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BambooHR vs Oracle E-Business Suite comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

BambooHR
Ranking in Benefits Administration
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Talent Management (7th), Cloud HCM (6th)
Oracle E-Business Suite
Ranking in Benefits Administration
6th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
154
Ranking in other categories
Field Service Management (1st), ERP (6th), Activity Based Costing Software (2nd), Enterprise Resource Planning for Manufacturing (1st), Product Configuration and Quoting (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Benefits Administration category, the mindshare of BambooHR is 3.1%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle E-Business Suite is 4.5%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Benefits Administration
 

Featured Reviews

Ram-Mohan - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-built adapters simplify CI/CD processes but monitoring improvements are needed
If Bamboo can provide a dashboard with tool health, such as whether the master or instance has the required space, it would be beneficial. Sometimes, when I trigger a build, it ends with no space on the agent machine where the agents are installed. If Bamboo can create an internal monitoring mechanism and display the tool's health status on the landing page or homepage, it would help end users and DevOps Engineers like me.
James Balbach - PeerSpot reviewer
Centralizes our enterprise-wide functions but could benefit from cloud migration
We have dealt with customer service, and it was awful. For a system this size, it felt like we were merely buying software from them. They weren't really partnered with us on it. Reporting bugs and getting feedback, as well as having engineers work on issues, was very transactional. There was no real ownership on Oracle's part. During several support cases, it became difficult to determine ownership at Oracle and get status updates. The on-premises Oracle support is not great in my experience, and I think this is true in the industry. We've read about their software as a solution, and theoretically, their SaaS portal support is a lot better.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution's technical support is super responsive and helpful. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"I can easily go to BambooHR to search for any staff member in the company."
"Bamboo has a vast number of pre-built adapters which can be used as plug and play components."
"The performance goals and personal features of every employee with the dashboard is most valuable."
"BambooHR is accessible to users who aren't good with technology. If you don't have an IT background, you can easily find information about any employee."
"This is a scalable solution. We have not experienced any issues."
"Leave management is the most valuable as they all started with leave management and then progressed to performance management. Of course, employee profiles are central to everything. It is also very easy to use. Customers get on board with it very quickly. One of the selling points for BambooHR is that they have a very wide partner network. There are lots of other partners that have integrations with BambooHR. They have an open API. This is one of the things that is driving its growth because lots of people and companies are literally just building integrations of BambooHR to ride the wave. If you have an integration with BambooHR, you get sales. People are more likely to choose your product because they've already chosen BambooHR. That's how it is happening. It is a cloud deployment, so there is only one version. They do the updates every month, and because of this, you are encouraged to send them feedback all the time. You never know. Your feature may be included in the next release."
"Bamboo has a vast number of pre-built adapters which can be used as plug and play components."
"We can drill down from the sales order line to the invoice and payment at the detailed level."
"It's a scalable product."
"It's quite secure and fast, and we get an end-to-end solution."
"Oracle E-Business Suite has over 20 different modules to choose from, it is comprehensive. Additionally, the integration is very good."
"I would definitely recommend Oracle E-Business Suite to other people."
"The procure-to-pay is core to our business and relevant to us."
"The technical ability to run runtime APIs is great."
"The solution has other core processes that can be implemented with customers according to their needs."
 

Cons

"The color palettes could be changed to make the solution a little more attractive and easier to use."
"The only thing that could have been added is better integration with local payroll systems or a local Canadian payroll module."
"If you are dealing with two or more businesses under one company name, it is not possible to transfer employees between companies if they have a separate bamboo set up."
"BambooHR could be improved by managing leave in a way that transfers remaining days at the end of the annual year to the following year."
"It would be good to include more options for approvals and workflows. They are deliberately not the most sophisticated version of anything that they do, but it is like 80/20. They hit the vast majority of all the needs, but I have started to run up against the limits of their functionality. It has forced me to start paying attention to the marketplace or sending feedback to BambooHR. Clients are still happy though. Timesheets is a new area in which they're slowly expanding. It is currently very limited, but it meets the needs of standard nine-to-five salary employees who just want to be able to key in their time, have it approved, and then pushed off to payroll. It does not have any of the bells and whistles that an hourly employee or hourly worker might need. That is one area that is currently limited, but they have integrations with some of the best companies that do that."
"In the BambooHR performance management annual evaluations we have some limits to the questions. We can only add four extra questions, and they already have three basic questions, this is not easy for us. We would like to have more flexibility with the questions."
"It would be useful to have the possibility to assign a task to the different users within the software."
"We cannot add more questions to the assessments if we want to."
"If you get away from the financials core of the product, it is not so good at handling peripherals."
"Improving the reporting and user interface of Oracle ERP would be beneficial and is something that can be considered for future updates."
"There are some enhancements in the process itself that is needed in the application. In the cloud version, they covered some of these areas and requirements but the on-premise version has to catch up."
"Pricing is the biggest disadvantage of Oracle."
"Some of my clients report that the overall ease of use could be simplified."
"We don't like Oracle EBS because it is very old. Nowadays, all the systems are on the cloud and web-based. With Oracle EBS, you need a huge setup before installing it. You need a lot of servers. There are a lot of problems and bugs in the system. We have to move from Oracle EBS to another system. In terms of improvements, it can have better training for end users and better support."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It's not easy for people without technical knowledge to understand how to implement it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Price-wise, the solution is in the middle compared to other tools offering similar functionalities."
"I rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."
"It was definitely cheaper than some of the larger systems."
"We pay a monthly subscription to use the solution. The subscript model is based on how many employees we have active."
"The license is very expensive and I think that it needs to be cheaper to get a wider range of users or customers."
"Oracle has different licensing models available. For example, concurrent user license metric and power unit licensing metric. It is different from product to product, but for the application itself, the license is by the number of users."
"Both the current projects and future projects should be defined well. Licensing should be done according to current and near future plans."
"The pricing is high."
"It's quite expensive, even though they gave us a discount."
"In order to minimize the implementation and consultancy costs, business lines should have proper definitions. They need to have a proper way of retrieving their data, which should be structured well."
"Products concerning areas like CRM and ERP should provide value at lesser costs to customers, especially if you consider that the initial cost of implementation is high."
"At the time of purchasing the license the price was reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
27%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
8%
Educational Organization
8%
Educational Organization
57%
Computer Software Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What advice do you have for others considering BambooHR?
Organizations of all sizes, especially those that are experiencing rapid growth, want to have a way to effectively manage their HR operations. Our organization feels that BambooHR is an HR manageme...
What do you like most about BambooHR?
The tool's most valuable features are the recruitment module, performance module, and document storage.
What needs improvement with BambooHR?
If Bamboo can provide a dashboard with tool health, such as whether the master or instance has the required space, it would be beneficial. Sometimes, when I trigger a build, it ends with no space o...
What do you like most about Oracle E-Business Suite?
It was very easy to integrate the product into our existing infrastructure.
 

Also Known As

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Oracle EBS, OEBS
 

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