Oracle JD Edwards vs Oracle E Business Suite vs Oracle ERP Cloud

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 destop users including a simplied 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 taes advance of Oracle Endeca nformation +iscovery to help pro*ect managers mae 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 maing. 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 2ualication 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 simplied 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 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 mae 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 specic 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 prots.  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 7O%8. 0+ Edwards is also maing 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 maing.

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 proect 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!