We performed a comparison between SAP Business ByDesign and SAP ERP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetSuite, Oracle, SAP and others in Cloud ERP."The most valuable feature of SAP Business ByDesign is it has a streamlined design."
"When comparing SAP Business ByDesign to much larger ERP solutions, such as SAP ECC 6.0 or SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business ByDesign is more user-friendly and easier to implement."
"I have found the consolidation of the business and group reports very useful. There is plenty of features and the manufacturing and finance aspect of the solution are strong."
"I find the tool’s every feature valuable."
"The most valuable features of SAP Business ByDesign are customer invoicing and cost and revenue, from which I get the data for my project reports."
"It has a quick implementation and onboarding of users. It is flexible with reports and powerful."
"The most valuable features of Business ByDesign are the integration of its modules, analytics, and dashboards."
"I like its modern approach. It is very modern and new technology."
"The solution provides good production planning."
"There are many interfaces, so you really can build satellites around it like with other SAP stuff or even third-party stuff."
"The most valuable features of SAP ERP are its stability, industry-specific package, and adaptable configuration."
"The accounting module's record and report process is closely integrated with almost every other process."
"Finance view across functions is valuable."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"It automates transactional processes."
"The solution is scalable."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting capability. To use it properly, you need intensive IT support. You cannot write your own reports."
"The Purchase to Pay process could benefit from further sophistication and additional functionality. It would be helpful for the user community to receive clearer information about the future roadmap of the business. Unfortunately, there were some confusing articles in the German press towards the end of last year about the future of SAP Business ByDesign. Therefore, more clarity is needed in the support function to address this."
"ByDesign could be improved by making screen modifications easier."
"The payroll module of the solution could improve."
"The database needs to be more customizable."
"Scalability is difficult."
"SAP Business ByDesign can improve the flexibility and user-friendliness of the reporting during the implementations. Customizing the reports inside the device requires a lot of knowledge and most of the time a developer level is needed. For example, if you want to have a more specific reporting layout."
"SAP Business ByDesign is a very vast product, but it has to be a bit more centralized. All the models need to be more centralized for a better experience."
"The user interface isn't as nice as SAP HANA's."
"In the next release, I would like to see more technical integration for directly designed solutions on behalf of the selling process so that you can design solutions and not have to use ten or more other tools to get the solution for selling."
"The reporting feature could improve in SAP ERP. It could benefit from being more flexible."
"SAP is more expensive than some of its competitors."
"There are a lot of manual tasks that are used by a lot of people, so it is a very good candidate for RPA."
"SAP ERP needs to be more innovative when it comes to areas like mobility and the internet."
"Implementing SAP ERP can be very costly, particularly for smaller organizations with limited resources."
"It's very difficult to find people who are well versed in it."
SAP Business ByDesign is ranked 4th in Cloud ERP with 14 reviews while SAP ERP is ranked 1st in ERP with 100 reviews. SAP Business ByDesign is rated 7.6, while SAP ERP is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Business ByDesign writes "Helps with financial accounting, project management, sales and invoicing, and accounting inventory management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP ERP writes "The amazing, robust framework with unlimited scalability earns its #1 status". SAP Business ByDesign is most compared with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP S/4HANA, NetSuite ERP, SAP Business One on AWS and Microsoft Dynamics AX, whereas SAP ERP is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Anaplan, SAP Business One and Infor M3.
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