We performed a comparison between IFS Cloud Platform and Oracle E-Business Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Field Service Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is quite flexible."
"The workflow of the solution is very good."
"IFS Applications is an all-in-one solution for finance, accounting, and production."
"Some of the strengths are Enterprise Management Solutions and the series of Management solutions which is number one in Gartner's report and has been for the last five years."
"IFS Applications' best feature is the user-friendly interface that has a .NET Framework application in the front end and an Oracle database and WebLogic middleware."
"The most valuable features of IFS Applications are their intuitiveness and ease of use. The navigations are also straightforward, which makes it easy to train users. The feedback I always receive is that it is very user-friendly."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine or ten out of ten since it is an extremely scalable solution that can be used for various use cases with thousands of users."
"The most valuable feature is the distribution module."
"The system is reliable and the backbone of financial and other core systems in many organizations worldwide."
"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."
"This software scales very well across various implementations."
"The new Subledger Accounting feature is very strong."
"Valuable features include Ledger and Subsidiary, Operating Unit, and Inventory Organization and Location."
"E-Business Suite's best features are BAT functionality, flexibility, configurability, and integration with Oracle Database."
"The most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle E-Business Suite is the customization."
"The support provided by IFS Applications has room for improvement. I'm based in Poland, and when my company had an issue, finding people from IFS to give my company the support it needed was difficult."
"Aspects of HR and payroll could be better."
"The solution's initial setup process was complex...The technical support my company receives from the implementation partners of the solution is not that great."
"The next version has already been released, and some of the technical things are a little bit behind the curve in development. This is specifically security, maintenance, security role maintenance, and creation. This is in their new product, called IFS Cloud."
"Customization needs to be improved."
"It would be ideal if, in the future, the product could incorporate IoT and blockchain elements. We'd like to explore more of these types of features going forward."
"IFS Applications is not robust enough to handle high-volume transactions, so it's not suitable for larger enterprises."
"The CRM was shaky and although this improves in Apps 10, there is room for improvement."
"I would like an end-to-end in terms of processes. There are different modules, however, there's not that end-to-end that we are looking for in terms of process automation."
"Oracle is easy to implement at a new organization like ours, but it might be more challenging for an established organization with more rules and policies in place."
"They should include database functionality."
"The on-premises version of this solution can be difficult to expand, compared to its cloud version. The on-premises version is also more limited, versus the cloud version that has a lot of improvements. Maintaining this solution is also too costly."
"There are always some bugs and missing patches."
"The initial setup is complex."
"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."
"Sometimes I have issues with the performance tuning."
IFS Cloud Platform is ranked 2nd in Field Service Management with 29 reviews while Oracle E-Business Suite is ranked 1st in Field Service Management with 141 reviews. IFS Cloud Platform is rated 7.8, while Oracle E-Business Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IFS Cloud Platform writes "Robust, customizable, and modern". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle E-Business Suite writes "Offers valuable finance tools". IFS Cloud Platform is most compared with SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, IBM Maximo and ServiceNow, whereas Oracle E-Business Suite is most compared with Oracle HCM Cloud, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP, NetSuite ERP and Microsoft Dynamics GP. See our IFS Cloud Platform vs. Oracle E-Business Suite report.
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