Oracle E-Business Suite Room for Improvement

HodaAboul Fotouh - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Development Manager at Raya Integration

The only thing that could be improved is the pricing. It is on the expensive side.

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SB
Senior Manager for IT Strategy and Planning at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Oracle is easy to implement at a new organization like ours, but it might be more challenging for an established organization with more rules and policies in place. I don't have many feature requests because we are still in the early stages. I'm currently trying to gather all the small change requests that arise out based on our business requirements. 

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MN
Sr. Project manager at Department of National Defence

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.

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Oracle E-Business Suite
March 2024
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Ikh-Erdene Namsrai - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at Mongolian Mining Corporation

The initial setup is complex.

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FazalRehman - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Functional Architect (Oracle ERP) at Fauji Foundation

The solution could be improved especially for budgeting. We are using budgeting in GL, which is a basic budgeting module. We need enhanced budgeting and a few other parts. For example, we need supply chain. That's based on financial health. Currently, we are using financials, however, in financials, most of what we are missing is enhanced budgeting. I want an enhanced budgeting module.

The initial setup is complex.

I want built-in dashboards. 

I also would like more center reports or center reports like FSG. It's only available in GL and I want FSG in other modules as well.

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MS
CTO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

We find challenges in the manufacturing modules. The users feel that the product is not user-friendly. Continuous manufacturing is very complex. We must automate the whole manufacturing process cycle and connect multiple production lines. It is not an easy task in Oracle to implement such things. Other than that, the solution is excellent.

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PP
Information Technology Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I currently work for a company that specializes in aircraft maintenance. There used to be a module in Oracle called CMRO. Now, the current situation is that they are pretty much closing down that module. Roughly eight or nine years back when they started it, they were anticipating a good number of customers but the reality turned out to be different — that's why they closed down that module. That created a lot of trouble for a lot of companies. Truthfully speaking, that is the reason I moved towards ISS. Although it's not as popular as Oracle or SAP, ISS focuses on industries. ISS provides us with an industry-based solution, geared toward aviation, field service management, or manufacturing for example. 

Oracle E-Business Suite uses an old technology (Forms), which is Java-based. If you're using a functionality that is based on Oracle Forms, then the client machine needs to download an applet in order to use that function. Often I've encountered, during support issues, that the client machine, if it is a little obsolete or an older version, the Java versions cause trouble. Wherein if you look at the modern cloud perspective or modern software in general, it's mostly web or browser-based. That's one thing that Oracle should consider on-prem.

There is still a huge amount of customers who are on on-prem. Upgrades should have a business case. I don't want to upgrade just because Oracle has come up with a new version — I should have some benefits. We are one of those customers who are not interested in shifting to the cloud for various reasons. Because of this, we have to live with this old Forms technology. Oracle should try to offer a balance between both versions instead of pushing customers to the cloud. This seems to be a strategy that both SAP and Oracle follow.

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MF
Accounts Payable - Section Head at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The system has bugs, is not user friendly, and requires too much customization. I consider the solution open source with full customization, but ours was not done correctly at the beginning because we still have many issues. We always need consultants to do changes or corrections. We are eight years after implementation but we still have system bugs. 

For example, we have the option to assign serial numbers for accounts payable and receivable vouchers. We have to select manual serial numbers and change the numbering every year. It is not logical to have two different vouchers for two different vendors but both with the same serial number unless you manually change them. Something happened during implementation that allows this to occur.

For another example, we have some approval hierarchies in the system. If someone delegates an action, the system sometimes jumps to the next approval and ignores handling the delegated action. 

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Omair Bokhari - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Operations at Fatima Group

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.

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Mohammed Ghonaim - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle Application Consultants at Saudi Telecom Company

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.

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SH
General Manager IT at Chase Up

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.

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HB
Deputy Chief Operating Officer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

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.

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NT
Chief Technology Officer at Jagatjit Industries Limited

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.

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SandeepGoyal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Genpact - Headstrong

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

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

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.

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RB
Director Enterprise Applications and eBusiness at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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MA
Solution Delivery Manager Sr at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

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.

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PW
Supplier Core Data Management Program Leader at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

The way things are going, Oracle is not putting much effort into their master data management. They need to look into machine data and then the integrated data domain. How, in the master data domain, do the product supplier, site master and reference data talk to one another. 

They really need to improve on this because that was my number one reason for moving to Informatica and other tools.

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Omair Bokhari - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Operations at Fatima Group

After the announcement of the cloud products, the on-premises products from Oracle are not garnering as much development attention. Some of the new features that used to come to us earlier before the cloud product are now coming at a slow pace. So we want Oracle to work on the on-premises product in parallel with their cloud product. E-Business Suite should not fall behind.  

What I want to improve about this product is the user interface. In some of the modules compared to recent, cloud module releases do not have a very nice look-and-feel because they are letting the on-premises product age. Compared to the advanced cloud modules, this product has some rigid look-and-feel for the user experience.  

