SAP Business One on AWS Room for Improvement

MR
Innovation and Technology Head at APPTech

The web client is an area with shortcomings, which SAP is presently working on, and needs to improve.

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Muhammad Shehzad - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior SAP Consultant at AlEssa

The warehouse management system requires further improvement. Right now, there is no built-in application for using barcodes or QR codes by the warehouse or operational teams. Customers often rely on third-party add-ons for such features.

There should be a mobile-based handheld application, especially for the warehouse team or the operational team, to use barcode-based or QR-based scanning.

In additional features, it would be great if the mobile application supported barcode and QR code usage. If this feature is available, it would be very useful.

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Marco Höpner - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architekt / Cloud Architekt at RealCore

It is hard for the customers to get the product from the market. Improvement-wise, it can shorten its time to reach the markets.

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MR
Innovation and Technology Head at APPTech

The browser access needs to improve, as everybody in the industry knows how limited it is. Everybody is excited for the next version to come out with the web-based client.

I would like to see a full Linux version available in the future.

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Joseph Daniel - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Technology at Shachihata India pvt ltd

There are a couple of significant challenges we're currently facing. First, our production team can't make use of the production planning features, as they require a Professional license and we only have access to the Logistics license, which is limiting our capabilities. The majority of the reports we generate are intended for managerial purposes. While most reports are straightforward to comprehend, there are a few exceptions that can be quite complex. It would be beneficial to have access to real-time data from our machines. This is crucial for monitoring all activities within our manufacturing processes, from software operations to the machinery used.

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Sumit P - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Executive at Dev Information Tech Pvt Ltd

There are certain areas of concern in SAP Business One, and I feel that to address them, I need to prepare a document. In SAP Business One, there are many things that we need to code for certain custom things in the product, which is very prevalent when it comes to the product's QM module. There is a need to make multiple changes in the code to make a few changes in any module of the product. The aforementioned aspects of the solution can be considered for improvement.

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LilianGarcia - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Strategic Projects at Integra

Well, we have made some improvements like making new rules or new fields that we need for our business process. Overall, though, the processes that already exist in the tool have been very useful for us and we have been using them the way that they are and just making little customizations for our company.

Adding an HR feature would be great. SAP has another model that is only HR, but it works separately more for big companies instead of ones like ours that use Business One. If we could have something to manage HR stock, that would be great. I would also be interested in a model that would manage travel expenses.

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, instead of just moving that purchase order to a different project. That would be really useful for us, because our company works by project, so if a purchase order is on an incorrect project, we have to delete everything and then start the process again with the new project.

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CM
Group financial manager at Vusela Risk Services

The reporting can be improved. Also, it is an expensive solution, and you need consultants for new interfaces as it's very rigid otherwise. One can train themselves to do the basics, but when you have a system, you are bound to go for a new interface. The openness for the APIs is very weak. Creating interfaces afterward also becomes very expensive.


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MP
Practice Head at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Analytics could be much better. The solution must provide a lot of options so that the analytics dashboard looks much better. The vendor must bring in more analytics features. Currently, the analytics features are decent but not great. The production modules and HR components must be improved. Production planning and detailed warehouse management features must be improved.

While migrating to AWS, we faced certain issues with the API integration and the configuration of the add-ons. We thought changes wouldn't be required, but some changes were required. We also faced some challenges with the compatibility of the patches. The additional functionalities must be more flexible and scalable.

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Yasar Ahsan - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of ERP Systems at Al Noor Group

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.

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Prabhakara Sastry - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at IKYAM

Business One is simple to install, but with HANA, it becomes a resource-hungry system, requiring much maintenance. For small customers, this can be a showstopper. Medium-sized companies can afford the maintenance, but small businesses may struggle. Maintaining HANA for user licenses and scalability can be challenging, especially for consolidation and intercompany processes.

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Atta Atta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Production Planner at EGIC

The product's UI could be better. The AI tools, programming languages, and dashboard customization should be easier.

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CY
CEO at Data Click Solutions

I haven't yet seen the cost-benefit of being on AWS. I'm not able to compare the monthly costs, so the pricing could be improved.

I would like to achieve better integration with AWS so that it becomes more interconnected with the SAP system. If a company already has an existing HRMS system and another inventory system, integration between one on-premise and the other on AWS might pose difficulties. Integrating one system on the cloud and another on-premise seems challenging, and I can't imagine how it would work seamlessly. Perhaps it could be possible if both systems were migrated to the cloud. For example, if they move the HRMS to the cloud and ensure that the two systems can integrate with each other in the cloud.

I would like to have additional party modules available with SAP Business One. If additional accounts are available, customers can also subscribe to other supplementary products alongside SAP Business One, thus creating a package.

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MohammadShafiullah - PeerSpot reviewer
MANAGER - IT SYSTEMS at Fabtech

It would be better if the solution was on a cloud infrastructure. The deployment should be made available in the cloud infrastructure. In short, the tool should be available in the cloud-native.

The solution needs to be more scalable.

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Eshvanth Singh G - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The tool's cost is an area of concern where improvements are required. Though the tool's cost is reasonable, it could be made a bit cheaper so that more people can utilize its services, especially by SMEs, where the price of the tool may seem a bit high.

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Manisha Khanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Planning and Forecasting at Selec Controls Pvt. Ltd.

There is some room for improvement with the scalability and the pricing of the product.

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Milton Palacios - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager BI at Exxis

SAP Business One on AWS could improve by adding more functionality to the web client.

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Oswaldo Figueredo - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer and Infrastructure Management at Colciencias

SAP Business One on AWS could improve by having more customization and more user-friendly automation.

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SO
IT Consultant at Wescgace

Presently the vendor that is deploying it has lots of challenges. They are implementing it now, but we've not really signed it up. The challenge we are currently facing is that we are trying to integrate it with an SSL, or adding the SSL certificate. That is proving to be quite a challenge. That's mapping the private IP address with the public IP address.

I feel that these vendors must be well trained so that they can deploy this solution. The challenge is that they know the internal configuration, but they don't know how to configure it on a server. I don't think they have good knowledge of server security. 

What we are basically using it for, is as an accounting package. So the vendors need to have a very good understanding of accounting and balancing accounts. They are not well-grounded.

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SB
Client Relationship Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The look-and-feel of the system is quite outdated as compared to a lot of other products out there. They are more user-friendly, I would say. As someone who has not used accounting products before, they might find it quite overwhelming.

It should be more user-friendly.

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MT
Works at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

The interface needs to be improved. It needs to be more user-friendly.

In future releases, the solution should offer more flexible UI and more analytics.

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HF
General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I would like SAP to replace Business One's fixed Web client with a native Web solution. Right now, their remote access is based on RVP. We have to access the solution through a Windows-based client. It's not a native Web interface. 

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Buyer's Guide
SAP Business One on AWS
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about SAP Business One on AWS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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