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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AOracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a solution that helps users model and plan across finance, HR, supply chain, and sales, streamline the financial close process.

    $250

    per user/per month

    Zendesk Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AZendesk is a customer support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, and live chat, designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk's AI agents are trained in CX to help Service teams resolve customer issues faster and more accurately while still providing a human-centered experience. Zendesk ultimately aims to help businesses improve time to value, reduce effort per ticket, and keep costs low.

    $69

    per month per agent

    Pricing
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementZendesk Suite
    Editions & Modules
    EPM Standard
    $250
    per user/per month
    EPM Enterprise
    $500
    per user/per month
    Suite Team
    $69
    per month per agent
    Suite Growth
    $115
    per month per agent
    Suite Professional
    $149
    per month per agent
    Suite Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementZendesk Suite
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsPricing 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 +1.800.633.0738.20% discount available with annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementZendesk Suite
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    No answer on this topic
    Zendesk
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Would buy again
    123 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    108 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    131 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    94 Answers
    Features
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementZendesk Suite
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    5.6
    3 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards4.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates4.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    6.7
    23 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis6.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.5
    19 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    5.9
    3 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics5.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.2
    24 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model6.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.2
    2 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access6.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    6.6
    38 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Long-term financial planning7.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial budgeting7.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forecasting6.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scenario modeling6.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management reporting7.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.3
    20 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Financial data consolidation7.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports6.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency management8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Minority Ownership7.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails7.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.2
    34 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Financial Statement Reporting7.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Reporting8.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting9.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting6.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing6.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    6.8
    25 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Personalized dashboards7.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    KPIs7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis6.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting6.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data6.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    7.0
    36 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Flat file integration7.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel data integration7.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources7.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.6
    187 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.1186 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.9127 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.4130 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.8131 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.3186 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.0185 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.5
    169 Ratings
    6% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.5163 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.5156 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.4
    182 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.1150 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.4119 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.2178 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.4138 Ratings
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (46 ratings)
    8.7
    (225 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (43 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.6
    (98 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    5.5
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (10 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (16 ratings)
    9.1
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance ManagementZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk is good for small teams where work is not passed along to internal teams or situations where escalations lead to further customer interactions and no further oversight is needed. It is weak as a product for larger and medium-sized companies, where processes are in place that are not aligned with its workflow, as it is a very rigid tool.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • 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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    Zendesk
    • Merging of the tickets with similar issues, it is easy to avoid confusion
    • Al global team somehow gets connected with different ways like Slack, with the Zendesk Suite which is so easier to highlight & the issue quickly
    • The best thing is that this tool gives you to send the message via chat-, email, call through the one single platform
    • Now AI has been added so it works good
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • 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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    Zendesk
    • Is there a way for AEs and CSMs to be informed in a weekly summary of all their accounts and any tickets? Example: Disney submitted a ticket on XYZ. Google has an urgent issue on X still unresolved.
    • Is there a way for CSMs or AEs to have a Dashboard that's specific to their accounts instead of seeing all the tickets in the queue that are not relevant to them?
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    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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    Zendesk
    Zendesk is an amazing tool for communicating with your customers easily. The communication tickets from sellers to us or from us to sellers are stored, and there are statuses used to make communication easy. We have internal conversations between departments, linked with useful software such as Zingtree, Talkdesk, and Webs.
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    Usability
    Oracle
    It produces consolidated multi currency reports faster and more accurately whilst adding additional pivotal functionality. The Smartview reporting is a key for us and a flagstone of the application
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    Zendesk
    Pros: The agent interface is sleek, contemporary, and relatively easy to learn compared to many other enterprise tools. For common tasks, admins are given point-and-click options- adding fields, modifying workflows, constructing macros. The knowledge base (Guide) editor is easy to use for non-developers. Drawbacks: Once you move past the initial things - complex automations, reporting/analytics in Explore, and/or customizations integrating the API, it requires much more advanced training to use successfully. Navigating between the different modules (Support, Explore, Chat, Guide) can feel very disconnected; often you are reminded that it really is a "suite" of products brought together -not really one unified platform. If you're using multiple brands managing simultaneous support tickets, or heavily customizing workflows to meet your brand, you may run into a bit of struggle with usability. So: it's a lot more user friendly than the palaces (Salesforce Service Cloud, ServiceNow), but is not used as quickly or with as much streamlined flow as a product made for a small shop. So if you are looking for a great balance, this is a good option if you are a net new organization or an organization on their way to scaling from 15 - 50 employee. Expect some elbow grease from the admin team once learning, adapting, and working efficiently once you move past the basics with your support tickets and initial customizations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    EPM has been so far available all the time
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    Zendesk
    In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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    Performance
    Oracle
    The product performance is so far very good
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    Zendesk
    There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    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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    Zendesk
    We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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    Online Training
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    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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    Zendesk
    I was very satisfied. They have a free trial for 30 days and I recommend you do that and use it. It is very easy to get started with the basics and the build on over time.

    The only thing technically complex was single sign-on and integration to Salesforce.com required some tweaks – otherwise setting up system was very easy
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    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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    Zendesk
    At the time of evaluation, Dynamics had extremely limited knowledge and support capabilities. The UI is clunky, and reporting requires a deep understanding of the underlying data structure. Ongoing maintenance was costly and didn't provide a positive ROI in any sense of the term.
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    Scalability
    Oracle
    The product is scalable
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    Zendesk
    WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • 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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    Zendesk
    • More than anything, provided a boost to our perceived professionalism. The portal is a massive improvement on email only support.
    • Workflow optimization via macros and automations has enhanced response times and raise our 'first call resolution' metric.
    • Speaking of metrics; having them at all! Before Zendesk Suite we were email only so had no insight into agent and vendor performance.
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    ScreenShots

    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of Process and Workflow - Flexible Workflow and Process Management - Annotations - Concurrency in UsageScreenshot of Integration - External Integration - Oracle ERP Systems and Hybrid On-Premise DeploymentScreenshot of Planning and Forecasting - Decision-Oriented Plans with Instant Feedback Loop - What-If Modeling and SandboxScreenshot of Process and Workflow - Flexible Workflow and Process Management - Annotations - Concurrency in UsageScreenshot of User Interface - Role-Based, Intuitive User Interface - Role-Based Navigation Flows - Microsoft Office InterfaceScreenshot of Integration - External Integration - Oracle ERP Systems and Hybrid On-Premise Deployment

    Zendesk Suite Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations