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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle SOA Suite

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe rapid adoption of cloud-based applications by the enterprise, combined with organizations’ desire to integrate applications with mobile technologies, is dramatically increasing application integration complexity. Oracle SOA Suite 12c, the latest version of the company's unified application integration and SOA solution, offers a simplified cloud, mobile, on-premises and Internet of Things (IoT) integration capabilities within a single platform.N/A

    Workday HCM

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AWorkday Human Capital Management is a cloud-native system offering a globally consistent user experience. Workday HCM is part of an intelligent, unified system with other Workday products.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle SOA SuiteWorkday HCM
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle SOA SuiteWorkday HCM
    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 SOA SuiteWorkday HCM
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
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    Workday
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Would buy again
    68 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    66 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    Features
    Oracle SOA SuiteWorkday HCM
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    9.0
    100 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Employment history00 Ratings8.195 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration00 Ratings8.997 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings9.092 Ratings
    Organizational charting00 Ratings9.891 Ratings
    Organization and location management00 Ratings9.888 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings8.763 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.6
    83 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings9.871 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.259 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings9.121 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.966 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.072 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings9.069 Ratings
    Reimbursement management00 Ratings7.345 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.6
    78 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Approval workflow00 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Balance details00 Ratings8.177 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings8.963 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.2
    98 Ratings
    1% below category average
    View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.187 Ratings
    Update personal information00 Ratings8.196 Ratings
    View company policy documentation00 Ratings7.976 Ratings
    Employee recognition00 Ratings8.959 Ratings
    View job history00 Ratings8.187 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.4
    25 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings8.425 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    7.4
    82 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Report builder00 Ratings8.978 Ratings
    Pre-built reports00 Ratings6.280 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings7.168 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.9
    60 Ratings
    10% above category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings8.955 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.956 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.9
    64 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings8.954 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.963 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings8.954 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings8.962 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.1
    67 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Performance plans00 Ratings8.166 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings8.158 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings8.162 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings8.161 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings8.054 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    7.9
    44 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.938 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings8.042 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings7.840 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Oracle SOA Suite and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    Oracle SOA Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.4
    52 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Job Requisition Management00 Ratings8.849 Ratings
    Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.942 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings7.237 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings8.943 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings8.743 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.043 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings8.047 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Oracle SOA SuiteWorkday HCM
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    UZIO
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Zoho People
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    PeopleStrong
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle SOA SuiteWorkday HCM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.2
    (134 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (27 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle SOA SuiteWorkday HCM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Oracle service bus is great to quickly proxy any legacy services exposed as soap service. It's well suited for aggregating multiple services on a single endpoint. We can point to multiple endpoints on the business service and use a round-robin approach to access the endpoints. It's not well suited for data transformation and quick preview of mappings and transformations. It's not great on path to cloud transformation.
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    Workday
    Large organizations with extensive back-office support functions. With that in mind, WD is a great HCM system for mastering and controlling downstream data and providing strong support. Where WD falls short is the front-end user experience. If your intent is for the average Jane/Joe to use the system, you will find them frustrated or disappointed.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • The Oracle Service Bus makes the management of web services extremely easy. Through its point and click interface, the web service endpoints can be easily modified.
    • The administration console provides useful dashboards to diagnose any service issues.
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    Workday
    • I think what it does is not having worked on the side of talent acquisitions. Whenever we have a job interview, for example, you can go right there, you can put in everything in Workday Human Capital Management. If I need to go in and see what a coworker put in or notes all that, I can document everything there in Workday Human Capital Management. I think the other thing that makes it a lot easier is for performance management, goal setting. All these things can be done right there in the platform and it just makes it easier. So to store documents, I can do that. I mean it is like a one-stop shop all in one, so it's excellent.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Message reporting tied to a database seems counter productive. Better options to eliminate that would not only minimize the maintenance hassle but also gives more ease to manage the product.
    • Polling feature isn't very efficient where the end point JMS queues may still have JMS connections despite not enabling the corresponding poller proxy services.
    • Unable to deploy multiple web services in one go from the OSB Web console.
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    Workday
    • Should have more option in time sheet like choose project code or something.
    • On The pay page, it should have options to view past salaries; it may be there already but not in the version that I use.
    • The employee information page does not have a back button to navigate to the previous page.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    We have had not many issues with Oracle Service Bus and it's very stable for our requirements. It's highly available and helps us implement Tier1 applications on it.
    Incentivized
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    Workday
    It is work to make one system the source of truth for our data, but now that it is done, there is less work involved in staying on this path. This means for us that maintaining and/or implementing new modules like performance, finance, talent, etc. is simple. It's a no-brainer
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Oracle
    It's an excellent enterprise service bus and has very stable features. We have been using it since 2008. We did hit into some issues. But, recreating the service helped fix many issues. Also, deployment to various environments was easy. Also, the plugin on Eclipse helps to build proxy and business services quick and easy.
    Incentivized
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    Workday
    Workday's on a great path in terms of user experience. Their goals is to deliver a use experience that doesn't require training or instruction, like Amazon on the consumer side for example. That's hard to do when you're talking about complex business processes and important and sensitive employee information, but they're doing it well
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    In 2014, Workday has changed the update process. There will be two updates a year; the updates will be delivered to customers typically in a 24 hour window during these two weekends a year. They also keep the Community up-to-date about any planned outages, etc. There is weekly scheduled downtime on Friday night.
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    Performance
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    From my perspective, the system runs like a well oiled machine and I have not had any issues with customers complaining about speed. If a report is taking long to run, the report can run in the background and you can go about your business. For larger enterprises, there is additional space and machines to process the application in what Workday refers to it as Extended Configuration Tenant
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    We had some issues with MQ connectivity through OSB and our experience was poor with the support team. They do respond. But, it felt like we are ignored and we had bad support. We had to escalate and things used to get dragged for weeks before we get more quality questions on how to pursue investigation.
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    Workday
    Workday is still learning about the needs of higher education. I have seen rapid improvement in support and knowledge over the last year so am confident this will continue to improve. Overall however, I have found the Support Team to be extremely responsive and Workday offers the advantage of having support across several timezones so that we never wait more than a few hours for a response.
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    In-Person Training
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    Some training is offered online. Cost is per-person. This also gets quite expensive. Training doesn’t follow a logical path A to B. Starts in middle. When you try to do it afterwards at your desk, difficult.
    • Training scenarios are not very real
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    Online Training
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    I have done for report writing and mass imports (EIBs). They give materials and you run through examples, i.e. you don’t just watch them do tasks, so that is helpful. Training is expensive – a single reporting writing class is $600 per person for virtual training
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    It was implemented before my joining the company. At my last company, we used Workday professional services.

