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."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 ability to deploy a generic implementation without advanced customization."
"Epicor ERP is an easy-to-use solution."
"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"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."
"Dashboards and Business Activity Query are very useful."
"It provides one overview of the capacity planning."
"The architecture of the solution overall is great. It's great for development, testing, and production. I've worked with solutions where the architecture wasn't as strong and it was a disaster."
"The most valuable features of SAP ERP are that its robust, user-friendly, and secure."
"It is an integrated application, and it has been working really well. Earlier, there were different companies for different applications for manufacturing, finance controlling, logistics, and quality. It probably was the first fully integrated application. Whenever somebody is entering any data, for example, invoice data or ordering data, everyone with a right to see this data can see it in the system."
"Good customization features."
"SAP has provided a much more integrated platform for managing our manufacturing business."
"The solution has far more features, processes, and functionalities than we previously had."
"SAP is a very process controlled application. It does not allow users to manage the data. Once the initial process is set, it works smoothly."
"In the newer version of Epicor ERP, it's very difficult to find out that tracing."
"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."
"The tool should provide a better user interface."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"Right now, it doesn't really have a good cloud story."
"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."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"In the next release, I would like to see more technical integration for directly designed solutions on behalf of the selling process so that you can design solutions and not have to use ten or more other tools to get the solution for selling."
"SAP ERP is scalable. We have some five to ten thousand SAP ERP users."
"Functionality could be improved."
"The flexibility in using the software could improve. I am from a product background and I've been testing a lot of applications, for example, Informatics. The UI, features, and cloud version could improve."
"Poor ergonomics."
"There is room for improvement in the integration of the solution, especially in the payroll area."
"It needs a more complete guidance with complete processes. Right now, it only has single transactions."
"ERP could use better integration with other systems."
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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