Our company has both our renewable and thermal fleets through the E-Business Suite. This includes planned maintenance for the thermal fleet, equipment operation and maintenance, and procurement of necessary spare parts through inventory management. Finance users also leverage the suite for invoicing, purchase order processing, and other financial tasks. It's a comprehensive solution that even supports our budgeting needs.
Vice President at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
An unstable suite solution for maintenance and procurement
What is our primary use case?
What needs improvement?
Sometimes, when you prepare your rules, the robustness of the rules is essential. Allowing excessive user modifications can lead to situations where only specific scenarios are considered, neglecting others. This can cause difficulties for users.
SAP doesn't allow changes in their processes beyond the limit. While this might restrict some flexibility, it fosters repeatability in system behavior, which users eventually adapt to. In Oracle E-Business Suite, we've faced situations where a procurement workflow appears stuck in someone's inbox, even though it's not there. This discrepancy is potentially caused by configuration or feature issues.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Oracle E-Business Suite as an end user for one year.
How was the initial setup?
We over-implemented and customized Oracle, leading to stability issues. It's like buying a BMW and driving it for 20 years. Tomorrow, you shift to Tesla, and you still want to drive it like you drove a BMW. So, you start modifying Tesla for BMW's pleasure. Modifying it excessively compromises its inherent capabilities. Our process owners, accustomed to SAP, sought similar workflows in Oracle despite its different approach. The software has inherent rules; tweaking them too much can cause instability. Additionally, our system integrator, E&Y, might have over-engineered processes, making them fragile. Unlike our 9-month SAP implementation with a stable product, Oracle took two years with issues.
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Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated both SAP and Oracle. We chose Oracle because of SAP's higher cost. Additionally, SAP no longer offers on-premise licenses, focusing solely on Software as a Service (SaaS), making it a bit more costier to operate regularly.
What other advice do I have?
Oracle E-Business Suite is reasonably good. It offers a licensing model, which offers long-term cost advantages compared to the cloud-based license provided by SAP. As an end user, my role was very limited. In 2011, when we implemented SAP, I was heavily involved because I was heading operations and maintenance. We had inventory management, budgeting, and everything integrated seamlessly from that perspective.
Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Chief Technology Officer at Jagatjit Industries Ltd
Easy to set up and good for financial reporting but cannot do production
Pros and Cons
- "It was easy to set up the product."
- "The operations could be better, specifically for manufacturing processes."
What is our primary use case?
We primarily use the solution from an ERP standpoint. We use it for procurement processes, operations, sales, finance, accounting, reporting, all of it.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
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.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
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.
How are customer service and support?
We've contacted support quite a bit in the past. They're pretty good at helping us. They are responsive.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I'm also familiar with SAP and find this solution's annual contracts and maintenance cheaper than SAP.
How was the initial setup?
The solution was very simple to set up. It was not complex at all. The deployment itself took about four months.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is not very expensive. It is worth the money.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I have been looking into SAP and Microsoft Dynamics to compare a few things.
What other advice do I have?
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.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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General Manager IT at Chase Up
A beneficial solution for finance and payroll with a great procure-to-pay feature
Pros and Cons
- "The procure-to-pay is core to our business and relevant to us."
- "We would like to see some automation in this solution."
What is our primary use case?
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.
What is most valuable?
The procure-to-pay is core to our business and relevant to us. The other benefit is finance and payroll.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using this solution for four years, and we are using the latest version.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution.
How are customer service and support?
Because we are licensed users, we get support from Oracle and the local partner.
How was the initial setup?
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.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
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.
What other advice do I have?
I rate this solution a nine out of ten. The use of this solution depends on the industry.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Assistant consultant at Tata Consultancy
Beneficial enterprise management, provides useful information, and high availability
Pros and Cons
- "Oracle E-Business Suite's most valuable feature is the information that it provides. For example, it's good to know the AR due date and the receipt of the products that you have sold. It is a good solution overall for enterprise management."
- "Oracle E-Business Suite could improve the tables. When we remove some of them sometimes they cloud the modules into one. It becomes a little difficult to segregate."
What is our primary use case?
