Know exactly where your EBS stands
A structured technical and functional review of your Oracle E-Business Suite environment, benchmarked against Oracle best practice — before a gap becomes an incident. Understand precisely what needs to be fixed, and what can wait.
An audit-grade view of your environment
Our review is structured the way a formal EBS assessment should be — covering every layer that a serious buyer, and a serious auditor, would expect to see examined.
Functional configuration
Module-by-module review against Oracle-recommended setup and process best practice for the modules your business actually runs on.
Technical architecture
Database, WebLogic and application tiers, patching currency, and disaster recovery posture — benchmarked against Oracle's own guidance.
Customisation & CEMLI inventory
A full catalogue of custom reports, interfaces, conversions, extensions, and workflow — each rated for risk and technical debt.
Integration health
Middleware reliability, data flow, error handling, and integration architecture across every system EBS talks to.
Data quality & integrity
Transactional integrity, archiving practice, and reconciliation evidence across financial and operational records.
Licensing & TCO
A clear view of your current licence position and total cost of ownership, so spend matches actual usage.
Organisational readiness
Staffing, skills, documentation, and knowledge-transfer quality for ongoing support of the environment.
Controls & change governance
Access management, segregation of duties, and change control across the instance landscape — Dev, QA, UAT, and Pre-Prod — reviewed for audit readiness.
AI & GenAI readiness
Whether CEMLI documentation, patch currency, and integrations are clean enough to safely adopt Oracle's AI and agentic capabilities.
Module-by-module functional review
Technical health is only half the picture. We also review the modules your business actually runs on, module by module — not a generic pass over “functional configuration”.
General Ledger
Chart of accounts structure, period close timing, consolidation and reporting hierarchies, FSG report accuracy.
Accounts Payable
Invoice approval workflows, payment terms configuration, supplier data quality, three-way match exceptions.
Accounts Receivable
Customer credit management, autoinvoice error rates, collections workflow configuration, revenue recognition setup.
Fixed Assets
Depreciation method configuration, asset category setup, reconciliation between FA and GL, mass addition backlogs.
Cash Management
Bank statement reconciliation automation, bank account structure, cash forecasting configuration.
Human Capital Management
Legislative and patch currency, payroll configuration, self-service adoption, organisation structure alignment.
Every module reviewed is cross-referenced against segregation-of-duties rules and the customisation inventory — so a finding in Accounts Payable, for example, is checked for downstream impact on the General Ledger and audit controls, not reported in isolation.
Our approach
Kickoff
Align on scope, goals, and timeline with your team.
Discovery
Read-only diagnostic scripts gather infrastructure, security, and configuration data.
Review
Consultants walk through business process coverage and customisations with your stakeholders.
Analysis
Findings are benchmarked against Oracle best practice and categorised by severity, business stream, and impact.
Report & walkthrough
You receive the written report and a live session to review findings and priorities.
Delivery is primarily remote, with a short on-site period for the Review stage where face-to-face access to stakeholders speeds things up. This is an assessment, not a remediation engagement — we observe, analyse, and recommend, and won't change configuration, apply patches, or modify data without your separate, written instruction.
Severity and business impact, not just a traffic light
Every finding is evidence-based — tied to a specific configuration extract, log entry, or documented observation — and scored against a consistent rubric. Each one is also tagged to the business stream it affects, so priority reflects the value at risk, not just the technical severity.
| Severity | Business impact | Typical resolution time |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | Plausible path to data loss, breach, or outage within weeks | Days, often outside the normal change window |
| High | Clear business impact — financial, compliance, or operational — but not actively failing today | Within the current patch or sprint cycle |
| Medium | Configuration or process gap worth fixing as part of planned, scheduled work | Next scheduled maintenance window |
| Low | Minor deviation from best practice with limited impact on its own | Tracked and reviewed quarterly |
A clear, actionable report
At the end of the engagement you receive a written report that documents every finding, categorised by severity, business stream, and business impact, along with a prioritised set of recommendations.
The report is written for both technical and non-technical audiences — so you can share it with both your IT team and senior leadership or board.
Where findings require immediate action — for example, security vulnerabilities — we will flag these clearly and can move directly into a remediation engagement if required.
Findings by severity and business stream
Critical, high, medium, and low — each tagged to the module or process area it affects, so you know where to focus first.
Business impact and resolution time
Every recommendation carries a business-impact rating alongside an estimated resolution time, so you can plan and budget with confidence.
Benchmarked against Oracle guidelines
Our review uses Oracle's own best practice documentation as the baseline, so you can be confident in the standards applied.
Presentation to your team
We present the findings in a walkthrough session, giving your team the opportunity to ask questions and understand the priorities.
From findings to fixed: a sample roadmap
The report doesn't stop at a list of findings — it groups every recommendation into a roadmap, so your team knows what to fix now, what to plan for this quarter, and what belongs on a longer-term backlog.
Immediate
0–30 days- Close any active security exposure identified during the review
- Resolve segregation-of-duties conflicts in high-risk approval workflows
- Address single points of failure in backup or recovery configuration
This quarter
1–3 months- Right-size concurrent manager and batch configuration to current volumes
- Document and assign owners to undocumented customisations (CEMLIs)
- Tighten change control across Dev, QA, UAT, and Pre-Prod instances
Roadmap
3–12 months- Plan a version upgrade ahead of any extended-support cut-off
- Build a standard operating rhythm for ongoing performance review
- Scope AI and automation opportunities once the environment is clean
This is a sample structure only — your actual roadmap is built entirely from what we find in your environment, not a pre-set template.
Ready to understand where your E-Business Suite stands?
Get in touch to discuss the health check scope and how we would approach your environment.
Get in touch about an Oracle EBS health check
Colin and Daan and the wider APPSolve Group team can talk through your situation — no obligation, no generic sales pitch. Just a direct conversation about what a realistic path forward looks like.