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AF
Oracle Applications Consultant at ASAM Conseil Inc

The implementation can take some time and it's one of the difficulties with Oracle as compared to SAP. Deployment takes way too much time.

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AA
Oracle DBA Section Head at a security firm with 11-50 employees

The document that supports the Oracle E-Business Suite regarding the installation and upgrading is long compared to other products and needs to be enhanced. Some components of Oracle E-Business Suite, like the database, GDK, and WebLogic, stop at a certain point, which is not its last version.

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NS
Vice President at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

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.

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RK
Head - Financial Reporting and Taxation at Sify Technologies

Earlier when our organization was small they chose Oracle because in the telecommunication industry everybody was using Oracle. Our company has grown to a size where our particularly billing phase has created some challenges and now we are looking at alternate solutions. There is not a billing engine or module that you can buy from Oracle that can be added to this EBS solution to fix our problem. They should add a billing module or engine to the solution.

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GI
Senior Information Technology Specialist at Oilfields Supply Center Ltd

Oracle has always had one drawback and that is that it's not as user friendly as it's competitors, whether from the database perspective or switching from SAP to Oracle. The amount of administrative effort required for SAP is far less than that required for Oracle where the administration part is very tight and can be a bit of a headache. With SAP, the number of patches, bug fixes or interim upgrades are far less than Oracle which releases a lot of patches for bugs. As a head-on comparison, you get the feeling that SAP is a far more stable product. The bottom line is that the administration of the database and the application could be improved. 

There are many additional features I'd like to see. From an automation perspective, things could be improved. If you compare it with many of the competitors' products, the markets associated patent technology is highly competitive. Most other solutions are very user friendly and have such rich experience in the user interface that I think a holistic approach towards making Oracle more user friendly and usable is something I'd like to see.

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SyedAbid Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect at LogicEra

Oracle could improve its licensing model by offering more flexible options, such as subscription-based pricing. Nowadays, people are going for more open-source products. 

I would like to see Oracle E-Business Suite include all the necessary patches and fixes in the main product instead of requiring customers to pay for support for each one.

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Ahmed Ramadan - PeerSpot reviewer
GM at a construction company with 51-200 employees

Improvements could be made in mobility for mobile applications or tablets. The solution still has some web-built pages and Java forms, and Oracle is currently shifting Java forms to be web-based. Once that is complete, Oracle will be accessible from mobile applications and tablets. This is a main difference and strong benefit in comparison to cloud-based solutions like Oracle Fusion. 

I'd like the addition of modern merges and an integration with social media like LinkedIn. 

Minor enhancements in function are sometimes requested and should be implemented. 

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Kopano  Ramaphoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at SmartCloud

As the pricing for Oracle E-Business Suite is too high and maintaining it is too costly, instead of users patching in a timely manner, they complain about the price, and only do the patching whenever there's an issue. Pricing for this solution could still be improved by Oracle.

Another area for improvement, particularly when working with the on-premises version of Oracle E-Business Suite, is that it can be difficult to expand, unlike its cloud version. On cloud, it's easier to improve on things, and there's a lot of improvement, while in the on-premises version, it's more limited.

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EA
Sr. Director, Systems & Databases at GTech

Administration takes some effort. Administrating the technology stack is not so complex but application aware database administration and following the new methodologies like online patching can be a little complex and time consuming. Oracle should ease the administrators jobs and do some innovation on this administration area as well. Oracle Autonomous Database is Oracle's leading technology these days. Using a similar approach, application stack may become a little more self-managing.

EBS still leverages Oracle Forms technology. Oracle Forms might be considered as an old technology when it puts the client machine into the picture. Clients are using their web  browser to connect to the EBS and use several functionality and applications using the web browser only. However, some applications automatically runs Oracle Forms through a Java applet on the client. Of course, this creates a fast, easy-to-use client experience, but it has disadvantages as well, such as, the requirement to manage the client side java.

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OK
Architect at Ernst & Young

E-Business Suite's user experience and interface could be improved. There are also some issues related to the cloud version, such as less powerful flexibility that prevents easy customization and integration. In the future, I would like E-Business Suite to include more self-service applications and no-code/low-code capabilities for users to create simple applications.

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MA
Product Manager at irisa

Our biggest problem with this solution is the user interface. We'd like to see a simpler, more user-friendly product, with a flexible process, like you get with Fusion or SAP S4HANA. Both those solutions have a better UI, whereas Oracle has older features and feels like an outdated product. We're looking to migrate to another product because of that and because Oracle is lacking AI features. 

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ME
Database Supervisor at Saudi Bin Ladin Group

We don't like Oracle EBS because it is very old. Nowadays, all the systems are on the cloud and web-based. With Oracle EBS, you need a huge setup before installing it. You need a lot of servers. There are a lot of problems and bugs in the system. We have to move from Oracle EBS to another system. In terms of improvements, it can have better training for end users and better support.

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AS
Tech Lead and Architect at SEI

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.

