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Anthoology Student vs Epicor ERP comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Anthoology Student
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Student Information System (SIS) (12th)
Epicor ERP
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
ERP (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Anthoology Student and Epicor ERP aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Anthoology Student is designed for Student Information System (SIS) and holds a mindshare of 2.5%, up 1.8% compared to last year.
Epicor ERP, on the other hand, focuses on ERP, holds 2.9% mindshare, down 3.2% since last year.
Student Information System (SIS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Anthoology Student2.5%
Ellucian7.8%
Blackbaud SIS6.6%
Other83.1%
Student Information System (SIS)
ERP Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Epicor ERP2.9%
SAP ERP10.4%
SAP S/4HANA6.3%
Other80.4%
ERP
 

Featured Reviews

it_user625116 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications Systems Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The features that are most valuable are auto-triggers for activities, an integrated portal, and automated student status changes. There is nothing that will help with standards-based grading.
* CampusPortal is in need of an update: This is coming later in 2017. * Clock hour programs work OK in CampusVue, but they are not setup as well as credit programs * Grading is centered around letter grades. There is nothing in CampusVue that will help with standards-based grading.
Khalid Jalal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Group Ict at Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Co. B. S. C. (c)
Requires extensive customization and fails to meet manufacturing needs
My overall experience with Epicor ERP is extremely bad. I just finished a call with the team, and the experience is really unsatisfactory. I will not recommend it to anyone. There's extensive customization required for Epicor ERP, and the standard process is not suitable. Though it is meant for manufacturing, it is not performing the manufacturing job effectively. Regarding the installation process, the implementation is not the problem as the installation is fine. The issue lies with configuration. Although it's supposed to be configurable, it requires customization for everything we need to do. When comparing to JD Edwards and in-house applications, a process that takes one minute in those systems takes ten minutes in Epicor ERP because users have to navigate through different screens constantly. If a user forgets to switch to one screen, the process remains incomplete, making end-user training extremely difficult. There's no automation and workflow feature that can be used without customization. Everything requires changes, making it similar to developing a new platform from scratch. Initially, we anticipated some benefits from using Epicor ERP, but based on the current outcome, it has been completely unsuccessful. The main issue is that everything requires customization rather than configuration. Unless they change their whole approach from customization to configuration, this product should not be used anywhere.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"CampusNexus Student provides everything needed in an SIS."
"The most valuable features of Epicor ERP are ease of use, powerful API, and comprehensive integration. It is a one-vendor solution, where other vendors need other software systems from multiple vendors."
"I find the job management features of Epicor ERP most useful, especially for material planning. The ERP gives a perfect overview of many aspects. The scheduling is also helpful. It lets us see what we're planning and try different scenarios. For real-time analytics, I use it mostly for planning and "what if" scenarios."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making, but not as fast as we want due to internal processes."
"For the past two years, my focus has been fully on Epicor ERP, and there are many new features which we did not deploy in our platform."
"Epicor ERP is very technical friendly, if you want to do any customization, it's very easy."
"The positive impacts I see from Epicor ERP include operational efficiency and productivity improvement; these are the two major things, and the major benefit is the data discipline and the usage of data in a meaningful way."
"The product enables users to customize their dashboards and reports."
"It has helped control operations in our Storage and Distribution Center, including processes such as Product reception, Inventory, Quality and inspection management, Shipping, General ledger, and Invoicing."
 

Cons

"CampusPortal is in need of an update: This is coming later in 2017."
"Epicor doesn't really have a proper cloud solution there, although they claim they do."
"There needs to be a better POS. Epicor offers a third-party POS which is expensive."
"AI and additional improvements could be made."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool; it is hard to use right now because it has a lot of customizations, and we are having issues pulling the reports."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"The UI is quite logical, but it needs time to train users because some functions are complex to understand. As for cons, some calculation logic is difficult to grasp and requires time to test and try out. Creating dashboards or reports needs some technical IT knowledge."
"In the newer version of Epicor ERP, it's very difficult to find out that tracing."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Epicor ERP is an expensive solution."
"User support could be improved as well, as the consultant charges are very high."
"The initial cost may be a bit high, but the maintenance cost is lower."
"Pricing isn't a big problem for the solution - I haven't seen them lose deals because of it."
"We bought an on-premise version of the solution. The cloud version is different. I've looked into it, but it's very competitive on the low end of the market."
"When comparing Epicor ERP to the other related products, the pricing, additional enhancements, as well as implementation, are better."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Non Profit
35%
Media Company
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
20%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise2
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Epicor ERP?
My experience with Epicor ERP pricing is that it is fairly priced, targeting more mid-size and small organizations. However, from that perspective, they are slightly higher priced, as some smaller ...
What needs improvement with Epicor ERP?
I see a few areas that can be improved. The localization is not good; for local taxes and statutory compliances, manual work is being done and other packages are being integrated for tax purposes. ...
What is your primary use case for Epicor ERP?
My clients are using Epicor ERP for all their operations. They are a mid-size or small-sized manufacturing company, and Epicor ERP covers finance, production, planning, and procurement functions ex...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

CampusNexus Student, CampusVue
Epicor SaaS ERP
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Valley College, Harrison College, Baptist Bible College, Minnesota School of Business, Union Graduate College
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