We performed a comparison between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and SAP S/4HANA Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SAP, Microsoft, Oracle and others in ERP."It is a stable solution."
"Microsoft Dynamics NAV is brilliant and it's a different segment when comparing it with Dynamics AX. Dynamics AX is a larger product with much more features and it's aimed at a different segment of the market."
"The security feature, particularly the encryption, which still builds sensitivity, is one of the most valuable features."
"The solution has good dashboard functionalities and export functionalities."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is its simplicity of accounting and receiving reports. The solution is similar to Microsoft Excel, and that similarity is good. All the functions of Microsoft Dynamics are user-friendly."
"The tool covers most of the business requirements that most companies have, especially financial institutions."
"The selling feature is the most valuable."
"The most important feature of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is that it lets us centralize all our information so that we don't need to rely on any other software outside of Microsoft."
"Both standard and customized integrations work well with no issues."
"The most valuable feature of SAP S/4HANA Cloud is the new UX design."
"S4HANA Cloud is reliable and accurate. Our existing team also has expertise in SAP, so it was simple to migrate to the cloud solution. S4HANA Cloud has advantages because we don't need to maintain the infrastructure, and there aren't any huge upfront costs."
"Since SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a SaaS application, it is already providing a lot of standard out-of-the-box features."
"Finance aspects of it and transportation management, asset management, and inventory management are valuable."
"We like the web portal or interface, which is great. The user experience is much better than the current traditional SAP landscape."
"The most valuable features of SAP S/4HANA Cloud are the ease of use from the cloud, CapEx analysis report, and everything being connected together well."
"It is stable and scalable. In the S4HANA plain version, they have new dashboards and things like that."
"It would be nice, in Microsoft Teams, if we were able to type more information into the chat."
"Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central has been buggy in my experience and they should improve in this area. Additionally, there are too many updates. The updates involve a whole bunch of applications as part of the package, such as the Edge browser. The updates are too broad across the whole package of applications."
"The performance and virtual machine backup is not good with this solution and need improvements."
"Any request that had come from the website had to go through an e-form which was then plugged into Microsoft Dynamics NAV. There was no direct data capture. That was the pain point, where clients had to build e-forms, and that caused delays in transactions and getting information."
"The solution can improve by having better integration with Microsoft PowerBI and reporting."
"There is a lot of improvement needed in the top model, such as better integration with logistics, quality management, and data modeling for all revenue types."
"The solution's event management can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the ability to reverse or correct transactions more easily."
"The price is mainly suitable for larger companies, even then, there may be other, cheaper solutions. Additionally, this solution is the result of multiple acquisitions leaving room for there to be issues with performance."
"The initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment."
"It's not easy to facilitate the solution between us and SAP, so we have had to leave those issues open."
"The integration with third-party vendors could improve."
"It's a huge software, and they need to make it look less complex and more user friendly. They need to work on user stories and user experiences."
"It is a complicated solution. So it should be easier to use."
"The user interface of SAP S/4HANA Cloud needs to be improved because it is not as good as other applications."
"Analytics could be improved."
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is ranked 3rd in ERP with 62 reviews while SAP S/4HANA Cloud is ranked 3rd in Cloud ERP with 41 reviews. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is rated 8.2, while SAP S/4HANA Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central writes "Easy to deploy, extremely stable, and highly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP S/4HANA Cloud writes "A valuable tool for businesses seeking to enhance their overall performance and competitiveness in the digital era". Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is most compared with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX, SAP Business One, SAP ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite, whereas SAP S/4HANA Cloud is most compared with SAP Business ByDesign, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP Business One, IFS Cloud Platform and Anaplan.
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