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Oracle E-Business Suite pros and cons

Vendor: Oracle
3.9 out of 5
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PROS

Oracle E-Business Suite offers robust integration and flexibility with various modules, making it valuable for end-to-end business processes.
It facilitates financial operations and provides features like straight-through processing, expense management, and comprehensive financial capabilities.
Oracle E-Business Suite is highly scalable and adaptable, making it suitable for a range of industries including large-scale enterprises.
The system is customizable, allowing organizations to enhance built-in capabilities and integrate with third-party systems effectively.
Oracle E-Business Suite provides excellent technical support and security, contributing to its reliability and wide adoption in enterprise management.

CONS

Oracle E-Business Suite is still a little outdated, relying on Oracle forms and older technologies, leading to a significant technical debt.
More automation and real-time visualizations are needed, with a focus on smarter dashboards and reporting.
The integration needs improvement, and Oracle E-Business Suite's focus on cloud solutions has left the on-premises version lacking in development.
Technical support, especially for on-site cloud services, is often slow and unresponsive.
Oracle E-Business Suite is expensive due to licensing costs, and the annual maintenance cost presents a significant challenge.
 

Oracle E-Business Suite Pros review quotes

it_user436182 - PeerSpot reviewer
Finance Professional at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 16, 2016
The most valuable features are straight-through processing because we need to make sure that we have a good end-to-end process.
it_user517470 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior General Manager Information Systems
Sep 21, 2016
Valuable features include expense management and the accounting suite of products.
it_user516675 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 31, 2017
It's quite secure and fast, and we get an end-to-end solution.
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it_user515592 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Engineering Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Sep 12, 2017
The system is reliable and the backbone of financial and other core systems in many organizations worldwide.
it_user600960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Unit NUCLEAR at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Oct 16, 2017
Rapidly implement jobs, positions, grades, and steps within setup of organizational structure.
it_user755364 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director | Oracle Competency
Oct 16, 2017
The integration of the various modules is definitely the most valuable feature for us. Our clients being business-minded, which involves customers and suppliers.
it_user757425 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager IT
Oct 18, 2017
Order to cash and procure to pay process: They are valuable features because of their integration and flexibility.
it_user809760 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Jan 29, 2018
An integrated platform with an easy of integration to a third-party system.
it_user817998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 12, 2018
On-Time Payroll and its features are user-friendly.
Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services
Nov 16, 2020
When correctly configured, this is a very stable solution. We have customers running their process automation manufacturing based off of this solution.
 

Oracle E-Business Suite Cons review quotes

it_user436182 - PeerSpot reviewer
Finance Professional at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 16, 2016
It is still a little outdated as far as what we consider a twenty-first century software. You're still using Oracle forms, that sort of thing.
it_user517470 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior General Manager Information Systems
Sep 21, 2016
I would like to see more automation.
it_user516675 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 31, 2017
They started on the mobile app and tablets, but still I see there are no short-forms used in EBS.
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it_user515592 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Engineering Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Sep 12, 2017
The EBS Design to some extent is still monolithic.
it_user600960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Unit NUCLEAR at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Oct 16, 2017
More flexibility in configuration related to the Payroll module, in order to easily implement the local legislation.
it_user755364 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director | Oracle Competency
Oct 16, 2017
The issue of frequently applying patches and updates to fix bugs. Oracle should improve upon this issue, especially since it happens too frequently.
it_user757425 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager IT
Oct 18, 2017
Movement of CIP Inventory cannot be monitored in Inventory module when we are using the CIP Account or movement of CIP Inventory in Asset module, which is not flexible like Inventory module.
it_user809760 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Jan 29, 2018
Needs more real-time visualizations, in terms of smarter dashboards and reporting competing with the speed of HANA.
it_user817998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 12, 2018
We expect Oracle to go into continuous innovation mode and provide simplified integration solutions.
Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services
Nov 16, 2020
One issue with the product is because it build on a lot of older technologies, there is a substantial technical debt in the system.