SaaS Comparison—Oracle Cloud Applications
Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite offers the most complete set of public cloud applications engineered to work together running on Oracle's next-generation Cloud Infrastructure—the best platform for SaaS applications.
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| Complete suite of cloud business applications | ||||||
| Enterprise Resource Planning |
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A complete view of your business lets you respond quickly to an ever-changing competitive landscape. Plan and track your projects, assign the right talent, and balance capacity against demand. Built-in AI and ML (machine learning) strengthen financial controls, help stop cash leaks, streamline audits, and detect emerging risks. Automatic updates via a continuous stream of innovations help you keep up with change in a global business environment. |
| Enterprise Performance Management |
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Drive connected plans—from scenario modeling and long-range planning to budgeting and line of business planning. Understand your most profitable products or lines of business and, inversely, your biggest costs to make more informed decisions about where to take the business. Adapt quickly to changing business and compliance requirements. Align tax reporting with corporate financial reporting for better visibility and compliance. |
| Supply Chain Management |
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Plan demand, supply, order fulfillment, and production intelligently across your supply chain, collaborating end to end to help increase service, reduce disruptions, and minimize costs. |
| Human Capital Management |
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Plan, manage, and optimize global people processes with one common data source. Make better decisions, personalize your employee experiences, and leverage highly configurable workflows that offer scalability and localization of global capabilities. |
| Customer Experience |
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Build a complete view of your customer and their every interaction—no matter how, when, where, or with whom they engage. Empower your entire business to deliver exceptional customer experiences—from acquisition to retention—and everything in between. |
| Integrated business processes |
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Oracle Cloud applications automate cross-functional end-to-end business processes, which improves efficiency, drives quality, improves security and data integrity, and delivers a consistent user experience. |
| Native built for cloud |
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True SaaS enables your company to become and remain a digital leader with continuous digital innovation via quarterly updates and with zero or near-zero downtime. |
| Unified data model |
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The single data model is the foundation for cross-functional business processes and the single view of the business. Unified data avoids overly complex reporting and analysis. There’s no need to duplicate or synchronize data. Enable faster and more informed decision-making with a holistic view of your business. |
| Cloud application globalization/localization |
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Cloud applications that are localized to specific regions worldwide help make it easier for employees to do their jobs, collaborate, and share data. |
| Configurable and personalized apps extend SaaS |
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Rule-driven configurations and workflow changes generally don't require IT support. They also drive security and continuous optimization with minimal business disruption. Oracle Fusion HCM Journeys Cloud Service offers an experience that’s personalized, contextual, guided, and accessible from anywhere. This enables everyone to complete their journeys however they choose—through desktop and mobile as well as digital assistant and collaboration platforms. |
| Low-code cloud application suite extensions |
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The best digital business platforms let you develop your own additional custom apps according to your business needs while working with your current packaged applications. |
| Embedded next-generation technologies | ||||||
| Embedded AI and ML capabilities |
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When AI and ML are embedded into SaaS applications, you’ll access adaptive, artificially intelligent applications and digital assistants that are purpose-built to solve specific business challenges. |
| Digital assistants (chatbots) |
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Deliver out of the box digital assistants/chatbots that provide access with natural language to all data. End users can access all data without needing to know where data resides. |
| Internet of Things apps |
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Gain visibility, insights, and efficiencies by capturing sensor data from connected devices using smart manufacturing, connected assets, connected logistics, workplace safety, and connected customer experience. |
| Blockchain |
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When the pace of business requires secure collaboration with multiple parties, you need a solution to bring everyone together—in real time—to share data. Blockchain provides a secure, collaborative framework for sharing reliable data. Oracle offers easy ways to adopt blockchain technology, including a cloud service, an on-premises edition, and a SaaS application for supply chain. |
| Enterprise Data Management |
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Adapt and respond to change faster and more effectively by managing your master data, whether migrating an application to the cloud, managing the effects of mergers and acquisitions, or reconciling metadata differences across business functions and applications. |
| R&D investment more than $56B in the last 10 years |
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Continuous innovation requires R&D across all product lines. Innovation is infused in all product lines to support digital business models and constant innovation. |
| One service-level agreement (SLA) with cloud provider |
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Most companies use a hyperscaler for more than just enterprise applications. With vendors such as SAP, Workday, Infor, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Adobe, companies end up with one SLA for these vendors and another SLA for other data, and thus multiple points of contact for service and support. |
| Synchronized updates between the enterprise applications and the platform |
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The application updates are managed by the cloud application vendor. The servers, storage, networking, and virtualization are managed and updated by the hyperscaler. This way, the two aren’t continuously synchronized in terms of updates. Neither the cloud application vendor nor the hyperscaler is responsible for the entire environment, leading to potential increased costs, security risks, and downtime. |
| A single set of next-generation technologies |
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Next-generation technologies refer to AI, ML, predictive analytics, natural language interaction, and other transformative technologies used in cloud applications. Vendors that run on multiple hyperscalers must deal with these technologies from these hyperscalers, leading to potential business disruption, increased security risks, and downtime for your business. |
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Product comparison accurate as of May 2022.
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