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Oracle Fusion Service
Formerly Oracle Service Cloud

Overview

What is Oracle Fusion Service?

Oracle Service Cloud is the help desk and customer experience management platform from Oracle. The technology was developed and supported by RightNow Technologies as RightNow CX for cloud-based call center automation, until that company's acquisition by Oracle in 2011 for…

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6 out of 10
April 04, 2022
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Popular Features

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  • Ticket creation and submission (74)
    8.7
    87%
  • Ticket response (74)
    8.0
    80%
  • Email support (74)
    7.9
    79%
  • Internal knowledge base (74)
    7.7
    77%

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What is Oracle Fusion Service?

Oracle Service Cloud is the help desk and customer experience management platform from Oracle. The technology was developed and supported by RightNow Technologies as RightNow CX for cloud-based call center automation, until that company's acquisition by Oracle in 2011 for about $1.5 billion.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Incident and problem management

Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes

7.6
Avg 7.9

Self Help Community

Features that allow customers to self-service for support issues.

7.3
Avg 7.7

Multi-Channel Help

Features related to providing customer service and support via different communication channels. Communications are organized by ticket/customer/channel for the convenience of agents.

7.3
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Oracle Fusion Service?

Oracle Service (formerly Oracle Service Cloud), part of the Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience suite, is a cloud-based, omnichannel solution that delivers relevant, connected customer experiences via personalized service interactions with a 360-degree view of the customer. With both B2C and B2B offerings, Oracle Service empowers businesses to offer customers various choices to engage across channels—anywhere, and any time—while balancing automation and intelligence with high-value customer engagement. Oracle Service's approach is driven by knowledge, automation, and evolving customer engagement channels, simplifying every service experience for agents and customers alike. By helping to differentiate an organization’s service experience, Oracle Service aims to deliver measurable business impacts across all industries.

The platform includes: Digital Customer Service, Service Center, Field Service, Knowledge Management, Customer Data Management, and Intelligent Advisor.


Oracle Fusion Service Screenshots

Screenshot of A pixel-perfect Customer Portal organizes self-service content in a way that makes sense to your customers.Screenshot of Customers can search, email, chat, and call your business from their mobile devices for immediate resolution.Screenshot of Bring omnichannel interactions together into an intuitive, unified agent desktop.Screenshot of A fully integrated knowledge solution is the backbone of all seamless and consistent service experiences.Screenshot of Tailor customer experiences with contextualized and personalized service using dynamic interviews.Screenshot of Predictive forecasting tools increase field service operational efficiencies to ensure timely job completion.

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Oracle Fusion Service Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported LanguagesArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukranian

Frequently Asked Questions

Oracle Service Cloud is the help desk and customer experience management platform from Oracle. The technology was developed and supported by RightNow Technologies as RightNow CX for cloud-based call center automation, until that company's acquisition by Oracle in 2011 for about $1.5 billion.

Salesforce Service Cloud, Zendesk Suite, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 are common alternatives for Oracle Fusion Service.

Reviewers rate Ticket creation and submission highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of Oracle Fusion Service are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-5 of 5)
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Chris Edwards | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle CX Service [(formerly Oracle Service Cloud)] is an enterprise engagement platform that goes beyond solving customer issues in a contact center and takes the interactions with clients and stakeholders into another level allowing purposeful interactions. We use the platform in the whole of our organization where it allows to interact with our clients from a single hub irregardless of the means they are using whether through contact center, web or social media. It has helped us boost our interactions with clients and build our customer base due to its effectiveness and simplicity in usage.
  • Its offers a social interaction platform that allows us to maintain contact and engagement within our various social media accounts and within our website.
  • The process of adoption and deployment is instant and this ensures simplicity in its usage within our departments much to our benefit.
  • Comes with self-service feature where our customers are able to obtain help and support on their own and this brings convenience and comfort to our clients.
  • The pricing of the platform may not favor small users who may wish to expedite the usage of the platform in customer engagement.
  • We have not had major challenges but a few of our staff had a steep learning curve in the initial stages of using the platform.
Oracle CX Service [(formerly Oracle Service Cloud)] is a complete customer service platform and the platform fits well in a scenario where a company wishes to acquire a single hub to manage the various communication channels from social media, website and contact center instead of acquiring a single platform for all of these channels. Oracle CX Service will fit into these scenario and grow your productivity and improve the customer service that you offer to your clients.
Incident and problem management (6)
95%
9.5
Organize and prioritize service tickets
100%
10.0
Expert directory
100%
10.0
Subscription-based notifications
80%
8.0
ITSM collaboration and documentation
100%
10.0
Ticket creation and submission
90%
9.0
Ticket response
100%
10.0
Self Help Community (2)
95%
9.5
External knowledge base
90%
9.0
Internal knowledge base
100%
10.0
Multi-Channel Help (5)
94%
9.4
Customer portal
100%
10.0
IVR
90%
9.0
Social integration
80%
8.0
Email support
100%
10.0
Help Desk CRM integration
100%
10.0
  • Enables us automate customer engagement campaigns across various channels and help us track them leading to increased customer base and productivity.
  • We have expanded our customer engagement service and this has brought convenience to our customers and further simplified our customer support delivery.
  • It has contributed to the increase in our customer numbers and subsequent growth in our revenue.
The vendor offers customer support to users who maybe stuck in usage of the platform in a number of options and this ensures that one does not get frustrated at all in using the platform. This enhances the trust held by the clients concerning Oracle CX Service [(formerly Oracle Service Cloud)].
Its steady, the vendor is usually on standby in order to help anyone who maybe stuck somewhere in using the platform and this enhances the usability of the platform to a great deal.
August 06, 2019

