We performed a comparison between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two ERP solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The security feature, particularly the encryption, which still builds sensitivity, is one of the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is its ease of use, data customization, and smooth integration."
"Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is extremely stable as it does not rely on our in-house servers."
"I have found the flexibility to be very valuable. It's highly flexible, and at least for us, it has been effective. It is also highly functional."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is its simplicity of accounting and receiving reports. The solution is similar to Microsoft Excel, and that similarity is good. All the functions of Microsoft Dynamics are user-friendly."
"All of the features are valuable, depending on where you implement them. I've done implementations in 60 countries, across 86 different companies and groups, and each company has a different reason for why they want to use it. Every single feature that I've implemented has been successful, and for some companies, where they didn't use the functionality, they have moved to external products or they've integrated into other applications."
"The product is customizable so we can tune it according to our requirements."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible, and customizable."
"The accounting part and the procurement part are most valuable. It is a very good system with workflows and notifications."
"The most valuable feature of Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management is the business intelligence module. Additionally, report consolidation, cloud access, and analysis are useful."
"The initial setup is not complex. The deployment process was relatively straightforward."
"The solution is parameterized so it naturally has the ability to parameterize, configure, and adapt to various organizational procedures."
"The solution is not best suited for larger-scale businesses."
"The tool needs to work on reporting issues and user interface."
"The solution could include the retail tool in the native version."
"There is some network issue."
"The performance and virtual machine backup is not good with this solution and need improvements."
"For a big company like us with millions of transactions, the scalability isn't enough."
"If Microsoft made some of the security setups a little easier to work with, that would be a significant improvement. The warehouse management features could also use some work. We had to buy third-party software to make NAV's warehouse management and security more usable and functional."
"There is room for improvement in the ability to reverse or correct transactions more easily."
"Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management could improve the search functionality. For example, if I was to search for a transaction from last year it would be difficult to accomplish. I have to scroll through to find what I am looking for. The approach should be more similar to Quickbooks where when you search for something it takes you directly to the searched item."
"It is not suitable for corporate or manufacturing companies. For example, it's challenging to use it for a manufacturing company."
"Its implementation process is kind of complicated. If the person implementing it doesn't know what he is doing, the system can have many issues. Sage X3 is just an accounting system. As compared to Oracle E-Business Suite, it does not cover a lot of functionality. It doesn't have the payroll, lease management, and HR modules. Oracle E-Business Suite is better than Sage X3."
"The solution does not have a solid, out-of-the-box API architecture that is supported."
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is ranked 3rd in ERP with 62 reviews while Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management is ranked 19th in ERP with 4 reviews. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is rated 8.2, while Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central writes "Easy to deploy, extremely stable, and highly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management writes "An elastic, multi-company structure that naturally parameterizes and adapts". Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX, SAP Business One, SAP ERP and Infor M3, whereas Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management is most compared with SAP ERP, Microsoft Dynamics AX and SAP S/4HANA. See our Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management report.
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV suitable for Trading Organization. I would like to advise you to go for MS Dynamics NAV which will enables you to integrate your existing software application easily.
-They have a very strong overall functionalities to help meet the needs of business today, and in the future.
-The product easy to use and works smoothly for those who are familiar Microsoft products
-They committed to enhancing and supporting for overall solutions now and in the future
Is there any reason you not looking at other ERP software solutions? What
is the size of the organisation? What is the expectation for the
stakeholders? And how many users we have to consider? Also what is the
client currently using as this will determine implementation cost also.
Dear Sage Users,
I would like to ask you if you have experienced similar problems with Sage X3 that I have mentioned below. If yes, please advise me how can I fix them.
I am the first customer of Sage X3 in Poland. Since September 2014 there has been an extensive implementation of Sage X3 software in my 120-person company for 60 software licenses. My company has been using Sage X3 since August, 1st 2015. The overall cost of our investment so far amounts to 280.000 EUR.
After one year of my experience with Sage X3 I can say that each day is marked with new defects emerging in Accounting and Finance and Inventory and Warehouse modules.
Unfortunately, the Sales and Inventory Management Modules of Sage X3 possess very serious flaws that have been discovered in August of last year and have not been remediated so far. The most important flaw of Sage X3 concerns the phenomenon of uncontrolled change of prices of goods in different warehouse locations. This defect results in our inability to accurately account the result of the company and provide reliable financial data to tax offices, external financial auditors, banks, and to calculate sales commissions. For example, during transfer of one product of 100 EUR value from warehouse A to warehouse B, Sage X3 unexpectedly and randomly changes its value into 103 EUR or 95 EUR or other value. The values of goods can be decreased or increased without any logical reason. Over the course of last 9 months, there have been numerous attempts of repair. There have been many announcements from Sage Poland that the problem has been eliminated. In reality, the problem continues to exist and is deepening. The issue concerns both old and new deliveries, also two large recent deliveries, each of them encompassing few containers of goods.
Problems with X3 implementation are causing significant financial losses to my 120-personnel company.
Beside malfunction of purchasing prices mentioned above, there are also other problems in Polish version of X3:
Accounting and Finance
• no module fixed assets
• Inconsistent data provided by the various modules of Sage, eg. different statements of the same warehouse in Accounting and Sales modules. Three different statements of the same warehouse, show three different inventory amount.
• In PL version no proper reports of profit and loss account, balance sheet, etc.
• no automatic posting clearing counterparties in this settlement with cash reports
Purchasing Management/Material Requirements Planning
• no automatic integration of data
• values of minimum stock have been entered into Sage X3, but optimal replenishment recommendations not working
Manufacturing Management
• no production module of the working properly and thus no possibility to connect production to accounting system
Sales Management
• incorrect prices of goods accepted for sale
• Sage X3 changes prices of goods transferred from one location of warehouse to another
• customers’ balances mistakes, also incorrect information of debts of the customer 'total balance' and even a few minutes of disappearing balances in SAGE. The program then gives the debt of "0". Bizarre is that the issued invoice can be seen in the Cashier and Sales module only after posting, so it is after 1-3 days.
It is possible to see scanned examples mentioned above at www.sage-reviews.com,
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Pozdrawiam, Best regards
Maciej Juchkiewicz
Prezes Zarządu / Chairman