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Epicor ERP vs IFS Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Epicor ERP led to varied success in efficiency and cost savings, with some organizations achieving significant operational improvements.
Sentiment score
5.6
Users reported improved operations and financial reporting with IFS Cloud, seeing up to 4.5x ROI over 18 months.
It continued to make the company lean and more profitable by providing tools to manage business operations better, such as production scheduling, finance, and estimating products.
We have saved the equivalent of three or four man-days a week across the business.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.8
Epicor ERP's customer support is inconsistent, with mixed reviews on technical help, quick responses, and variable problem-solving effectiveness.
Sentiment score
6.0
Australian support is strong with expert consultants, but timeliness and service consistency vary, impacting resolution times and communication.
Epicor's support is strong with extensive self-help options.
When issues are raised to customer support, they direct us to work with the partner.
The technical support is good and rated eight.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Epicor ERP offers scalability for small to medium enterprises, accommodating numerous users and diverse functionalities but not extremely large organizations.
Sentiment score
7.7
IFS Cloud Platform is scalable for businesses of all sizes, though some face complexity in updates and dependency management.
Epicor ERP scales extremely well, allowing for multi-company and multi-plant operations.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Epicor ERP stability varies across versions, with improvements in 10.2, yet updates still cause crashes for some users.
Sentiment score
8.0
IFS Cloud Platform is praised for stability and reliability, with rare downtime, and depends on client maintenance and setup.
Epicor ERP has experienced multiple crashes and performance drops multiple times.
 

Room For Improvement

Epicor ERP is complex, costly, and lacks updates, hindering user adoption with insufficient automation and demanding customization.
IFS Cloud Platform requires usability, integration, and support improvements, along with enhanced customization, AI, and simplified user experience.
There's extensive customization required for Epicor ERP, and the standard process is not suitable.
There is not much available online, and the documentation availability is on the lower side compared to other products, especially Maximo.
 

Setup Cost

Epicor ERP costs start at $110,000 with $9,000 annually, featuring flexible licensing, customizable options, and competitive pricing.
IFS Cloud Platform offers competitive pricing, best for large enterprises, with scalable value similar to SAP and Oracle.
While the exact current licensing costs are confidential, it is approximately 50% of Oracle's cost.
Epicor ERP is value-conscious in pricing, offering more compared to competitors.
We are satisfied with the pricing and anticipate savings of seventeen percent across the organization.
 

Valuable Features

Epicor ERP offers user-friendly customization, powerful integration, comprehensive analytics, and supports diverse manufacturing needs with insightful features.
IFS Cloud Platform offers customizable pricing, robust integration, intuitive interface, and excels in enterprise management with adaptable features.
The real-time analytics support decision-making by using dashboards to manage insights for roles throughout the company, including production, finance, sales, and purchasing.
The most significant features of Epicor ERP for our business process are quality control and supply chain management.
If you're doing a project management module, it is linked with finance. Unless finance is implemented, this module cannot be completed.
There are fewer fields on the user screen compared to other products.
 

Categories and Ranking

Epicor ERP
Ranking in ERP
13th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IFS Cloud Platform
Ranking in ERP
12th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
CRM (21st), Customer Experience Management (7th), Field Service Management (2nd), Help Desk Software (12th), Activity Based Costing Software (7th), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) (2nd), Local Government CRM (9th), IT Asset Management (10th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (11th), License Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the ERP category, the mindshare of Epicor ERP is 3.7%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IFS Cloud Platform is 2.5%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
ERP
 

Featured Reviews

Khalid Jalal - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Brendan Fisher - PeerSpot reviewer
Robust, customizable, and modern
IFS is a very large and complex software, and implementation of IFS can be challenging and may lead to a difficult lengthy project. It can take between 12 and 24 months in some cases to deploy. I have found that not all clients are fully aware of how big the task is that they're undertaking when they make a decision to move to software like this. Companies need to be more aware of the complexity of an ERP implementation project and while I fully recommend moving to IFS, it is not easy and does require business change when adopting an ERP solution. New features are a difficult ask - I work across multiple industries and everyone would probably choose a different feature. Maybe BIM in Construction or Customs link-ups for importers/exporters.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
19%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
Computer Software Company
20%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Epicor ERP?
Epicor ERP is value-conscious in pricing, offering more compared to competitors. Although there are cheaper systems available, Epicor competes well on price.
What needs improvement with Epicor ERP?
There are areas for improvement in human resources within Epicor ERP's cloud environment; although strong, these areas could be enhanced.
What is your primary use case for Epicor ERP?
We use Epicor ERP ( /products/epicor-erp-reviews ) for the full suite of ERP functions, including finance to supply chain, manufacturing, purchasing, and quality.
What do you like most about IFS Applications?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine or ten out of ten since it is an extremely scalable solution that can be used for various use cases with thousands of users.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IFS Applications?
The product is reasonably priced. The costs are justified by the value provided, considering the comprehensive features and minimal need for customization. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten.
What needs improvement with IFS Applications?
I am not able to recall much about batch. Documentation-wise, they need more. There is not much available online, and the documentation availability is on the lower side compared to other products,...
 

Also Known As

Epicor SaaS ERP
IFS Applications, Assyst, IFS Cloud
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Information Not Available
China Airlines, Electrolux Group, Babcock, Cimcorp, Sky, Multiplex, Veolia. 
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