We performed a comparison between Epicor ERP and SAP S/4HANA 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."Dashboards and Business Activity Query are very useful."
"The product enables users to customize their dashboards and reports."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making."
"The ability to deploy a generic implementation without advanced customization."
"There's good flexibility within the inbuilt tools such as alerts, business process management, dashboards, and screen customization."
"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"Epicor ERP is an easy-to-use solution."
"Epicor ERP is very technical friendly, if you want to do any customization, it's very easy."
"I find the Production Planning Cockpit (PPC) and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) most valuable modules."
"It is the most stable solution provided by SAP and can be used on all levels."
"The solution makes its use and the management of our infrastructure easy."
"The key modules that I find most valuable are material management (MM), financial accounting and controlling (FICO), and human resources (HR)."
"I like the user experience and usability of SAP Fiori, which is one of the main features that we are using."
"I can verify and provide the overall financial aid report and also the management report."
"Provides SAP Fiori apps with numerous dashboards and KPIs"
"SAP S4HANA provides a solution towards a green industry. They keep making a different version of the solution to meet the needs of different industries, such as automotive and utilities."
"There's a new version of the solution that has some bugginess. They're cleaning that up. The user interface is an area that needs improvement and they're improving."
"Epicor didn't care about user level and software applications. So, it's not so user-friendly for nontechnical people."
"The tool should provide a better user interface."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"A number of bugs in 9.05 were only fixed in 10."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"Right now, it doesn't really have a good cloud story."
"In the newer version of Epicor ERP, it's very difficult to find out that tracing."
"We would like to see more DevOps capabilities in the future."
"The cost of the solution is quite high. It needs to be adjusted."
"We found that the implementing partners themselves are struggling with S4HANA's features. It's not an exact translation of the older ECC, so SAP has taken a new route to do things with S4HANA. Maybe it's a good product, but the implementing partners also like to have an in-depth understanding of the full feature set the product offers."
"Lacking in some customizations."
"Items that impact the TCO should be improved because the solution is very complex to integrate and keep running."
"SAP S/4HANA could improve by making the interface easier to use."
"Every year, when a new version is released, it comes with a very thick booklet of 300 or 400 pages and it is a little difficult to comprehend."
"I'm not a big fan of SAP S/4HANA because it needs a lot of hardware. It is really fast, but it needs a lot of hardware. The hardware for S/4HANA is too expensive."
Epicor ERP is ranked 17th in ERP with 12 reviews while SAP S/4HANA is ranked 2nd in ERP with 75 reviews. Epicor ERP is rated 7.8, while SAP S/4HANA is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Epicor ERP writes "The product is flexible and easy to use, but the user interface must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP S/4HANA writes "The solution is highly scalable, with solid performance and integration". Epicor ERP is most compared with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Odoo, SAP Business One, SAP ERP and NetSuite ERP, whereas SAP S/4HANA is most compared with SAP ERP, SAP Business One, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite. See our Epicor ERP vs. SAP S/4HANA report.
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