I used Oracle E-Business Suite for supply chain management, such as order and inventory management, and for receivables.
What is most valuable?
Oracle E-Business Suite's most valuable feature is the information that it provides. For example, it's good to know the AR due date and the receipt of the products that you have sold. It is a good solution overall for enterprise management.
What needs improvement?
Oracle E-Business Suite could improve the tables. When we remove some of them sometimes they cloud the modules into one. It becomes a little difficult to segregate.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Oracle E-Business Suite for more than five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Oracle E-Business Suite is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
As the Oracle E-Business Suite updates to newer versions the solution scales.
We have approximately 50 people using this solution in the previous company I worked at.
How are customer service and support?
I have not used the support for Oracle E-Business Suite.
What about the implementation team?
We require 15 people for the maintenance and deployment of the solution for one project. The people needed include managers, developers, administrators, and engineers.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Oracle E-Business Suite an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Sr. Project manager at Department of National Defence
Manages all your HR requirements from hiring, onboarding, and managing your payrolls
Pros and Cons
- "You can group them into the BIs, which is business intelligence. You get your own key performance indicators and build your own reports or you could have your own screens, and it changes in real time."
- "From the business processes, there are areas where you could streamline new processes."
What is our primary use case?
I use this solution for human capital management. It's all been mingled into one product called Oracle HCM Cloud. It manages all your HR requirements from hiring, onboarding, and managing your payrolls. It has over 10 different models inside. Oracle expects clients to have that product, which is the basis for your financials, sales and distribution, procurement, etc. If you have HCM, you basically set up the structure of the enterprise.
Most of their applications have been moved to cloud enterprise. It's SaaS, and they have a patch where they provide the database and application so you can work on it. There's another one where they provide everything and you have your own infrastructure of hardware as well.
What is most valuable?
They have various products, so it depends on your enterprises. If it's finance-based, you'll mostly be looking at financial models, like the financial collaboration, financial management, budgeting, and forecasting. If you're in a distribution area, you'll be looking into models like inventory, warehouse management, and supplier-oriented models. They have SRM and they have CRM, which is customer relationship management.
You can group them into the BIs, which is business intelligence. You get your own key performance indicators and build your own reports or you could have your own screens, and it changes in real time.
What needs improvement?
From the business processes, there are areas where you could streamline new processes. You could take out some of the redundant ones, which you are either using or don't want to use, but you're still using it because it's been coming from your legacy systems.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with Oracle for 25 years.
I work as a project manager, but I was a principal consultant with Oracle. For the last 10 years, I've been mostly managing projects in diversified industries.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It has to be a stable system because then it affects your business processes.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
You should be able to scale it.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support is good, and they offer different types of support. Oracle has a very large technical support team. Without support, I think it would be very difficult for customers to manage.
How was the initial setup?
Installation has become simpler and takes less time. Before, there were lots of dependencies and it required lots of expertise.
The deployments have a much shorter cycle. Previously, we were doing projects that went on for a year or three years. Nowadays with the cloud implementation, I've done projects in three months or six months maximum, maybe a year. They have consolidated most of their features and functions. It makes training and chain management much easier, so your project time gets shortened basically.
All the big companies – even midsize or smaller – use some sort of ERP or business suite because it's impossible to go back to the smaller products or homegrown legacy systems because of the maintenance and dependencies.
What about the implementation team?
The bigger organizations tend to go for system integrators because they have the budget for projects and their projects are a little bit bigger. I would recommend in-house implementation if you have a special team.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Whatever the products you use, you'll be paying a yearly maintenance price or a support price. Every time they have a new release, they will announce that they will be discontinuing the support for that particular release in three years or four years so that customers can move into a higher release.
My understanding is that Oracle charges per user in some areas, but they have a minimum licensing fee, depending on how big the organization is. From the Oracle point of view, I think they know what the market charges and they're very competitive.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution 9 out of 10.
My suggestion would be to look at what you're currently using, what your requirements are, how those requirements can be met, from what models or offerings you should be going for, and what is the end result you want to achieve by implementing a half a million dollar product. Are you okay with your return on your investment? Those are some of the questions you should be asking yourself.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Senior Oracle Application Consultants at Saudi Telecom Company
Professional support agents, plenty of modules, and good integration
Pros and Cons
- "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."
