BlackLine vs Oracle Cloud EPM | TrustRadius

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Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 185 reviews and ratings

Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 168 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Report sharing and collaboration

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated Android Application

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Long-term financial planning

Financial budgeting

Forecasting

Scenario modeling

Management reporting

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Financial data consolidation

Journal entries and reports

Multi-currency management

Intercompany Eliminations

Minority Ownership

Local and consolidated reporting

Detailed Audit Trails

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Financial Statement Reporting

Management Reporting

Excel-based Reporting

Automated board and financial reporting

XBRL support for regulatory filing

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Personalized dashboards

Color-coded scorecards

KPIs

Cost and profitability analysis

Key Performance Indicator setting

Benchmarking with external data

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM

Flat file integration

Excel data integration

Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

Pros

Integrated reporting features are extremely helpful to do quick and customized analysis
Visibility to task and process status across the organization allows us to identify and focus on our biggest pain points and areas of improvement
Near seamless integration with existing reporting software and ERP systems makes it easier to use real-time data rather than waiting on periodic reports and processes to analyze data

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Accounting Manager

WoodgrainPaper & Forest Products, 1001-5000 employees

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Account Reconciliation CLoud Services provides tight integration with Oracle R12 and 11i . Provides drillback capability. It is flexible and provides rich functionality to users.
We have implemented ARCS on cloud and migrated planning and budgeting from On premise to PBCS and EPBCS. Functionality is onpar with onpremise. Provides regular updates monthly
We don't need to upgrades every year and saved a lot on Hardware.

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Record to Report IT Manager

Ingersoll RandMachinery, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

The User Interface is clunky and strange to navigate. It's fluid somehow at the same time. Perhaps organization efforts would help.
Their Support organization could use training. I've had too many frustrating conversations because of (or about) basic communication skills. They're all very polite, in my experience, but lacking in basics (e.g. come prepared to a meeting/call). I've explicitly and constructively shared this with them with almost no change.

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Senior Netsuite Admin / Analyst / Developer

Q2ebankingFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees

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The limitation of constrained out of the box dimensions that requires ripping the initial implementation to add the new dimensions is a major drawback.
Smartview interface is cumbersome for many.
The only financial adapter is available for integration for other modules we have to go with file-based uploads which is cumbersome and not real-time.
It is very costly in terms of licensing unlike other Oracle products.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

BlackLine 9.0

Based on 8 answers

To continue to enjoy and leverage on the automation functionalities BlackLine offers for this process.
Make more gains on running this process efficiently and keep our Finance Teams on high-end value addition projects
With a foreseeable increase in transaction volumes when activities pick up, we need a tool we can really on to handle the volume

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Manager in Finance and Accounting

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 9.0

Based on 3 answers

We have a pretty good userbase who are at the high level who gained value from this tool. Discontinuing this tool is prone to impact their day to day operations. Also the data in this tool cannot alter the source, which maintains the integrity of this tool. Smartview is a cool addition that gained lot of traction as well.

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Professional in Information Technology

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 201-500 employees

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Usability

BlackLine 8.8

Based on 47 answers

There are some processes that we currently use that cannot be done in BlackLine. Our users don't want to change their processes or learn new processes even though it would make their jobs easier. We have very few users who have adopted BlackLine fully, and management has not made it a requirement to use the application.

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Jennifer Nicholoff

BlackLine Application Administrator / Senior Accountant II

Expedia, Inc.Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 10,001+ employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 8.0

Based on 1 answer

EPM usability is good in some modules but needs some improvement in others

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Senior ERP Manager

Middle East Broadcasting CenterBroadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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Oracle Cloud EPM 10.0

Based on 2 answers

EPM has been so far available all the time

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Senior ERP Manager

Middle East Broadcasting CenterBroadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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Oracle Cloud EPM 9.0

Based on 2 answers

The product performance is so far very good

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Senior ERP Manager

Middle East Broadcasting CenterBroadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

BlackLine 8.8

Based on 174 answers

When needed they are there. In 3 years we haven't needed much with regards to support after our implementation. That being said I feel scheduled consulting and personal reach outs would go a long way to helping support customers as new features and opportunities are pushed out.

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Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 6.8

Based on 6 answers

Support from our implementation partner is a 10/10, but support from Oracle is awful. Case in point: recently over a 2-day period, there were a series of intermittent outages. Oracle actually asked US for the outage time-stamps. I would have thought that, since we were paying them, they should probably be able to tell us!

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Senior Manager, Corporate Finance and Treasury Applications

Oshkosh CorporationAutomotive, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

BlackLine 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Trainings are available for all topics on the BlackLine U portal. These were incredibly helpful when first starting with BlackLine to get the hang of it. Trainings are useful for any module. I have personally used this to teach myself how to use the tasks and variance modules, which are now fully utilized by my organization. The support team is also very helpful in training our team on anything additional we have needed.

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Matt Gustus, CPA

Senior Accountant

Casa Systems, Inc.Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Implementation Rating

BlackLine 9.1

Based on 6 answers

Change is something you deal with on any new implementation. Users were already experienced with SAP Gen template. This was a new way of doing things so education of everyone was critical to success. Selling folks on this was an easier way to do their job was the key to success

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Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting

Pharmaceuticals Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Oracle Cloud EPM 8.2

Based on 32 answers

I suggest doubling the time to implement from the initial quote you get from the Sales team. That's always been the case for me for multiple EPMs now. The out-of-the-box functionality of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is pretty robust so I appreciate that and it really helped us get the ball rolling quickly.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Information Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Blackline outperformed both FloQast and Vena in our RFP. The staff felt that Blackline was the most user-friendly. Both FloQast and Vena try to sell you on linking to already saved documents instead of saving documents onto their systems. They're both more of an Excel Add-On. We felt that Blackline allowed more flexibility and I actually like the idea of having support saved in the reconciliation system. Also, you don't necessarily need Excel experience to use it and we have some staff (non-accountants) that we wanted to use the system to track grants, claim submission due dates, etc., not related to month-end close. These staff members easily grasped Blackline but struggled with Vena and FloQast.

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Chief Financial Officer

Choices Coordinated Care SolutionsCivic & Social Organization, 201-500 employees

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The cloud is the way technology is going, so we love migrating from on prem solutions to true cloud-based solutions such as Oracle Cloud EPM. It's very easy to use. We also felt comfortable choosing the solution when reading a previous review around the system being able to have one global plan and integration with other Oracle products for plans which reduces the manual effort of getting the data and activating information.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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Oracle Cloud EPM 8.0

Based on 1 answer

The product is scalable

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Senior ERP Manager

Middle East Broadcasting CenterBroadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Our organization manages our whole accounting and financial lifecycle in this one unified, secure, and efficient system, as well as easily receiving a wider picture of tasks and processes.
It completely automates our intercompany reconciliation and bank reconciliation process as well as eliminates the need for excel.

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Business Consultant

DeloitteManagement Consulting, 10,001+ employees

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Significantly reduced the amount of money we spent for the maintenance of in-house hardware.
We now need less employees to manage the configurations of Oracle EPM Cloud.
There have been many time savings as a whole to apply to more productive causes.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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BlackLine Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$250 per user/per month

Oracle Cloud EPM Editions & Modules

Edition

EPM Standard	$250¹
EPM Enterprise	$500¹

per user/per month

Additional Pricing Details

Pricing per user varies by component within the Oracle EPM Cloud solution. Please see pricing information for the EPM Cloud components on cloud.oracle.com or contact Oracle Sales at +1.800.633.0738.

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