Best of breed ERP
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle eBusiness Suite
Oracle EBS is very suitable for a company who is facing difficulty with a separated database, disorganized organization, lack of knowledge in business practice and having vision as a public listed company. Oracle EBS provides modular functions that a company can select which function they consider as top priority. Companies can choose to have Financial & SCM clouds as their back office, Salesforce.com for marketing and an on-premise solution for their manufacturing execution. Nevertheless, choosing the right product is always a good investment for the company
- 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.
- The 1st year will always be the big investment. You need to pay license fees for the Implementation, invest on hardware, train your users, while it takes 6-9 month implementation. So basically you only benefit from ERP for 3-6 months.
- After the 1st year, you will need to pay ATS. Roughly around 22% from the license price.
- And finally on the 5th year, you might want to consider expanding your server or perhaps upgrade to the next version.
NetSuite is suitable if you only need a simple Financial & SCM application. The license investment is also not as big as Oracle EBS. You also get transactional business intelligence, embedded within the product.
You might also want to consider SAP, if you see it is better to follow the system business practices, instead of customizing your ERP to suit your business uniqueness.
You might also want to consider SAP, if you see it is better to follow the system business practices, instead of customizing your ERP to suit your business uniqueness.