Oracle ERP vs Workday

March 12, 2025 | Author: Michael Stromann
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Oracle ERP
Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud is a suite of cloud applications for finance, project management, procurement, risk management, and other core day-to-day activities important in every business, regardless of size, industry, or geography. Designed from the ground-up with a modern architecture and technology, Oracle ERP Cloud is natively connected with all Oracle enterprise cloud applications and scales inherently to support added users, transactions, and sites as your business grows by size and into new markets across your country or the globe.
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Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for human resources and finance. Workday delivers human capital management, financial management, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest organisations. Hundreds of companies, ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises, have selected Workday.

Oracle ERP and Workday are both large, cloud-based software systems designed to help big organizations keep track of their money, people and general business goings-on. They both offer financial management, human resources tools and the kind of analytics that make executives nod sagely in meetings. Both use artificial intelligence, because it would be terribly embarrassing not to in this day and age and they integrate with third-party applications, just in case they forgot to include something important, like remembering where all the money went.

Oracle ERP, however, has been around since 1977, which means it has seen things—terrible, ineffably bureaucratic things. It started as an on-premises system back when "cloud" was just a fluffy thing in the sky, but it has since embraced the modern age. It is particularly good at managing supply chains and manufacturing, making it a favorite among vast, labyrinthine corporations that manufacture everything from cereal boxes to existential dread. Oracle itself is an American company, though its software is fluent in the universal language of corporate spreadsheets.

Workday, on the other hand, was born in 2005, natively in the cloud and thus spared the awkward adolescence of its older competitor. It is best known for human capital management, which is a fancy way of saying "herding employees," and financial planning, which is a fancy way of saying "figuring out why there's never enough budget for office snacks." Workday is particularly popular in education, government and service industries and unlike Oracle, it refuses to acknowledge the existence of on-premises software. Also American, Workday is the younger, shinier and more optimistic of the two—at least until it encounters its first major system outage.

See also: Top 10 Online ERP software
Author: Michael Stromann
Michael is an expert in IT Service Management, IT Security and software development. With his extensive experience as a software developer and active involvement in multiple ERP implementation projects, Michael brings a wealth of practical knowledge to his writings. Having previously worked at SAP, he has honed his expertise and gained a deep understanding of software development and implementation processes. Currently, as a freelance developer, Michael continues to contribute to the IT community by sharing his insights through guest articles published on several IT portals. You can contact Michael by email stromann@liventerprise.com