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SK
Oracle Application DBA at Social Insurance Organizaton

I believe they should improve their sales service. 

In terms of finance, they need to improve the interface. For example, there are issues with the gateway. GoldenGate should make significant progress in this area.

The business reporting tool, Oracle BI, and the Business intelligence tool do not meet our requirements, as a result, there are several things we need to do in that regard.

They should include database functionality. Also, backup and all of the features should be included with the Oracle. RMAN, in particular, should have more functions.

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Juan Anteo - PeerSpot reviewer
Business consultant at Condor Innovation

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. 

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TA
Head of Data Management Section at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

They should charge lower support and licensing fees. Pricing is the biggest disadvantage of Oracle.

Releases are a different issue, first, they have to consider the initial support cost as well as the licensing cost. Furthermore, they should not force customers to use hybrid or private clouds.

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it_user521856 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director (Technical) at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

Their UI is not the best. It is an area with room for improvement, big time. I think they can go completely out of Java, the applet version. If they make it completely browser driven, like HTML and so on, that will be the best. Today, once in a while, it'll get out of sync. You don't have the latest version of Java. It uploads a whole slew of Java products and applets, which is very heavy-duty stuff. It doesn’t have to be.

These days, actually, everybody uses HTML-related stuff. They have started using it. It's a mix of both, actually, but they're not there yet. That's why you see a lot of other products that complement it.

I met one company at an Oracle conference that did just the re-skinning, just because their skin is not up to the mark; there's a lot of outdated stuff.

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it_user420069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

The Oracle support site needs to be better. We go to it for pretty much any sort of issue we have, and I'd like for the search capability to be improved. Sometimes I can get as good if not better results from Google compared to the Oracle site.

Also, there have been issues where we've had to play with E-Business Suite to develop custom fixes because the solution itself isn't precisely catered to our requirements. We're able to get it to work, but it would be nice to not have to customize our own fixes so much.

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Juan Anteo - PeerSpot reviewer
Business consultant at Condor Innovation

The solution is very expensive. The price is high for smaller organizations. Enterprises might find it to be okay.

It's very dependent on integration with other products, especially with Oracle, for an OIC solution.

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KR
IT Asset and Software Licensing Specialist at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

The system alerts could be improved.

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AF
Oracle Applications Consultant at ASAM Conseil Inc

It is difficult to get answers from technical support right away.

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WK
General Manager at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

Improving the reporting and user interface of Oracle ERP would be beneficial and is something that can be considered for future updates.

As an operations manager, my knowledge of the functional aspects of Oracle ERP is limited, and functional experts would likely have a better understanding. However, based on feedback from many customers, the reporting features of the system are not considered to be very effective.

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it_user418746 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior APEX Consultant at Insum Solutions Inc.

There's a new version of APEX coming out to very, very soon, APEX 5.1 and that contains probably the last pieces of my wish list. Which would be very intuitive and easy to use, declarative set of tabular forms where's it's like a spreadsheet. You can see a lot of rows and update them simultaneously. That is a big step forward. Typically when we do conversions from Oracle forms applications, oracle forms is quite good with that multi row update and that in the past has been a weakness with APEX. This new version will completely wipe that problem out.

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it_user436068 - PeerSpot reviewer
PMO Manager at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user436008 - PeerSpot reviewer
Financial Business Process Consultant at DeKalb County

I am fine with where E-Business Suite is now. From a county standpoint, I would like to see them integrate fund accounting into fixed assets and cash management. Right now, E-Business Suit really isn't 100% public sector. I guess we're not the market to roll out to.

Also, I'm not impressed with the out-of-the-box analytics. It's really the bare minimum.

Moreover, out-of-the-box, Oracle E-Business Suite's cash management module does not do fund accounting. It puts a strain on our accounting staff because the data doesn't really represent properly, but I was able to get it to work by using sub-ledger accounting to redefine the delivered Oracle out-of-the-box method.

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BN
IT Project Manager at Nong San Sach online

E-Business Suite's pricing could be lower. In the next release, E-Business Suite should include the HIS information system and 360-degree feedback.

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Swati-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant consultant at Tata Consultancy

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.

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Asuncion Espinosa - PeerSpot reviewer
Lider practica Oracle at Softtek

Oracle E-Business Suite's stability could be improved as they have a lot of bugs that need to be fixed. Their integration and data cleaning could also be better. Oracle is focusing too much on Oracle Cloud, and E-Business Suite is missing out on new features.

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Isanka Attanayake - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Information Technology Infrastructure and Development Support at Royal Ceramics

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.

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UA
Assistant Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Areas for improvement would be that sometimes it's a bit rigid with customization and doesn't always facilitate region-specific requirements. In the next release, I would like to see a more flexible way to implement the product - it should have a process-driven configuration and a common user language. I would also like them to add an auto-responding intelligence with a common database for errors so that the end-user can figure out where the problem is coming from.

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Michael Makanda - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

We are in Zimbabwe. At the moment we are having challenges with foreign payments. The pricing for us is quite high due to the exchange.

