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."
"Dashboards and Business Activity Query are very useful."
"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 ability to deploy a generic implementation without advanced customization."
"There's good flexibility within the inbuilt tools such as alerts, business process management, dashboards, and screen customization."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making."
"The product enables users to customize their dashboards and reports."
"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"I like SAP's premade workflows for various areas, such as supply chain, procurement, or finance."
"If you are well versed in SAP, the initial setup is pretty simple."
"The solution is very stable."
"It automates transactional processes."
"The most valuable features are the claim management."
"SAP ERP is one of the most well-integrated solutions with all of the applications in my company, making it one of the most advantageous traits of the product."
"It gives us full control over each change, to the level of the individual field in a master record, including certificates."
"The product connects to every software."
"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."
"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."
"The tool should provide a better user interface."
"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."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"Improvements to the UI. The UI is pretty old, but this will change with the upcoming release of S.4."
"SAP ERP's initial setup phase needs to be simplified."
"When there is a system error it provides an error code and a lot of times these can be complicated. The support team could have more knowledge to be able to assist with these situations more promptly."
"It was not designed to service all industries."
"SAP ERP needs to be more innovative when it comes to areas like mobility and the internet."
"Technical support is an area that is in need of improvement."
"I always prefer using an S/4HANA system."
"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."
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, Odoo, SAP S/4HANA, 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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