Emptoris vs. Oracle E-Business Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Emptoris
Score 5.5 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$59
Per User Per Month
Oracle E-Business Suite
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Oracle E-Business Suite is a comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications. The suite includes cross-industry capabilities spanning ERP, CRM and supply chain planning.N/A
Pricing
EmptorisOracle E-Business Suite
Editions & Modules
Emptoris
$59.00
Per User Per Month
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EmptorisOracle E-Business Suite
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
EmptorisOracle E-Business Suite
Considered Both Products
Emptoris
Chose Emptoris
I would say there are positives and negatives to all. Emptoris seemed to be more advanced in progression of their tool. Others seem to have created a tool to meet a customers need and was not part of their core business model or competency.
Oracle E-Business Suite

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
EmptorisOracle E-Business Suite
Contract Authoring
Comparison of Contract Authoring features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
8.3
4 Ratings
0% above category average
Oracle E-Business Suite
-
Ratings
Contract creation9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract templates7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Clause library/saved fields8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Guided logic8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Collaboration
Comparison of Contract Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
7.9
4 Ratings
6% below category average
Oracle E-Business Suite
-
Ratings
Contract sharing8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract editing8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaborating on contracts7.53 Ratings00 Ratings
MS Word plug-in7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Approval process8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Interdepartmental workflows7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Monitoring
Comparison of Contract Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
7.8
5 Ratings
9% below category average
Oracle E-Business Suite
-
Ratings
Contract database7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract search7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract milestone reminders & alerts8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom contract reports7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Tracking contract status8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance check7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.3
31 Ratings
14% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings8.129 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.124 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.5
69 Ratings
16% above category average
API for custom integration00 Ratings9.869 Ratings
Plug-ins00 Ratings9.752 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
9.9
73 Ratings
20% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.866 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.972 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
9.1
66 Ratings
27% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings9.143 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.364 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings9.964 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.9
80 Ratings
4% above category average
Accounts payable00 Ratings9.776 Ratings
Accounts receivable00 Ratings8.974 Ratings
Global Financial Support00 Ratings8.952 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings9.763 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings9.764 Ratings
Configurable Accounting00 Ratings9.754 Ratings
Standardized Processes00 Ratings9.757 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.7
53 Ratings
10% above category average
Inventory tracking00 Ratings9.052 Ratings
Automatic reordering00 Ratings8.837 Ratings
Location management00 Ratings8.941 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.9
56 Ratings
14% above category average
Pricing00 Ratings8.950 Ratings
Order entry00 Ratings8.852 Ratings
Credit card processing00 Ratings8.041 Ratings
Cost of goods sold00 Ratings9.750 Ratings
Order Orchestration00 Ratings8.937 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
9.2
66 Ratings
22% above category average
Billing Management00 Ratings8.846 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings8.855 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management00 Ratings8.949 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting00 Ratings9.840 Ratings
Period Close00 Ratings9.759 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.8
42 Ratings
3% above category average
Budgeting and Forecasting00 Ratings8.033 Ratings
Project Costing00 Ratings8.042 Ratings
Cost Capture00 Ratings8.035 Ratings
Capital Project Management00 Ratings8.133 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance00 Ratings8.125 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition00 Ratings8.132 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.6
20 Ratings
11% above category average
Project Planning and Scheduling00 Ratings7.818 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers00 Ratings7.418 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools00 Ratings7.915 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.9
24 Ratings
16% above category average
Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.4
50 Ratings
19% above category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings7.927 Ratings
Contract Authoring00 Ratings8.026 Ratings
Contract Repository00 Ratings7.919 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings9.736 Ratings
Supplier Management00 Ratings9.732 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.1
12 Ratings
9% above category average
Risk Repository00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
Control Management00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments00 Ratings6.010 Ratings
Issue Detection00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
Remediation and Certification00 Ratings7.112 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.5
