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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Busi...
Ranking in ERP
3rd
Ranking in Activity Based Costing Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sage Business Cloud Enterpr...
Ranking in ERP
20th
Ranking in Activity Based Costing Software
9th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the ERP category, the mindshare of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is 6.4%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management is 0.6%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Q&A Highlights

it_user460854 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 18, 2016
 

Featured Reviews

StefaanVandesompele - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides end-to-end accounting and finance module at reasonable pricing
365 Business Central integrates with Office 365 to streamline the invoice approval process. This allows businesses to manage and approve invoices efficiently within a unified system. Our organization plans to transition to the Dynamics 365 environment, where various functions will be centralized. We will consolidate everything into one system instead of maintaining multiple databases for each country with local data. Dynamics 365 is fully integrated, which should address many of our challenges when we migrate to this new environment. We look forward to seeing how it performs in practice. The project is progressing well overall, though integrating it with other tools and ensuring Dynamics 365 operates smoothly can be challenging. Dynamics 365 is user-friendly and effective. However, a deeper understanding of its technical capabilities and architecture might be necessary to optimize its use fully. The software landscape is evolving, and achieving the best reporting and functionality with just a click can be complex. A clear vision of what you want to achieve with Dynamics 365 is essential. Proper preparation and configuration are crucial to achieving the desired outcomes. This principle applies not only to Dynamics 365 but to all software packages. Understanding the system's flexibility and adaptability based on your specific business needs is key to its successful implementation. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Muhammad Uwais - PeerSpot reviewer
An elastic, multi-company structure that naturally parameterizes and adapts
The best feature is the solution's elastic, multi-company structure. You can expand or add companies at any time while retaining the same architecture and flow with minimal affect on your wallet. The solution is parameterized so you don't need a lot of customizations because it naturally has the ability to parameterize, configure, and adapt to various organizational procedures. You don't have to stick to some standard way of doing things because the solution adapts to your way of doing things. The approval and audit engines are very powerful. The built-in development component allows you to customize and develop without depending on third-party factors. Across six years, 80% to 85% of our use cases are completely managed within the solution because of its architecture.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Microsoft Dynamic 365 has everything we need, like Teams, Outlook, Excel, etc. I do a lot of data visualization, so I work a lot with Power BI. I bring in tables from Oracle and use Power Bi to manipulate and visualize the data. I handle all the stats and track everything that goes in and out of the company. We use all the modules, but I work primarily with Power BI, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. They are all equally important and work together."
"I like Microsoft Dynamics' simplicity. The interface is excellent, and it's a highly mature product. You can hardly find any bugs in the product."
"It is a scalable solution. There are more than 5,000 end users in my organization."
"The platform offers a robust and comprehensive cycle for supply chain and inventory management, with features like minimum and maximum settings, dynamic monitoring of inventory levels, and integration with Microsoft's AI capabilities."
"The product is customizable so we can tune it according to our requirements."
"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 initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"The interface is rich in features, allowing efficient management of business operations."
"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 solution is parameterized so it naturally has the ability to parameterize, configure, and adapt to various organizational procedures."
"Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management has helped by making processes such as calculating costs, accessing inventory information quickly, validating offers, and extracting data easier."
"The initial setup is not complex. The deployment process was relatively straightforward."
"The accounting part and the procurement part are most valuable. It is a very good system with workflows and notifications."
 

Cons

"They need to improve their processes."
"For a big company like us with millions of transactions, the scalability isn't enough."
"There is room for improvement in the ability to reverse or correct transactions more easily."
"The solution's event management can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of compatibility."
"The configuration packages can be somewhat tiresome at times, and they can be slow when loading data."
"The performance and virtual machine backup is not good with this solution and need improvements."
"Implementing localizations when we use the system for multiple countries can be quite complex."
"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."
"Integration with other tools like BOM or Cisco BlueQ could be improved."
"The solution does not have a solid, out-of-the-box API architecture that is supported."
"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."
"Integration with other tools like BOM or Cisco BlueQ could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution could be reduced to improve their offering."
"I think the pricing is the best; it's cost effective for sure."
"The license changes every year. Sometimes it's for fixed users, and sometimes it's for concurrent users."
"We have a perpetual license to use Microsoft Dynamics NAV."
"The first time we tried to buy the newest version, it was expensive."
"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"We have an agreement with Microsoft and pricing is okay for us."
"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"The solution delivers the same capabilities of SAP or Oracle at about 30% to 40% of the cost."
"It is very cheap. There are no additional charges, but the problem is that you have to acquire an additional supporting system such as a budgeting system. You will have to implement the integration and maintain two systems. So, you need to pay for the license of that budgeting system and this one. You also need to pay the license for the payroll and integration. There are all these integrations that you have to pay for."
"The cost is not expensive."
"The price of this solution is expensive. However, it depends on the number of branches used. The price can be upwards of $40,000 annually."
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Answers from the Community

it_user460854 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 18, 2016
Jun 18, 2016
For a good advice we should have more information about your processes. If your are a production company I would make a comparisson of Dynamics NAV and SAGE in detail. If your company is mainly Wholesale I would advice Dynamics NAV. Costs for Dynamics NAV in Euro: 90 Euro per month per user. Implementation cost excluding interfaces, customizations and conversion is appr. 15-20 days. depending o...
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it_user461712 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 14, 2016
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, -- Pozdrawiam, Best regards Maciej Juchkiewicz Prezes Zarządu / Chairman
Jun 14, 2016
Hello, Unfortunately I have no knowledge about Sage ERP X3 while we are only using modules of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV. I don’t think I am the appropriate person to provide the answers. Thanks, Andreas Demetriou [ALFAMEGA logo in high res [Converted]-01] Web Manager C.A. Papaellinas Emporiki Ltd 10 Diomidous Str., 3rd Floor, 2024 Strovolos P.O.Box 27879,2433 Nicosia-Cyprus T: + 357 22 469576 | F: +357 22 469579 andreaspo@alphamega.com.cy | http://www.alphamega.com.cy
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Dynamics NAV?
The platform offers a robust and comprehensive cycle for supply chain and inventory management, with features like minimum and maximum settings, dynamic monitoring of inventory levels, and integrat...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Dynamics NAV?
Implementing localizations when we use the system for multiple countries can be quite complex. There isn't a single solution available for all countries, and managing these localizations can be cha...
What do you like most about Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management?
The initial setup is not complex. The deployment process was relatively straightforward.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management?
The pricing of Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management is high compared to other solutions like Bitrix.
What needs improvement with Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management?
Integration with other tools like BOM or Cisco BlueQ could be improved. The importation of configurations like BOQs is challenging as each line has to be added individually, which is time-consuming...
 

Also Known As

Dynamics NAV, MS Dynamics NAV
Sage ERP X3, Sage X3
 

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Sample Customers

Harris Farm Markets, Mister Spex GmbH, Bounce Foods, Eurofin Services SA, Medica Medizintechnik, Associated Gaskets, Onduline, Sitka Surfboard Corporation, World Animal Protection
Power Distributing, Universal Paper and Plastics
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