We performed a comparison between SAP Business ByDesign and SAP S/4HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetSuite, Oracle, SAP and others in Cloud ERP."I like the tool’s customization."
"It has a quick implementation and onboarding of users. It is flexible with reports and powerful."
"ByDesign's best features are its speed, real-time data, and reporting."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Business ByDesign is it has a streamlined design."
"The standard system is stable."
"I like its modern approach. It is very modern and new technology."
"When comparing SAP Business ByDesign to much larger ERP solutions, such as SAP ECC 6.0 or SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business ByDesign is more user-friendly and easier to implement."
"I find the tool’s every feature valuable."
"I like the user experience and usability of SAP Fiori, which is one of the main features that we are using."
"The most valuable feature of SAP S/4HANA is the innovational process. We are able to receive more efficiency or accuracy than previous versions."
"The solution can scale well."
"SAP S4HANA has good performance and has allowed us to combine our systems."
"It seamlessly integrates with all the SAP Business Suite products such as IoT, AI, Analytics and all other SaaS solutions. The product is very robust and comprehensive."
"We have access to all types of reports in a single solution."
"SAP S4HANA version 1909 is stable. We have not gone live with 2020 yet."
"The most useful features of SAP S4HANA are the consolidation reports. The BI is very strong and the manufacturing and finance sections we like a lot."
"The payroll module of the solution could improve."
"SAP Business ByDesign is a very vast product, but it has to be a bit more centralized. All the models need to be more centralized for a better experience."
"The database needs to be more customizable."
"The solution does not support customization for forms and reports. It's not flexible in case you need some enhancements in business processes."
"I would say budget controlling needs improvement. I mention this because it does not have all the functionalities that we need in terms of managing the budget."
"Scalability is difficult."
"SAP Business ByDesign can improve the flexibility and user-friendliness of the reporting during the implementations. Customizing the reports inside the device requires a lot of knowledge and most of the time a developer level is needed. For example, if you want to have a more specific reporting layout."
"The Purchase to Pay process could benefit from further sophistication and additional functionality. It would be helpful for the user community to receive clearer information about the future roadmap of the business. Unfortunately, there were some confusing articles in the German press towards the end of last year about the future of SAP Business ByDesign. Therefore, more clarity is needed in the support function to address this."
"This solution works with the configuration, if the prerequisites are very clear and can be configured it works perfectly. If you need to simulate something, as a predictive tool this kind of simulation is not very accurate and it has limitations. This is something that could improve."
"The difficulty level of the initial setup depends on the person's skills. If you know the basic knowledge of the database, then it will be easy, otherwise, it will be very difficult."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Every year, when a new version is released, it comes with a very thick booklet of 300 or 400 pages and it is a little difficult to comprehend."
"The cost of the solution is quite high. It needs to be adjusted."
"The solution could improve by making customization easier. The on-premise version is a lot more flexible."
"Documentation could be improved."
"While the solution contemplates a competitively priced model, its pricing could be cheaper."
SAP Business ByDesign is ranked 4th in Cloud ERP with 13 reviews while SAP S/4HANA is ranked 2nd in ERP with 65 reviews. SAP Business ByDesign is rated 7.4, while SAP S/4HANA is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Business ByDesign writes "Helps with financial accounting, project management, sales and invoicing, and accounting inventory management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP S/4HANA writes "The solution is highly scalable, with solid performance and integration". SAP Business ByDesign is most compared with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, NetSuite ERP, SAP Business One on AWS, Acumatica and SAP Business One, whereas SAP S/4HANA is most compared with SAP ERP, SAP Business One, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, NetSuite ERP and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
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The main difference is RISE is associated with S/4 Product Range on Cloud while By Design is modeled after SAP Business One also on Cloud.
So both are SaaS but the difference is in enterprise size and also application complexities. Also, RISE offers a bundle of pre-configured modules while By Design is similar to B1 with a lot more flexibility and high scalability. License wise both are per user on the cloud.