We performed a comparison between Epicor ERP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 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."
"There's good flexibility within the inbuilt tools such as alerts, business process management, dashboards, and screen customization."
"Epicor ERP is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable features of Epicor ERP are ease of use, powerful API, and comprehensive integration. It is a one-vendor solution, where other vendors need other software systems from multiple vendors."
"The product enables users to customize their dashboards and reports."
"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making."
"The ability to deploy a generic implementation without advanced customization."
"The most valuable features of Business Central for me are its seamless integration with Power BI and the ability to create customized reports."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is cloud accessibility."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the Teams application. I use Teams to share documents amongst my team members, have meetings, and talk to them."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It is easy to use, and it works very well for small-scale companies."
"We use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as CRM."
"The solution's integration between Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange Online is really helpful."
"The vertical covers all aspects of functionality and integrates easily with the existing Office products."
"The tool should provide a better user interface."
"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."
"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."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"Epicor didn't care about user level and software applications. So, it's not so user-friendly for nontechnical people."
"A number of bugs in 9.05 were only fixed in 10."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"Its task scheduling and manufacturing models need improvement."
"I work in Pakistan, and many people want desktop solutions. They don't want to work on the cloud. They want a strictly on-premises solution."
"It would be nice if the integration process was easier."
"The performance and virtual machine backup is not good with this solution and need improvements."
"Some of the control aspects such as auditing can definitely be improved. For example, auditing is not very easy, and the user permissions are complicated."
"As our company grew we had to switch from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to a solution that was suited for larger-sized companies."
"There is a book for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central explaining how to use it. But it is not easy to use, and it is not easy to learn."
"I think Microsoft should improve on the process of how the user decides on a business workflow. For example, there may be some kind of drag-and-drop interface that lets us decide for ourselves how to develop the business workflows that fit our purpose."
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Epicor ERP is ranked 17th in ERP with 12 reviews while Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is ranked 3rd in ERP with 62 reviews. Epicor ERP is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 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 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central writes "Easy to deploy, extremely stable, and highly scalable". Epicor ERP is most compared with Odoo, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business One, SAP ERP and NetSuite ERP, whereas Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX, SAP Business One, SAP ERP and Odoo. See our Epicor ERP vs. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central report.
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