SAP ERP Scalability
The scalability is amazing. The solution is the number one ERP in the world and can be scaled up to any size.
In 2004, I was working for Deloitte with a company called Rohm and Haas that was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. They have since been acquired by Dow Chemicals. But at the time, they implemented the solution for 178 countries throughout the globe in one single instance. That is the level of scalability. It is huge.
View full review »In terms of scalability, SAP offers quite a high grade for organizational change possibilities. It's manageable to plan organizational changes, and there is a lot of information available and SAP consultants on the market who can help with this.
View full review »In terms of scalability, everything is very modular. It would be great if you could combine everything.
I would rate the scalability a five or six out of ten.
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Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
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TomášZelina
CEO at Lifestyle Services Group (part of Phones4U)
Yes, it's highly scalable. SAP ERP operates within an open-source framework, allowing clients the flexibility to modify anything they need. If they wish to make changes, we consult with them, understand their requirements, and then write the necessary programs to accommodate those changes.
Around 200 people in my company work with the solution.
View full review »The scalability of SAP ERP is very good, allowing companies to grow and expand their operations in various areas and industries. The scalability is the best.
View full review »The solution is scalable. We can add users to the system without issues, but getting them loaded on the system requires approval. When you load a user on SAP and understand what the user is supposed to do, it takes you about five minutes to load the user. Currently, we have about 638 users on the system, and about 60% are active users. Currently, we have about 638 users in different roles on the system.
View full review »It offers good scalability. I'd rate the ability to expand eight out of ten. You can grow out f you need to.
We do not have plans to change solutions. While we're planning to switch to the new version of SAP S/4, we will stay with our ERP.
View full review »I will need to have more experience with the product to comment on this.
SAP ERP is scalable. You are able to add administrative modules to increase the features. There are many other modules that can be added, such as the Linux framework and the business technology platform.
For an on-premise deployment, there needs to be administration monitoring of all services. This is because there can be a lot of resources being used that have to be monitored on the server. We have found some instances of overloading in the reports.
The cloud deployment is managed by the cloud provider and it is highly scalable.
I have approximately 10 clients using this solution.
I rate the scalability of SAP ERP a nine out of ten.
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RajPatnaik
SAP Platform Advisory at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is highly scalable.
View full review »I rate the scalability of SAP ERP a ten out of ten.
View full review »Right now, because of all these different deployment methods like cloud, the scalability is very good. There are plenty of options you can select. It's not a pure public cloud solution. You still have the possibility to go for on-premise or to go for hybrid and use these super large services like Amazon Web Services or go with a small private IT provider. Scalability is very high in my opinion.
View full review »The tool provides the scalability we need. We have around 250 users.
View full review »The tool is scalable. My company has around 2,000 employees.
View full review »We have hundreds of users that are using SAP ERP.
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Michael Liu
Sr. Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
It is a scalable product. In our company, we have around 200 licensed users for SAP ERP. When it comes to administration and maintenance, we have only one system administrator for the basic IT needs. Additionally, we have less than ten people handling application-related IT tasks. Overall, the management is straightforward, with a small team handling the responsibilities.
SAP ERP is scalable.
View full review »It's scalable.
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reviewer1834797
Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
It is a very scalable solution but it can be cost-prohibitive at the same time due to the time it takes.
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Mohit V
Consultant at RDM Tech Solutions
I would say that the scalability is around a seven on a scale of one to ten.
View full review »Companies in certain segments find the solution scalable. For companies that require SAP, where employees are required to have high flexibility in changing processes, SAP ERP is not the right software. However, the solution is very scalable for large companies with 1,000 employees and more.
When I was using SAP, there were 80,000 users.
It is a scalable solution; our organization has around 250 solution users.
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reviewer1955337
ICT Consultant, CEO, Entrepreneur at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's not appropriate for smaller companies. For example, ECC 6.0 has a lot of modules that a small customer may not use.
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ImranHasware
Vice President at Abacus Consulting
The tool is scalable and I would rate its scalability a nine out of ten. We have around 40 customers for the solution.
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Mauro Del Quondam
IT Development Director at Lottomatica SpA
In the company where I worked before, we had a large installation of SAP with approximately 10,000 licensed users. The solution was able to handle it without a problem and we were using the classic version of the Oracle database.
