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 an easy-to-use solution."
"The ability to deploy a generic implementation without advanced customization."
"Epicor ERP is very technical friendly, if you want to do any customization, it's very easy."
"The product enables users to customize their dashboards and reports."
"Dashboards and Business Activity Query are very useful."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making."
"There's good flexibility within the inbuilt tools such as alerts, business process management, dashboards, and screen customization."
"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"Heavy integration is available with all types of systems, and we use it."
"The Material Management and Sales and Distribution modules are great. The Financial Accounting module is also great."
"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."
"It is easier to migrate to SAP ERP from a legacy system. We have different products for data services, and it is easier to migrate to SAP ERP as compared to other solutions. Stability is one of the main features of SAP. What makes SAP ERP better than others is that SAP has taken into consideration the business processes of different industries, such as manufacturing. They have done the research, and they know what are the best practices. They have already implemented these best practices in SAP ERP, which are readily available for a client. Clients can also customize it based on their individual needs."
"The new Visual Enterprise functionalities give an intuitive approach to data and make communication between engineering and production easy."
"It gives us full control over each change, to the level of the individual field in a master record, including certificates."
"The stability is SAP ERP is not good only because the version is old. They could work on improving the versions."
"The payroll solution and the localization for advances are valuable."
"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."
"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."
"Poor ergonomics."
"It should be less complex. It should also have better integration capability. I am using the ACC version, and in this version, the integration and the communication are very difficult and complicated."
"There is room for improvement in the integration of the solution, especially in the payroll area."
"More integrations and built-in integrations with other environments and products are needed."
"When evaluating the current version I am using now, the SAP GUI is old-style and needs to be replaced with something more modern and easy to use. However, the SAP GUI is very optimized for connection networks and is extremely good. Many people would like to have a WebGUI or something else to have access in a different way. Additionally, there could be some drag and drop functionality added because these features are normally in any website that this solution does not have."
"The product can be a little slow when dealing with thousands of employee data."
"SAP ERP was not very user-friendly."
"It's very difficult to find people who are well versed in it."
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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