We performed a comparison between SAP Business One and SAP S4HANA based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: When comparing SAP Business One and SAP S4HANA, users rate SAP S4HANA as the better solution. In contrast to SAP Business One, reviewers of SAP S4HANA feel that SAP S4HANA is a very powerful and highly customizable tool. That being said, the pricing and service of SAP Business One are rated as better.
"For us, the most useful feature of Business One is Material Requirements Planning (MRP)."
"The document search feature is very good."
"The ability to link documents to accounts, partners and events via the Golden/Yellow Arrow feature is very useful."
"The solution has all the basic features that are required for us."
"The solution is user-friendly in comparison with Oracle."
"The Material Requirements Planning (MRP) feature of SAP Business One has been most beneficial for our reporting needs."
"Business One's best feature is transport management and collections."
"It offers users a rather simple interface."
"S/4HANA is so much faster today than it was before. High performance is one of the best features, but the backbone of S/4HANA is its integration capabilities. They've also shifted to a focus on user experience."
"One of the things I like about it is its well-integrated and secure nature."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of SAP S/4HANA is the innovational process. We are able to receive more efficiency or accuracy than previous versions."
"It is a very scalable solution. We have enterprise-level businesses using this solution."
"It's reliable and the performance is good."
"In terms of its most valuable feature, I would say the finance module."
"S/4HANA falls under a single terminal. We can easily access the data, and the performance is good."
"The solution needs to have comprehensive visibility into the entire sales-to-purchase cycle, enabling businesses to monitor SO-PO relationships, track order progress, and generate insightful reports."
"SAP Business One could be improved if SAP creates one platform to integrate different solutions, particularly having a multi-company concept rather than having different databases. The solution could be similar to SAP S/4 Hana and the SAP Business ByDesign concept."
"The solution could improve by providing HR payroll, quality control, and maintenance. These are the missing features which we have to use add-ons solutions to provide the functionality."
"SAP Business One would be a great product if more customization is available."
"Lacks an advanced HR model with payroll."
"SAP Business One could improve project management, quality assurance, material management, forecasting, full costing, and quality control. Many modules are missing in this solution."
"The installation process could be easier. They should have better tools to improve the effectiveness of the installation."
"In terms of business processes, the production could use improvement."
"The migration to SAP S/4HANA is hard."
"Items that impact the TCO should be improved because the solution is very complex to integrate and keep running."
"Every year, when a new version is released, it comes with a very thick booklet of 300 or 400 pages and it is a little difficult to comprehend."
"So, there is room for improvement in pricing. HANA is not a simple product; it's quite complex by design."
"We found that the implementing partners themselves are struggling with S4HANA's features. It's not an exact translation of the older ECC, so SAP has taken a new route to do things with S4HANA. Maybe it's a good product, but the implementing partners also like to have an in-depth understanding of the full feature set the product offers."
"In an upcoming release of SAP S4HANA, chain management should be easier."
"The resource usage could be improved - it's memory-hungry, so mid-range servers struggle to run it."
"The install can be difficult. There's something called secondary sales solutions that is not there in SAP. We need to have third-party tools to integrate to do the automatization. The two parts are missing on the secondary sales solution and automation."
SAP Business One is ranked 3rd in ERP with 29 reviews while SAP S/4HANA is ranked 2nd in ERP with 22 reviews. SAP Business One is rated 8.0, while SAP S/4HANA is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Business One writes "Caters to the company's B2B business model and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP S/4HANA writes "The solution is highly scalable, with solid performance and integration". SAP Business One is most compared with SAP ERP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Epicor ERP, whereas SAP S/4HANA is most compared with SAP ERP, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, NetSuite ERP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Oracle E-Business Suite. See our SAP Business One vs. SAP S/4HANA report.
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Hi Shibu,
Here is a brief comparison between SAPB1 and SAP S/4 Hana. SAP B1 was not originally a SAP product it was a product developed by an Israel founder in 195 built only for MAC OS SAP bought it over in 2003, Whereas SAP S/4 Hana is natively built by SAP.
Scope and Complexity:
SAP B1: SAP Business One is designed for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and covers a broad range of business processes, including accounting, inventory management, and sales.
SAP S/4HANA: SAP S/4HANA is an enterprise-level solution designed for larger organizations, offering a more comprehensive suite of applications that include advanced analytics, industry-specific features, and support for complex business processes. It's strong in manufacturing, Service industry, government, and Oil & Gas industries.
Database Technology:
SAP B1: SAP B1 typically uses Microsoft SQL Server as its underlying database management system, but there is a new variant where you can use the HANA database with Business One.
SAP S/4HANA: SAP S/4HANA uses in-memory computing and the SAP HANA database, which enables real-time data processing, faster reporting, and advanced analytics capabilities. This technology shift is a major differentiator and provides significant performance advantages.
Scalability:
SAP B1: SAP B1 is not scalable for large organizations due to the complexity of the processes.
SAP S/4HANA: SAP S/4HANA is made for larger organizations which can cater to any complicated business processes.
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Hello Shibu, I am writing this answer on behalf of a Director at a small tech services company:
The key difference is about 2 and a half million dollars - jokingly - we’ve had some clients go with B1 and the projects were smallish - $70k - $120k. We’ve also had clients spending nearly $3m on S/4HANA projects. I’d say B1 is more for mid-market, and S/4HANA is a tier one large company, Fortune 1000 size project. Now of course that’s super generalized from a small sample size - for what it’s worth.