Alibaba Cloud vs SAP Business One on AWS comparison

"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."

"Flexibility and costs were probably the most important thing for us. The cost was one of the big factors for choosing Alibaba Cloud relative to other cloud solutions, especially in Asia"

"We use the solution to run VMs."

"It is easy to set up."

"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."

"Alibaba Cloud has lower costs and good support."

"The installation is easy."

"The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable. It's quite inexpensive."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to access it from anywhere."

"The most valuable aspect is that it is easy to use the software."

"The maintenance is a significant advantage as it is supported by the international community rather than the local community."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"Technical support from SAP is great."

"As a business technology platform, it is a flexible platform. It enables the customer to do faster integrations, and the solution's functioning requires low cost."

"The product is very user-friendly."

"With the tool, there is no shutdown or breakdown time my company experiences."

"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."

"It is not robust."

"From the improvement point of view, there are lots of issues that we are facing. In all the areas, it seems like it is not mature. For example, a customer wants to provision some VM that has many configurations. If I want to show the price to the customer, it is very challenging. The SDK that Alibaba has provided is very limited. We can have the pricing for VM, but we cannot have pricing for RDS databases or some other services. This is a big concern area for us. They should put more effort into the SDKs or APIs that they provide, for example, pricing APIs or pricing SDK. They do not provide support for most of the services they provide. For example, if I want to get the price of MongoDB, that SDK is not available from Alibaba. Similarly, robust API support is required for S3, which is OSS or Object Storage, so that we can read the data in a faster manner, for example, in chunks. We have raised many issues with the Alibaba support team, and they have been fixing the issues after we report them."

"The solution’s user interface could be improved."

"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."

"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."

"Alibaba Cloud has some problems related to latency and connection issues. If you go for a cloud solution provider, you will need to access the Internet, which may result in latency and bandwidth issues, leading to slowness in operations."

"The solution name is not favorable in some markets and could cause us some problems gaining customers."

"It would be beneficial to have access to real-time data from our machines."

"The reporting can be improved. Also, it is an expensive solution, and you need consultants for new interfaces as it's very rigid otherwise."

"The technical support from SAP is very restricted to its knowledge base. It does not add much beyond what is already available in the knowledge base."

"The browser access needs to improve, as everybody in the industry knows how limited it is."

"Analytics could be much better."

"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."

"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."

"There is a need to make multiple changes in the code to make a few changes in any module of the product."

"I'm not sure about the exact pricing, but let's just say if it cost a dollar for Amazon AWS, it was closer to 70 to 80 cents for Alibaba Cloud."

"Alibaba Cloud is cheaper."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"Pricing for Alibaba Cloud is a little bit cheaper. It has reasonable pricing."

"The cost is better than similar solutions."

"I don't know the exact cost. It is cheaper than AWS."

"We cut our costs significantly by migrating our infrastructure to the cloud. Alibaba Cloud employs a pay-as-you-go model, so that minimizes many costs for us."

"The price of Alibaba Cloud is good. If I was to use Microsoft Azure I would have to pay 30 percent more."

"The product's license is expensive. It could be cheaper."

"Licenses are available on a monthly or yearly basis, and it costs about $1,200 per license, per user."

"Pricing for me, it's not very interesting. I think it's priced at a normal level."

"Though I cannot specifically state whether SAP Business One on AWS is a cheap or expensive product, I can surely say that it is a manageable tool from a cost perspective."

"The tool has better pricing models than S/4 HANA."

"The price of SAP Business One on AWS could be lower, it is expensive."

"We have an annual cost for licensing and storage in AWS."

"The price of the limited version is about 70,000 Pesos ($2,900 USD), and the professional version is about double at 140,000 Pesos ($5,800 USD)."