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What is Oracle E-Business Suite?
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.
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Features
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 8.1Pay calculation(29) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 8Benefit plan administration(24) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 8.1Direct deposit files(24) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
Customization
This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.
- 9.8API for custom integration(69) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 9.7Plug-ins(52) Ratings
A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.
Security
This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.
- 9.8Single sign-on capability(66) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 9.9Role-based user permissions(72) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 9.1Dashboards(43) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 8.3Standard reports(64) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 9.9Custom reports(64) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 9.7Accounts payable(76) Ratings
This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.
- 8.9Accounts receivable(74) Ratings
This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.
- 8.9Global Financial Support(52) Ratings
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
- 9.7Primary and Secondary Ledgers(63) Ratings
Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers
- 9.7Journals and Reconciliations(64) Ratings
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
- 9.7Configurable Accounting(54) Ratings
Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts
- 9.7Standardized Processes(57) Ratings
Centralize financial management to facilitate standardized financial processes
Inventory Management
The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.
- 9Inventory tracking(52) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 8.8Automatic reordering(37) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
- 8.9Location management(41) Ratings
The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.
Order Management
The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.
- 8.9Pricing(50) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 8.8Order entry(52) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 8Credit card processing(41) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 9.7Cost of goods sold(50) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
- 8.9Order Orchestration(37) Ratings
Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.
Subledger and Financial Process
Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes
- 8.8Billing Management(46) Ratings
Access role-based billing work area, perform discrete and recurring billing
- 8.8Cash and Asset Management(55) Ratings
Manage liquidity and cash requirements, asset transfers, disposals, reclassifications, and financial adjustments
- 8.9Travel & Expense Management(49) Ratings
Enter expenses from mobile devices, integrate credit card and travel booking, configure policy enforcement
- 9.8Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting(40) Ratings
Control spending at any budget level or time interval
- 9.7Period Close(59) Ratings
Sustain fast close with integrated subledgers, intuitive dashboards, embedded collaboration
Project Financial Management
Project financial management solution including capabilities for project budgeting, cost control, billing and contract management.
- 8Budgeting and Forecasting(33) Ratings
Establish project budgets and forecast future project financials
- 8Project Costing(42) Ratings
Standardize, track, and control costs at all project phases
- 8Cost Capture(35) Ratings
Capture costs including those for procurement, financials or time and labor, including from external systems
- 8.1Capital Project Management(33) Ratings
Track and manage capital asset costs
- 8.1Customer Contract Compliance(25) Ratings
Associate projects or tasks with customer contracts, and lines within contracts, to meet billing terms
- 8.1Project Revenue Recognition(32) Ratings
Recognize project contract revenue in line with accounting policies and regulations
Project Execution Management
Project execution management solution including capabilities for project scheduling, resource management, and team member task management.
- 7.8Project Planning and Scheduling(18) Ratings
Interactive Gantt chart for establishing tasks, durations, and delivery schedule
- 7.4Task Insight for Project Managers(18) Ratings
Project manager visibility into task progress of team members
- 8Project Mobile Functionality(16) Ratings
Capabilities for project functions such as updating and monitoring task progress and timecards from mobile devices
- 7.9Definable Resource Pools(15) Ratings
Definable and hierarchical resource pools of potential project resources
Grants Management
Grants management solution for higher education, public sector, or non-profits with capabilities for managing financial awards for program and project funding
- 9Award Lifecycle Management(20) Ratings
Manage the life of program funding awards from initial funding to close-out
Procurement
Procurement management solution with capabilities for sourcing, contracting, procure-to-pay and supplier management
- 7.9Bids Analyzed and Compared(27) Ratings
Evaluate, compare and recommend across multiple bids in real-time using diverse user selected criteria and graphical analytics
- 8Contract Authoring(26) Ratings
Document authoring with guided navigation, negotiation templates and productivity tools for reviews and collaboration
- 7.9Contract Repository(19) Ratings
Secure and searchable contract repository leveraging standard company language components, structures and formats
- 9.7Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated(36) Ratings
Create touchless purchases using purchase orders generated automatically per rules from approved requisitions
- 9.7Supplier Management(32) Ratings
Broadly manage and report comprehensive supplier profiles, capabilities and performance; identify bottlenecks; balance allocations, workloads
Risk Management
Risk management solution with capabilities for managing controls, assessing control effectiveness, certifying controls, and addressing deficiencies
- 7Risk Repository(10) Ratings
Idenity, document, and manage business risks in a unified repository
- 8Control Management(10) Ratings
Establish and update risk and controls matrix, control test plans, and instructions
- 6Control Efficiency Assessments(10) Ratings
Assess control effectiveness on criteria such as geography, business unit, compliance requirements, etc
- 8Issue Detection(11) Ratings
Detect and create issues as part of the assessment flow
- 7.1Remediation and Certification(12) Ratings
Create and update remediation plans and certify controls
Logistics
Logistics solution with capabilities for transportation planning, transportation execution, trade compliance, customs management, warehouse management and warehouse workforce management.
