We performed a comparison between Epicor ERP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 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."With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"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."
"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."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making."
"Epicor ERP is an easy-to-use solution."
"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."
"NAV covers everything from purchasing and selling items to invoicing. Everything is within NAV, so it's all very neat."
"The most valuable features of Business Central for me are its seamless integration with Power BI and the ability to create customized reports."
"The solution makes everything organized for my organization or enterprise. It makes workflows more than clear."
"Its most valuable feature is the user interface."
"Microsoft Dynamic 365 has everything we need, like Teams, Outlook, Excel, etc. I do a lot of data visualization, so I work a lot with Power BI. I bring in tables from Oracle and use Power Bi to manipulate and visualize the data. I handle all the stats and track everything that goes in and out of the company. We use all the modules, but I work primarily with Power BI, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. They are all equally important and work together."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is using the Excel sheets on Chrome and other applications."
"Microsoft Dynamics NAV's most valuable feature is the integration with other Microsoft solutions."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Epicor didn't care about user level and software applications. So, it's not so user-friendly for nontechnical people."
"Right now, it doesn't really have a good cloud story."
"The tool should provide a better user interface."
"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."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"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."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"The stability could always be improved."
"There is some network issue."
"It would be nice if the integration process was easier."
"The solution could include the retail tool in the native version."
"If Microsoft made some of the security setups a little easier to work with, that would be a significant improvement. The warehouse management features could also use some work. We had to buy third-party software to make NAV's warehouse management and security more usable and functional."
"The UI is not particularly user-friendly and the CRM could do with some enhancements."
"The product should improve work optimization."
"There is room for improvement in the ability to reverse or correct transactions more easily."
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Epicor ERP is ranked 17th in ERP with 12 reviews while Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is ranked 3rd in ERP with 62 reviews. Epicor ERP is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 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 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central writes "Easy to deploy, extremely stable, and highly scalable". Epicor ERP is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Odoo, SAP Business One, SAP ERP and NetSuite ERP, whereas Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX, SAP Business One, SAP ERP and IFS Cloud Platform. See our Epicor ERP vs. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central report.
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