Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS): When is it a right choice for you?
November 07, 2017
Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS): When is it a right choice for you?
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We've implemented eBusiness Suit for a variety of clients in healthcare and public sector industries where it was primarily used as HRIS system covering the Benefits, Time & Labor, Absence Management and most importantly, payroll. The biggest problem it has addressed is the fragmentation of systems. All of the clients who are now using it had a major concern about having to use multiple systems for different aspects of HR which is now successfully eliminated since Oracle EBS does everything for them.
- 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- Very outdated UI.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.
- EBS' capability to act as one-stop solution for any and every aspect of organisation's operations is certainly a good thing for ROI.
- You'll need the right consultants and experts to implement the system correctly and it is a lengthy and very very expensive process.
- Be prepared to have a dedicated IT team to take care of infrastructure or manage day to day issues. This part is quite a headache for lot of midsized companies.
- The Employee Group is certainly more happy and productive with introduction of self-service because they no longer have to rely on reaching out to HRs for every single thing. The HR Group have to worry less about day to day HR transactions and approving them since most of it is automated by Oracle. The leadership has access to greater insights and reports because of Oracle's BI capabilities.
PeopleSoft and SAP HR are the closest alternatives that can be considered for Oracle EBS. But Oracle EBS became the final choice purely because of the fact that Oracle offers the flexibility of having a single vendor and application to take care of each aspect of business and is relatively cheaper to maintain and implemented than SAP.