Accelo vs NetSuite ERP

Likelihood to Recommend

Accelo is a system that can do it all. It's extremely sophisticated. Depending on the sophistication of your organization, or specifically the abilities of the people you put in charge of the implementation, it can almost be too sophisticated. It all just depends on your situation. The more you use it, the more data you give it, the more you'll be able to see and do. It's incredibly powerful. But it's definitely not a tool that would be appropriate for smaller boutique type organizations that have only basic needs.

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Charles Fashana, MBA

COO (Chief Operating Officer)

19 IDEASMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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NetSuite is well suited for a small to midsize company with remote workers. It may be more expensive than other ERP systems that can be run on-prem so if you have centralized locations and servers to run an ERP may not be the best choice. It is well suited if you have some experts to support it. If you are under tight budget constraints then it may not be the right product as licensing and support are expensive, not to mention you will have to reach out to consultants if you don't have a NetSuite admin in-house.

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Technician in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Pay calculation

Benefit plan administration

Direct deposit files

Salary revision and increment management

Reimbursement management

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

API for custom integration

Plug-ins

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Single sign-on capability

Role-based user permissions

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Accounts payable

Accounts receivable

Global Financial Support

Primary and Secondary Ledgers

Intercompany Accounting

Localizations

Journals and Reconciliations

Enterprise Accounting

Configurable Accounting

Centralized Rules Framework

Standardized Processes

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Inventory tracking

Automatic reordering

Location management

Manufacturing module

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Pricing

Order entry

Credit card processing

Cost of goods sold

Order Orchestration

End-to-end order visibility

Order exception Resolution

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Automated Invoice Processing

Shared Services Payments

Billings Management

Customer Receipt Applications

Customer Collections

Revenue Recognition

Cash Management

Asset Management

Travel & Expense Management

Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting

Period Close

Transactions Tax

Subledger Reconciliations

3rd Party Accounting Systems

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Budgeting and Forecasting

Project Costing

Cost Capture

Capital Project Management

Customer Invoicing

Customer Contract Compliance

Project Revenue Recognition

Project Financial Performance Analysis

Project Financials Dashboard

Real-time Financial Reporting

Embedded Business Intelligence

Project Planning Collaboration

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Project Planning and Scheduling

Project Manager Dashboard

Resource Manager Dashboard

Task Insight for Project Managers

Project Manager Mobile Functionality

Team Member Task Collaboration

Team Member Mobile Functionality

Project Candidate Search

Project Candidate Comparison and Analysis

Defineable Resource Pools

Talent Profiles

Real-Time Project Reporting

Absence Management

Product Lifecycle Management

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Award Lifecycle Management

Spending Control

Indirect Cost Management

Billing

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Sourcing Team Collaboration

Sourcing Analysis

Bids Analyzed and Compared

Catalog Shopping E-Commerce for Employees

Contract Authoring

Contract Compliance Management

Contract History

Contract Renewal Automation

Contract Repository

Contract Standardization and Enforcement

Electronic Signatures

Invoice Automated Matching

Purchasing Risk and Compliance Management

Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated

Spend Compliance Management

Supplier Assessment

Supplier Communication and Collaboration

Supplier Management

Supplier Portal

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Risk Repository

Control Management

Control Mapping

Control Efficiency Assessments

Automated Control Assessments

Assessment Capture

Issue Detection

Automatic Notification

Remediation and Certification

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Transportation Planning and Optimization

Transportation Sourcing Management

Transportation Process Integration

Transportation Execution Management

Freight Payment Automation

Trade Management

Trade Regulatory Compliance Management

Customs Entry Management

Customs Document Management

Customs Document Collaboration

Fulfillment Management

Inventory Visibility

Warehouse Workforce Management

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Production Process Design

Supply Chain Business Flows

Production Management

Contracted Manufacturing Management

Configuration Management

Work Definition

Work Execution

Advanced Fulfillment

Manufacturing Costs

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Forecasting

Inventory Planning

Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning

Performance Monitoring

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Ideation Management

Requirements Management

Proposal Management

Innovation Portfolio Management

Product Master Data Management

Vendor Portal

Project Portfolio Management

Pros

Timing Client Work: You are able to better manage your time on your clients.
Housing Client Info in one Area: You can view all you need for any given client in one area.

