Oracle has announced new updates to its E-Business Suite (EBS) which includes changes to support timelines. On the surface, the updates may seem like positive enhancements, but the real question is: are they simply minor, routine upgrades disguised as continuous innovation?
For organizations relying on Oracle EBS, understanding these updates is critical. Changes to support timelines could impact your long-term IT strategy and your ability to invest in modernization initiatives. While the latest EBS 12.2.14 release introduces new features upgrading may not equate to the business value you’d expect.
In this blog, we break down 3 recent Oracle EBS updates, their potential implications for your business and how you can maintain flexibility and control over your IT strategy moving forward.
Real Innovation or Minor Bug Fixes and Enhancements?
In September 2024, Oracle released EBS 12.2.14, touting enhancements in reporting dashboards, integration and mobility.1 However, most of these updates focus on minor bug fixes, UI adjustments and integration updates, which offer little in the way of groundbreaking functionality. While Oracle frames these updates as innovation, the cost doesn’t necessarily equate to business value. Many of the enhancements prioritize better integration between Oracle’s own products rather than providing truly open, flexible solutions to give customers the freedom to innovate with best-of-breed technologies.
Organizations who want to achieve meaningful innovation while regaining flexibility to choose best-of-breed solutions should take a look at Rimini Street’s ServiceNow partnership which delivers a new strategic model for enterprise software to unlock value in existing systems for net-new innovation, digital growth and scale.
Longer EBS Support Timeline or Longer Timeline to Drain Your Budget?
Oracle announced an extension to Premier Support for EBS 12.2.14 timeline through 2035.2 On the surface, this might seem like a win for customers, but ROI calculations prove otherwise.
With each extension, Oracle customers face a familiar reality: higher costs with diminishing returns. The increasing price of support and potential upgrades forces organizations to spend more on a product that continues to see minimal improvements.
Oracle’s real focus is on its cloud applications, leaving on-premises EBS customers with maintenance-heavy, innovation-light roadmaps. The result? Businesses paying a premium for updates that do little to help them stay competitive.
Rimini Street can help you cut your support costs for your current Oracle EBS releases, allowing you to extend the life of your EBS products and free up resources to accelerate innovation. We can also support your customizations at no additional charge, which means fewer disruptions, faster resolutions and support that works for your business reality.
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The 3-Year Support Gap: Where Does Your Oracle Database Fall?
Oracle has extended support for EBS 12.2 through 2035, but there’s a critical gap: Oracle Database 19c, the only certified database for EBS 12.2, is only supported through 20323.
Oracle has yet to provide any roadmap for database support beyond 2032, leaving organizations potentially facing years without essential bug fixes, security patches and regulatory updates in the final years of their EBS support window. This in turn could make them more vulnerable to cyber threats, potential data breaches and regulatory penalties. Paying for Oracle support does not equate to full protection, and believing it does, are funding a support model that leaves them exposed.
Rimini Street’s proactive security solutions ensure full protection for both databases and applications without the need for patches or upgrades, extending the life of your Oracle investments while eliminating the uncertainty of Oracle’s roadmap.
With the right strategy and proactive partner, you can maximize the potential of both your database and applications today while maintaining the security, compliance and flexibility needed to drive long-term business success.
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A Future-forward Oracle EBS Strategy with Rimini Street
At Rimini Street, we help you look beyond continuous upgrades and costly migrations. Staying competitive means having a clear, cost-effective Oracle EBS strategy that works for your business.
As your partner, we strategize and map out a five-year plan that reduces unnecessary spend, extends the life of your current Oracle EBS applications and frees up resources to invest in modernization and innovation. Our clients routinely reduce their Oracle EBS support costs by up to 90%, gaining financial flexibility while keeping mission-critical systems running smoothly.
With Rimini Street’s expertise and commitment to service, “We now have a more agile partner supporting the stable operation of our mission-critical enterprise software in the cloud – all under a single roof. This move has provided us with even more efficiencies than we were experiencing previously, and it has freed up the team to focus on other more pressing business projects.”
– Park Sung-Yeon, ERP IT Team Leader at Korean Air
Your EBS environment should work for you, not the other way around. Now is the time to explore strategies that optimize, transform and future-proof your IT investments.
What are you waiting for?
To learn more, explore Rimini Street’s integrated software services for Oracle E-Business Suite.
1 Oracle – Announcing Oracle Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.14
2 Oracle – EBS 12.2 Premier Support Extended Through At Least 2035
