Compare IFS Applications vs. Oracle E-Business Suite
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The product is quite flexible. The main reason for the ERP project was to bring together our fourteen sites, which had until then worked in separate silos. | Their great technical support is one of the most valuable features. The solution has other core processes that can be implemented with customers according to their needs. The order management is excellent. Great finance modules and customization. When correctly configured, this is a very stable solution. We have customers running their process automation manufacturing based off of this solution. This software scales very well across various implementations. EBS has lots of application families and lots of features. It is modular in deployment and flexible enough to let the customer increase the built-in capabilities and enable new applications when needed. These are very important things at hand in case there will be a need to expand the product capabilities and/or implement new projects. It provides a well-centered database that is feature rich. |
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The user interface can be improved. When you're clicking through the screens, there are some icons or symbols that really need updating and would be more useful and noticeable if they are aesthetically pleasing. The CRM was shaky and although this improves in Apps 10, there is room for improvement. | It should be made a little bit more user friendly. When I complete my implementation and hand it over to the clients or the person who will operate it on a day-to-day basis, they find it a little bit difficult because they are not from a highly qualified IT background. I want Oracle to make it a little bit more user friendly. It's difficult for some customers to understand in the beginning. A user really has to understand the processes. I would say the integration needs improvement. Oracle needs to work on the integration layer to make the solution much more robust and modern. Not user friendly. One issue with the product is because it build on a lot of older technologies, there is a substantial technical debt in the system. Administration takes some effort. Administrating the technology stack is not so complex but application aware database administration and following the new methodologies like online patching can be a little complex and time consuming. Oracle should ease the administrators jobs and do some innovation on this administration area as well. Oracle Autonomous Database is Oracle's leading technology these days. Using a similar approach, application stack may become a little more self-managing. The UI interface is not great. The user interface is not completely a web interface, it uses a lot of traffic which costs too much for a large number of users scattered throughout the country as they connect from their terminals to do their tasks. |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
Information Not Available | USD $100,000 annually. Licensing and costing of Oracle EBS is very complex. We recommend to use a system integrator during the negotiation process since Oracle sales representatives sometime do not know the actual minimum requirements and may oversell the necessary licenses through ignorance. At our various customers, the software tends to pay for itself in less than two years. In order to minimize the implementation and consultancy costs, business lines should have proper definitions. They need to have a proper way of retrieving their data, which should be structured well. Both the current projects and future projects should be defined well. Licensing should be done according to current and near future plans. The pricing is high. It costs too much. |
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Also Known As | |
| Oracle EBS, OEBS | |
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Overview | |
IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with commitment to our customers, has made us a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 3,500 employees supports more than 10,000 customers worldwide from a network of local offices and through our growing ecosystem of partners. For more information, visit: IFSworld.com | Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that enable organizations to make better decisions, reduce costs, and increase performance. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Saab Aerospace, Teledyne Technologies, Gables Engineering, Chief Industries, Linamar, Valmont, Hecla Mining, CDF Corporation, Shawcor Ltd, Richardson International, Rowan Companies | Colab, Portobello, Saudi Telecom Company, DG Khan Cement, Dubai Holding |
Top Industries | |
Computer Software Company44% Comms Service Provider13% Manufacturing Company9% Media Company5% | Comms Service Provider12% Local Government10% Financial Services Firm8% Pharma/Biotech Company7% Computer Software Company52% Comms Service Provider9% Media Company6% Financial Services Firm5% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, SAP, IFS and others in ERP. Updated: July 2020.
431,670 professionals have used our research since 2012.
IFS Applications is ranked 6th in ERP with 2 reviews while Oracle E-Business Suite is ranked 1st in ERP with 11 reviews. IFS Applications is rated 9.0, while Oracle E-Business Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IFS Applications writes "Realized benefits in reporting and overall communication after consolidating our sites". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle E-Business Suite writes "Highly scalable: Supports scale-out architecture". IFS Applications is most compared with SAP ERP, IBM Maximo, Microsoft Dynamics AX, SAP S4HANA and Microsoft Dynamics NAV, whereas Oracle E-Business Suite is most compared with Oracle ERP Cloud, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, PeopleSoft, SAP ERP and Workday.
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