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Oracle Payroll vs Workday comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Payroll
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Global Payroll (17th)
Workday
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
Benefits Administration (1st), Talent Management (2nd), Cloud HCM (2nd), Talent Acquisition (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Human Capital Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Oracle Payroll is designed for Global Payroll and holds a mindshare of 2.3%, up 2.0% compared to last year.
Workday, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud HCM, holds 8.6% mindshare, down 18.2% since last year.
Global Payroll Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Payroll2.3%
Deel6.7%
ADP GlobalView Payroll5.7%
Other85.3%
Global Payroll
Cloud HCM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Workday8.6%
SAP SuccessFactors8.5%
UKG4.8%
Other78.1%
Cloud HCM
 

Featured Reviews

BM
Dupty Chief Information Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The self-service helps increase employee loyalty
The reporting could use some improvement. It doesn't shorten the data that it displays to the employee. At the moment you have to scroll through all of the results in order to find what you are looking for. Another improvement that should be implemented in the next release is the appraisal. For the appraisal model, we have to go to another solution because the one included is not supporting us in our needs.
Eslam Abo Elnaga - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior people and systems analyst at B_labs & Mylo
Has improved HR process efficiency through intuitive workflows and responsive support
There is something that could be improved in Workday, specifically in the time tracking module. While I am not working on Workday now, I was a regional HRIS working for Egypt, Malta, India, and China. I mention these countries to relate to high population countries and companies. In our company, we use assigned work schedules for our teams. Because we work with the time tracking module, we need to assign shifts. In the manufacturing industry, we might need to change shifts every day or week. Manufacturing teams are huge, approximately 50 to 200 people in one team. If this team has one leader, the leader needs to assign a work schedule for each person individually. While there is mass upload functionality where we can load shifts for all people or specific groups, we need to select multiple people and assign them to a schedule from the interface itself. I have requested this functionality many times. When extracting business processes awaiting actions report, I can select different processes in one box, hit okay, and the report comes up. However, the same functionality does not work for work schedule assigning. If implemented, it would help many people in companies with high populations and big teams.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"This solution increases the employees' loyalty to the organization since everything regarding their salary, health, insurance, etc. is there, and the employees can also check to see what activity is done on their files."
"I like that it's easy to use and flexible."
"There is a lot of scope for customization with this solution"
"Workday is a secure product."
"The interface of Workday is superior; it is easy and clear, everything is organized effectively, and I enjoy using Workday extensively."
"I like its UI and UX. When we were using Oracle or SAP, the UI/UX wasn't very user-friendly for the employees."
"Workday is a holistic HR solution."
"The software is easy to learn and use. When compared to SAP HR and SAP HCM, the tool is easy to access and understand. We have a hierarchy and structural connectivity in Workday. There is a certification for the solution and when we do it, we become the certified partners of the company"
"There is a lot to like about it. I really enjoy the business process framework. It's something that's really seamless. It allows you to have people within the flow. They get assigned a task to complete something to approve, etc. That's a really good piece of functionality that Workday offers. Their out-of-the-box reporting framework is also really powerful in terms of what it provides. These would be two things that I would highlight."
 

Cons

"The reporting could use some improvement."
"There could be a web-based application for making payments to the employees."
"My opinion is that this solution can improve the overall integrations and add more automation. I think anything that could be on a self-serve basis would work quite well."
"Analytical tools have needed improvement."
"Workday has several helpful features. It has categorized payroll processes into sections, such as CTC separation and pay slips. It also provides detailed information on promotions and salary hikes, showing changes from the previous year to the current year. This includes a clear view of the new CTC and the monthly paycheck breakdown."
"Payroll integration is terrible. It has a lot of limitations."
"The finance module of this solution is not great and needs improvement."
"Reporting system should be improved. It is quite static based on historical data."
"Workday is an expensive solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"You have the license fee per module, and then you have a kind of annual training fee, which is a kind of add-on. I wouldn't say it is exhaustive; it is minor. Licensing is pretty transparent for most of the part."
"I rate the product’s pricing a ten out of ten."
"Workday is an expensive solution."
"It has an annual subscription rate, but I'm not sure how it will work."
"I need to pay for a license. It is expensive."
"The solution is flexible in terms of pricing."
"The pricing is good from an HR perspective, although management gets upset after spending $500,000 a year, every year."
"Its price is pretty high. It is more expensive than what is offered by other competitors in the market."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
University
6%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise43
 

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Also Known As

Oracle Global Payroll, Global Payroll
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