SAP Business One vs SAP S/4HANA Cloud comparison

The compared SAP Business One and SAP S/4HANA Cloud solutions aren't in the same category. SAP Business One is ranked #4 in ERP , with an average rating of 7.9, and holds a 4.0% mindshare in the category. SAP S/4HANA Cloud is ranked #3 in CE , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 15.3% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of SAP Business One users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of SAP S/4HANA Cloud users who would recommend it.

SAP Business One

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90% willing to recommend

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

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89% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Business One

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

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ERP (4th)

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

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Cloud ERP (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Enterprise Resource Planning solutions, they serve different purposes. SAP Business One is designed for ERP and holds a mindshare of 4.0%, down 6.6% compared to last year.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud ERP, holds 15.3% mindshare, up 12.5% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Madhava Pemmaraju

Practice Head at Panfish

Many features are standardized, which reduces the need for customization but lacks solutions for some use cases

SAP Business One is primarily used for small to medium businesses in the MSMB market. It helps run the packaged enterprise solution for customers who cannot afford a full-fledged SAP S4HANA solution. It is used for standard finance, warehouse, and supply chain processes One of the biggest…

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Sajid Farooq

Head of Professional Services at HCC - Technology & Advisory

Provides seamless integration of different modules in one place

Certain add-ons like quality control, payroll, and HRMS are not part of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud. SAP S/4HANA Cloud doesn't provide a quality control module. SAP S/4HANA Cloud does not have its own payroll and HRMS system. The partners develop their own cloud and integrate with the solution. There are certain modules specific to some industries, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud doesn't deal with those modules. Every partner of SAP S/4HANA Cloud has to develop its own and then integrate and certify with that solution. We can't say that these modules are part of SAP S/4HANA Cloud. There is a little area of improvement that SAP has to opt for particular types of solutions like QC, payroll, and HRMS. The graphics of SAP S/4HANA Cloud are not user-friendly. They don't look like they belong to a branded solution that costs too much. The solution's user interface is not appealing or user-friendly. On a scale from one to ten, where one is bad and ten is good, I rate the solution's user interface a five out of ten. SAP S/4HANA Cloud has built-in reports that are hard-coated. We have to alter or modify built-in reports in different marking segments, but there are no options for that. We have to build complete reports from scratch, and SAP-developed reports are not used in the market. SAP should provide a tool for customizing its developed reports so that there should not be a process of reengineering or reinventing the process.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For us, the most useful feature of Business One is Material Requirements Planning (MRP)."

"It's simple to use and very direct."

"The SAP Business One is simple and it provides us the control we need."

"The most valuable features of SAP Business One are user-friendliness, ease of use, visibility, and flexibility. Customizing the solution is simple."

"The relationship map is very useful for us."

"It offers users a rather simple interface."

"I had been using it for the end-to-end functionality."

"I have been happy with the intern purchases, and finance, such as banking."

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"SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides integration, controls, efficiency, visibility into business operations, and collaboration, especially for geographically spread operations."

"I like that it saves every transaction, so anything is traceable."

"We were migrating from our in-house ERP solution to the solution, which was a more corporate-centralized solution. My role was to lead the team in mapping our processes with the central team. We aimed to find synergies and learn how to handle processes that weren't directly covered."

"SAP versions used to be quite cumbersome for the end-users. Now SAP S/4HANA has a totally different approach. They use Fiori landing pages, which makes life better."

"We are a well-established enterprise with a century-long history, and we recently transitioned from an older version to the current support system. This move has allowed us to fully leverage the advantages of the new system, facilitating efficient management of our business processes, including those related to manufacturing and other aspects of our operations."

"If anyone wants to check data, like dashboards, S/4HANA also provides those facilities via Fiori apps. S/4HANA delivers everything related to the business process."

"It was easy to implement."

"The solution links everything and allows us to integrate into our entire supply chain."

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Cons

"Lacks ability to integrate with other tools."

"The solution could improve by having better integration with other systems and reporting."

"Our customers often request concurrent licensing, which is not available with SAP Business One. Adding this option would be beneficial."

"Something which would be helpful to management and, from our vantage point as a user, would be to see a simple reporting tool."

"The analytics data capabilities could improve which will provide businesses with much more insight into how their companies are performing."

"The solution needs to have comprehensive visibility into the entire sales-to-purchase cycle, enabling businesses to monitor SO-PO relationships, track order progress, and generate insightful reports."

"Overall, the integration and the reports can be better."

"They have a web client now. It primarily does sales. They just added purchasing. It'll be far more effective when I have inventory and financials as well into the web client version."

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"Variant configuration is needed."

"Public cloud is single-tenant so there are limitations on what can be customized."

"The solution’s reporting could be improved."

"The solution's speed and dashboard could be improved."

"Difficult to install and difficult to test. Testing needs to be improved. Scalability of this solution also needs improvement."