- 8.1Transportation Planning and Optimization(17) Ratings
Plan shipments across all modes of transportation via lowest costs/highest service
- 8.2Transportation Execution Management(16) Ratings
Execute and track shipping orders
- 7.3Trade and Customs Management(16) Ratings
Manage duties, tax rates, customs documents, and other data required for products shipped in and to specified countries
- 7.3Fulfillment Management(16) Ratings
Support for multi-channel demand and execution fulfillment processes
- 8.2Warehouse Workforce Management(16) Ratings
Set goals, measure actuals, and analyze productivity for warehousing tasks and activities
Manufacturing
Manufacturing solution for managing manufacturing processes and costs.
- 6.7Production Process Design(21) Ratings
Define data for plant hierarchy, process standards, work areas, calendars and standard operations
- 7.8Production Management(24) Ratings
Centralized critical status information for production supervisors
- 7Configuration Management(22) Ratings
Capture and process customer configuration orders
- 8Work Execution(23) Ratings
Monitor procution status, manage work orders for standard and non-standard production, enforce tight controls on serialized products
- 8.7Manufacturing Costs(24) Ratings
Estimate, plan and monitor costs and variances by plant. Capture resource costs using standard, actual, LIFO, FIFO or multiple costing methods.
Supply Chain
Supply Chain Planning solution with capabilities for planning, performance monitoring, change responses and execution.
- 8.7Forecasting(30) Ratings
Statistically forecast based on historical patterns and sales input, monitor accuracy and estimate new demand
- 8.8Inventory Planning(33) Ratings
Establish projected inventory levels, monitor actual levels and compare with projected levels
- 7.9Performance Monitoring(26) Ratings
Analyze business metrics and compare actual performance to plans, identify issues, prioritize demands and respond to changes
Product Lifecycle Management
Product Lifecycle Management solution with capabilities for innovation management, product development
- 8.3Proposal Management(13) Ratings
Capture budget, resource, and benefit expectations for proposals
- 8.3Product Master Data Management(12) Ratings
Create, classify, and manage product items, BOMs and product changes
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(584)Attribute Ratings
- 8Likelihood to Renew10 ratings
- 3Availability2 ratings
- 6Performance2 ratings
- 6.2Usability4 ratings
- 6Support Rating3 ratings
- 4Online Training2 ratings
- 5In-Person Training1 rating
- 6.7Implementation Rating4 ratings
- 6Configurability1 rating
- 7.8Product Scalability2 ratings
- 6Ease of integration1 rating
- 4Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 6Vendor post-sale1 rating
Reviews
(51-75 of 93)Excellent financials which just works for us
- Intuitive user experience, great help available and can be added to for our processes.
- Handles huge number of journal lines.
- Quick and easy asset processes.
- Reporting is not modern, comprehensive capabilities but difficult to write extended reports, must write and count every position across the page otherwise columns are mis-displayed.