We wanted a fully-fledged solution that has got payroll, HR, finance et cetera, basically everything finance and administration we'd like to see sustainability management. This solution doesn't offer exactly what we need all in one package. We want to upgrade, therefore, we're currently seeing what else is on the market to see if there are competitors that have the kind of full packaging we require.

There's an issue with business process automation. I would like an end-to-end in terms of processes. There are different modules, however, there's not that end-to-end that we are looking for in terms of process automation. That is what is lacking right now. I have seen Microsoft, for example, really work well when it comes to process automation.

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PP
Service Delivery Manager at Tech Mahindra Limited

It should be made a little bit more user friendly. When I complete my implementation and hand it over to the clients or the person who will operate it on a day-to-day basis, they find it a little bit difficult because they are not from a highly qualified IT background. I want Oracle to make it a little bit more user friendly.

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NG
Assistant Vice President, Global Projects Delivery at comviva

The UI interface is not good. In addition, there is a constant challenge that new things are evolving and people are looking at new ways of connecting. They do not want to log into web interfaces. And, the standard UI does not give you flexibility. You need to have a specialist who will work on the workflow. If changes are made, alerts are required. This provides challenges. 

Additionally, if inventory gets linked with our OEM portals, you enter some number, order number, find the OEM number and then an inventory which you have ordered. You receive the GRN updates your inventory also, links with OEM, and we really good because then you'll know the third party hardware or whatever solution you're purchasing, what is the end of life, where is the end of support, when is the warranty ending, what is the new product coming?

All things can be related. Right now it is a stand alone system that is not integrated, whereas today you're talking about global solutions things can be in database. Even if it is not loud, even then things can be dated because you have only given purchase order to your OEM, you're under warranty. We have the right to get the information. OEM has the right to push information but then ERP is not supporting us. None of the effort goes into that.

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GG
Chief Technology Officer at IT Convergence

Reporting is a big area for improvement. It needs to provide the ability to extract data from the suite. Oracle has also been making a great effort to make E-Business Suite more user-friendly but there are still areas where a focus on User Experience would help.

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it_user12819 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think the main drawback and complaints are related to the UI. It needs modernization and more user-friendly-ness. Compared to other webpage interfaces, the Oracle screens are not user-friendly, so they need to improve it. I do think, however, that Oracle is spending more time with the UI of new versions, but there are so many places where they're still using old-looking UIs.

Other areas of improvement are better and more tightly-integrated reporting tools. Most reporting today is done outside of Oracle, meaning we have to buy a third-party tool. It would help us if Oracle had a better, integrated reporting product.

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it_user221766 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer / Director of Information Technology at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Reporting, particularly in the area of public sector encumbrances.

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it_user809760 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Analytics, especially in terms of predictable.

More real-time visualizations, in terms of smarter dashboards and reporting competing with the speed of HANA.

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it_user522249 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Its features are good, but I think they need to look around at the other products in the market. There are a few industry standard features which are missing from this product. We are discussing one of these with them where synchronizing calendars across different countries is a big thing.

On the reporting side, they should give financial reports more in AxelBase to filter and sort data to make it faster and easier to close the books.

The other area is definitely the support side. Turnaround time needs to be faster. They need to improve working with the end user, and asking very specific questions to help resolve an issue. People should collect different types of information before sending the problem back and forth.

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it_user417066 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal with 501-1,000 employees

There are a couple of areas for improvement, I think, which are implementation via the cloud and they need to bring down the price. Cloud implementation would make it much easier to begin, and the price is a little high.

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it_user277482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Sometimes with Oracle support, depending on the analyst you get, you can hit walls in trying to find answers. But they’ve gotten a lot better, so I hesitate in bringing that up.

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PT
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Some of my clients report that the overall ease of use could be simplified. The product still uses some old technology. Some of the modules have moved to new technologies like HTML, et cetera, but there are still old components and old sequence usages which bother my customers because they are not fancy and up-to-date. They're heavy-duty machines — they're not posh. They perform heavy-duty jobs. So users entering operational data, transactional data heavily, they love it; however, management-level doesn't like the screens because they don't look fancy.

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DR
Consulting Manager at PT. Metrodata Electronics Tbk

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.

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it_user27945 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Database and Security at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The biggest area for improvement would be in the area of user adoption. After we did our first upgrade and went through the whole process, our users hated Oracle. So my biggest complaint would be the lack of Oracle support for end-users to resolve their issues after that first upgrade. It just wasn't a good experience.

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it_user436014 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior ERP App Analyst at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user435984 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Analyst at City of West Palm Beach

iRecruitment is, however, a very weak module that gets a lot of user complaints. And even though we get good responses from Oracle Support, it's really clunky and is one of the weakest module that I think Oracle has.

We also didn't like the Time and Labor module. We replaced it with Chronos, and that's made a big difference.

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Debharshi Bhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Consultant at a performing arts with 51-200 employees

The integration features of the tool on on-premises weren't that great, making it an area where improvements are required.

