What is SAP Business One?
SAP Business One is a world class award winning business management software product created by the German multinational software corporation SAP SE. It allows small and medium sized companies to automate their sales, purchase, financial, CRM, banking, production and service processes, including project and resource management. All the areas are tightly integrated and easy to use, complemented by deep industry solution capability from SAP partners and leveraging the revolutionary SAP HANA database as an in-memory platform for users to be competitive and innovative in the digital economy.
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90 Likeliness to Recommend
1
Since last award
100 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
3
Since last award
Emotional Footprint Overview
+87 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love SAP Business One?
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Inspires Innovation
- Client Friendly Policies
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Feature Ratings
Procurement Management
Accounting and Financial Management
Analytics and Reporting
Supply Chain Management
BI and Performance Management
Governance Risk and Compliance
Industry Specific Capabilities
Job and Project Management
Service Management
Human Capital Management
Customer Relationship Management
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Breadth of Features
Ease of Customization
Vendor Support
Ease of IT Administration
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Implementation
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Data Integration
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SAP Business One Reviews
Vasileios S.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2022
Highly secure but has a steep learning curve
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP Business One from other similar products?
Why SAP? Run Simple approach that streamlines processes into one simple, user-friendly business solution. Expert guidance for greater insight into what analytics solutions from SAP can do for the business
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Stability and breadth of functionality of the SAP Business One application
What do you dislike most about this product?
Like any other platform, SAP Business One had a learning curve and I felt it was steep so I watched many tutorials
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
SAP Business One is the most secure and audit-driven software you could implement. Other software packages do not have the added security that we felt SAP Business One has
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Georgina G.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2022
Excellent tool that can create great automations
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP Business One from other similar products?
Generating integrated reports with real-time data and displaying them in various report formats to gain an overview of what matters most to our business, whether I am using a desktop or mobile device
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Improves audits by letting me view information trails, match documents and handle multiple currencies. Lets me view purchase analyses and account balances ansld maintain purchasing data, including tax data and price lists
What do you dislike most about this product?
Limitation to customize the dashboards and it offers lightweight Human Capital Management functionalities. They need to consider providing more human capital management functionalities so that they can be performed without interfacing with other system
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I strongly recommend this solution because it's features support almost all critical management tasks thta help users organize and streamline their processes
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Ing. Julston D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2022
"Fantastic product!"
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP Business One from other similar products?
SAP Business One Professional has good features and flexibility overall, but is designed as an "old school" enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform. It may be too complex for many users especially small to midsize businesses (SMBs).
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Extensive customization available. Underlying SAP HANA database allows for complex business analytics. Microsoft SQL Server also available. Includes Crystal Reports for custom reporting. Excellent documentation.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Initial configuration and installation usually requires partner or expensive Value Added Reseller (VAR). Extensive customization necessary. Only supports Mozilla Firefox browser; testing failed.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Can handle multiple currencies. Benefits administration module.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing