Oracle E-Business Suite Reviews

We are a large company using every function of Oracle E-Business Suite, such as human capital management, financial management, manufacturing, plant maintenance, and many more. We've implemented almost thirty-seven modules of Oracle E-Business Suite in our organization.

Oracle E-Business Suite improved my organization by automating every function and integrating all departments. For example, HR is integrated with Finance through the payroll module. Inventory is integrated with Finance through the inventory module. Plant maintenance is integrated with the stores and spheres, so there's a single source of truth across the organization. There's no need to maintain separate databases, software, or functions within the organization through Oracle E-Business Suite.

My organization uses the same source of truth, so there's less hassle and more accurate information, making decision-making easier because of this solution.

I like the automation and integration features of Oracle E-Business Suite.

A downside of Oracle E-Business Suite is its interface because it's less user-friendly than the latest cloud solutions.

As an organization, Oracle now has more interest in cloud applications, so nowadays, it doesn't focus much on Oracle E-Business Suite, an on-premises solution, so this is another downside.

In the next release of the solution, I want to see an enhanced GUI so that it can attract more users and for Oracle to focus more on Oracle E-Business Suite and make it more user-friendly.

I've been using Oracle E-Business Suite for twelve years.

Oracle E-Business Suite is pretty stable, and I'd rate it as nine out of ten, stability-wise.

Oracle E-Business Suite is a highly scalable solution, and I'd rate its scalability as ten out of ten.

Oracle E-Business Suite technical support is a seven out of ten for me.

Neutral

We've used custom and in-house solutions before using Oracle E-Business Suite. Still, because of the benefits, scalability, integration, and support we got from the solution, we went with Oracle E-Business Suite.

As Oracle E-Business Suite is an ERP system, it has a complex implementation process. It's unlike any other software you can install and start using immediately. The system requires installation, then configuration, so depending on the complexity of the business, it takes around three to six months to configure and run it within the organization.

Installing the software onto the server, for example, isn't a matter of one to two days maximum. The steps to deploy Oracle E-Business Suite depend on your business requirement, how you map your business requirements into the system, and how you want the system to operate according to your needs. It varies based on the complexity of your business where Oracle E-Business Suite would be implemented.

The first time Oracle E-Business Suite was implemented, configured, and integrated with our systems, we worked with a third party who was an expert, so we won't run into cost overruns.

The digitization projects we implemented in multiple areas resulted in millions of savings because Oracle E-Business Suite helped keep queries simpler, so there's ROI from the solution.

My organization has been using the solution for the past twelve years, so I'm sure it paid off, but I have yet to calculate the ROI.

Pricing for Oracle E-Business Suite is seven out of ten. You must pay extra for maintenance and technical support, apart from standard license fees.

Since we've been using Oracle E-Business Suite for twelve years, we've evaluated different solutions from time to time but eventually chose SAP as our primary solution.

I'm using the latest version of Oracle E-Business Suite.

Two or three people can maintain Oracle E-Business Suite for a small organization. Still, for a vast implementation, for example, within my organization, about twenty-five to thirty people handle the maintenance of the solution.

Around two thousand to three thousand people use Oracle E-Business Suite within the organization.

All departments use the solution, whether Presales, Sales, Finance, Plant Maintenance, HR, Compensation, Payroll, etc.

I recommend Oracle E-Business Suite, but since the newest technology is now on the cloud, I wonder if people would be interested in an on-premise solution.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten because the GUI needs improvement. I would give Oracle E-Business Suite a nine or ten if its GUI were improved.

My company is simply an Oracle customer.

Oracle E-Business Suite consists of a lot of streams, such as financial and HR processes of the enterprise companies. We are using most of the Oracle financial modules, and we have an Oracle stream, FI procurement stream, and HR streams, which have a lot of applications.

Oracle E-Business Suite has over 20 different modules to choose from, it is comprehensive. Additionally, the integration is very good.

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.

I have been using Oracle E-Business Suite for approximately 22 years.

The solution has been stable in our usage.

Oracle E-Business Suite is scalable.

We have approximately 10,000 users using this solution in my organization. We plan to increase our usage of this solution, every year we expand more.

I contact Oracle many times for support, and they are professional in their response.

I have previously used SAP.

Oracle E-Business Suite requires special resources to install it, not every user can install it. You require a technical professional to install it and to configure it

We used consultants for the implementation of the solution, it is not simple to do. The process is not similar to installing Microsoft Office.

We have 50 people for the support of this solution, such as developers and coders.

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.

If we ever wanted to change ERP solutions it is a strategic decision and it will require dedicated management to look into the site. We would have to migrate all your data, rebuild all your systems, it would require a senior management decision.

