Oracle E-Business Suite Reviews

We do not use Oracle E-Business Suite. We provide support and customization for the platform. 

Our clients, on the other hand, use Oracle E-Business Suite for administration, finances, and inventory. 

In our clients, eBS has enhanced the capacity to attend large volumes of transactions, which allows them to quickly attend to requests from their own clients and a prompt response from their suppliers.

The financial aspect of Oracle E-Business Suite is the most valuable for our customers. The solution is perfect for big industry and high-scale e-business transactions. 

Oracle E-Business Suite is not great for small and medium-sized enterprises. Those clients are better suited for Oracle's NetSuite. 

It would be great to see Oracle E-Business Suite become less dependent on the SOA solution, which is an integration solution for Oracle platforms. 

I have been a partner for Oracle E-Business Suite for 28 years. We have been implementing and supporting e-businesses since the beginning. 

Oracle E-Business Suite is very stable. In fact, that is why most clients land on this solution.

Oracle is continuously patching, upgrading, and reporting any changes or security issues, which contributes greatly to the stability of the solution. 

The scalability is good. However, how well it scales will depend on who is implementing the scaling. It has to be carried out by a highly-skilled team. Technical support comes in handy here. 

Oracle provides good support for the E-Business Suite. 

Positive

Oracle E-Business Suite does have a complicated deployment model. It is a SaaS solution, so deployment entails multiple databases and server configuration. The connection between the database and the application has to be configured as well. 

You do have to have expertise to carry out the implementation, however, I would rate the overall difficulty of the employment at a medium. 

The average deployment would require five skilled consultants. Some very basic deployments could be done with one or two deployment developer consultants. 

We got a return on our investment in a year with Oracle E-Business Suite. 

Oracle E-Business Suite is expensive. I don't know how much a license costs exactly, but I would wager it's around $1 million. This is a big implementation. 

The biggest selling points for Oracle E-Business Suite are business continuity, financial support, and accounting support. 

On a scale of one to ten, with one being the worst and 10 being the best, I would give Oracle E-Business Suite a nine. The only reason I would not give the solution a 10 is because you need a partner for everything you would like to do with the solution, things like implementation, maintenance, and upgrades. 

Oracle E-Business Suite is being used in the manufacturing industry. The solution has been good in the planning that can help financial stability. It is a good product to go ahead with.

Oracle E-Business Suite is easy to use, and we have enough resources out in the market.

I have been using Oracle E-Business Suite for approximately eight years.

The solution is stable.

Oracle E-Business Suite has been scalable.

We have approximately 1,400 using this solution. We are planning for the organic growth of the organization of approximately 500 users in a year's time.

The support from Oracle is very good.

The implementation took a long time but it was for many reasons. However, Oracle made sure that the solution and systems were up and running. 

ERP solutions are hard to evaluate for implementation because the process is more of a journey. When an ERP solution is implemented in an organization, it's a journey, it's not a simple out-of-the-box installation. The whole process is different from other solutions.

Oracle E-Business Suite is heavy subscriptions based and the solution's upgrades, under the technology licensing, are quite costly. Additionally, support is an extra cost. The price of the solution could be reduced.

I have not evaluated the cloud version of this solution which is the latest version of Oracle Fusion. I can't say exactly at the moment what they must improve from it.

Oracle E-Business Suite is best for financial transactions, especially for finance users. With respect to material and production planning, they are quite stable and we are happy. From that perspective, I recommend Oracle E-Business Suite

I rate Oracle E-Business Suite a seven out of ten.

We had an issue in which access should be made by the tax team and not necessarily the team entering the transaction. Oracle, however, has now made taxes a separate module for E-Business Suite, and with it, the tax team knows exactly what they have access to and what issues they need to fix. The tax module allows us to set up rules for the tax team to better do their job.

We've proposed many changes to Oracle. For example, we'd like to be able to customize a single specific piece of E-Business Suite without having to customize the entire structure. I'd also like an auto-review function so that we're able to see certain information without accessing it only if the management team asks us to.

We've been using it since 2004.

We've had no issues with deployment.

The stability is really 50/50 right now. It could be issues with certain pages or data, or it could be a training issue on our end.

It's scaleable. Oracle provides pretty good data plans for E-Business Suite so that you can customize using Java if you want.

The level of technical support depend on which analyst I'm getting through to. Sometimes they're pretty good, and other times they just throw their hands in the air.

The initial setup is pretty good now. Every page has help associated with it.

It immediately resolved an issue we had because, as a spin-off company, we were operating on a transitional service agreement and had to get off the previous systems. E-Business Suit allowed us to do that, having an immediate impact.

Although I don't have daily, hands-on work with E-Business Suite, I know that my colleagues are concerned with its reporting and dashboarding abilities. They'd like better reporting on data and dashboard functionalities.

