Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is Oracle's long-running ERP suite, built on Oracle Database and run on-premises or hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It is not a native SaaS product. Release 12.2 is the long-term support release and gets cumulative update packs, the latest being 12.2.15. The financials family has more than 50 product guides. They cover General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, Payables, Payments, Receivables, iReceivables, Cash Management, Treasury, Assets, Internet Expenses, E-Business Tax, Advanced Global Intercompany, Advanced Collections, Credit Management and Lease and Finance Management, plus US Federal and public sector financials and country localizations for India, Europe, Asia/Pacific and the Americas. Payroll comes through the HRMS family. EBS suits large enterprises and public bodies that already run Oracle, often with heavy customizations. Third-party analysts place its typical customer between 251 and more than 10,000 employees. Licensing is perpetual, and each module is licensed separately, usually per Application User or per Processor. Annual support costs about 22% of the net license value. Oracle publishes no prices on its website. Third-party benchmarks put the Financials list price at about 4,595 to 5,800 USD per user, before discounts. Integration options include the Vertex and Taxware tax engines, Web ADI spreadsheet uploads, EDI and XML invoice intake, and the iSupplier self-service portal. The main limitation is that Oracle now puts net-new innovation into Fusion Cloud ERP. EBS gets maintenance updates and incremental features such as Enterprise Command Center dashboards. Reviewers describe the interface as dated, and implementation, infrastructure and DBA staffing make total cost of ownership high.