- User experience when uploading journals from spreadsheet is not good.
- The way in which reports and other concurrent jobs from the job queue are accessed is not user friendly.
Oracle eBusiness Suite insight
- In integration of external projects application with EBS
- Maintain the various work orders in the organization warehouses and detail the shift hours of the warehouse workers
- Oracle applications have helped in streamlining the SoW contract process of the service agreement
- Repository Contracts - Large data files if uploaded to database will clog the database tables. It would be better to have a mechanism to store large files outside the database.
- Services Procurement is not properly integrated to Projects and tasks. Heavy customization done in my experience to integrate projects & tasks with services procurement module while creating requisitions.
- XML Gateway is a module which does not support any new business standard namely Rosettanet for importing or exporting XML data. The only option is to opt for SOA-BPEL where there is a cost involved.
Large business and global presence suits eBusiness Suite implementation. For Small businesses eBusiness Suite will be overkill. Also, when the system changes are too frequent like in the eCommerce business or portal management with frequent changes, eBusiness Suite is not the right fit.
In environments where different departments have different logical and physical locations and operations, eBusiness Suite is the best fit.
- Data Security
- Integrated data across the end to end process
- Easy Extensibility through development
- Easy Integration with different systems
- User Interface needs to be upgraded to be more aligned with the newer Cloud software tools
- Speed at which large datasets are processed needs to be improved
- Real Time Data Analytics is a big hole in the available capabilities.
- Supplier Marketplace capabilities are seriously underpowered
Review of EBS
- Enforce good business practices and processes
- Automate processes that were previously manual
- Allow for a customized solution
- Quicker turnaround time on non P1 issues
- Improved enhancement request process
- Out of the box webservice options for integration requests
Systems Analyst's Review of Oracle eBusiness Suite
- Good integration between modules
- Has many standard features to enable our business processes
- Able to customize to serve different business needs most of the time
- Oracle support and big user groups are helpful on various issues and implementation
- The applications are huge and very complex in implementation
- Many times, customization is needed to satisfy the business process
- Patch installations and testing are always a challenge
- Year-end patches for HR and Payroll have a very tight timeline/schedule
Oracle eBusiness Reviews
- Workflow engine is pretty strong, which helps to get the approvals from right personnel
- Entire P2P is very well integrated
- We can keep and depreciate assets in one place
- Simplify Receivables. It is way too complex, especially the Customer screen
- Web Forms are very rigid to customize
- Too many issues with Tax
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- Increase efficiency and reduce operational cost
- Reduces cost
- Help a business make better decisions due to its efficacy
Oracle review
- Easy to find personnel with experience to implement, use, troubleshoot, or audit the financial system
- Flexibility in customization with a broad range of capabilities that allow worldwide usage
- End to end connectivity between the modules
- Some simple features that are critical do not come out of the box and you still need a developer or consultant
- Some areas like FSG reporting, standard reports, and WebADI are pretty old technology that essentially require additional add-ons to be functional
eBS Review
- Comprehensive modules for tracking regular GL transactions and sub-ledgers including fixed assets, employee expenses, P-card, and project costing.
- Good interface with eBS with their 'Approval Management Engine' feature. Enables complex workflow.
- Fairly stable
- It takes 1.5 - 2 years for bugs to be worked out of upgrades and new releases. They should do more comprehensive testing prior to release.
- Role-based access is clumsy and it is very difficult to identify/extract functionality/permissions provided by defined 'Responsibility'
- Data loads take a very long time. Appear to be inefficiently architected.
Simple but Effctive
- Integration of modules allowing hire to fire process flow and approvals.
- Allows customization to meet our specific business needs and not rely on Oracle to do coding.
- Allows robust reporting with OBIEE integration.
- Continued progress on integration of recruit & onboarding functions
- Improvement of advanced benefit functions
- Year-end W-2 creation and delivery
EBS: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- It enables us to close our books in a timely and accurate manner during monthly, quarterly, and year-end closings
- We can integrate our manufacturing operations with the financial components.
