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."
"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"Epicor ERP is very technical friendly, if you want to do any customization, it's very easy."
"There's good flexibility within the inbuilt tools such as alerts, business process management, dashboards, and screen 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."
"Dashboards and Business Activity Query are very useful."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making."
"Epicor ERP is an easy-to-use solution."
"The transactional integration of operations is the best-recommended feature of this product. It provides integration of all operational modules."
"SAP ERP has a good user interface with a lot of functionalities and good interface options."
"Its integration is most valuable."
"The product’s most valuable feature is a centralized system integrating different departments within the organization."
"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."
"Their tech support is always good."
"The solution has far more features, processes, and functionalities than we previously had."
"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."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"Right now, it doesn't really have a good cloud story."
"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."
"In the newer version of Epicor ERP, it's very difficult to find out that tracing."
"A number of bugs in 9.05 were only fixed in 10."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"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."
"SAP ERP's initial setup phase needs to be simplified."
"I do not have any notes for improvements."
"Functionality could be improved."
"Customizations are a bit expensive."
"There is room for improvement in the integration of the solution, especially in the payroll area."
"There should be better support provided to be able to migrate to S/4HANA easier."
"It would also help if it were more open, more flexible, with more standard products."
"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."
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, SAP S/4HANA, Odoo, 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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