We performed a comparison between Epicor ERP and SAP ERP 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."The ability to deploy a generic implementation without advanced customization."
"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."
"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"Dashboards and Business Activity Query are very useful."
"The product enables users to customize their dashboards and reports."
"Epicor ERP is very technical friendly, if you want to do any customization, it's very easy."
"Epicor ERP is an easy-to-use solution."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making."
"The stability is SAP ERP is not good only because the version is old. They could work on improving the versions."
"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 power of ABAP Development Tools is the main valuable feature in the SAP ECC system. Every couple of years SAP upgrades ABAP technology significantly, which facilitates developers' work."
"Finance view across functions is valuable."
"It has a lot of integrity of data, and it is fast. All the users feel that they can trust this data. So, data integrity is the most important value of SAP."
"The features are very useful for finance."
"The most valuable feature of SAP ERP is the financial module, pre-configured packages, and plenty of features. The solution is updating and adding new features that are helpful."
"This is a robust solution with a lot of control measures."
"In the newer version of Epicor ERP, it's very difficult to find out that tracing."
"The tool should provide a better user interface."
"Epicor didn't care about user level and software applications. So, it's not so user-friendly for nontechnical people."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"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."
"A number of bugs in 9.05 were only fixed in 10."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"The system is over-customized."
"It could be more flexible, and the company should be able to adapt the system. Not the other way around. It's very rigid and difficult to change. Reporting could also be better."
"The UI could use improvement."
"We will not make any major changes, and we are not expecting any enhancements or new features from SAP because they already have a new solution. No development is happening on SAP ERP because SAP has come up with a new version called SAP S/4HANA, which is memory-based technology. We are planning to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA, but we don't know when it will happen. We are in the preparation phase."
"The initial setup is complex."
"I'm only working on the front end with ERP's user interface, which isn't very easy for end-users. It's an old-school interface, so it's often challenging to find what you need."
"Functionality could be improved."
"This solution could be made more user-friendly for development teams."
Epicor ERP is ranked 17th in ERP with 12 reviews while SAP ERP is ranked 1st in ERP with 100 reviews. Epicor ERP is rated 7.8, while SAP ERP 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 ERP writes "The amazing, robust framework with unlimited scalability earns its #1 status". Epicor ERP is most compared with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Odoo, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business One and NetSuite ERP, whereas SAP ERP is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Anaplan, SAP Business One and Infor M3. See our Epicor ERP vs. SAP ERP report.
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