"Generally, there's not much noise or many issues, but we sometimes open tickets. These are mainly due to underestimating business needs at the beginning of deployment or sudden changes in the business. For example, when we suddenly open branches in other countries, add many users or the business grows fast, we might need more memory or disk space. We sometimes underestimate our needs from the cloud. This isn't a problem with the cloud or the vendor but more about our estimation. We raise tickets for things like increasing memory, dealing with one-time errors, or issues with space utilization. We might need to increase resources or improve performance."

"The reporting aspect needs improvement, specifically in integrating the EWM and MM modules into a single report."

"I need more options for enhancing the system, especially compared to the features available in the on-premise version."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"SAP Business One is a cost-effective solution. The price is good and we pay for a subscription annually."

"We are on a perpetual license for SAP Business One and the price it should be less expensive when comparing it to other solutions."

"This solution can work with a very small company, but the price may not be the right, it may not be the right fit for them. We can't help with this because we have to really understand the market, the target audience, and we have to position the product accordingly. The price is not a very big concern because if the customer is finding value or the dealer, distributor, or implementation partner can show real value in the solution, then the price will not be a question at all."

"Business One's prices are really high."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"I would rate Business One's pricing five out of five."

"I rate the price of SAP Business One a seven out of ten."

"Its price is reasonable. People are able to spend that much."

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"The solution's costs have significantly increased, and we have not seen any anticipated cost savings."

"I'm not directly involved in the pricing discussions; it's more of a concern for the finance team."

"Pricing wise, SAP S4HANA Cloud is very expensive. The licensing cost can be 100,000 euros per year, depending on the number of users in your company."

"S/4HANA is an enterprise solution that many can't afford. You must invest a lot to get the most out of it. It isn't cheap. I rate the price seven out of 10."

"The pricing model can be complicated in certain scenarios."

"It's very expensive."

"Its pricing is way over any of the other ERPs. I'd rate it one out of ten in terms of pricing."

"I don't remember the specifics about the licensing, but it's scaled and modular. You pay for what you use. It's not a one-size-fits-all license. You have a license for every single module. It's similar to Oracle."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Educational Organization

Retailer

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Educational Organization

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Are there any advantages of SAP S4 HANA over SAP Business One (SAP B1) apart from the cost?

SaP Business One is a complete solution for business management. The software applications are broad, ranging from accounting to project management and human resources. It is very versatile and com...

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What do you like most about SAP Business One?

It's user-friendly and comes with comprehensive manuals. So, it is easy to learn to use SAP Business One

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Business One?

The pricing model of SAP Business One is average. It is neither too good nor too bad, and there is room for more flexibility in pricing.

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What do you like most about SAP S/4HANA Cloud?

The manufacturing area is a good feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP S/4HANA Cloud?

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is very expensive, both to purchase and maintain. It's important to evaluate the costs of recruiting and maintaining trained personnel as it's not just a one-time payment yet requ...

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What needs improvement with SAP S/4HANA Cloud?

The system is very heavy and requires a lot of resources and a dedicated team. It is costly to maintain, demanding trained professionals, which adds to the expenses. This makes the overall cost ver...

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Compared 9% of the time

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Also Known As

Business One

SAP S4HANA Cloud

Overview

The SAP Business One application offers a way to manage your entire business – from accounting and financials, purchasing, inventory, sales and customer relationships, and project management, to operations and human resources. SAP Business One helps you to streamline processes, gain a greater insight into your business, so that you can act fast and make decisions based on real time information, to help you drive profitable growth.

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SAP S/4HANA stands for SAP Suite 4 HANA. It is a next-generation integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that is designed for businesses of all sizes, in all industries, that require deep and broad functionality combined with a high degree of flexibility. SAP S/4HANA was launched in 2015 and been adopted by more than 3,200 customers over a period of sixteen months. SAP S/4HANA is materially different from anything SAP has done before and represents the company’s biggest innovation since SAP R/3.

SAP S/4HANA is intended to provide a digital core for an organization. It is fully architected for the most advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and is designed on the most modern design principles with the SAP Fiori user experience to create a personalized and simple feel on users’ device of choice (tablet, laptop, mobile). SAP S/4HANA aims to simplify an organizations’ system landscape and reduce total cost of ownership by shrinking the data footprint while at the same time improving productivity levels in the form of higher throughput. Timelines for cloud deployments average around six months.

SAP S/4HANA is designed to drive business innovation by connecting people, devices, and business networks in real time to support the development of new business models. It will also help accelerate the adoption of, and connection to, the Internet of Things and Big Data. SAP S/4HANA can analyze big data at unprecedented speed allowing users to access real-time information from anywhere, any way they’d like and thus help managers make truly insightful decisions. The simplified data model allows customers to reimagine their IT, helping to drive lower costs and deliver IT efficiency. This, coupled with the SAP S/4HANA prediction and simulation capabilities allow it to anticipate the impact of business outcomes. By doing all the above, SAP S/4HANA aims to provide ultimate sophistication in the simplest possible manner.

To learn more about SAP S/4HANA, visit http://go.sap.com/product/enterprise-management/s4hana-erp.html

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Sample Customers

Ego Pharmaceuticals Pty. Ltd

La Trobe University, Carrefour Comércio e Indústria Ltda, Delaware Consulting and Corning Inc.

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