Oracle JD Edwards vs Oracle E business Suite vs Oracle ERP cloud ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE Oracle has continued to deliver enhancements and new products to E-Business Suite, maintaining its position as a leader in the Matrix based on improvements in both usability and functionality. n October, Oracle announced the release of !" new mobile applications for E-Business Suite that are compatible with E-Business Suite !#.!.$ and !#.#. %hose applications include& Mobile 'pprovals, Expenses, %imecards, and i(rocurement, applicable to all employees. )ine of business applications including Mobile Sales Orders, nventory, (roduct nformation, (rocurement, (ro*ect Manager, +iscrete (roduction Supervisor, (rocess (roduction Supervisor, (ro*ect Manufacturing, Maintenance, and ield Service. n 'ugust, Oracle announced E-Business Suite !#.#.", with incremental enhancements across the application suite including nancials, human capital management, procurement, pro*ects, and supply chain management. %he release also included usability advancements for both tablet and destop users including a simplied home page and optimi/ations for tablet form factors. n 0uly, Oracle announced Oracle (ro*ect (rocurement, part of the E-Business Suite (ro*ect (ortfolio Management suite of applications, with an in-memory visuali/ation layer that taes advance of Oracle Endeca nformation +iscovery to help pro*ect managers mae faster decisions and teams to better collaborate and coordinate pro*ect-related procurement planning. Oracle also announced four Oracle EBusiness Suite extensions for Oracle Endeca& 1uality Extensions for analy/ing product and process 2uality data within E-Business Suite, %eleService Extensions for monitoring service re2uests and improve service-related resource planning, Service 3ontracts Extensions to support the management of contract renewals while leveraging performance metrics and customer experience, and 4uman 5esources Extensions to drive more actionable information in real time within Oracle E-Business Suite6s human capital management 743M8 module. n 'pril, Oracle announced n-Memory 3ost Management, designed to enable near real-time insights into cost management components in E-Business Suite so users can perform what-if simulations on large data sets for decision maing. ORACLE ERP CLOUD Oracle E5( 3loud includes Oracle inancials 3loud, Oracle (rocurement 3loud, and Oracle (ro*ect (ortfolio Management 3loud. Oracle E5( 3loud 5elease 9, announced in September, included expanded industry and country coverage and enhanced mobile access capabilities. :ew products included accounting hub reporting, supplier 2ualication management, and grants management. 'ddition enhancements to the E5( 3loud modules included& Budgetary control and encumbrance accounting for public sector and higher education.
or inancials 3loud, a simplied mobile interface integrated with Oracle Social :etwor to support better team collaboration and nancial reporting and expanded global features including support for cross-currency payments, legal entity-based se2uencing, centrali/ed payments and receipts across business units, %ax Box 'llocations for ;'% declarations, and integration between inancials 3loud and Oracle 3(1 3loud and
or (rocurement 3loud, new features including local punchout, new self-service supplier registration re2uest, and supplier import and update enhancements.
or ((M 3loud, new features including budgetary control, pro*ect execution capabilities, resumebased searches for resource matching, a new integration with Oracle usion nnovation Management and related enhancements for companies using 'gile development processes, enhanced mobile and social capabilities, and enhancements in reporting and analytics. Oracle has also announced extension of the 3ustomer # 3loud program to help existing Oracle E5( customers more easily move to Oracle E5( 3loud. ORACLE JD EDWARDS Oracle 0+ Edwards maintains its position as a leader in the Matrix based on Oracle6s existing and ongoing investments in usability and functionality that have continued to gain 0+ Edwards new customer wins and customer upgrades. n its ongoing analysis of 0+ Edwards customers, :ucleus has found an acceleration of upgrades as customers see to tae advantage of the latest product innovations. 5ecent investments brought to bear for 0+ Edwards customers since publication of the last Matrix include& ' broader mobile application portfolio. %o date, 0+ Edwards has delivered => mobile applications including applications for eld service, maintenance, pro*ect management, supply chain, and health and safety incident management.
urther leverage of Oracle6s n-Memory investments. n 'pril, Oracle announced 0+ Edwards EnterpriseOne n-Memory (lanning 'dvisor, to enable manufacturing and distribution customers to help planners and buyers mae critical sourcing decisions while analy/ing thousands of S?@s and components in real time.
ndustry enhancements. 0+ Edwards continued to invest in features for specic industries to drive faster time to value and support for best practices. 5ecent enhancements include additions to capabilities in its oil, gas, and chemical distribution solutions and enhanced One ;iew 5eporting for management of warehouses, real estate, and bul stoc inventory. 'dditionally, in October Oracle announced& 0+ Edwards EnterpriseOne 5ental Management for 0+ Edwards customers who are in the business of renting e2uipment, to enable them to manage e2uipment and rental inventory while controlling costs and maximi/ing utili/ation to improve prots. 0+ Edwards EnterpriseOne Blend and nventory systems enhancements with Aine on (remises Operations 5eporting, which generates the summary of daily records that a winery is responsible to eep, enabling %he 'lcohol and %obacco %ax and %rade Bureau to verify the accuracy of on-premises inventory and the winery to prepare tax returns and monthly reports.
nternet of things 7O%8. 0+ Edwards is also maing investments with its customers and partners to drive adoption of O% technologies to increase the volume and currency of data to drive better, faster decision maing.
ntegration and interoperability. Business nterfaces for Oracle %alent 3loud 7%aleo8, also announced in October, support interoperability between 0+ Edwards EnterpriseOne 4uman 5esources and Oracle6s %aleo 5ecruiting and %alent 3loud. %he interfaces include 45 5e2uisition data and 45 Employee Master data. Oracle also announced a new standard for business services integration 0'-AS 70ava '( for M) Aeb Services8, which will replace the previous standard 70'-5(38, re2uiring customers using 0'-5(3 to review and modify their customi/ations to adapt to the new 0'-AS versions 7changes will be re2uired by 5elease 9.#8.
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65 percent of Oracle E-Business Suite customers achieved a positive return on investment after an average deployment time of !" years! #ucleus estimated that more than $% percent of Oracle applications customers could e&pect a positive RO' within ( years! 4 percent of SAP customers had achieved a positive return on investment after an average deployment time of )!* years! #ucleus was not able to estimate an e&pected paybac+ period for S,P because many companies had no clear e&pectations of when they would achieve a positive RO' and the e&pected paybac+ period could not be proect based on current reali.ation of benefits!
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$E! POINTS Co%t% C Oracle3s average costs were 0* percent lower than S,P3s! C Oracle3s median costs were )$ percent lower than S,P3s! C Oracle3s average -year /4O was 0*5 lowe r than S,P3s!
