We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud and SAP Business One on AWS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable. It's quite inexpensive."
"It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."
"It is easy to set up."
"Alibaba Cloud allows for easy setup of mirror sites and backup servers, ensuring data redundancy and high availability."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy for me since I had a background in cloud products."
"We use the solution to run VMs."
"Setting up Business One is straightforward. It took us about three months to deploy Business One on AWS."
"The initial setup of the product seems to be good."
"The way we can make changes in new fields, or make new rules with our IT department, has been very useful."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The product makes it easier to overview the ERP system and manufacturing processes through different modules."
"With the tool, there is no shutdown or breakdown time my company experiences."
"The most valuable features of SAP Business One on AWS are the CRM and the sales module."
"The top-level view and easy navigation to individual transaction levels are beautifully done in SAP Business One."
"Alibaba Cloud needs to increase availability in Thailand."
"From the improvement point of view, there are lots of issues that we are facing. In all the areas, it seems like it is not mature. For example, a customer wants to provision some VM that has many configurations. If I want to show the price to the customer, it is very challenging. The SDK that Alibaba has provided is very limited. We can have the pricing for VM, but we cannot have pricing for RDS databases or some other services. This is a big concern area for us. They should put more effort into the SDKs or APIs that they provide, for example, pricing APIs or pricing SDK. They do not provide support for most of the services they provide. For example, if I want to get the price of MongoDB, that SDK is not available from Alibaba. Similarly, robust API support is required for S3, which is OSS or Object Storage, so that we can read the data in a faster manner, for example, in chunks. We have raised many issues with the Alibaba support team, and they have been fixing the issues after we report them."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"Alibaba Cloud has some problems related to latency and connection issues. If you go for a cloud solution provider, you will need to access the Internet, which may result in latency and bandwidth issues, leading to slowness in operations."
"Users use websites as a tutorial. However, the Alibaba Cloud website has the content, and the scripts are copied from Amazon Web Services. We had received customer feedback where the customer asked us to get formulate original content instead of copying from Amazon Web Services. It’s very odd and awkward."
"The solution should have more integration."
"The support offered by the tool is ridiculous."
"The reporting can be improved. Also, it is an expensive solution, and you need consultants for new interfaces as it's very rigid otherwise."
"The solution has a feature that shows you the purchase order that you put on a project and requires you to approve it to be applied to the project, but it doesn't let you move the purchase order to another project. That would be a great feature to have, because if you don't approve it, you have to delete everything and make it again."
"I would like to achieve better integration with AWS so that it becomes more interconnected with the SAP system."
"I feel that these vendors must be well trained so that they can deploy this solution."
"There are limitations of SAP Business One. It's a complex topic, and exploring options like SAP HANA is challenging at the moment. Understanding the limitations of ERP requires thorough research. I suggest conducting some preliminary investigations into ERP products before making a decision. We chose SAP Business One as it caters to SMEs like ours, acknowledging and accepting its limitations. While a larger product exists, switching would entail budget considerations due to the ongoing implementations. Therefore, the current situation with SAP Business One is not a matter of concern."
"Not a ten because it's not software for a structured company or something very big. That is my impression."
"The AI tools, programming languages, and dashboard customization should be easier."
"There is a need to make multiple changes in the code to make a few changes in any module of the product."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 8th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 17 reviews while SAP Business One on AWS is ranked 5th in Cloud ERP with 23 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.4, while SAP Business One on AWS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business One on AWS writes " A highly stable product with great technical support specifically designed for small and medium enterprises". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Firebase, whereas SAP Business One on AWS is most compared with Microsoft Azure, NetSuite ERP, SAP Business ByDesign, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). See our Alibaba Cloud vs. SAP Business One on AWS report.
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