In the company I work for currently, we do smaller installations of approximately 350 users. We have not had any problem or any issue regarding performance, it is highly scalable. However, working with S/4 HANA, where all the database is working in the RAM memory could pose some difficulties if you want to scale because you would have to have a computer system with a large number of gigabytes of RAM.
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reviewer1585932
Senior Application Delivery Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We are using it on a daily basis 24/7. Currently, there is no plan to add additional users. However, if we upgrade to S/4HANA, we will get new functionality and features. Most likely, we will also have more users.
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reviewer2302884
Manager, Robotics & Automation Systems at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Around 400 people in my company use the tool.
The tool is used daily in my company.
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reviewer1759518
DGM HR at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It's scalable.
There are currently 8,000 users who use SAP in my company. Our IT team maintains it.
We do not have plans to increase usage. SAP has said that they are dropping the ERP part. They advise moving on to SuccessFactors for HR. SAP themselves has said not to go forward with more usage, but to change the system.
View full review »I doubt if it is scalable. That's because it is on-prem, so you have a lot of parameters, and scalability would be a little bit hard.
We have 130 people, but in my company, only about 65 people are using it. It is being used every minute of every day. There might be a plan for expanding its usage, but I am not sure.
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Neeraj Jain
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
The product can scale. If a company needs to expand it, it's not a problem. Users should be able to do so.
It is scalable in the sense that tomorrow if you have 10 users, you can scale it to 50 users, 50 to 100. That's not a problem. It's pretty easy to scale. SAP is now pushing cloud. It used to be on-premise. When it was on-premise you would have to change your hardware. Now, that is not necessarily the case.
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Christophe VANDEWEGHE
Director of Transformation SAP at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
Scalability has not been an issue for our customers. Our smaller clients have between 2,000 and 3,000 users, whereas a large company has between 10,000 and 20,000 users.
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Azzedine Allouache
GLOBAL ERP (SHIFT) Logical design and Technical Integration Lead at Sanofi
This product is very scalable and easy to expand.
We have approximately 40,000 users.
View full review »The product is scalable and suitable for large enterprises.
View full review »I cannot comment on scalability. I've never tried to scale.
View full review »It is very scalable. There are only a few companies that can actually deliver an ERP or the overall business model solution at this scale. There are not a lot of players. We have SAP, and we have Epicor and others too, but we know that Epicor can never scale up to what a national service provider would need. We are talking about serving 80,000 or 85,000 people on a daily basis, so a different type of business scalability is required. Overall, we have about 10 clients who use this solution.
This is a very scalable solution.
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reviewer1414839
EAM Executive at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is scalable. It has to be scalable. Otherwise, SAP will not be able to survive.
Currently, we have 5,000 to 6,000 people who are using SAP ERP as end-users. On the development side, we have around 40 to 50 people, and they are technical consultants and functional consultants. For maintenance, we have around 40 people from different function models.
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Shahzad-Islam
ERP Project Manager & Managing Consultant at Liwa Education, Iranfava
The scalability is very good. If a company needs to expand it, it can. It's ideally for large organizations.
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Usman Saleem
Senior Manager IT Business Systems Architect / SAP Project Manager at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
The solution is very easy to scale. IOf a company needs to expand it, it can do so.
It's also very easy to integrate with other solutions and legacy systems.
We have about 500 users on the solution currently. We use it quite regularly.
View full review »The scalability of SAP ERP is very good.
View full review »The solution is scalable.
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Jesús Antonio Santos Giraldo
Development Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable. We also have multiple back up systems so if one goes down there is immediate back up that's transparent for the user, because we're totally dependent on our systems.
Yes. Sybase, the newly-acquired RDBMS SAP was purchased and we were integrating it into the ERP, didn't scale well and was slow initially. Being one of the first customers of the Sybase/SAP ERP combo, I was disappointed that SAP didn't test out its integration with Sybase thoroughly prior to release.
Aside from the patch, this problem was solved by changing the worker thread parameter on Sybase. We had to rely on our own knowledge based on our previous experience with Sybase.
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reviewer1635108
Senior SAP Solutions Analyst at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
SAP ERP is very hard to scale, it is very time-consuming, and once fully implemented it is normally fixed.
We have approximately 350 users using the solution. It is extensively used, every single position in the company uses SAP, which includes but is not limited to, customer service, customer service managers, purchasing, purchasing director, finance, and finance controller.
