We performed a comparison between Microsoft Dynamics AX and Oracle E-Business Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Activity Based Costing Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."In terms of features, GP offers a wide range of strong capabilities, particularly in the financial module."
"A valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics AX is that it is stable."
"It's scalable."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its workflow for purchase orders and inventory."
"The product is easier to use and has more efficient workflow management features than other vendors."
"The product's most valuable features are its day-to-day operations, Power BI-driven workspaces, and homepage."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics AX is customization."
"Payroll and online benefits enrollment"
"It's a scalable product."
"The financial module has excellent features that many find valuable, while the HCM module is also highly regarded."
"Order to cash and procure to pay process: They are valuable features because of their integration and flexibility."
"As we have been using this for the past nine years we have had the opportunity to explore the product. Really everything has worked well and all the modules are very good."
"The solution is perfect for big industry and high-scale e-business transactions."
"It can be an essential solution for those who can not just push to the cloud because they have critical data restrictions."
"EBS has lots of application families and lots of features. It is modular in deployment and flexible enough to let the customer increase the built-in capabilities and enable new applications when needed. These are very important things at hand in case there will be a need to expand the product capabilities and/or implement new projects."
"This solution could be improved with more expert resources and an easier implementation process."
"Microsoft needs more presence in our region to help with management and maintenance."
"The solution in general just needs a few quality improvements."
"We do not have access to daily projections."
"Microsoft could provide more flexible hardware requirements that can scale with the volume of data being processed rather than providing only a minimum requirement."
"Microsoft Dynamics AX can improve system performance and security. The security is basic and needs a lot of improvement."
"It needs better financials and reporting from the system, not through Excel."
"There is room for improvement when handling various currencies within the current Microsoft Dynamics AX system."
"Improving the reporting and user interface of Oracle ERP would be beneficial and is something that can be considered for future updates."
"Needs more real-time visualizations, in terms of smarter dashboards and reporting competing with the speed of HANA."
"They started on the mobile app and tablets, but still I see there are no short-forms used in EBS."
"Technical support is focused on-cloud versus on-premise customers."
"Administration takes some effort. Administrating the technology stack is not so complex but application aware database administration and following the new methodologies like online patching can be a little complex and time consuming. Oracle should ease the administrators jobs and do some innovation on this administration area as well. Oracle Autonomous Database is Oracle's leading technology these days. Using a similar approach, application stack may become a little more self-managing."
"One issue with the product is because it build on a lot of older technologies, there is a substantial technical debt in the system."
"Improvements could be made in mobility for mobile applications or tablets."
"The document that supports the Oracle E-Business Suite regarding the installation and upgrading is long compared to other products and needs to be enhanced."
Microsoft Dynamics AX is ranked 5th in Activity Based Costing Software with 25 reviews while Oracle E-Business Suite is ranked 1st in Activity Based Costing Software with 25 reviews. Microsoft Dynamics AX is rated 7.6, while Oracle E-Business Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Dynamics AX writes "The sales and distribution modules are robust, and reliable, and seldom encounter issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle E-Business Suite writes "Flexible and has competitive licensing costs, but its design needs to be optimized based on usage patterns and the response time from the support team could be faster". Microsoft Dynamics AX is most compared with SAP ERP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics GP and Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, whereas Oracle E-Business Suite is most compared with SAP ERP, Oracle HCM Cloud, SAP S/4HANA, NetSuite ERP and IFS Cloud Platform. See our Microsoft Dynamics AX vs. Oracle E-Business Suite report.
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For starters, I would stop comparing tools, and start looking at my business and what I want to achieve. So identify objectives and what's blocking achievement, define quality outcomes for the obejctives you want to achieve and build your businesscase on efficiency improvement. What earnings, savings, benefits are achieved when meeting your obectives.
Based on the blocking issues you identified, build use cases and challenge vendors to prove their outcome by building a PoV (Proof of Value).
Basically start looking for what improvement your business and processes need, rather than start looking for a tool. After all a tool is just a tool.
As a followup, I would not 'assume world class ERP has these features covered'.
We've seen several actual cases of RFP's (which is why we no longer rely on this outdated capital procurement process to evaluate strategic deployments) - but we've seen where several vendors will check YES to the RFP question concerning a certain feature. Company A does the certain feature well, with a single click. A couple other vendors do it OK, and a couple of the YES answerers require everyone to log out of the system, balance the outlying modules, jump through 6 undecipherable processes, and then YES - it does that.
If that particular feature is something you need 15 or 20 times a day, well, you're probably starting an expensive and long running development effort if you picked the wrong ERP.
The main point is, ERP evaluations need to be a defined process by which you don't make assumptions, skip steps, and your methodology should be repeatedly proven across multiple instances, industries, and shown to deliver with different internal teams (who's mileage may vary).
ERP has the potential to be wildly successful and given a solid business case, provide the tools for your staff to create substantial returns. It also has the potential for abject failure, and that potential for failure is north of 80%, industrywide. So your choices are whether you are comfortable with a big pile of money or a large vat of risk.
Only you can determine your comfort zone.
1. Your business is well defined?
SAP ERP = Company has to organize my directions. Microsoft ERP = I have to organize the company's directions.
2.Which industry do you stay in? In the SAP is more suitable for "Manufacturing", ERP is more suitable for "Retail and Distribution". The rest of the industries are the same difference.
3. Your business logics are too complicated? Microsoft Dynamics can be adapted easily.
4. On-Premise vs Cloud? On-Premise = SAP, Cloud = Microsoft
5. Reporting? It's too hard to access Microsoft Data today. Because no one can be accessed the operational data directly.
6. Commerce? Microsoft Commerce platform is well defined for omnichannel commerce.
I think.
Do you want to do it for a specific purpose or to tick a box?
Lets assume you are looking for system deployment. I would focus on the key areas of your business rather than what Gene has listed below, which is looking at point for point comparisons. (The Panorama report is SUPERB for getting up to speed....)
Then look at weighting for specific key business differentiation opportunities - such as single global instance for multiple companies, integrated CRM into Finance and Operations, off-line capabilities for customer facing processes, seamless transfer of customer conversations from one channel to another.
Then ask for client references to answer 5 key questions:
- Are they live?
- how was the deployment support from the OEM/partner and what was the % work split required to go live (as in your input vs partner vs OEM)
- how many customisations were requried to achieve xxx (your key areas)
- would they use the OEM again and what would they change going forward
Then look at demonstration from the OEM and costing for the solution
I would not go on a tender for each and every feature and function because we assume world class solutions have these typical areas covered.
Happy to discuss how to do this practically if required. Daniel@liferocksconsulting.co.za
I think Panorama Consulting Group publishes some of their ERP shootouts comparing SAP/Oracle/Microsoft with Infor thrown in as a bonus.
Our firm is more of a boutique operation that compares internal company requirements then picks software known for its propensity to work well in those industries/environments. But if you get to the stage where you need some guidance on who some of the top partners and resources are for those software packages, hit us up.