Oracle - Best of breed Database
September 29, 2017
Oracle - Best of breed Database
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Database
We use Oracle as our corporate database. Among the applications that store information in Oracle we have Oracle eBusiness Suite (our ERP, with several modules implemented), HFM, and several mission critical systems related to agri-business.
- Performance. Oracle is really fast at solving queries with high volume. For us, it behaves quite well including during peaks of processing like period closing or with very demanding processes (such as Project Account module or the calculation of absorption costing in Brazil).
- Scalability. We have been growing both in user number and in services that run in Oracle, and Oracle Database allowed us to accompany this grow.
- Security. As a SOX compliant company, we are obliged to accomplish with a lot of requirements, such as generating and keeping audit trails, ensure the proper segregation of duties and permits, etc. With Oracle we were we have been able to comply with all the requirements that our auditor demands.
- We are not a really heavy user of Oracle database, and there are a lot of features that we never even tried.
- Perhaps Oracle should provide better free tools to monitor the database. We are using a third party tool.
- As I said before, Oracle really allowed us to keep pace with the rapid growth we have been having in recent years. And to also accomplish the increasing demands in security and audit issues. So the impact for us was really positive.
Most of our mission-critical applications run on Oracle. The decision to buy Oracle database was reinforced by the decision to implement eBusiness Suite. However, when we were in the comparison between EBS and SAP, we were already thinking about the Oracle database whoever was the winner.