Oracle ERP Cloud

Opmerkingen: We automated most of our processes and freed up our workforce to concentrate on innovative, value added services.
We pull out our month end, quarter end and year end reports from Oracle ERP. Oracle offers Business Intelligence software which is helps in analyzing the data and track the trends.
With Oracle ERP we reduced the process times drastically. Our workforce became more productive and efficient as they can find what they need quickly in Oracle ERP.
We Streamlined many processes using Oracle ERP. Automatic alerts were set up to intimate any unwarranted and suspicious activities.
Role based access control was implemented so that the workforce has access to information on what they need to have.
Segregation of duties can also be enforced to comply with SOX compliance.
Oracle ERP helped us in satisfying many regulator and fiduciary obligations.

Pluspunten: The depth of modules oracle offers is staggering. Apart from standard modules like General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management, Human Resources, Payroll etc.Oracle offers niche modules too.
One may be in any business or industry, oracle may have a specific module which caters to your business or industry.
To give examples, to manage warranties on products, oracle has a module called Oracle Service Contracts which provides a complete contract authoring and execution
solution to manage warranties and extended warranties, usage and subscription
based services, as well as complex service agreements.
Similarly Oracle offers a module called Governance Risk and Compliance which deals with SOX compliance etc and very useful for both internal and external Auditors.
With the acquisition of Sun Micro Systems, Oracle is into hardware too apart from applications and database software. One may negotiate a good deal if all of them are
bundled together.
There is no dearth of talent which specialize on Oracle ERP. There are many companies, independent consultants, who offer implementation ,maintenance, upgrade and support services at various price points.
Oracle ERP is in existence since long and over a period of time Oracle mastered many best practices across industries.
In a nut shell Oracle ERP offers a gamut of modules catering to various industries. It is scalable and tightly integrated.

Minpunten: The customer service at Oracle can be improved. Working with Oracle Support is a pain. The module like Oracle iProcurement which touches many end users can be made more user friendly. The Oracle Java forms can be made compatible with all the browsers. Currently chrome browser does not work well with Oracle.

Opmerkingen: We use the Oracle ERP Procurement solutions to manage orders and goods in our organization. Although the UI can be cumbersome, it is a great tool on the back end to manage procurement and services for a large organization. It greatly simplifies the chain of escalating approvals and can establish a trail for audit record keeping. With further training, the system becomes easy to use and actually can speed up services because you are not waiting for someone to batch approve orders.

Pluspunten: Although for me it is cumbersome to use, my friends in management and finance say that it is a lifesaver for them in organizing expenses and following chain of command, especially for financial approval of large purchases. It allows for tracking of approvals through to the highest level of mangement which automates the process. Before, we were having managers manually go through each list and approve each individual item; with this, they are able to automate the approval process and integrate that with our vendors to make purchasing more streamlined and to keep strong records for audit purposes.

Minpunten: It is not very intuitive to use. Oracle training for procurement had to be given multiple times at our institution so that people could try out the software and subsequently ask questions about what each form and button actually does. It's certainly not the most user friendly interface, and many people have asked me if their orders are actually in the system because they can't find the order after they approved it.

Pluspunten: The dynamic nature of this product makes it a great option for the small and medium enterprises. IT provides the kind of features that were beyond the imagination of a conventional ERP user. The enhanced features like DaaS make this product even more attractive. I also love the alerts functionality!

Minpunten: As long as the programs are completing fine there really seems to be no issue, however in case if there is any issue there seems to be no way to get any comprehensive log. This makes things difficult to debug and to resolve the issue. Not everything sales smooth always!

Opmerkingen: Working for project management we used this for streamlining of processes project wise.

Pluspunten: The best features for the ERP cloud is that storage is very easy and in departments like Project Management multiple people can have access and simultaneously work on the data. Also the interface is user friendly and a lot of support from the Oracle team during implementation phase.

Minpunten: Just the regular java updates it requires and if some entry is made wrong you need to redo the entire work which becomes difficult in projects as there are lot of bill of materials and project schedules.

Opmerkingen: Pretty big program but has its benefits most of all saving things to the cloud for easy access anywhere.

Pluspunten: I love that all parties can access job information in one convenient place. Made transfer of data seamless and quick.

Minpunten: For some reason the web based solution for this would crash often. Seemed to work better toward the end of the job bu I liked the program a lot.