I would recommend this solution to others. Oracle is one of the top ERP solutions on the market.

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

We use different modules across our organization, such as finance, auto finance and PBCS planning budgeting tool. We also use a supply chain management module. For our P2P, all the processes are integrated and mapped out.

The procure-to-pay is core to our business and relevant to us. The other benefit is finance and payroll.

We would like to see some automation in this solution. In addition, the implementation team should improve their customer service by meeting with customers regularly.

We have been using this solution for four years, and we are using the latest version.

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution.

Because we are licensed users, we get support from Oracle and the local partner.

The setup is very straightforward, and most old practices have been corrected with Oracle E-Business Suite. There are no complications with the applications. We bought several modules from Oracle, and it took approximately one and a half years to implement all the models across the organization.

The deployment process was straightforward. We implemented Oracle with the data center, and we didn't try to customize Oracle EBS to map with our processes. So we implemented the straight line of Oracle EBS extended. One of our local partners aligned with us for the implementation because we didn't have the expertise to implement and configure it independently.

Using many modules in Oracle increases the value. The cost depends on how many features in Oracle are used. I rate the pricing a five out of ten, as customers always look for discounts.

I rate this solution a nine out of ten. The use of this solution depends on the industry.

We're using Oracle E-Business Suite as the complete ERP solution for the company.

As we've recently gone live with Oracle E-Business Suite, we won't be able to say what has improved, but we used to have a lot of manual processes before switching to Oracle E-Business Suite. Now, pretty much, we've done complete end-to-end automation, so there will be savings in terms of automating manual processes, but we haven't quantified that for now.

What we like about Oracle E-Business Suite is that we didn't find any issues with it. In the Indian market, the subscription solutions aren't that suitable, even in terms of the complexity of the regulations, taxes, etc., so that's why we had to go for an on-premise solution that's hosted on the cloud, and we're happy with Oracle E-Business Suite.

We also like that Oracle E-Business Suite is quite flexible, and we've also built some bolt-ons and they're working fine.

Oracle E-Business Suite is a bit outdated because it's been developed more than ten years ago, and this is an area for improvement.

My team is still getting used to the solution, so there could still be some features that have not been enabled or features my team isn't aware of yet.

There have been issues with the Treasury module of Oracle E-Business Suite, so this is another area for improvement. My company hasn't decided yet on whether to implement the Treasury module or just go with another solution.

Another room for improvement in Oracle E-Business Suite is the design, as it needs to be optimized based on usage patterns.

What I'd like added in the next release of Oracle E-Business Suite is the time attribute. The solution still has dashboards being rolled out, so the time attribute could already be there or is still in the process of implementation.

I also didn't find much use for the Projects module based on my company's requirements.

The integration of Oracle E-Business Suite with the rest of the Oracle tools isn't very tight as well, but it could be because of customizations here in India, where the integrations work seamlessly everywhere, except in India. You'll find gaps because of customizations in India which are very, very irritating. For example, if a procurement is moving in the system then all the data has to move from one module to the other, but in the Oracle E-Business Suite Procurement module, you'll notice breaks or gaps that require you to manually transfer that data, so I'd like this improved in the next release of the solution.

We just went live with Oracle E-Business Suite a few months back.

We're still optimizing the cloud infrastructure, connectivity, etc., so currently, we've seen no stability issues with Oracle E-Business Suite.

We still haven't reached that stage of needing to scale up Oracle E-Business Suite, but its scalability seems to be smooth.

My team had a lot of questions for the Oracle E-Business Suite support team. During the go-live stage, support was very, very responsive, but right now, the team isn't that responsive, so I'm rating the support team seven out of ten. The response time needs to be improved nowadays.

Neutral

My company previously used a different tool, and the reason for the switch to Oracle E-Business Suite is that the instance shifted from Hong Kong to India, so it was a greenfield implementation. The pricing was good. Licensing was also good. The offering which included cloud services was also attractive because Oracle became a one-stop service provider with Oracle E-Business Suite combined with Oracle Cloud. The integration of various packages also seemed to be okay.

SAP, on the other hand, was facing a lot of issues in terms of Ariba Integration with S/4HANA, and it was a mash-up of on-premise products and subscription-based products, while most of the Oracle modules were on-premise solutions and tightly integrated, so that has been helpful.

Setting up Oracle E-Business Suite wasn't complex, but there was a huge need for skilled manpower to implement it because of the huge demand for ERP resources in the market, so that has been a big challenge. Whether it's Oracle or SAP S/4HANA, getting good resources to stick to a project and implement it has become a challenge.

The deployment of Oracle E-Business Suite took one year.