- Mobile applications enable the factory operations to directly communicate with eBusiness Suite
- The patching process never ends and takes a tremendous amount of time to perform testing. No matter how many patches we install, there is no end.
- The forms are archaic technology and should not be in this product in this day and age. HTML is the way.
Principal's Review of Oracle eBusiness Suite
- Financials, Mfg., HCM, "I" products like iExpense, iProcurement, Mobile Applications are great
- UI, removal of Java, going from OAF to old Forms
EBS Review
- Oracle Financials is one of the best products supporting wide range countries
- A very stabilized system with 20+ years of improvements
- Supports High availability, Large systems, different timezones
- Doesn't have a great look & feel but there is lot of improvements
- Migrating from professions forms is OAF is a good sign but OAF performance is lesser than forms
- Complicated in terms of integration with LDAP products for SSO
Oracle eBusiness Suite Review
- Legislative updates for payroll are regularly and quickly rolled out by Oracle to incorporate annual changes and are supported very well by Oracle.
- Self-Service functions are very user friendly and can easily be personalized/customized to meet requirements.
- Support is very good and bugs are fixed in a frequent and timely manner based on urgency.
- Enhancement requests are never implemented from what I have experienced.
- Error messages/codes are not always very meaningful.
- Customizations are not supported.
Trusty and flexible ERP System for large organizations
- Oracle EBS and SAP are main competitors for large Fortune 500 type clients. Oracle is better than SAP in terms of customizing or for non-standard businesses
- Flexfield is something specific to Oracle EBS and allows customization in variables
- Oracle owns PeopleSoft so migration from software like PeopleSoft to Oracle is easier
- Oracle tends to be cheaper to implement vs SAP out of the box
- User interface is still behind customer-based software like those by Google
- New and smaller ERP systems tend to have better automation and GUI
- Oracle EBS R12 still blends both webpage with Java interface from prior version
SAP is better suited for manufacturing companies (widget-in/widget-out companies). SAP is also more accounting friendly than Oracle to implement. Oracle EBS is stable, but its interface is archaic.
Works well for organization with low employment turn-over rate and primary full time salary employees
- Oracle EBS HR/Payroll module is a timeline based application that allows retro entry and edits, it fits true HR department use cases.
- Payroll functions are robust where it captures details for earning and deductions and offers flexibility of customizing how each earning and deduction should behave through formulas and rules.
- Application interface design, I felt it was built from a technical perspective. Interface content should shift focus to user-friendly design where titles, options, and settings should be more intuitive.
Recommended Global Enterprise Business Suite
- General Ledger transactional cost/expense management.
- GAAP and IFRS compliant.
- Support Major and Local ledgers for global consolidated reporting.
- Support of global languages and currencies.
- It should have adapters to support maintenance of Master Data from other Oracle apps such as Oracle Data Relationship Management for easier integration.
- It needs easier Login and Navigation into the product and less complication of the configuring of forms users must use to enter values.
- It needs to have full integration with Oracle Workspace that includes the Oracle GL module icon along with the other products based on subscriptions.
Best of breed ERP
- Modular based function, so we can choose to go basic for the first wave, or strike to the advanced function
- Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
- Server based application, hence every patch or update does not need updates on the client side.
- Less investment for IT resources and availability in the market is larger than competitor. Since it used PL/SQL programming language.
- Best of breed, since it combined advantages from products such as JDE, Peoplesoft, NetSuite, into Oracle EBS.
- Since the release of Oracle Fusion Cloud, the level of Oracle support is degrading. In some cases local support works better than theirs.
- Oracle EBS requires a stable network connection. It might not be an issue for developed countries, but will be for developing countries.
- It needs additional products such as BI or Qlikview for Dashboard analysis. These features were supposed to be standard "C" level requirements.
Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS): When is it a right choice for you?