20 Ratings
9% above category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization00 Ratings8.117 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management00 Ratings8.216 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management00 Ratings7.316 Ratings
Fulfillment Management00 Ratings7.316 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings8.216 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
7.8
26 Ratings
4% above category average
Production Process Design00 Ratings6.721 Ratings
Production Management00 Ratings7.824 Ratings
Configuration Management00 Ratings7.022 Ratings
Work Execution00 Ratings8.023 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings8.724 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.6
33 Ratings
17% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings8.730 Ratings
Inventory Planning00 Ratings8.833 Ratings
Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.926 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Emptoris
-
Ratings
Oracle E-Business Suite
8.3
16 Ratings
13% above category average
Proposal Management00 Ratings8.313 Ratings
Product Master Data Management00 Ratings8.312 Ratings
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User Ratings
EmptorisOracle E-Business Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(15 ratings)
8.9
(93 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(10 ratings)
8.0
(10 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(2 ratings)
6.2
(4 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(2 ratings)
6.0
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.7
(4 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
EmptorisOracle E-Business Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
If you have a highly bureaucratic organization that is heavily focused on procurement, Emptoris can provide some value. It seemed to be very good at linking the contract information to procurement for better spend control. If you are trying to implement a standalone contract management solution that allows you to easily create contracts and store them in a central location, this isn't the tool for you. There doesn't appear to be a simplified implementation. In general, when a SaaS solution has a complicated and expensive implementation, I am very skeptical. This does not show that the vendor is trying to move customers forward on a single code base. If that many things need to be done during implementation, you are starting to customize the solution for every customer. This hurts the vendor's ability to scale and make improvements in the future.
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Oracle
Oracle eBusiness Suite is the best combination of CRM and ERP. Oracle helps us in managing the entire process of Sales and Marketing. The best feature is that it is highly user-friendly. We can easily manage the entire process of marketing from running a campaign to managing it and getting an interesting prospect than making a lead to making an opportunity by recording each and every conversation from day 1 to last day so that customer feels its valued by the company after that finally getting a business from the prospect.
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Pros
IBM
  • Document protection - the Check Out contract feature is a great way to allow external parties to make modifications to contract language without the ability to accept those changes. Those redlines can then be imported back into Emptoris and reviewed or further modified as needed.
  • Notifications & reminders - you can trigger an email manually from within the system, or you can configure automated notifications andreminders to alert users when a new task is received or has aged a given amount of days, etc.
  • Interview wizard - there is a lot of value in the interview wizard. Administrators can configure screens with selecting options via check boxes, radio buttons, or typed-in values. Variables and conditions can be used to selectively populate fields within the contract or apply other options, making for a quick and convenient method to generate contracts conforming to corporate standards.
  • Field customization - administrators can customize a list of options for various fields including contract substatus, address type, and user created business term variables.
  • Approvals - many different options are available to configure approvals to trigger automatically upon presenting and/or executing the contract including specific individuals, one or more approver groups, or based upon various criteria including terms within the contract, type of contract, or the contract's owning organization.
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Oracle
  • The EBS Oracle Order Management and Shipping Execution solution allows the creation of an integrated, seamless order-to-cash process and accurately capture of customer orders across multiple channels.
  • Orchestration of order details for seamless fulfillment execution.
  • Efficient shipment planning and confirmation.
  • Communication of order status information to customers throughout the order lifecycle.
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Cons
IBM
  • Reporting, Emptoris comes with standard reports which can not always can be fit into our business. This needs to be improved. I hope Emptoris is addressing this issue in their latest releases.
  • Though the feature of editing language in MS word is excellent, loading MS word takes time.
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Oracle
  • Because the application is working globally, it sometimes hangs and the connection is dropped.
  • It should have more shortcuts to make it easier to develop macros. I create many macros and use the "sendkeys" command in VBA, due to the lack of these shortcuts, it is not possible to automate the process.
  • For now I can not think of other areas that require improvement.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
There are a lot of new, exciting products coming out in every field and I believe that there is always something better right over the horizon. If it was my choice, I would review my usage of Emptoris and other software periodically to make sure I'm using the most efficient software possible.