On cloud 9!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We uses Oracle Service Cloud for handling customer service, meaning that all emails and calls are logged in Service Cloud.
  • Great overview
  • Works well with Oracle CC&B
  • No great solution for handling CC recipients on the emails sent in to Service Cloud. You need a custom report in order to easily see if any recipients are CC'd.
It has a huge amount of functionalities but it's still manageable and it's possible to manage and develop in house.
Incident and problem management (4)
87.5%
8.8
Organize and prioritize service tickets
70%
7.0
ITSM collaboration and documentation
80%
8.0
Ticket creation and submission
100%
10.0
Ticket response
100%
10.0
Self Help Community (2)
100%
10.0
External knowledge base
100%
10.0
Internal knowledge base
100%
10.0
Multi-Channel Help (4)
100%
10.0
Customer portal
100%
10.0
IVR
100%
10.0
Email support
100%
10.0
Help Desk CRM integration
100%
10.0
  • We are able to standardize and optimize handling through buttons, workflows and standardtexts
Service Cloud seems more agile
Oracle Customer Care and Billing, Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management (MDM)
70
First level, second level and backoffice as well as mangement team
1
Knowledge of the business and users day to day tasks as well as Oracle Service Cloud functionality
  • Call logging
  • Email handling
  • Customer portal
  • We started using buttons, to simplify the way incidents are being transferred from one team to an other
  • We might be adding a chat bot or digital assistant of some sort
We are committed to using this system that we just started using a few years ago
Yes
Microsoft crm
  • Product Reputation
  • Vendor Reputation
no, I wasn't a part of the decision making process
That's a hard question, since I believe we made the right call. But we didn't just get Oracle Service Cloud, we also purchased Oracle Customer Care and Billing, so it was a factor that integrations between the two was possible.
  • Third-party professional services
We used Wipro to implement Oracle Service Cloud.
Yes

We started out with our design phase.

Then we had our UAT phase where we also made sure our system was approved in the market.

Then we went live and started adding customers.

Change management was a minor issue with the implementation

Our project manager and the rest of management was responsible for the change management.

Unfortunately the business wasn't included enough which has given a few bumps on the road. So an important lesson is, that when implementing a new system, it's key that the entire business and all of the management team is backing up.

  • It was change management related, due to lack of communication
I think we set a record for shortest time spend on implementing, and overall it went really well. What gave us the most challenges was the employees who hadn't been prepared well enough by their leaders, to understand that everything was not 100% done.
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught

Most of our training was given while doing user acceptance testing, and getting the system approved by the market. When ever we were in doubt, our implementer helped us along.

Later on we started exploring by our selves.

If you have an open mind, and have flair for IT I think it's okay, especially when you start to understand the background logics
I think there is so many options as to how you want to setup your service cloud. We have only scratched the surface, but we are getting smarter and more knowledgeable all the time. For us, the limitation has been, that we want as few customizations as possible, and almost three years in, we are still sticking to that. We only have a few customized functions - everything else is our of box functionality.

I think my absolute best advice is, to not focus on what you used to have, but what core functionality you need, and then configure based on that.

You tend to want to build exactly the same functionality as you used to. In stead you should focus on the basic need, and then look into the best way to handle that process. We found, that some of things the business wanted, wasn't needed, but they requested it, because that was how it was done in the old system. So always challenge the configuration requests.

Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
The few customizations was made by our implementer before we started using Service Cloud. We only have a few, like a custom field for an extra contact, related to the incident.
not at this point

I guess a 10 would be if everything was just perfect - or more than perfect - all the time.

I think we get the help we need, when we needed, but usually we are able to solve issues and challenges through our partner and implementer or through the Oracle Customer Connect forum.

