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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle BPM Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.N/A

    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle BPM SuiteSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle BPM SuiteSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle BPM SuiteSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
    45 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    45 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    Features
    Oracle BPM SuiteSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Oracle BPM Suite and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Oracle BPM Suite and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Oracle BPM Suite and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Oracle BPM Suite and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Content management7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle BPM SuiteSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.9
    (71 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle BPM SuiteSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Oracle BPM is well suited to organizations and environments that have a good understanding of their business processes and organizational structures. Trying to introduce a tool such as Oracle BPM into the organization without a good grasp on how the business operates is a recipe for disaster as the implementation will uncover all of the dirty secrets of an organizations business processes and bring them to light. BPM is not to be utilized for smaller service orchestrations or technical service implementations, these should be handled by the Oracle SOA Suite using the BPEL process manager, leaving BPM to handle the organizational business processes, referring to and including lower level services and BPEL processes as needed.
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    Salesforce
    For well-suited, this product is great for your external clientele groups that you would not necessarily want to have a high user fee rate for. So basically general public or a group that will be authorized to come in and just do a few things here and there, but you don't necessarily want them access to all of your systems and your data points for groups that it would not be a great use for. I'd say probably your high level internal staff, they're going to be using a lot of the backend functionality automations, evaluating data, managing data, and doing custom inputs. That's just not what's intended for.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised.
    • Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s].
    • Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created.
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    Salesforce
    • Easy to use, just like Salesforce's other products. Many users can sit down and figure it out in no time, and with a little training become power users.
    • Fast and secure - Salesforce is a leader in the cloud world so you get consistently fast results and security that is top notch in the industry.
    • Accessible from anywhere - if you use cloud CMS already this is a no-brainer, but for those that do in-house CMS still, this is a major difference. Mobile access from anywhere on the planet without a VPN is something you just can't do without the cloud.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
    • To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
    • The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
    • As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.
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    Salesforce
    • Unlike other CMS platforms like Wordpress and Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce does not provide a fully featured editor with a drag-and-drop design tool.
    • Our content creators and marketing team often struggle with permissions and how to distribute content across different experience cloud sites.
    • Also, there is no side-to-side comparison view for content editors to update the content easily.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
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    Salesforce
    Renewal exercise is already underway. Platform is to ubiquitous to not leverage, especially at a Fortune 50 firm
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    Usability
    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Salesforce
    Strengths: - Intuitive for Salesforce Users – If you’re already working within the Salesforce ecosystem, the Salesforce CMS is easy to navigate, with a clean UI, drag-and-drop content management, and reusable assets for quick updates. - Seamless Integration – Since it connects natively with Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CRM, it allows for efficient multi-channel content distribution without needing extra third-party tools. - AI-Powered Personalization – The ability to deliver dynamic content based on user profiles and engagement data is a huge plus, making content delivery more relevant and impactful. Challenges: - Learning Curve for New Users – If you're not already familiar with Salesforce, the interface can feel overwhelming, requiring training to fully leverage all features. - Limited Customization & Workflow Automation – While it works well for structured content, advanced approval workflows and deep editorial customization are limited compared to enterprise CMS platforms like Adobe Experience Manager. - Media & Design Limitations – Salesforce CMS is not as robust for managing rich media-heavy content, which can be frustrating for teams needing more flexibility in multimedia presentation.
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    Performance
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Again, since we provide and recommend solutions, I can't speak to every client's individual experience, but can offer general reflections as to keep their collaborations private, that they are satisfied with the experience. We hear a lot about how this system helps to encourage collaborations between their own business partners, customers, and internal members, and enables quality integrations with other products that help drive revenue.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Although support from Salesforce itself can be quite unresponsive sometimes, the community hub is incredibly helpful. The large user base of Salesforce products contribute to troubleshooting and the forums are a powerful tool for finding solutions and possible bugs and response times can be quite fast compared to your regular support channels.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are literally tons of analytics on the back end which are great for upper management, but not so much for average users, but this fits our business model quite well.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Experience Cloud was selected due to its tight integration with our existing Salesforce CRM platform. Customization of the portal was much, much simpler compared to Sharepoint - especially with role-based security parameters that are ultimately inherited based on attributes within the Salesforce CRM platform. Salesforce Experience Cloud was a natural fit for this customer-facing purpose.
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive.
    • Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed.
    • For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes.
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    Salesforce
    • Time savings for our customer success team - no need to continually follow up on tickets as customers have access to see status themselves
    • In the future, it will also allow us to create more impactful knowledge articles that will increase self-service over ticket creation
    Incentivized
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