EBS: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
January 25, 2018

EBS: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle eBusiness Suite

It is being used across our entire organization, worldwide. It provides us with an integrated platform to handle financial transactions, manufacturing, shipping, demand management, and human resources. We have integrated it with our BI and GRCC systems (both ORACLE products). The software enables us to meet all of our business requirements on one platform.
  • 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.
  • The tremendous amount of testing and time by the technical folks has a negative impact.
  • We find we need a tremendous amount of customization within the standard functionality having a negative impact.
  • Oracle certifications of related products such as the database, Demantra, JRE cause disruption having a negative impact
Well suited for very large companies (the on-premise version). I would not recommend the on-premise implementation for small or newly formed companies. It is too complex to manage and expensive to hire the people to maintain it. Most companies, once they start the E-Business Street route, never come off it. It is not a decision to be taken lightly.

Oracle E-Business Suite Feature Ratings

Accounts payable
8
Accounts receivable
8
Global Financial Support
8
Primary and Secondary Ledgers
8
Journals and Reconciliations
9
Configurable Accounting
4
Standardized Processes
6
Billing Management
Not Rated
Cash and Asset Management
6
Travel & Expense Management
Not Rated
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
8
Period Close
8
Inventory tracking
9
Automatic reordering
Not Rated
Location management
8
Pricing
8
Order entry
8
Credit card processing
3
Cost of goods sold
8
Order Orchestration
8
Pay calculation
7
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Dashboards
Not Rated
Standard reports
7
Custom reports
7
API for custom integration
9
Plug-ins
8
Role-based user permissions
5
Single sign-on capability
Not Rated
Award Lifecycle Management
Not Rated
Budgeting and Forecasting
Not Rated
Project Costing
7
Cost Capture
Not Rated
Capital Project Management
Not Rated
Customer Contract Compliance
Not Rated
Project Revenue Recognition
8
Project Planning and Scheduling
5
Task Insight for Project Managers
Not Rated
Project Mobile Functionality
2
Definable Resource Pools
Not Rated
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
Not Rated
Supplier Management
7
Transportation Planning and Optimization
7
Transportation Execution Management
7
Trade and Customs Management
Not Rated
Fulfillment Management
Not Rated
Warehouse Workforce Management
5
Production Process Design
8
Production Management
8
Configuration Management
7
Manufacturing Costs
8
Forecasting
7
Inventory Planning
7
Performance Monitoring
3
Proposal Management
Not Rated
Product Master Data Management
Not Rated