Yes
It turned out, that it impacted all users, and Oracle then had to make a patch for it. That part took longer than what I could have hoped for, but they were very helpful in figurering out a way to work around the issue, which was rather small.

Through their technical webinars!

It's amazing, and it add's to my knowledge about Service Cloud. One of the latest was actually some of the things the technical support uses to find errors, so that's neat to be able to do, by yourself.

  • Replying to emails due to standard texts
  • Finding out who was cc'd in an email
Yes, but I don't use it
I think it's a great system with great functionality

We have never had any down time, slowness or anything.

Any error or instability that has occurrred has so far has been caused by user errors.

We have never had issues with downtime or it not being available.

Upgrades and maintenance also happens in weekends or at night.

We use a lot of tabs and fields on our incident workspace, which should slow the system down, but it's still quite fast, and we continue to optimize whatever is possible.
  • Our phone system
  • Oracle CC&B

Integration was performed by our implementing partner but it is in the lighter end of integrations.

Our phone system creates a call task when ever agents answer the phone, and all our customers in Oracle CC&B are sync'ed to Service Cloud where they can be used as contacts.

  • Not at this point
I don't know, but they have so far been really helpful
  • File import/export
nope
I think it was pretty easy, but I didn't have to make the integration. I only tested, and described what we wanted.
I think it would be, to be involved from early on, to learn as much as possible from the get go
Yes
It went perfect
  • Always get new functionality that inspires us to develope
  • Agent browser knowledge
April 10, 2018

Oracle rocks

Jeremy Pope | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Using service cloud to help track the customer experience with various data points. Service cloud has helped us develop a back-office servicing channel to move away from front line customer service representatives; savings us on overall efficiency as an organization as well as improving the customer experience.
  • Great reporting
  • Ease of use for user
  • Open APIs
  • More advanced reporting
Great with the knowledge base system; reporting is limited at times.
Incident and problem management (6)
58.33333333333333%
5.8
Organize and prioritize service tickets
70%
7.0
Expert directory
20%
2.0
Subscription-based notifications
60%
6.0
ITSM collaboration and documentation
70%
7.0
Ticket creation and submission
70%
7.0
Ticket response
60%
6.0
Self Help Community (2)
75%
7.5
External knowledge base
80%
8.0
Internal knowledge base
70%
7.0
Multi-Channel Help (5)
64%
6.4
Customer portal
70%
7.0
IVR
80%
8.0
Social integration
50%
5.0
Email support
50%
5.0
Help Desk CRM integration
70%
7.0
  • Reduced staffing need
  • Decrease customer delays (better cycle time)
  • Cross trained staff
Oracle Service Cloud is easier to use however reporting is clumpy.
500
Reporting, analysis and customer service
200
Customer service
  • Efficiency
  • Customer experience
  • Employee empowerment
Overall ease of use
Not Sure
Not sure
  • Price
  • Implemented in-house
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
Prepare staff in advance.
  • Change
  • Education
  • Adoption
Ease of use for users
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Data analytics
  • Omnichanel
Overall satisfied with service and product
Mig Ponce | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Handles and prioritizes emails, chats, and incidents well.
  • Very extensive help documentation and support.
  • Well-organized considering its complexity.
  • Robust in handling different agent skill sets and permissions.
  • Various aspects of service integrate well (e.g. knowledge base and incident handling).
  • Frequent upgrades that are very thoroughly supported.
  • Very robust and customizable analytics..
  • I'd like to see agent skills switched to be agent-based rather than profile-based. (Supposedly this is coming in a future release). Under the current setup, agents are assigned to profiles in a many-to-one ratio. Each profile represents a combination of skills that the agent handles. This limits agent permissions to profiles... we can't just add "Skill X" or "Queue Y" to an agent without creating a unique profile for them. It would be much more scalable and agile to customize skills for each agent... that way, for instance, an agent could get trained on "Skill X" and then start getting emails from the "Skill X" queue while their untrained-for-X peers wouldn't.
  • Better tutorials for absolute beginners. (The tutorials are there; but I mean tutorials for absolute first-timers.)
  • Support is thorough, but for complicated issues it can sometimes take several rounds of back-and-forth.
  • Analytics are robust, but not intuitive, and absolutely require training.
  • RightNow does not currently have an easy way to integrate with some of the big WFM (workforce management) players in the space, without very extensive (and expensive) custom consulting work. Our phone vendor can do it for a few $k. But RightNow can't. This is an increasingly important trend and the lack of an API for this is a big weakness.
There are cheaper CRM solutions, but evaluate what your needs will be... if you are operating at a large scale, you'll need one of the large players like Oracle RightNow. And it is robust and effective and good for large-scale use. I really, really love using this system!

