We performed a comparison between SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SAP, Microsoft, Oracle and others in ERP."I find everything I need in S4/HANA."
"S/4HANA offers a lot of additional capability with respect to performance due to its in-built architecture for many functions including finance, production, quality, manufacturing, inventory or sales distribution and logistics."
"The key modules that I find most valuable are material management (MM), financial accounting and controlling (FICO), and human resources (HR)."
"I can verify and provide the overall financial aid report and also the management report."
"The solution can scale well."
"We have access to all types of reports in a single solution."
"I have found the most valuable features are the interface, which is very good for all users, and the database performance is good."
"A user-friendly UI with good documentation."
"It is stable and scalable. In the S4HANA plain version, they have new dashboards and things like that."
"The manufacturing area is a good feature."
"The solution is versatile with various integrated tools such as connecting with finance modules, controlling parameters, and creating universal journals."
"The most valuable feature of SAP S/4HANA Cloud is the new UX design."
"The most valuable features of SAP S/4HANA Cloud are the ease of use from the cloud, CapEx analysis report, and everything being connected together well."
"What I like the most about SAP S4HANA is how reliable and powerful it is."
"The reporting that we are doing from SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a valuable feature."
"It is a straightforward solution."
"Their yearly licensing is expensive. Improvements are needed on the user experience level and digital work."
"You will not see convenient user experiences with SAP S4HANA's website or application."
"I'm not a big fan of SAP S/4HANA because it needs a lot of hardware. It is really fast, but it needs a lot of hardware. The hardware for S/4HANA is too expensive."
"The Capex and Opex could be improved."
"I have found the solution to be stable but it could improve."
"SAP S4HANA is not suitable for all-size companies. If you have a small company there are better fit solutions for your needs."
"SAP support provides resolves all our problems, but the response time is slower than our customers expect. Maybe it's because they have such a large customer base and are always occupied, but that's one area all our customers mention."
"The theory-side of the solution needs to be improved."
"I would like to see a feature where it allows integration with more platforms."
"There have been some pain points in moving from SAP to S/4HANA, but the company seems to be staying on top of those issues."
"Integrating SAP with other products like payroll solutions should be smoother. I wish there were some tools a consultant could build according to the client's requirements. For example, say I want to process debit and credits. In SAP, we have to follow SAP terminologies and patterns. I need a template to deploy my structure according to the client's requirements. There is no structure available in SAP that a consultant can mold."
"The pricing is way over any of the other ERPs, and the bank integrations are not perfect. There are a lot of costs for other implementations and integrations with Salesforce and other systems. Rather than being a fully-fledged system on its own like most of the other ERPs, it relies too much on developed integrations by the implementation partner."
"Difficult to install and difficult to test. Testing needs to be improved. Scalability of this solution also needs improvement."
"Public cloud is single-tenant so there are limitations on what can be customized."
"The solution could improve by adding a planning model, such as BPC. Additionally, if we need to make changes in the profit center it has to be done manually. It is not connected to the cost center."
"The price is mainly suitable for larger companies, even then, there may be other, cheaper solutions. Additionally, this solution is the result of multiple acquisitions leaving room for there to be issues with performance."
SAP S/4HANA is ranked 2nd in ERP with 65 reviews while SAP S/4HANA Cloud is ranked 3rd in Cloud ERP with 41 reviews. SAP S/4HANA is rated 8.2, while SAP S/4HANA Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP S/4HANA writes "The solution is highly scalable, with solid performance and integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP S/4HANA Cloud writes "A valuable tool for businesses seeking to enhance their overall performance and competitiveness in the digital era". SAP S/4HANA is most compared with SAP ERP, SAP Business One, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Oracle E-Business Suite, whereas SAP S/4HANA Cloud is most compared with SAP Business ByDesign, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP Business One, IFS Cloud Platform and NetSuite ERP.
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The main difference is RISE is associated with S/4 Product Range on Cloud while By Design is modeled after SAP Business One also on Cloud.
So both are SaaS but the difference is in enterprise size and also application complexities. Also, RISE offers a bundle of pre-configured modules while By Design is similar to B1 with a lot more flexibility and high scalability. License wise both are per user on the cloud.