We've been using it for three years.

We've had no issues deploying it.

E-Business Suite wasn't initially stable, but it has been in the last year-and-a-half.

It has scaled for our needs.

The previous solution wasn't our system, so we had to do something else. At prior companies, our executive management and some of the leadership team had experience with Oracle and always had good success. We did a lot of homework and research. There was interest in considering at least one of the manufacturing ERP systems, and we did give that solution a consideration. But from a pure finance, non-manufacturing perspective, Oracle was the way for us to go.

It was straightforward because we wanted to use Oracle out-of-the-box. There were a few extensions, but we wanted to adopt the processes rather than change the system to support our processes. We knew that there was going to be expanded scope and implementations globally. We wanted to keep it simple.

We use this as our ERP.

It is a very consistent product. With a wide range of knowledge base

The solution needs to be updated with modern technology as it currently runs on the Java platform, JRE, which quite running obsolete and requires you to need an NPAPI supported browser to run the tool

I would also like to see an interface that is supported on a tablet or phone.

I have been using this solution for the past 12 years. 

It is pretty stable.

The cloud version is more elastic than the on-premise.

Tech support was very knowledgeable.

It was quite complex to setup, taking about six years. We currently have three employees maintaining it.

We had three partners that helped us with the implementation.

There is an annual licensing fee and you are able to add features depending on the scope of the environment.

Be diligent when reviewing which partner to select.

We implement Oracle EBS R12.2.5 in various companies, including financial and manufacturing distribution companies. The Oracle solution covers finance, procure to pay, order to cash, and inventory with process manufacturing or discrete manufacturing.

With Oracle EBS, the customer gets a better cost calculation and an integrated system between departments. Oracle EBS also provides the customer with faster financial closing because of its accurate calculations. Customers have previously used local ERP, Acumatica, SAP, and old systems such as FoxPro.

• Ledger and Subsidiary
• Operating Unit
• Inventory Organization and Location
• Subinventory and Bin
  
• In our financial information, we can utilize trial balance on the operating unit level. This feature is very useful for our distribution company.
  

Currently, Oracle is focusing on their Cloud ERP. Since Cloud ERP is being rebuilt from scratch using a different technology, it seems that their on-premise support is slow and unresponsive. This differs with SAP Strategy, whose cloud solution is moving to their on-premise solution.

It's quite secure and fast, and we get an end-to-end solution.

Whenever you are growing, you get new products on the database server level, application server level and software. It definitely grows as your needs increase.

They started on the mobile app and tablets, but still I see there are no short-forms used in EBS, which are not I’m seeing coming on the tablet. Maybe increasing that will help because now everyone carries their tablets and handheld devices. You don’t need to go back to your seat and do anything if you are in the store or anything: warehouse.

You don’t need to spend time going back from there, you can solve the issue.

I’ve been using it for the past 13 years (approximately).

I started using Oracle applications from around 2003, from version 11.9 onwards. I have done some work on 10.7 as well, and from there, onwards.

It’s quite stable. Wherever you have issues you can get some patches on a one-off. We have CPU half-yearly and all those kind of things that makes it like whatever known issues, you can get rid of those beforehand.

No.

Overall, support is good. Earlier, we used to have MetaLink, now we have support with Oracle.com. We can pay the Support Representative or we can find so many documents and all that, but still there is a thing if you need anything development related, then SRs and getting solution may take up to years of time. That is a kind of thing I’d like to get rid of.

If a person is knowledgeable, it’s good enough.

Definitely I’d say data and different application, new servers and 12c and Database, all these have very cool features and In-Memory and EBR.

They should use these things more to get the most out of the solution.

A couple of things-- one is the support for the multiple languages, locale, so the internationalization is a valuable feature. The ability to extend the system and capture the duration of data points and extensions on customer processes, so it's also adaptable. Furthermore, I like the support for mobile apps, which I think they are catching up on.

Looking at the product on a large scale, some of the features are more spreadsheet-based with data updates. Oracle does have a few data spreadsheet loaders but these are not extensive, and a lot of data screens do not give you the option to download the data, modify, and the upload it. Spreadsheets are now becoming the fastest way to download and modify data. This would be handy especially when working with larger data sections.

I've used it for 12 years.

No, you can deploy with very little downtime which is a great feature.

It all depends on what highway you are hosting it on. Based on how many resources you are provided. I've used the product across the organization for the past 12 years and depending on how much hardware, and how fast it is, in terms of design, it does have scalability built in to it.

Most of my interaction has been through the support website which is mostly technical support. Most of the support is through the customers, through the support portal. The best part about the support is the vast knowledge base. 9/10 times you can find a solution to your problem through some kind of published notes from the support website.

There were some modules that were more complicated. All I would say is that it wasn’t too simple and it wasn’t too complex.