.8119 Ratings
Balance details8.995 Ratings8.9123 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment8.485 Ratings8.8115 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.7
115 Ratings
7% above category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.7
157 Ratings
7% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information7.971 Ratings8.5136 Ratings
Update personal information9.2114 Ratings8.8156 Ratings
View company policy documentation9.094 Ratings8.3116 Ratings
Employee recognition8.677 Ratings9.0108 Ratings
View job history9.0107 Ratings8.9153 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.8
48 Ratings
1% above category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.6
71 Ratings
11% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets7.848 Ratings8.671 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.7
91 Ratings
1% above category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.6
158 Ratings
12% above category average
Report builder8.187 Ratings9.0156 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.785 Ratings8.8153 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data7.463 Ratings8.1142 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.6
95 Ratings
7% above category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.8
126 Ratings
9% above category average
New hire portal8.791 Ratings8.8123 Ratings
Manager tracking tools8.683 Ratings8.6120 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.2
59 Ratings
1% above category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.2
126 Ratings
1% above category average
Corporate goal setting8.246 Ratings8.5120 Ratings
Individual goal setting8.257 Ratings8.4122 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.245 Ratings8.3112 Ratings
Performance tracking8.153 Ratings8.5125 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.9
65 Ratings
1% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.5
139 Ratings
7% above category average
Performance plans7.658 Ratings8.4137 Ratings
Performance improvement plans8.052 Ratings8.5122 Ratings
Review status tracking7.959 Ratings8.3132 Ratings
Review reminders8.261 Ratings8.3124 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.856 Ratings8.4121 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.1
45 Ratings
10% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.4
110 Ratings
6% above category average
Create succession plans/pools5.831 Ratings8.3100 Ratings
Candidate ranking7.737 Ratings8.5102 Ratings
Candidate search7.139 Ratings8.6106 Ratings
Candidate development8.035 Ratings8.4104 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.1
78 Ratings
4% above category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
8.3
127 Ratings
7% above category average
Job Requisition Management8.055 Ratings8.2122 Ratings
Company Website Posting8.361 Ratings8.2120 Ratings
Publish to Social Media8.256 Ratings8.3113 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.259 Ratings8.6115 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.453 Ratings8.4119 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.268 Ratings8.9119 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.672 Ratings8.8122 Ratings
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User Ratings
BambooHROracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(124 ratings)
8.7
(220 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.2
(10 ratings)
9.0
(31 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(51 ratings)
7.0
(6 ratings)
Availability
9.3
(5 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(5 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(48 ratings)
4.1
(6 ratings)
Online Training
9.2
(4 ratings)
8.8
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.6
(3 ratings)
6.0
(4 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(4 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.6
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(5 ratings)
7.0
(6 ratings)
Professional Services
9.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BambooHROracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Likelihood to Recommend
BambooHR
I think BambooHR is meant for companies that have more than 200 employees, because it is not cheap, but for what they are offering, it is a nice software with some easy UI to understand for everyone at a company. I think for a small company, it is way too big of a software and it is not that worth the price.
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Oracle
Oracle HCM is very much helpful and well suited in the recruitment and placement process and HR data. It makes it easier for HR in [organizations] to keep track of who is in and out of the [organization]. Improvement can be made by allowing employees to record their own data and update it as and when necessary without having to go through HR first.
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Pros
BambooHR
  • Customer Service - The customer service is consistent and the team is always eager to help. They are polite, patient, and there are never terrible interactions.
  • Communication - BambooHR communication channels are simple. There are many different ways to communicate with the team. I prefer e-mail because it helps me keep track of the conversations and they respond within the appropriate time. Also, the e-mail reminders or notifications help tremendously and it's not overbearing.
  • User Interface - It's simple and easy to use!
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Oracle
  • A very beneficial tool to keep a record of the performance of all the employees and it can look for the capabilities of the employees.
  • Payroll problems are being solved easily with Oracle HCM Cloud.
  • Capable of holding all the recruitment processes easily and efficiently.
  • Price ranges are also affordable.
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Cons
BambooHR
  • Reporting - I wish that you could choose a timeframe for all reports. There are times when I need to run a report for information at a point in time, but there is no functionality to complete this (maybe this is an add-on, but seems like it should be a basic function.)
  • ATS - Customizable notifications and making it easier to figure out how to change notification/email settings. I figured it out, but it was difficult to find. I wish you could choose to notify managers of candidates 1/week instead of every time someone applies.
  • Custom Holidays - being able to set up 2 different Holiday policies for different working groups. Some of our team gets a floating holiday, but we can't set that up without doing it for the entire company.
  • Being able to intercept a form that was signed by an employee but not the 2nd signer. We can't access onboarding forms that new hires signed after the 2nd signer left the company. Now we have to have our team resign all their onboarding forms because we cannot access the one with their signature.
  • Delegation for approvals - being able to delegate this when someone is on leave or time away so that Admins don't have to manage.
  • Org chart - being able to customize this feature
  • More broad or customizable EEO categories
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Oracle
  • Government entities share data readily on applicants and HCM doesn't make it easy to have applications transferred between organizations. If applicants could apply once and send that application to multiple entities that would really make it more appealing to clients. This is a niche that is currently filled with NEOGOV, however Oracle's analytics are far superior to those in NEOGOV
  • There are no customizations allowed so clients need to work within the configuration standards or create a bolt on. Many times your greatest asset is also one of your biggest weaknesses.
  • Oracle is a large company and sometimes it can be hard to navigate the support matrix that they have set up. They also have tiers of support so you can pay more to get more, which isn't optimal from a customer point of view.
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Likelihood to Renew
BambooHR