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it_user515592 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Engineering Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
  • Interfaces (downstream and upstream)
  • End user interface (UX design)
  • Performance
  • The EBS Design to some extent is still monolithic.
  • Maintenance activities still require a lot downtime.
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it_user516675 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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it_user521625 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Program Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We are looking for improvement in the response time that we get.

In addition, we are not getting regular updates in terms of their patches. Many times, we log a SR and then we get a response from Oracle that they need to apply a patch. Thus, if they can inform us ahead of time for such issues, it will really help.

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it_user486585 - PeerSpot reviewer
Financial Systems Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

One of the benefits is also one of the pitfalls. Sometimes users are overwhelmed by the multiple ways in which you can operate. They don't want all of that flexibility.

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it_user317880 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Systems Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user522915 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Validation Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

The Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) module manages full end-to-end traceability with embedded quality and multiple cost methods that provide complete visibility into plant operations. At the moment, we have an old version and it is an area of the product with room for improvement.

I know that the new version has been improved and it works better; some bugs has been resolved, some features are improved.

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it_user435978 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'd like to see more mobile applications, though I know they're working on that. It also needs simpler setups and simpler management tools. Currently the setup of mobile and some newer areas is not simple.

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it_user23346 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'd like to get BI integrated into the transactional system and not just the Data Mart. We've been having issues with making that happen. So, maybe making that a little easier to implement would be an area of improvement. The project summarization also needs some work, though we've heard that it's fixed in version 12.2.

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it_user435975 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Finance at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The biggest frustration I have with Oracle is that they have taken an acquisition approach. Because of this, the modules don't talk to each other. It is touted as being a fully-integrated system, but if something happens and purchasing doesn't necessarily follow through to the cost module, the amount of programming and specific manipulation required to get the modules to talk to each other is surprising to me, especially for a package from a company of Oracle's size.

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KO
Senior Audit Officer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The reporting needs to be improved. I think that there are times when you have to build too many custom reports in order to achieve what you want. This comes out of the fact that it is so flexible because if you don't go by the standard, in terms of the implementation you choose, then it means that you have to come up with a lot of reports. I have seen some of the reporting that they are now doing through Hyperion, which is very nice, but I don't know if it will solve the problem.

I have found that when somebody is not experienced with Oracle, it is difficult to use.

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SK
Associate Director at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

In the cloud version of Oracle E-Business Suite, I think most of the features are already there. We are working on Oracle EBS SaaS applications as well, a lot of the improvements have already been made in the new modules that Oracle. The on-premise version could improve.

In the future, Oracle E-Business Suite could improve by having a better UI. Competitors are providing much better interfaces.

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TN
Implementation Consultant at IERP JSC

The user interface could be better. It's not good because they made their interface all in one, and my customers don't want to use it. I have to customize the interface and personalize it to hide some fields on the screen. It has lots of information on the screen, and the user can't easily navigate it. It's very difficult to use. 

I think that Oracle should have something like best practices. They need to provide some patches to simplify the interface based on the industry niche. Because now we see everything on the same screen, but the users don't need all that information. It's complicated to use for end-users, and we have to spend more time training them.

In the next release, I think they should implement most of the features in the mobile app. It should be better. Oracle didn't update their mobile application for a very long time. Connecting the mobile application is complicated.

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AS
Deputy IT Manager at ICAPP (Americana Group)

It requires training before you can easily use this product, so it should be easier to use. It is of moderate difficulty; not very easy and not too hard, but training is needed.

The installation could be simplified.

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OD
Principle Oracle Apps DBA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Deployment of customization is complex, thus nobody is using it. Instead, we are deploying the same code on both filesystems (fs1, fs2). In order to follow standards, the deployment process should be as easy as before, in R12.1.

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it_user521688 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Information Technology (Oracle) at Expedia, Inc.

I think the standard reports in the AR and the GM modules need improvement. I would like to see a few new reports, including customized reports and summaries.

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BD
Principal - OATC "Oracle Applications and Technology Consulting" at OATC, Inc.

As far as additional features of the E-Business Suite, I would like to see more of the framework applications in use. Oracle is slowly transitioning there. We do realize that the older form's version of the technology has a lot of intelligence built in them; very difficult for Oracle to make that migration to the new technology. Ideally, it's getting to one platform. Perhaps, the removal of Java from that integration right now. Java continues to be an issue for organizations that are running multiple products. If they have multiple products that they're using, E-Business Suite, maybe third-party products. You've got different versions of Java that are required for each. That becomes a problem. It's an ongoing issue. We do know and we've heard Oracle's heading towards some type of new solution, if you will. Certainly, trying to focus on becoming a fully frameworked product, versus the old form's technology.

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it_user436098 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Oracle Applications Support at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you upgrade to 12.2.5 you won't have iProcurement problems. But if you upgrade to 12.2.4, you're going to get those in abundance. It's going to keep you employed till the rest of your life. So you upgrade to 12.2.5 to get rid of those. However, if you upgrade to 12.2.5 you will get localization support at zero level because it hasn't been added yet to the release.

