Oracle E-Business Suite Reviews

The integration of the various, different modules within E-Business Suite is the key feature for us. For example, we use Payables, Assets, and GL, to name a few.

Because we're using out-of-the-box features, it's given us efficiencies in our operations. For instance, the way we use iExpress for paying invoices is an out-of-the-box functionality. We haven't had to customize anything, yet we've been highly successful in using it.

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.

We've been a user of Oracle since 1996.

We've never had any serious issues. There have been a couple of scenarios where we were told ahead of time of a change or update over a weekend and that we might experience issues because of it.

We've had no issues with instability.

It's scaled sufficiently for our needs.

Technical support has been good. We haven't had any problems with them.

The initial setup was complex from our perspective because we were new to all Oracle products at the time.

We ended up going with an outside firm to do our deployment of EBS. We just simply provided data at the time because we didn't know much about Oracle. Over time, we've become experts in some areas.

It's an expensive product, though worth it for larger businesses.

It's not intended for smaller entities because it's costly. For large organizations like ours, its ability to handle our data volume with stability is, for us, a perfect match.

I use this solution for Core HR, Absence Management, and payroll.

Oracle EBS is a mature product. It fills many needs.

It is a gate to doing customization, as there is a need for custom solutions.

It can easily be developed into an application.

I can also easily plug into the business cycle.

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.

I am currently an HCCM Team lead. I have 12 years of experience in implementing Oracle.

I also have been working with Oracle E-Business Suite for 12 years.

I am certified in Oracle HCCM Cloud applications.

I work with many versions. I have worked with versions 11, 12, and now 12.2.9.

Generally speaking, Oracle E-Business Suite is a stable product.

Any product can have bugs, but it depends on where the bug is and if you have a workaround or not.

One of the drawbacks with Oracle is that it seems to take them a long time to release a solution for the bugs or enhancements. For example, there is a bug found in 2011 that has not been resolved or closed until now.

There are, however, technology bugs or functional bugs that are enhancements that you find in certain services such as contract screens, contracts, or payments. Oracle will call this an enhancement request, we can deliver it but for now, there is no delivery for this solution.

This is a scalable solution.

I am just learning Taleo, I have a small amount of experience and a few customers.

The initial setup is straightforward. While you can complete the installation yourself, you will need to know the product and how the product is configured.

An understanding of the business process is required to easily configure the application.

You must have the knowledge to know the subsequent actions, how they are done, and how the links are set up together. For example, I can define lookup, and to do this I will research to know if it will use the standard form, or if it will use the value set or the standard use for one report or other types of validations.

Overall, I believe that it is always best to ask someone who is experienced. For example, if we consider the iPhone mobile, we may ask how can we take a picture, If you are coming from Android to iOS, you will ask someone with experience in this type of operating system, how you can do related things or supporting context.

I completed the installation myself. I did not use the help of an integrator or consultant.

I have a lot of experience, and I work with many customers. I know what they require and which features they are looking for.

I would like to see where Oracle E-Business Suite will take the roadmap. I don't know if they will invest more in the roadmap for EBS or investing in the cloud.

In summary, this is a good product but there is always an area for improvement.

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

Management of supply chain in the petroleum industry: from requesting quotes from suppliers to issuing LPO, managing credit; and selling in cash, credit, and discounts.

Generating reports is more efficient: generating financial reports, employee reports, volume reports, and time attendance reports.

Accessing vital information on the dashboard: I can customize summarized reports to be available on the dashboard.

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

Financial, procure to pay, order to cash, inventory management, enterprise asset management, human resources management, and iStore.

We have saved millions of dollars in inventory. Before this system, we did not have integration and every shop was ordering inventory individually, without checking with the other shops.

With eAM (Enterprise Asset Management) we have seen improvements in preventive maintenance, asset tracking, planning, cost analysis for maintenance, and integration of procurement.

Inventory and enterprise asset maintenance.

The iStore could be better.

I give it an eight out of 10 because it required some customization.

The extensibility that we've needed over the past several years is the most valuable feature for us.

It's allowed us to add our own customizations to it, which is highly important to our organization. We have many, many customized processes that we've needed to add on top of it in order to bring value to our company.

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.

Deployment is complex and expensive.

Since we upgraded two years ago, it's been very stable. We haven't had any issues with instability since then.

There have been many times in which we could have used additional initial processing power, but we were constrained by the licensing structure we were in. That's prevented us from scaling to the extent we wanted.

We just dropped our maintenance with Oracle last year and have gone to a third-party service provider. It was less than half of the cost, and we didn't see the value of the money that we were spending at the time with Oracle.

I wasn't involved with the company that I'm at now, and it was definitely complex in the previous companies that I've been with.

The re-licensing is a large cost proposition so we may be looking at alternatives, I think, in the next couple of years.

I definitely think it's an investment. It's definitely a very robust product, so it's just going to depend on what type of investment a company is willing to make and what their future plans are as well.

Process costing.

Improved visibility into manufacturing.

Costing: very good, in-depth analysis.

Reporting.

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

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

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

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