We performed a comparison between SAP Business One and SAP ERP based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SAP Business One is the winner in this comparison. According to reviewers it is easier to set up, more reasonably priced, with a proven ROI, and has better support than SAP ERP.
"We bought all licenses for the whole package in the very beginning, and now we're just paying for 404 licensed maintenance. It's a standard fee. Of course, we still pay partners for implementation."
"The most valuable features of SAP Business One are the financials, sales, and production. They are very helpful. Additionally, it is very easy to use and the user interface is stable in the application and on the web."
"SAP Business One has many valuable features. It is highly flexible and has a solid background in accounting that is localized in a lot of countries. This makes it very user-friendly for a lot of different situations."
"It's useful for users and it's simple to work with."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Financial Management."
"I like the monthly order management features."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Business One is the price and reputation of the vendor. The solution is widely accepted around the world."
"The relationship map is very useful for us."
"The most valuable features are that it's very customizable and it's flexible."
"The solution can easily be standardized across processes."
"They provide a full service."
"I like SAP's premade workflows for various areas, such as supply chain, procurement, or finance."
"The most valuable features of SAP ERP are the integration between all departments, such as purchasing, finance, trading, and sales."
"ERP can help manage all enterprise resources. It brings them together and provides some analytical data to inform management decisions."
"MDG provides a central location for governance of the creation/updating processes of master data. It allows you to change several fields in the same object. For example, we can change a field on the purchasing view and change another field on an accounting view to the same material at the same time."
"The valuable feature of SAP ERP is that everything is connected and under one roof, creating a unified system."
"We don't have the functionality of the supply chain and mobile applications."
"SAP Business One could be improved if SAP creates one platform to integrate different solutions, particularly having a multi-company concept rather than having different databases. The solution could be similar to SAP S/4 Hana and the SAP Business ByDesign concept."
"The analytics data capabilities could improve which will provide businesses with much more insight into how their companies are performing."
"There is no dependency, the integration between the other applications."
"Our business has grown beyond the capabilities of Business One. We need a bigger ERP solution, and therefore we are moving away."
"The reading and retrieving of data are slow in the system."
"The user interface could be improved with drag-and-drop functionality that it currently lacks."
"Lacks ability to integrate with other tools."
"The solution is not ready for the current e-commerce environment."
"I do not have any notes for improvements."
"It is not flexible for the users. SAP works in a specific way, and the users and the processes have to adapt to the way it works. It is hard to customize it to the level that we need for our work. It is not easy to get new extensions for process functions, modules, or activities."
"It would also help if it were more open, more flexible, with more standard products."
"I would like to see the customization of the reports become easier to work with instead of having technical support have to assist us."
"I would like to see more integration with other partners. Some of our customers already use specific or in-house applications for their business processes. They do not want to replace those applications."
"SAP needs to be more intuitive."
"The version that we are using lacks in reporting. The reporting feature needs to be constructed more in this product. There can be better scope for mobility. They could include the technical development of reports instead of depending completely on programming. The programming method needs to be easy."
SAP Business One is ranked 4th in ERP with 61 reviews while SAP ERP is ranked 1st in ERP with 100 reviews. SAP Business One is rated 8.0, while SAP ERP is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Business One writes "Helps with intercompany sales and purchase orders, and optimizes 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 One is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Epicor ERP, whereas SAP ERP is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Anaplan, Infor M3 and Infor LN. See our SAP Business One vs. SAP ERP report.
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