Oracle E-Business Suite Reviews

It is paperless; all of the human resources transactions, all of the travel expenses, all of the procurement. No paper; everything is done electronically. The process is more transparent, more accurate, very cost saving; then, high availability.

For ERP-wise, we would like to measure employee performance more; what projects they work on, how many hours they spend on each project, to provide employee performance metrics. I think something is missing there. We would like something like that.

I have been using it for two years.

We have some glitches. We have some application server memory issues that generate huge Java dump files. Then the workflow process is broken because the mail server goes down periodically.

Our company is a fairly small company; we only have 800 employees. We don’t think in the next five or 10 years that the growth will be phenomenal. That's why our current setup will be sufficient.

Support is very good. We also have a management service provider. We work with a company called Emtec that provides management services. Because our IT team is fairly small, we need extra help. They do a good job.

We didn't have a consolidated ERP system, so that's why we migrated to Oracle ERP. We had several small applications working together; the integration is really a challenge.

When we select working with a vendor such as Oracle, we like to choose the industry leader, because the company will be there for a long time. They have the reputation, they have the knowledge, they have the full suite. With some companies, one part of the product is very good, but they don't have the whole solution. We want a one-stop shop to solve all of our problems.

Initial setup is very, very good; straightforward.

When we implemented it, we used another company, AST. Their two-year contract has ended, which is why I chose Emtec. Overall, AST did a very good job. They do the job from scratch: so many app servers, so many test environments, dev environments, and production environment. We use Hyperion; we use BI; we use the EBS. That integration is very complex to understand, initially. Overall, we understand the whole thing.

I recommend Oracle’s E-Business Suite, of course; it’s a no-brainer.

For us, its value lies in the fact that it's an ERP solution our enterprise to manage the business well. Specifically, we have the core Financial Management module on our project which helps the business user analyze data. They have access to different types of analytics, such as general ledger, payables, receivables, and many others.

It has everything in one place. We can just access one piece of software for payables, GL, PO, projects, and everything just integrates together. It's helped us to reduce data entry because we can just enter data once and it's accessible from the other modules. It certainly reduces human intervention, which in turn saves time and, ultimately, money.

We seem to be constantly applying patches and updates to fix bugs. Oracle should really improve upon this issue, especially since it happens to frequently.

We've had no issues deploying it.

It's been stable, but we've got to constantly patch. I guess this is something we always have to do with Windows-based applications.

It's been scaling just fine for us.

The initial setup was very complex. Installing it is not bad, but it's configuring it that's difficult. It's getting the setup correct, and that's what takes time. It's company-specific, but we're pretty vanilla. Even with that, it still takes many months to upgrade. The documentation is there, but it might be helpful to have someone who's done this one or two times before.

I have been involved in many implementation projects. Recently, we implemented the FAH module in a national bank in Costa Rica, and the accounting creation from several core systems was reduced from days to hours.

It is easy to use and has many functions for facilitating day-to-day work (transactionally speaking). There are a lot of reports and queries available. The GL and FAH modules have become real-deal players for an organization with many legacy systems that handle transactions and where there is a need to create accounting from these transactions.

The supplier invoice payment process is very easy and is integrated from the requisition to the payment (and to creating the asset).

I like very much the way we can control inventories.

Standard reporting needs to be changed. Many of the standard reports look the same as they did 20 years ago in version 10.7.

I would rate this solution at nine out of 10 because there is always room for improvement. Oracle E-Business Suite is very customizable, with a lot of interfaces and processes that can be programmed in different ways. It provides a lot of workflow approvals for different business processes and is adaptable and scalable.

I am a functional consultant for e-Business Suite (and training to go to the Cloud). My experience as a functional consultant covers these modules: GL, AP, AR, PO, FA, ENG, OM, INV, WIP, BOM, FAH, CE, CST.

We primarily use it as an ERP.

This product helped us automate our business processes 13 years ago. But nowadays it is not modern enough. 

The system has been useful to us in the past. We have had a good experience with this solution for 13 years. 

But now it is deprecated and not suitable enough. So, we go to Oracle Fusion Cloud. Now we are launching a new system.

This system can't be improved.

For 13 years.

This system was quite stable. 

We didn't use Oracle technical support directly. We worked with an Oracle partner, a Russian company. We are happy to work with them and satisfied with the level of service they provide.

Positive

Previously we used iScala 2.2

The initial setup was not easy.

Oracle ERP is not a cheap solution.

It is not a good idea to use this old system nowadays. It is deprecated.

Choose more modern system.

Used for finances and the HRMS including online annual benefits enrollment. Its drilldown features add value. HTML pages should have better performance.

• Removed paper/spreadsheet time-cards
• Replaced the paper process with electronic online process for annual benefits enrollment, view pay slip online, view W-2 online, etc.
• Able to submit government reports electronically

• Payroll and online benefits enrollment
• Dashboard feature
  
• Drill-down feature

• New hire on-boarding, employee off-boarding, etc. 
• More user-friendly fast formulas for all HRMS modules.
• HRMS analyzers should be automatically updated to be the most recent because Oracle support always asks for the latest version of the analyzer output.

Order to cash and procure to pay process: They are valuable features because of their integration and flexibility.

The tool reduces manual processes and controls in our systems.

Fixed Asset process has no need to wait until supplier invoices, but can be done after GRN. 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.

For eight years.

No.

No.

A seven out of 10.

Accurate Accounting. We switch to get better control of our processes.

It was not complex.

We did the implementation of Oracle EBS internally without a vendor.

Find a best Oracle partner and get a better discount.

No.

Use an experienced Oracle consultant.

This is an enormous product and it's our ERP system. It pretty much performs all of our accounting transactions and is the single source of truth for all our financial statements. That's the most valuable feature of E-Business Suite.

It's where everyone in our organization goes to see any and all information and data dealing with our accounting and finances.

They need to make the interface a little more slick. It's form-based, so loading of the forms is pretty annoying. I would make the user interface friendlier and more workable.

We've been using Oracle probably since 1990, or even before. We've been using R12 since 2010.

We had no issues with deployment.

It's been relatively stable. There have been bugs and subsequent patches. If we don't test properly, we'll come across a few issues.

It's very scalable. You can customize it as much as you want, but too much customization results in some issues, we've found.

We have pretty good support though Oracle Managed Cloud Services.

The initial setup is very complex. I wasn't there for the initial implementation, but just knowing what I know, it's very complex to get it set up. You need an implementation team or consulting firm to come in and help.

I'm sure we used a third-party implementation team or consulting firm.

We use it to manage back-office work, financials.

Helped make us compliant and provides a transparent view of our financial system.

• Financial reconciliation
• Reporting

I would like to see more integration with other systems.