Overall we have not had any reason to discontinue our use of BambooHR. We have not found a better solution, and there is no pressing reason that we would want to move away from the product. If they should fail to continue to improve their features over time, I could see this changing down the road, but for now I would say we are very satisfied with them. We would definitely like to see continued growth of their product however.
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Oracle
Taleo does what we need it to do and based on the costs from both a time and money perspective, I don't see us changing anytime soon. If anything I think we will look to leverage the capabilities available that we may not already be using.
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Usability
BambooHR
Is very easy to navigate. All processes once explained, you can actually create an implement process associated to your HR goals. It is like a digital file of your employees, with functionalities that let you be on track on onboarding, performance, information, among others process. Time off approvals are easy to navigate.
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Oracle
After the initial training's, it was quite intuitive to use the application. The application is based upon best practices and the overall flows are quite logical. The train stop approach also ensures that users understand where they are in the process cycle. Also, the number of clicks have been greatly rationalized to ensure that there is more streamlined experience.
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Reliability and Availability
BambooHR
Yes, there is a huge team in the back of the online platform or it looks like it because I have never been left without an answer when I have a question or waiting from a response on my chat .... There must be a huge team, this is so great and I always seem to have someone that is very knowledgeable too. So many times in the past I had to leave with customer service that would connect you with someone else because of the expertise, here everyone seems to be some kind of an expert in the HR function.
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Oracle
It works well. However we recently discovered that it no longer is supported on Internet Explorer so we had to change the default browser for everyone in our organization to MS Edge.
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Performance
BambooHR
I love BambooHR. Reports are easy to run and download and it usually covers any types of requests I get from the management team. You get excel or .csv downloads/reports and it is fast and simple, not too crowded so it is easy to read through. We don't integrate the tool yet but again, soon we will. we just did not had the time to utilize it yet but that's the plan.
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Oracle
Works well.
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Support Rating
BambooHR
I have used the help chat function several times and that is easy and great to use. There are also many articles, FAQs sections and an entire learning platform to learn on your own. I believe that is great. I also have used ChatGPT to ask how to do certain functions as well, which were accurately reported.
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Oracle
The rating is based upon our current level of support. The overall experience has vastly changed since we moved into product paid support. 'Also, with Oracle going with the model of quarterly patches, it makes sense to have the product company provide support to the overall application thereby eliminating the problems of bugs.
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In-Person Training
BambooHR
I didn't have in-person training besides teaching my managers how to use the program. However, I couldn't omit this question (maybe a system glitch).
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Oracle
No answers on this topic
Online Training
BambooHR
As far as I can recall, everything went well with doing it online and got questions answered. Was thankful to work with a dummy file to get used to some practices prior to getting our own domain within bamboo to then place our personnel information in the system, this helped a lot!
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Oracle
Great online tools and help, and printed out guidelines.
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Implementation Rating
BambooHR
It was some work involved in moving all of our documents from a drive over to the correct folders and creating the system of what folders were needed and what got placed where
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Oracle
There is a lot of potential on Fusion. We have reaped about 10% of potential benefits. Especially on Workforce Intelligence, the opportunities are huge. The reason why we do not use the solution at its full potential is not in the product (which is simple and transparent). A roadmap is under construction to bring more of its potential to the end user.
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Alternatives Considered
BambooHR
Although there are many products in the marketplace, there is no perfect system. BambooHR is the most economical HRIS for a small business, start-up, or business that has never had HR software. BambooHR was selected for its affordable functionality. However, if they continue to ingore the lack of functionality the pretty package will no longer have any value.
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Oracle
Firstly, create a template for the data of human resources to be filled by the client with help from us, then We transformed the paperwork, excel, word sheets, did data cleansing and refined the data, and matched data with the correct fields inside the template and imported the data to oracle cloud hcm by using human capital management data loader
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
BambooHR
Since my organization has dropped with employees, I always find ways to reduce costs. I thought there would be a cheaper option, but I was glad that my package included a lot for the price, and downgrading would cost more. The rep could have let me downgraded and taken me to a higher package. I am thankful that didn't happen.
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Oracle
No answers on this topic
Scalability
BambooHR
There is so much you can do with this platform, it is incredible and so welcoming. We don't utilize it 100% yet just because we are growing and the HR team has not been able to concentrate on other areas offered to us but but we will soon. Which is also why we got the product, specifically because what BambooHR can do to help us meet our growing business needs.
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Oracle
Taleo (owned now by Oracle) continues to be an incredibly powerful product and it's scalability is among the most robust of any ATS in use today.
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Professional Services
BambooHR
VERY professional!
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Oracle
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
BambooHR
  • It's been a great force multiplier for our HR staff, supplementing their skills to allow them to focus on more complex tasks.
  • Employees enjoy using it and have to talk to HR staff less with the self-service options.
  • You may find as your organization grows that you outgrow a module or BambooHR and will replace with a dedicated solution.
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Oracle
  • We were not good at tracking any numbers around recruiting so now this last year we have been able to set the benchmark that we now can work toward improving.
  • At any given time, we could not say how many open positions we had. Now we are able to keep track of that.
  • We do a much better job with communicating with candidates now, especially the ones not selected. This will help us maintain a better reputation and attract the candidates back for other jobs they may be a better fit for in the future.
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ScreenShots

BambooHR Screenshots

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Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Screenshots

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