Other tips: definitely have someone be in charge of analytics, and then send them to the Analytics training course. Expect extra time (and cost) for integration or implementation, because things are always complicated at this scale. And when designing layouts and workspaces, consider foremost the agent experience. Ask the agents what they need and use, and work from there... rather than deciding what they need and then forcing it upon them. Find this out, address it, and then constantly re-evaluate against it.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, a big weakness is that it does not have an API to integrate with common WFM (workforce management) applications. If you're going to need this, this could be an issue. I've dinged it points for this.
  • It is essential for our large-scale customer service operation. It scales well based on load.
  • Provides us with accurate metrics to measure employee productivity and customer satisfaction.
The decision was made well before my time but I know that eGain was one of the others evaluated.

For a more recent integration, we switched a newly-acquired site from Zendesk because we needed it to fit into our larger RightNow ecosystem.
500
Mainly customer service agents (including hundreds of seasonal agents). We also have product quality people looking at feedback, and analytics people examining statistics.
3
1) CRM administrator.
2) Analytics person.
3) It's REALLY helpful to have someone who can administer the portal and portal development.
  • Answering, routing, and prioritizing customer chats.
  • Answering, routing, and prioritizing customer emails.
  • Extensive knowledge base and help center capability.
  • I've used Custom Objects to build a feature that tracks operational incidents (external to RightNow), and how they impact RightNow incidents.
  • We are looking into sales/marketing features for the future.
It has its quirks, but works so well. Near-flawless uptime and scalability; thorough support; and extensive analytics. I'll be honest-- switching costs and historical reporting factor into why to keep a vendor rather than switch. But in the case of RightNow, I'm very happy with it and am not looking to switch. It's organized well and is a very thorough application. The company really takes interest in it clients, as well as in developing its product. But it really needs to address the lack of a WFM API!
Yes
It replaced Kana many years ago, when the nature of Kana's offering changed.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Reputation
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Implemented in-house
  • Professional services company
We've had Helix Solutions (who specializes in RightNow) do some work before. Other aspects of it, we've done in-house.
Yes
We integrated based on function: chat separate from email, for instance. It was pretty straightforward.
  • Every bit of it seemed to be more complex than anticipated, because of the interdependency of all the components. (Each part affected other parts.)
Be sure to allow more time (and potentially more cost) than you might originally anticipate! Especially if you are switching from another system and you are attempting to duplicate its setup.
Yes
We are a large-scale operation and need quick response.
Some of the more complicated inquiries can take some time; but in general, the support is very thorough. RightNow doesn't stop working on your issue until it's completely resolved. They have VERY extensive documentation for each version, as well as really thorough help documentation. REALLY thorough.
Yes
Some of the trickier inquiries take some time to resolve; but RightNow's system of escalation is very clear and easy to understand. They will keep working on an issue until it's resolved. I've never, ever had an inquiry or incident disappear.
Oracle is exceptional at escalating support to the proper party. Sometimes it can take some time for the really tricky inquiries; but their resolution rate is nearly 100%.
  • Agent account setup.
  • Business rules and routing.
  • Mailbox setup can be tricky.
  • Product/category setup and linking has some peculiarities that are essential to know.
  • Customer Portal (all the customer-facing end-user pages) is really tricky and cumbersome and is the most difficult part of maintaining RightNow.
Yes, but I don't use it
The learning curve is fairly steep; but for something that has this much capability, it's nearly impossible to make it "easy". The layout and organization are at least reasonably intuitive. The hardest part-- the "weakest link"-- is the portal development (where you can build help centers and other end-user pages.) The capabilities there are significant, but the learning curve for that part is especially steep and it takes a fair amount of expertise to be able to update it.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
  • Customer Centric User Interface
  • Multi-Channel Capabilities
  • Knowledge Base is excellent
  • Oracle is not investing in the product
  • Increase the sales capabilities of the product
  • Create better integrations into the Oracle products
RightNow is a very good product. It's not technically SaaS though they claim it to be. If they change the .net framework, and Oracle invests more into the functionality moving forward, I would recommend it higher. If Oracle Legal were easier to do business with, I would recommend it higher. However, if you're only looking for a powerful, but lightweight Knowledge Base, it's a very good solution.
  • Increased employee efficiency
  • Better Customer Service
Sales and Customer Service, Admin.
  • Customer service improvement
  • Self-service
  • Increased efficiency
RightNow was a great company and product. When they were purchased by Oracle, that all changed. Higher prices, no new functionality, and worse customer support.
Yes
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Yes
It's an arduous process to get a support ticket created and any and all updates.
No.
It's a very customer friendly.
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