IBM Cloud Pak for Data vs. Oracle WebCenter Content

IBM Cloud Pak for Data with Netezza is well suited for clients who require fast, economical analytics processing. It is not designed to be used as a transactional processing environment. For example, a large customer is using it during the point of sale process. That makes little sense in that business case. However, to take analysis to market faster, it excels well in that space.

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WebCenter Content is suitable for payables invoice processing for companies with a huge volume of paper invoices. 80% of data entry effort can be reduced. For small companies with less volume, WebCenter may not make sense. WebCenter is not perfect. It has some issues. We raised enhancement requests with Oracle, hopefully, Oracle will resolve them soon.

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• Increases our impact by combining BI skills with advanced analytics and machine learning in an easy to use visual interface.
• Visualization and reporting.
• Rapidly provides business -ready data to all users equally.
• Manage data spread across distributed stores and clouds.

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• It provided one single repository with a URL link to access each AP invoice.
• It gives a life cycle to each invoice where a business user can perform some additional indexing as per their needs.
• It also provides a reporting feature and a front-end for users to view invoices with ease and very helpful for auditing purpose.
• It uses the BPEL engine to customize the life cycle and also it can automate the auto entry of supplier invoices in your EBS system.
• Reduce a lot of manual efforts, manual errors and workforce.

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• Cannot save changes to some secrets in the internal vault
• Sign-in issues on environments where IAM is enabled
• The Enforce quotas option is disabled

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• Some functionality you would expect to be built-in (such as reporting for compliance) is not and requires other Oracle products to be integrated.
• Separating an invoice with multiple lines for different departments is not an easy task.

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The challenges with converting to a completely new system create quite a barrier to switching to anything else. If we find another system that offers guaranteed improvements to the user interface -- as well as as a more coherent set of options for data interchanges with current and future enterprise data sources -- we would be more interested in swithing to that new product. Of course, the expense in purchasing competitor system, along with the costs of migrating all current content, along with retooling all existing workflows in place, would be carefully weighed against the benefits incurred from a switch-over.

It meets all required functionality requirements -- but handles none of them in an exceptional manner

IBM Cloud Pak for Data takes the IBM Cognos solution and provides this on an enterprise cloud platform that can be extended to support better data integration and data science capabilities.

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I can't really provide an answer for this question because I think the basic premise is flawed. Which system an organization selects is based (or should be based) on their unique business and organizational requirements, not the features of the system. We do not recommend a particular solution to a client based on subjective preference for one system over another but rather for its appropriateness to achieve a particular goal or collection of goals.

• We have the ability to access all our data much quicker through the unified search option.
• 30% increase in productivity through the introduction of AI.
• Improved data security and governance.

Incentivized

• We were looking for a scalable solution for invoice processing needs. WebCenter did fit the bill. It reduced manual data entry effort by 80%.
• WebCenter saved our storage costs. We do not need to store the physical paper copies anymore in our expensive offices.
• WebCenter increased the employee engagement and reduced monotonous data entry work. Employees now have time to spend on value-added work rather than data entry.
• Auditors were happy with the tool, as they can retrieve any document with the click of a button as opposed to search and find a physical document.

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