Oracle Cloud or Oracle EBS?

Often there is a question going on not only in the confines of the boardrooms but also, in general ,in the enterprise level conversations since, the cloud race has begun between the technology behemoths.

To Migrate to Cloud or to stay on premise with your data?

The general word of mouth in the market is that On-Premise application is suitable for large Businesses who wants to have a dedicated data center to cater to their Enterprise needs and flexible enough to do customization on top of it. Since the hardware is restricted to the company usage, it is also suitable for Organizations with multiple applications and complex workloads. The drawback here is about expanding the Server capabilities on an On-Premise system when there is a need to expand the Business capabilities

Compared to this, Cloud applications would be scalable according to your varied business demands. But the control over data would be limited as it would be maintained by the Vendor or a 3rd party. On the Public Cloud the Customers data storage resources would be shared with others in the provider's network, this would not be the case in a Private Cloud though.

Costs: Hardware

• Oracle ERP Cloud: Monthly Subscription
• Oracle EBS R12: Investment to be done by Customer

Costs: Operations

• Oracle ERP Cloud: Monthly Subscription
• Oracle EBS R12: Investment to be done by Customer

Costs: Implementation

• Oracle ERP Cloud: Less Implementation costs and shorter implementation cycle
• Oracle EBS R12: High Implementation Costs and longer implementation cycle

Data Security

• Oracle ERP Cloud: Standard cloud based storage provided by Oracle along its maintenance.
• Oracle EBS R12: Control over data and security with own database with on premise

Enterprise Solutions

• Oracle ERP Cloud: Best of breed ,combined from all products of Oracle
• Oracle EBS R12: Proven enterprise solutions

User Friendliness

• Oracle ERP Cloud: High, gives the look and feel of a website
• Oracle EBS R12: Relatively less

Scope of customization

• Oracle ERP Cloud: Restricted, would require change request at additional cost
• Oracle EBS R12: Flexible

Architecture

• Oracle ERP Cloud: Built on a service-oriented architecture and SaaS model.
• Oracle EBS R12: Built on Oracle Applications Architecture

Workflow

• Oracle ERP Cloud: BPEL(Business Process Execution Language)
• Oracle EBS R12: PL-SQL

New Offerings as part of Oracle ERP Cloud

•      Process Monitoring: Exceptions are proactively presented to the users and they no longer must search for problems. It’s also easier to manage and resolve these exceptions.

•      Multi-Dimensional Reporting: Oracle ERP Cloud Apps give you secure, self-service access to live reports based on your data. There is also embedded business intelligence within the cloud applications.

•      Ad Hoc Queries in Excel: Using the Smart View tool from Hyperion which is built you can use an Excel spreadsheet to develop reports based on live data from your applications.

Integrated Analytics

•      Oracle Cloud applications excel at pulling important data together from a wide range of sources and helping your decision-makers make sense of it all, using an intuitive analytics dashboard.

Conclusion

Cloud adaption is still low among organisations but is expected to change as cloud enthusiasts question the sustainability for on premise applications.