So go figure, what I going to do when I have the whole world of Oracle in Latin America and I can't take 12.2.5? We opted for a broken iProcure that we're going to fix ourselves.

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it_user436050 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

To me, it seems overly complicated and the interactions between the modules are unclear to me. Oracle needs to provide training sessions that teach about the interactions, and we need someone in our company who also knows how the pieces fit together. This would go a long way towards helping us fit E-Business Suite to our business. Right now, it's like trying to fit a round peg into a square hole and I feel like we're not using it the way it's supposed to be used. We have to bend the rules or try to force it to do what we want. And it's been difficult.

We use Install Base, Service Contracts, Order Management, and Deeper Repair, and a few other modules. There's just so many that if someone who understood both our business and our tool, then this person could configure E-Business Suits to meet our business needs. Currently, each department needs something different and there are so many changes for each to the solution, that the changes aren't cohesive and, in fact, create problems for each other.

I'd prefer for everything to be web-based and not as a Java program. When I compare it to familiar tools, such as Salesforce and other CRMs, E-Business Suits seems really outdated and difficult to use and navigate.

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it_user341916 - PeerSpot reviewer
Human Development Manager - Training & Development at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The account executive was good, but when it came to training HR, it really failed - on this point I'd rate Oracle as 3/10. 

The webinars are OK but they definitely didn't hit the target. 

This application is so large for a small company like ours, so it was very hard to train everyone with such an extensive product.

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JV
IT Administrator at Unior d.d.

It would be nice to have more web services. For example, it would be easier to integrate our applications with EBS.

I would definitely like to see web services in purchasing. It has badly covered integration with APIs.

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AS
Software Engineer with 11-50 employees

There are some business-specific processes still not implemented. We need the IPC solution subcontractor management that is not available. We have to create the IPC solution but these types of extensions should be provided by Oracle and be included in this solution and the cloud version.

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it_user600960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Unit NUCLEAR at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

More flexibility in configuration related to the Payroll module, in order to easily implement the local legislation.

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it_user521910 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant/Solution Architect at Sunrun

I would like to see more connections with the third-party application, such as banks and credit card companies. They could develop a seamless integration. Right now, we use batch processing for sharing the data that comes out of a file system. We would like to have that online connection, a real-time connection, where you can go and pull the data whenever you want.

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it_user436092 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Although all the modules are integrated with each other into E-Business Suite, sometimes when you apply one patch for Accounts Receivable, for example, it can damage Accounts Payable. That's why it's important to read the ReadMe that says that touching one module will impact another. But that was highly unexpected for us. We're constantly performing patches, and it's become an area of unreliability for our business. We can't know for certain whether what we're doing with one module won't negatively affect another.

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MI
Oracle Apps Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The biggest improvement for Oracle is for them to move to the cloud. With Oracle E-Business Suite, movement to the cloud should be supported. I am still not working on cloud applications, but I will eventually.

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AK
Head of Technology Department at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would say the integration needs improvement. Oracle needs to work on the integration layer to make the solution much more robust and modern.

The solution needs full cloud netting.

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it_user436182 - PeerSpot reviewer
Finance Professional at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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. Payables is a prime example: there's the web interface and then the forms interface and we hate having to switch between the two areas. To create a simple report, at least in my opinion, sometimes requires a developer versus just me, as the user, going in and doing what I need to do. It's extremely difficult to do some data mining on a whim. If there's something repetitive in nature, then we can set it up with a developer, it works, but in our opinion we know that things could work better than the way they are currently.

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MR
Oracle Application Team Lead HCM at IMTAC LLC

There are some cycles in HR that are not straightforward. For example, the attendance approach, and the second admin transfers are not straightforward procedures.

We can see many features in the cloud and other applications that are not supported in EBS. For example, in iRecruitment, the recruitment or selection workflow process for candidates to be recruited is very advanced, it's a very skilled and enhanced process in Taleo. This is not something that is present in EBS but there are many requirements for this. Customers require this area of recruitment. For example, in Taleo, a person cannot move from the HR interview to the technical interview unless he has passed the HR interview. This does not exist in EBS. Many customers are asking for this functionality.

In Taleo, Candidate workflow allows you to do this. They give you the feature to configure that selection workflow for the candidates in terms of steps. You cannot move from this step until you complete the first step. This is definitely an area to consider.

There is strength in the product but we are always looking for weakness to improve.

The reporting area is very weak. It needs some improvements.

The embedded analytics is something new but it's a bit complicated. They tried to embed the analytics into the EBS with the same model as in FUSION but it's not easy or straightforward to enhance and maintain.

Organizational restructuring is a horrible process and very difficult in EBS.

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AA
CX Specialist at a government with 201-500 employees

They don't have built-in bank integrations, which would be very helpful. For API, I know Oracle has a big library of APIs, and you can extend it. But most important integrations are still missing. These are mainly for features to integrate with other systems and other market forces, like banks or civic parties.

