The solution's main competitor is Microsoft Dynamics 365. SAP Business One is a great product. If a client does not understand SAP Business One, they can choose Microsoft Dynamics 365.

We have been looking into other options as well. 

We have considered using an add-on to the pack using Oracle NetSuite. They don't have a simple method of using the console or for the implementer to create an add-on. They said it was difficult to communicate on the cloud. There were also some defects when they tried to control everything on their contact form. So it didn't work very well.

We also considered Microsoft Dynamics 365 as well as 1C, which is a domestic solution. It's an accounting system. 1C is a little bit different. It's a four-on-two for forecasting. The 1C accounting system is widely used in Ukraine and Russia. If you compare Business One to, for example, S/4HANA, the price is much, much better. And the consultants are not so specialized if you compare it with S/4HANA, for example.

So in the case of S/4HANA, you should have a team of maybe at least five or six consultants dedicated to particular modules. In the case of Business One, you only need one or two — perhaps one is enough. It has competence in the whole chain, starting from procurement, production, and sales.

The functionality is much lighter than the big SAP, so you can have just one brain covering the whole process. It's easier to build and implement something as well as to improve it and communicate with different functions.

I did not evaluate any other solutions because SAP Business One is the best.

We compared it with Microsoft. Three companies that we checked were SAP, Microsoft, and there are other local companies that we have here in Brazil.

The pricing for each was very close. It was not very different from Microsoft to SAP Business One at that time.

We looked at all the major small to mid-size ERP packages available. We went with SAP due to the fact that they are the 800-pound gorilla in the ERP marketplace. 

They have about a 65% global market share in ERP systems, so they're not going to go away anytime. Plus, they take what they learn in their big products that cost millions of dollars and put it into the Business One allocation so that you have a lot of pre-designed capabilities out of the box that you just can't get in a smaller solution. Those were our primary decisions on why we went the way we did.

I evaluated Microsoft Dynamics and Oracle NetSuite. The Microsoft solution costs more, and they have add-ons instead of customization.

The solution is user-friendly in comparison with Oracle.

I evaluated Tally, a local Indian product, but it lacked data security.

We are currently working towards implementing the cloud-based, AWS, or Azure model.

As a reseller, we evaluate various solutions. In the medium to large companies, we mostly shortlist SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business One. The clients try to decide between S/4HANA and SAP Business One. This causes some confusion sometimes because there is a huge price difference between the two products. Of course, there are big differences in functionality. The question becomes whether the functionality of SAP Business One is enough for the customer's needs or not. I try to help them in making these decisions by providing clues about how the products differ and how they could fill the customer's needs.  

Murano from Sage, and Deister Software (Spain - a local solution).

I am aware of other solutions, such as Microsoft Dynamics. They are more of a two-tier ERP and have cloud functionality.