What is our primary use case?
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.
What is most valuable?
Oracle E-Business Suite has over 20 different modules to choose from, it is comprehensive. Additionally, the integration is very good.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Oracle E-Business Suite for approximately 22 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution has been stable in our usage.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
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.
How are customer service and support?
I contact Oracle many times for support, and they are professional in their response.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have previously used SAP.
How was the initial setup?
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
What about the implementation team?
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.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
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.
What other advice do I have?
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.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Solution Delivery Manager Sr at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
Good alerts and workflows with very helpful technical support
Pros and Cons
- "The technical ability to run runtime APIs is great."
- "Sometimes I have issues with the performance tuning."
What is our primary use case?
I primarily use the solution for the financial aspect.
What is most valuable?
The workflow on offer is great.
I appreciate the alerts.
The technical ability to run runtime APIs is great. The web services and APIs are very powerful.
We found the initial setup process to be very straightforward.
You can scale this product easily.
Technical support has always been very reliable.
The pricing is reasonable.
What needs improvement?
Sometimes I have issues with the performance tuning. There is not much help there. There have been many times where I have had performance problems if there are high volume loads.
There is some lack of functionality, specific tools, and certain ways of doing business. The business process and Oracle capabilities occasionally fall short so we have to customize many, many, many things. The depth of functionality is not that great for some niche business processes, like distribution or warehouse management. Due to this, we have to go for an outside business product, a specialized product.
One major thing we found was there are no user interfaces for corrections. If we have a lot of integrations, then error handling and correction management are very manual and we had to build a lot of user interfaces to do that. They should allow a proper framework for integration building on the E-Business Suite. In the cloud, it may be better, however, a lot of it is left to clients to do customer development. Out-of-the-box integration supports are very limited, particularly transactions and error handling and re-submission, reporting, et cetera.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been dealing with the solution for 20 years. It's been a while.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
E-Business Suite is easy to scale. We run a global organization with $35 billion on financials on it. It's pretty solid.
Average daily users are around 600, however, registered users are almost 3,000. Not everybody uses it every day, so about 600 people are logged in every day. They would be different people. Registered authorized users include suppliers as well.
How are customer service and support?
Oracle is the only company I can count on for support. They always do a great job.
How was the initial setup?
The setup was very straightforward. Now, it's well documented and we can import setups. It's nothing to worry about.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I can't speak to the exact pricing, however, I've always found it to be reasonable.
What other advice do I have?
We have a partnership. We do develop products together with Oracle.
The version we are using is about two or three years old. It's not the latest.
If you do work in advance and re-engineer the process really, even E-Business Suite implementation is faster with a process engineer. Don't allow too much creativity and too many custom requirements as most of the time the requirements are standard. People in the job want to do more things than they should. Re-look at the processes before mapping. That exercise should be done in parallel to implementation.
I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Is easy to implement and is stable and scalable
Pros and Cons
- "The implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite is easy."
- "They should have a nicer way to handle very high volumes of data because we deal with really high volumes, and sometimes, we end up with performance issues."
What is our primary use case?
We use it for our interfaces and to run APIs.
What is most valuable?
The implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite is easy.
What needs improvement?
They should have a nicer way to handle very high volumes of data because we deal with really high volumes, and sometimes, we end up with performance issues.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using Oracle products since 2005.
Oracle E-Business Suite is currently deployed on-premises, but we hope to move it to the cloud soon.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of this solution is good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's scalable. We have hundreds of users.
How was the initial setup?
We have a separate team that manages the installation, and I expect that it was a straightforward process for them.
We have about 15 to 20 people on-site and off-shore for maintenance, deployment, patches, etc.
What other advice do I have?
Prepare yourself before you start the installation because sometimes you can end up in a mess. You don't want to have to uninstall everything and re-install it. So, read the manual carefully, prepare the infrastructure and hardware properly, and then slowly go for the installation and deployment.
Overall, I'd give Oracle E-Business Suite a rating of eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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