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Oracle
After almost 5 years, we have a full control of this ERP System. We are able to implement new functionalities and modules without any major "consulting" expenses. As of today we are making almost 90% of the personalization/customization and implementation all in house. Once [it] is tuned, [it] keeps running very well with no major issues.
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Usability
IBM
Emptoris is a pretty robust tool overall. Learning curve is small and it is simple to use
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Oracle
The various forms - like order entry forms that allow the uses to enter sales orders and the ability to personalize the views based on end user needs - are easy to use and follow standard business processes. The new release has a big focus on usability and forms now have a familiar web look and feel which has increased usability considerably.
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
No answers on this topic
Oracle
Because of the transactional nature of the system this software is available 24 X 7, and IT is responsible for making sure the system is available during normal business hours.
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Performance
IBM
No answers on this topic
Oracle
The performance of the product is very good. Given the transactional nature of the system one of the key focus areas for IT is to make sure performance is not affected for internal reasons. This can also depend on the server configuration and setup. For example, performance on Exadata machine is far superior to other Linux custom systems that companies choose to deploy. In general though, as already pointed out, the platform is now very stable and has few bugs. Whenever there are any issues, the cause is usually customizations that we have made to the platform, rather than out-of-the-box standard functionality.
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Support Rating
IBM
The above rating for the overall support from Emptoris is for their product / product support, roll out training and refresher training / ongoing training, which is not only good but superior. There is no major or reconizable bad review that can be given to Emptoris at this point in time, from where is stands.
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Oracle
In general, support has not been great - particularly standard (non premium) support . The main issue is that our IT staff has been using this platform for years and is very knowledgeable Whenever something goes wrong, we usually have a very precise idea of what the problem is. We are skilled at problem diagnosis. But the Oracle support process is very rigid and slow. Typically, we are required to go through a lengthy diagnosis process where they ask us multiple questions sometimes over several days and we are obliged to talk to different people with differing levels of knowledge. Since we already know what the problem is, we really just want a patch or a bug fix, but it takes days to get there instead of minutes. This can be very frustrating. This is a big part of the reason why we pay for premium support. But it's still a bit disappointing.
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Online Training
IBM
No answers on this topic
Oracle
The instructors are usually precise and knowledgable, and it's convenient to take online classes whenever available any day of the year.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
No answers on this topic
Oracle
The key success factors for the implementation was project management, in-house expertise in IT and time. The implementation process started with the initial evaluation with the initial upgrade on a test system and mapping out the gaps and requirements. We did work with Oracle to understand the new functionality R12 had to offer and did another upgrade and researched solutions. With the use of software development cycle procedures there were conference room pilots with IT, business users. We then refined the project plan to the core key details, performed mock go-live implementations and finally upgraded the software. Overall, this was a very successful process.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
I am a fan of Ariba to be used for the entire lifecycle of Sourcing. From RFX's to cutting PO's. I feel Emptoris misses the boat on the idea of a "One Stop Shop" for all of your Sourcing/Purchasing needs
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Oracle
We explored Coupa, SAP, PeopleSoft, Salesforce. We chose Oracle based on value for money, features it offers and the easy availability of vast talent pool in the market. There are many trained Oracle product specialists readily available in the market. This helps us to tap experts when needed easily.
Coupa does not have a Project Accounting module. SAP was too expensive. PeopleSoft is more catered towards to human resources software, while Salesforce is for CRM.
Oracle has better financials and project portfolio management suite when compared to the competition and this what we needed.
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Scalability
IBM
No answers on this topic
Oracle
As I mentioned, it's a good tool but not the best
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • We won the 2005 Baseline Magazine Award for best ROI related to a technology implementation with an ROI 5544% (see 2005 Baseline ROI Awards, GlaxoSmithkline).
  • We always felt we could do "two times the work, with half the people and deliver double the savings".
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Oracle
  • The tremendous amount of testing and time by the technical folks has a negative impact.
  • We find we need a tremendous amount of customization within the standard functionality having a negative impact.
  • Oracle certifications of related products such as the database, Demantra, JRE cause disruption having a negative impact
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