- One system that does everything. Whether it's benefits or absence or payroll and day to day HRIS. This eliminates the need of maintaining the integrations and results in one flawlessly connected system.
- Privately hosted so that you have complete control of your data. This has been a key factor in purchasing EBS over cloud applications for many organisations for whom, managing data outside their premise is just not an option.
- EBS is not limited to HRMS and has brilliant Finance, Manufacturing, Projects, amongst other applications. Having them all from one vendor ensures uniform experience across different applications.
- Very outdated UI. If not for its capabilities, no one would probably ever consider using it.
- With the rise of Oracle Fusion applications, the future of EBS might be in danger.
- The costing is a big issue and is certainly not a good idea for mid size or small clients.
- The entire application is based on Java which at times could be extreamly frustrating becasue 'Java.null.pointer' errors are not fun to deal with.
- API integrations is not up to mark and can certainly be improved.
Oracle E Business Suite is effective
- Excellent reporting capabilities
- Very stable system
- User friendly
- Not cloud based
- Administration is complicated
- Use of Java is problematic
Oracle eBusiness Suite does it all
- Alerting mechanisms
- Cross product integration
- Oracle Support
- Ease of use
- Extensive documentation but no specific answers to known issues
- Sensitive in terms of upgrades, can cause a big mess
- Reporting could use some more customization functionality
A Complete Set of Business Tools Under One Roof
- The product excels at sales management and product services. Its CRM features were especially helpful for our organization.
- Oracle eBusiness Suite can help streamline business operations on many levels including employee management.
- Its CRM capabilities are advanced enough to address most small to mid size company needs.
- The financial tool set was more than robust for our needs and helped eliminate the needs for financial management applications.
- The product can be difficult to use by end users and those with limited experience with Oracle products.
- The interface could be improved to help streamline many types of operations such as financial reporting.
- The product continues to have issues with certain Web browsers when accessing its services through a web portal.
- The suite, like many Internet enabled applications, depends on a strong network connection. When working from a remote location with a problematic network connection, the product can be more challenging to use for end users.
EBS Review
- Oracle eBusiness suite's Advance Pricing has lot of powerful features. It offers great flexibility with qualifiers and modifiers and provides multi-level pricing.
- The product catalog also offers for combination of attributes to define a part. The versatile and robust item master provides ability to manage catalog with hundreds of thousands of parts.
- Invoicing is a strong feature of eBusiness suite. EBS AR offers ability to provide flexible invoicing rules to meet customer needs. While the default invoice presentation does not provide attractive templates, it can be supplemented with the integration with BI publisher.
- Service Contracts offers great ways to manage subscriptions. Ability to manage payments at the line level, attributes at the line level, ability to roll up details at the contract level are some of the great features.
- As I mentioned, bill presentment can be improved. In today's world, customers demand a lot and in this area, and EBS out of the box does not carry many capabilities.
- Credit and rebill is a bit rigid for its own reason. We offer features where the customers can request crediting of a line from invoice or credit and rebill the entire invoice at once. There are workaround ways to do it but it creates duplicate orders on OM .
Oracle E-Business Suite Procurement Contracts
- Has all MSA information for each vendor.
- Automatic invoicing for the vendor.
- Receipting for budgets and plug-ins with Allocadia to show actuals
- Having functionality to pull reports under a cost center, vendor and person who opens a requsition
- Having functionality to pull reports for invoicing and receipting
- While negotiating contracts for marketing and other support material that is needed.
- If it is a smaller vendor this is not the appropriate tool.
Oracle EBS
EBS runs our business from the shop floor to the financials.
- EBS financial modules work well for us.
- Order management is a breeze with EBS.
- Advanced Supply Chain Management keeps our supply chain moving and helps the planners and purchasing departments.
- Reporting could use work. We have to rely on third party reporting tools to get the reports we need.
- Lots of Java issues. Any Java update can cause issues for the users.
- Oracle support is not that supportive. Its a struggle to get a ticket resolved without a lot of time and patience.