For example, for the environment to work using E-Business Suite, which is not handling the budgeting in the power tool, we have to purchase Hyperion and integrate Hyperion with the E-Business Suite. If you want reporting, you can select a reporting tool or different reporting tools for business intelligence. For each case, it's painful to have multi-systems in place. Most companies prefer to have one system and it's costly.

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YG
IT Operations Service Delivery Senior Manager at e-finance

Its user interface is not completely a web interface. It uses a lot of traffic which costs too much for a large number of users scattered throughout the country as they connect from their terminals to do their tasks.

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it_user522012 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Apps at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Again, integration: The reason I'm mentioning this is, basically, you can have an ERP ordering system, and it doesn't have to be Oracle. Also, it's not really an ordering system; it's not friendly, for that matter.

Maybe more real-time; that would probably be better.

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it_user521943 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Lead (Oracle Apps Technical Consultant) at Tech Mahindra

Right now, I don’t think the version that we are using supports mobile devices. I think it is on the desktop only, although we can select laptops. I’d like to see a mobile version.

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it_user416409 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager, Oracle ERP Implementation Project at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are now working on ASM Cloud and CX. We have already spoken with Oracle and we’ll probably implement it on February 17.

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it_user436071 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer Manager at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

We do a lot of inter-company transactions, and Oracle has limitations on inter-company transactions. We would like Oracle to have inter-company transactions for more than four inter-companies, or more than five, multiple inter-companies.

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it_user436212 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Financial Operations at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oracle tends to be slower when it comes to bringing flashy functionalities than other, smaller entities can deliver. For us, we were eager to see a smartphone app, and now it's available and we're ready to implement it.

I learned from PeopleSoft that they already have OFAC as an engine within the product. EBS doesn't have it yet, and I wish they would because then I can integrate OFAC with my supplier database without a third-party tool.

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it_user435996 - PeerSpot reviewer
Purchasing Initiatives Officer at City of Las Vegas

I wish that it was more public-sector friendly. It just seems like with the encumbrances, they slow down the process a little bit, and most public sector entities like us use encumbrance accounting.

In the private sector, invoices are paid when goods or services are received. However, in the public sector with encumbrance accounting, funds are reserved against the budget so that there are no overages. Once funds are committed, we've agreed to purchase goods or services without having already received them. Without encumbrance accounting, we wouldn't know whether a good or service has been received until after the invoice is paid and entered into the system.

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DR
Go To Market Executive at #Liferocks Consulting

I think the capability for deployment is not great when you get out of financials. That is, when you get to the edge products around the E-Business core, I think that needs improvement. For example, if you are in manufacturing and the core focus of your work is financial procurement and HR, I think E-Business is very good. When you get away from that focus and you get into the more specialized area of work, then EBS needs improvement. They are trying to fit everything into the cloud, but they are adopting pieces rather than adapting them to the cloud.  

One other improvement could be adopting more of the NetSuite total-business solution. I think that is a weakness that E-Business is really more like a module that connects things than a complete solution. I think that they should be looking at making it a total business solution.  

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it_user755364 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director | Oracle Competency

The issue of frequently applying patches and updates to fix bugs. Oracle should improve upon this issue, especially since it happens too frequently.

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it_user522246 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We didn't go with the standard features of the Oracle SOA Suite in which the Oracle APIs were included; these APIs we wrote on our own. That might be the issue for us. If we had to use the standard ones, which were a part of the Oracle SOA Suite, it could have been better for us.

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it_user436095 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have some real difficulties with upgrades. Every time we perform an upgrade, we put a lot of effort into it. We perform a lot of testing, we bring in outside help, and then afterwards there's a lot of maintenance within the first few months of each upgrade.

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it_user417126 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Director Enterprise Business Systems at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

The complexity around configuration and deployment need improving. When I look at some of my previous companies, they spent millions of dollars on deployment and even just doing an upgrade. We did an upgrade two years ago and it took quite a bit of an investment just to upgrade as-is.

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ZG
VP IT and Information Systems at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The simplicity of the user experience needs to be improved tremendously.

The support and analytics features need to be improved.

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George Mukira - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Consultant at Spring Training & Consulting

Sending alerts through bulk SMS. With the growing use of mobile phones, we would appreciate sending notifications through SMS.

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it_user436086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Financial Analyst at a local government

I'd like to see the reporting improved. Right now, we do not own any of the hub or any of modules for financial reporting. We use this archaic thing called Discover. Discover is fine for a tech-finance person to handle, but a functional user doesn't understand it. It's not really used very well. The reports are not very pretty because we have to do a lot of extra formatting and publishing in order to do our annual reports. We actually have an additional outside system to do our annual reports. That's how bad it is.

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it_user436185 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Business Analyst at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The biggest area of improvement would be around user access and sign-in. Currently, there's no notification for changing passwords that are about to expire. Passwords simply expire without any warning.

