Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management vs. SAP S/4HANA Cloud

It is well suited in a geographically distributed environment where you have various key participants in multiple time zones providing input and necessary explanations on performance and measured success It is less appropriate where you have a single office environment with a single finance department working together. It is also less suited when the GL is NOT an Oracle product and the interface between the GL and the reporting software needs to be implemented with utmost care and handling.

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Well suited scenarios - The standard processes are working fine in the system with big benefits in the area of finance and general supply chain requirements. Analytics operations on data collection is excelled by SAP S/4HANA. All we get is the integrated clout platform with all set of tools under one platform like database, analytical tools, development solutions. Not Suited scenario - Cost associated with the SAP cloud is comparatively on higher side so small scale organizations would rather prefer to maintain and perform same operations on local server.

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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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• Leave management application, we build using SAP to achive the leave automation process.
• For employee Onboarding and Offboarding application, we tried to use all the privileges of SAP S/4HANA Cloud to achieve this.
• Insurance Automation process, to settle all the insurance claims.
• Health care system for past patient information.

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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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• It gives the option to process the data in many ways, but sometime results don't match with each other
• Not very complicated but you need little expertise to use most of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• They should make their price a little pocket friendly

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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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Currently we have to discover all possibilities we have with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. So at the moment the is no need to renew our use of SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

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

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud utilizes the SAP Fiori user interface, which is designed to be intuitive, responsive, and user-friendly. It provides a consistent look and feel across devices, making it easier for users to navigate and perform tasks.SAP Fiori offers role-based work centers, meaning that users see only the information and tasks relevant to their specific roles. This can improve efficiency and reduce the complexity of the user interface.

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EPM has been so far available all the time

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The product performance is so far very good

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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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SAP S/4HANA Cloud support is again from various channels. Primarily provided by the implementation and support partner and then further extended by SAP's own support layer for critical or complex issues. Also during implementation, SAP S/4HANA Cloud has well defined max attention service also to help the organizations a risk-free implementation go-live.

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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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Implementation was as expected. We had minor issues with our Z* transactions, but nothing special. Some tables were extended and needed regeneration. Overall satisfactions is good.

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Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud fared very well against Adaptive, Anaplan, and Host Analytics. We ultimately decided on Oracle due to its reputation and strength of existing customers. We are happy with our decision.

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In my perspective, SAP S/4HANA Cloud enforces the standardization that we were looking at as a corporate premise. Whereas other products allow much more flexibility that ended up being detrimental to the objective. Therefore we reconsidered, in spite of costs, that the SAP solution was, in fact, more aligned with the group's needs.

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The product is scalable

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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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• Positive impact would be overall customer satisfaction with close process.
• A positive impact would be the ease of using the application with the new FIORI advancement.
• The negative impact would be for the developers and configurators to be provided with more documentation of the product.

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