We used a third-party to implement Oracle E-Business Suite.

The licensing cost of Oracle E-Business Suite is quite competitive. It's quite flexible, so it can be adapted to the requirements of my company. For confidentiality purposes, I'm unable to disclose how much Oracle E-Business Suite costs, but I'm rating its cost as eight out of ten.

I'm using the latest version of Oracle E-Business Suite.

Around seven hundred people use Oracle E-Business Suite within my company. The solution doesn't require a lot of maintenance, but its maintenance has been outsourced to a third-party.

I'm not an Oracle E-Business Suite expert, and everyone has specific requirements, but what I would tell others who want to start using the solution is that it would be ideal if the user can switch to a subscription-based product because the implementation becomes faster and the user experience is much better. Unfortunately, in India, it's so complicated in terms of processes and procedures, so mostly the market fights over on-premise solutions which is not the trend globally, and it's an issue here in India.

My rating for Oracle E-Business Suite is seven out of ten.

We primarily use the solution from an ERP standpoint. We use it for procurement processes, operations, sales, finance, accounting, reporting, all of it.

The ease of use is great. 

It was easy to set up the product.

The stability is good.

Technical support is helpful.

It is not overly expensive. 

The operations could be better, specifically for manufacturing processes. There could, for example, be some sort of forecasting available. We need more planning and scheduling options. They need more analytical capabilities. 

It can't really scale.

I've been using the solution for seven years. 

It's quite stable. The in-business application has been fantastic, and we haven't had any issues. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's about 95% stable. 

This isn't a very scalable product if you have to expand it into a different line of business. 

In our organization, we have more than 250 people using it. 

We've contacted support quite a bit in the past. They're pretty good at helping us. They are responsive.

Positive

I'm also familiar with SAP and find this solution's annual contracts and maintenance cheaper than SAP. 

The solution was very simple to set up. It was not complex at all. The deployment itself took about four months. 

The solution is not very expensive. It is worth the money.

I have been looking into SAP and Microsoft Dynamics to compare a few things. 

I'm an end-user. 

Whether or not I would recommend the solution to others depends on the company and the automation they need. Oracle works well, however, it's not for every organization. A very common practice is to use SAP. If a solution doesn't solve any value for your business, it's not worth putting it in. 

I'd rate the solution five out of ten. It's helpful in some ways yet lacking in others. For example, it can do procurement, it can do sales, and it can do financial reporting, however, it cannot do my warehouse or transportation management. It cannot do my planning bit. It can't do my production or manufacturing. There's a lot missing.

Most companies use Oracle E-Business Suite for finance and supply chain management, but we mainly use it for payroll in the current scenario. We also use it for the core HRSCM compensation benefits as part of Oracle Fusion.

The company has been working with Oracle E-Business Suite for a while, but now they are gradually moving into Oracle Fusion SCM, so they have acquired some product offerings for Oracle Fusion SCM. They want to run it on Oracle SCM, but their core system is still Oracle E-Business Suite. They have adopted a different type of solution for core HR and recruitment. We use another organizational tool for the recruitment part, so we have to build code systems to integrate Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Fusion.

That's another general use case for Oracle E-Business Suite, but it varies among organizations. If they want to run HR and finance separately, a lot of integration is necessary to get the employee details into Oracle Finance. We have to pass payroll information into the GL and finance side, so the company would prefer to keep everything in the ecosystem where payroll is happening. They generally use Oracle Finance Payroll. Core HR is part of the Oracle E-Business Suite model they have. Now, they're looking for that functionality on a different SaaS-based solution. It can be Oracle Fusion or SuccessFactors. 

It is a hybrid office approach because no single solution will work because of all the regulations. Some departments of a financial institution have specific policies for their data centers. They generally need to use an on-premise solution, but some want to move to the cloud environment, but there are content restrictions. 

They are already using the on-premise Oracle E-Business Suite solution, so we need to implement it and one other thing. That Oracle E-Business Suite has a lot of customization options that aren't possible in a SaaS-based solution. It varies from process to process and industry to industry.

Oracle E-Business Suite is flexible. Its rich functionality can work in any client environment or business. 

The UI isn't up to speed with most digital marketing-style interfaces. It's not an end-user-responsive UI.

I have 16 years of professional experience, and I have been working with Oracle E-Business Suite for 12 years. For the past three or four years, I have been working with Oracle Fusion System, which is a pure SaaS solution.

It's a stable solution if we move to OCI. From a perspective of infrastructure, disaster recovery, and scalability, I would suggest going to OCI rather than staying on-premise and managing the infrastructure within your organization.

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle support is good. 