View full review »I have encountered scalability issues, but not to a critical extent.
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reviewer1330479
Senior Solutions Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
This solution is scalable.
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MARTIN BAÑALES
Independent Consultant at Bosch&Cia
The solution is scalable, and we have two people for deployment and maintenance.
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reviewer1552263
Sr. SAP Portfolio Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
SAP ERP is scalable. We have some five to ten thousand SAP ERP users.
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Murugesh Vellu
Deputy Manager - SAP / ERP at Cooper Corporation Pvt Ltd
It is scalable. We have around 180 users. We have licenses for 250 users, but 180 users are actively using the system.
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CSD174561
Chief of Systems Development at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees
We don't have scalability problems. We can go 100 times our volume of transactions and we won't have any problems with it. We are not a very big shop so we don't have any problems, nor do we think that in the future we are going to have trouble with it.
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reviewer1542249
Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
This solution is scalable.
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Samuel Hon
IT Manager at Chun Wo Construction
I haven't really dealt too much with scalability. Our company has been pretty steady in terms of usage. We haven't really increased anything. IN our environment, scalability isn't so much of an issue.
That sai, it is my understanding that the solution scales well, and if a company needs to expand it, they can do so with relative ease.
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reviewer1307565
Digital Transformation Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability could be better, it is not simple to do.
We have approximately 300 users using this solution. We are not planning to increase usage.
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reviewer1045770
Head of ICT Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its scalability is good, but it is not flexible.
We can keep going with SAP. We have been growing, and we have been adding new business entities to our SAP. The number of enterprises that we manage with our SAP is growing. So, it is scalable.
View full review »Never encountered issues.
View full review »It is scalable. We have about 15 companies using SAP ERP.
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reviewer1415319
Manager - Business Intelligence, Business Relationship Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is scalable. There are four plants in my area and about 100 people using SAP. There are many, many more users worldwide.
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reviewer1549338
Head of Product Operations Planning at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very scalable. It's just a matter of cost. We have 100 to 150 users at the moment.
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reviewer1512006
Sr. Manager IT at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability is not really relevant in this type of product.
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Najva Mahdzadeh
Senior Business Process Analyst (BPM-BPMS) at Jiring
SAP ERP has been used in many large companies, so I guess it has a reputation for being scalable. In my company, we have about 10 to 20 people using the product. But we are a small part related to a large company . In that parent company, there are somewhere between 2,000 or 3,000 people who are using SAP.
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AppArch25
Applications Architecture at a engineering company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The scalability is good.
View full review »I have found SAP ERP scalable.
We have approximately 100 people using this solution in my organization.
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reviewer1467861
SAP Architect/ Business Analyst BPC, BW , SAC , FI at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
The scalability of SAP ERP depends on different modules.
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reviewer1676889
Project and Service delivery Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I was doing working with three different companies for the past 15 years as well as a couple of external clients. I've used it across a few different industries.
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Muralidhara H N
SAP Professional at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
There have been no issues scaling it.
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reviewer1471602
Associate Director at a tech company with 201-500 employees
This is a scalable solution that comes with many options and add-ons.
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reviewer1422672
Azure Cloud Solution Architect(CSA) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is a bit smaller than I prefer to use, however, we don't have to take too many liberties with it, so, for us, it's fine.
We have about 20 users on the product currently.
View full review »The solution is very scalable. It's quite a sizeable product, to begin with. Users would have no problem expanding it out if they need to.
We have around 1,000 users on the solution currently.
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reviewer1477425
Associate Manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Most customers are moving to the cloud so scalability is not an issue. We have an internal team of around 10 people who deal with engineering software. We have hundreds of users of this product.
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Nam Doan
Java Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
On average, the companies that use SAP ERP have around 50 users.
=> I mean that related to license, company may has over 200 or 300 employees, but company only buys 50 account for 50, 70 end-users to use system.
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reviewer1383990
Solution Application Development Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
We have between 18 and 20 people who regularly use this ERP.
View full review »We have not encountered any scalability issues.
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reviewer1466862
Manager Finance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is also scalable. Currently, we have more than a thousand users.
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reviewer1422321
Vice President at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
SAP ERP is scalable. Our current user base is maybe around 1,000 people. We should be able to increase that at will if we have the need.
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reviewer1414206
SAP Basis Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
SAP ERP is very scalable.
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