    Based upon my experience at my last company, I would rate the implementation experience an 8/10. There are different ways to set things up and we had different people telling us different things. It set us back a couple of times.

    Regarding configuration advice, we could set things up where every manager has supervisory organizations, or have it financially based i.e. aligned to cost center/department. We chose the individual manager path and I think we should have chosen a department route. Going down the individual manager path, to maintain the information, we have to inactivate a supervisory org whenever a manager changes/leaves.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    Oracle being the market leader and has a lot of compatibilities with sources like SOA projects, Oracle database and other JMS feeds.
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    Workday
    Workday is an incomplete product, by this I mean it must work alongside other products and does not work by itself. Trying to make several different products work smoothly together becomes very challenging. As compared to ADP products, when purchased all together work very well all together. Also, ADP has extensive Training programs and extensive Customer Support. So ADP's products are far superior to Workday's products in my opinion.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    Workday has released Financials and is continuing to develop it's Human Capital Management footprint with the addition of Workday Recruiting. I think customers will find that is easy to add on additional functionality in the system. Workday does make it easy for customers to make changes without relying on IT resources. The Business Process framework is a visual tool that allows functional resources to make changes and see the flow of the transaction
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • Improve customer relations/service
    • Create internal/operational efficiencies
    • Improve business process outcomes
    • Improve compliance & risk management
    • Strong services expertise
    • Pre-existing relationships
    • Strong consulting partnership
    • Product functionality and performance
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    Workday
    • To get the most value out of all possible automation in Workday you really need to use a lot of their modules, otherwise you may not be able to solve for some pretty important and necessary needs.
    • The system maintenance is way more than what I have seen with some other systems and therefore you need a quite large team dedicated to it.
    • The ability to automate a lot of administrative tasks and the ability for employee and manager self-service definitely create a lot of opportunity for HR to spent time and effort elsewhere. A lot of the automation that can be leveraged in Workday also allows for eliminating third party vendors as well as the cost of their maintenance and integrations.
    Incentivized
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