The installation is a little tricky If you are using the on-premise version. We need to set up the infrastructure and plan for company growth and scalability. If you're on-premises, you need to build a structure and then deploy the system, so that takes a little time.

We have to consider many parameters, including security. For example, we need to implement policies if we want to access the system outside the company network. We need to plan for the number of nodes, like the knowledge application and database nodes. 

The other aspect is the number of instances required and the production capacity of each instance. We need to set up the test, development, and regression environments, then configure the backup and disaster recovery policies. 

I'm not involved with licensing. I think it's annual, not monthly

I rate Oracle E-Business Suite eight out of 10. My advice for using the solution varies depending on the customer, business, and industry. If I'm talking about an STM solution and the policies allow it, I would recommend Oracle Cloud rather than Oracle E-Business Suite. If possible, we recommend using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, so everything is managed by Oracle.

I am an Oracle applications architect/DBA/sysadmin, hence my review will be from this perspective. 

My task is to size and deploy solutions both for building our internal solutions and for our various customers. We also work to migrate On premise Installations to Oracle cloud infrastructure using Oracel cloud manager for Ebusiness suite

We have had a lot of success in implementing Oracle EBS for various customers. For example, the shared services modules have helped to reduce manpower in many areas of finance, where previously each individual organizational unit had their own staff.

• The robust architecture
• Ability for near zero downtime patching
• High availability
• Security
• RAC
• Data Guard in the architecture

These make for a very resilient solution in an ERP platform.

One issue with the product is because it build on a lot of older technologies, there is a substantial technical debt in the system. For example, the use of Oracle forms which are a much older technology, and are basically a two-tier client server setup shoehorned into a three-tier architecture, it might create issues over a wide area network. It would be good if the EBS team enables multitenant fatures beyond the current single pdb cdb architecture allowing for pdb snap clones in the same oracle cdb database.

More than fifteen years across various versions ranging from 11.

When correctly configured, this is a very stable solution. We have customers running their process automation manufacturing based off of this solution.

This software scales very well across various implementations.

There are both knowledgeable and unknowledgeable support people in the vendor organization. Hence, it is imperative to keep pushing on various issues in order to get a resolution.

We are part of the Oracle Centers of Excellence within our company, so we only have experience with the Oracle ERP products. However, we do have capabilities on various Oracle ERP products, like J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, etc., and can contrast among these solutions.

Initial setup is complex, hence it is recommended to use a system integrator (SI).

As we are system integrators for this solution, we have implemented it in various locations using our own in-house team.

At our various customers, the software tends to pay for itself in less than two years.

Licensing and costing of Oracle EBS is very complex. We recommend to use a system integrator during the negotiation process since Oracle sales representatives sometime do not know the actual minimum requirements and may oversell the necessary licenses through ignorance.

Since we are focused on Oracle ERP technologies, we do not have a mandate to do comparisons on other products.

This is definitely one of the more robust on-premise solutions. Given the sensitive nature of ERP financial information, there will always be concerns in taking such software to the cloud, which is why we still see a future for this software. 

It was recently announced that there will be at least one more version of Oracle EBS which will come out to satisfy customer demands.

Oracle E-Business Suite was used for the finance department. In departments, such as account payables, receivables, cash management, treasury, procurement used it. Additionally, the company purchased Oracle Purchasing for the procurement module and Inventory module. They used a separate solution called Oracle Hyperion.

The most valuable features of the Oracle E-Business Suite are best practices, built-in processes, and easy configuration. Plenty of system functionality and customization. 

Oracle has improved a lot because Oracle E-Business Suite is quite outdated.   Oracle built the Oracle Fusion platform and it has many improved processes. We registered a few enhancements requests, but it's a very long bureaucratic process with Oracle. It doesn't make any sense to communicate with Oracle about what changes should be made to the system.

We had feedback from Oracle, however, it takes years to implement any new feature that is requested.

I have used Oracle E-Business Suite for approximately 10 years.

Oracle E-Business Suite is not stable because it required a lot of patches. Initially, it was we were installing a lot of patches for different functionality. They have a good knowledge base, which was helpful.

I have found Oracle E-Business Suite scalable. You can purchase additional licenses and databases.

I would rate the technical support of Oracle E-Business Suite a two out of five.

I have worked with Microsoft MyVision, which is now known as Microsoft Dynamics. Microsoft MyVision. is for small businesses and Oracle is for large companies.

Nothing is simple with Oracle. The initial installation was not easy but manageable and took a couple of days to complete.

We jointly did the implementation with an integrator.

The maintenance and support are done by a special team of six analysts. It's a corporate system, you cannot leave it alone.

I have found the solution overall to be expensive. There are additional fees on top of the standard license.

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