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SS
Chief Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
RS
Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The iStore could be better.

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it_user674601 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle DBA & EBS Functional Administrator with 501-1,000 employees

Maybe the contract, which is too complicated.

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it_user517470 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior General Manager Information Systems

I would like to see more automation.

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it_user436149 - PeerSpot reviewer
Financial Systems Admin at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

The mobile apps, I think, are the up and coming thing for us. To make it easier for people to do things on the go. I know that they do have a bunch of them but, in a lot of cases, you can only view information on a lot of the mobile apps. Like you can't action on any of them. I think with procurement you can't create requisitions on the mobile app. You can just see the status of them.

Oracle Alerts is kind of a forgotten application and it's great for just sending users notifications about the status of things. It's much easier than learning WorkFlow so we still use it a lot. It used to be that when email was character based you'd send out the email and everything looked great. Now when you send out an email and you try to put stuff in columns it's just clear text so the columns don't line up. They've never added the feature to be able to send the email in HTML format. That would be nice to just, I mean, it's not a big thing and it hasn't changed a lot but it would make life a little simpler.

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it_user436191 - PeerSpot reviewer
Finance Business Systems Manager - Sr. Principal at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have project contracts for government customers, and that has been a little bit tougher to implement, because I don't think Oracle has a lot of clients on that. We implemented that about two or three years ago, but we haven't found a lot of people who are using it. What I'd like to see is not necessarily something in the functionality of the software, but rather a way to meet some of the other customers who are using the product, which would be helpful.

Also, we would like to do more with iExpense. We use iExpense right now for purchasing cards, but we do not use it for employee vouchers. I think we cannot use it two ways at the same time. We're using it right now for the purchasing cards, but we don't use it for employee vouchers. I think we would like to have more functionality in that area.

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it_user436140 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Systems Analyst at a retailer with 51-200 employees

I think it would be nice to see some streamlining of the process. There's a lot of screens to go through, a lot of levels to get down to. I see that in purchasing, I see it in accounts payable, and even AR to a degree. Sales orders is another one. When entering transactions, there are multiple tabs and multiple levels, so you can kind of get lost, especially for our new users. It's not so intuitive.

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it_user436101 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Engineer at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

I'd like to see more mobile functionality, as well as a lot more manufacturing shop floor control. I don't want to have to record information that a machine is already recording.

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it_user436047 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a university with 501-1,000 employees

The product is pretty good, but it incorporates both old forms and new HTML/Java-based pages. I'd really like to see Oracle move away from the old forms entirely and go with the new. Currently, there are certain things, like entering a purchase order, that you can do in either the new or old way, and they each work in completely differently. And, sometimes there are bugs in one that's not present in the other. I'd like to see an across-the-board transition to the new pages.

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BS
NDT - TECHNICIAN at a paper AND forest products with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oracle could improve the flash system integration. We are now focused on the cloud, so Oracle needs to use some cloud connect and exchange data and connect to various databases to access the data. With Oracle EBS there is no process, vertical manufacturing, vertical in the cloud. 

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it_user817998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

All good. So far, we have no major product issues.

We expect Oracle to go into continuous innovation mode and provide simplified integration solutions.

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it_user516645 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle ERP Specialist and Solution Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would like to see improvement in the overall UI.

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it_user521904 - PeerSpot reviewer
Accountant at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Of course, we'd like to see those reports re-introduced. Right now, we have more reports for the general ledger module. We would like more reports for the other modules: fixed assets, AP, revenue, and so on. That's where the problem is.

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it_user522030 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Admin at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user436206 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Applications DBA/UNIX SA at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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FB
Gerente de Aplicaciones Oracle at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

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

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VN
head of ERP system department Director at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

This system can't be improved.

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it_user896991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Oracle Applications at Stowers
  • 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.
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it_user757425 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager IT

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.

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it_user436053 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP of Finance at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user80574 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I would like to see more integration with other systems.

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it_user521712 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

It needs a better user interface; the forms and HTML split would be better if they were consistent.

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it_user436152 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief, Application Management Branch at a government with 501-1,000 employees

I'd like to see Oracle continue to optimize it by making it faster. The functionalities are pretty good as-is, but they just need to make it function faster.

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AB
Functional Consultant Oracle EBS at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

It's difficult for some customers to understand in the beginning. A user really has to understand the processes.

They are still developing out the E-Business Suite. I would like some things about contract management and the other parts of the procure to pay process to be able to standardize more for the public sector. That's the feedback I've encountered from clients. They've all chosen to go for custom made solutions now mostly due to this.

The solution could offer more integration with other toolsets. That's why NetSuite does better in that market. It's in the cloud completely and you can integrate with other software more easily. With E-Business Suite you have to use database links or something of that nature to establish better connections. 

Oracle E-business is not a cloud product.

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it_user521694 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Application DBA Consultant at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees

I don't think so. As far as I know, it's doing its best in pretty much all the areas. As of now, I can't tell anything.

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Oracle E-Business Suite
March 2024
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