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Manager in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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NetSuite OneWorld allows a business to automate its intercompany elimination processes at month's end. If set up and maintained correctly, the system can fully automate this process, which for many businesses involves a lot of manual work (in Excel!)
NetSuite's audit trail throughout the system is outstanding, tracking changes by user, change type, date/time. You can easily see who made which edits to the database and when. This is often lost or non-existent in other platforms.
NetSuite is highly customizable to your business' requirements. Through specific modules, SuiteFlow and SuiteScript, the possibilities are almost endless, but what is great about NetSuite is that the standard functionality is suitable for many businesses.

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Sonny Spencer, ACA

NetSuite Systems Analyst

AvalaraComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Cumbersome processes - feels like tasks take longer than they should.
We gave up on the Projects module, it was rather unintuitive. Switched to JIRA, which integrates with the Support module of Accelo.
Each email address requires a new contact. If one person uses multiple email addresses to contact you, that info will have to be spread across multiple contacts.

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Ryan Freeman

President

Strider Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Commissions. Our company's commissions are very complex and while NetSuite can handle most of them, there is still lots of manual adjustments and work that we need to do before paying. With that said, some of these issues may be with our setup or to the fact that we keep changing our incentive plans.
Reporting. While you can design P&L and other reports in NetSuite, I've found it less intuitive and more difficult than it seems like it should be. Some of this is because of how the data is stored in the background. For example, sometimes the data you want in the same report comes from two different modules and in order to pull the data into one report, we need to run separate reports and then do lookups in Excel. This is a common theme in relational databases and not specific to NetSuite.

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Chris Snelling, CFA

Investments and Treasury Manager

TASC (Total Administrative Services Corporation)Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Accelo 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Looking forward to seeing more refinement of features provided and upcoming features promised :)

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Brendon O'Sullivan

Managing Director

Bos Web SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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NetSuite ERP 8.0

Based on 22 answers

I am not the decision maker for this but I believe our company will be sticking with NetSuite for the long term. A CRM like this is a big investment and not something you move away from quickly and without a lot of planning. There is a lot of data involved and importing that into a new system is no easy task.

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Billy Barker

Creative Director

GPS Insight[object Object], 51-200 employees

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Usability

Accelo 7.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

NetSuite ERP 9.0

Based on 11 answers

Through creation of various dashboards and KPIs the user does not really need to get very technically involved. They simply need to understand how to fill out a form, and through proper workflow creations they can be alerted when it is time to provide the necessary information or perform a necessary action to complete the next phase of the business process.

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Felix Garbuz

Director/NetSuite Administrator

Q Research Solutions51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

NetSuite ERP 9.4

Based on 26 answers

It has been very reliable. I can only think of 1-2 times in 4.5 years that we have had issues getting in, and in each case were able to get back in within 1 hour. There has not been a major downtime

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Verified User

Vice-President in Finance and Accounting

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Performance

Accelo 10.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

NetSuite ERP 7.7

Based on 24 answers

Most of the time the performance is very good. Pages load in a few seconds; financial reports take less than 5 seconds; basic searches take a few seconds. But performance can be sporadic throughout the day and cause the run time to triple.

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Pamela Roberts

Controller

GlobalVetLINKComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Accelo 7.4

Based on 4 answers

From the beginning the Accelo team has been very invested in ensuring our success and overall happiness with the platform. The initial implementation specialists and trainers did a fairly good job of learning our company and needs, and tried to tailor the trainings accordingly. However, once we made the formal switch to the platform, meaning we no longer were using our legacy systems, we found that we had a lot of questions....and a lot of ideas and recommendations. The support team is extremely responsive and seemingly happy to receive our continual feedback. And if we encounter an issue that seems to be a system issue, they work diligently to fix it (we've actually had an engineer join a call with us to learn of the issue - and subsequently fix it)

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Charles Fashana, MBA

COO (Chief Operating Officer)

19 IDEASMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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NetSuite ERP 1.0

Based on 20 answers

In my opinion, the best place to go to answer your NetSuite functionality questions is their Online Help. It is excellent. For true support questions, NetSuite offers a Knowledgebase to its customers. Also, for ERP, NetSuite has licensed accountants that provide support. With any support organization, you must be thorough in describing your issue though.

NetSuite has several different support levels - http://www.netsuite.com/portal/services/support_main.shtml

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Rob Gottschalk

Corporate Controller, Director of Sales

Solar WindsInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

NetSuite ERP 7.3

Based on 2 answers

I had in person training for a day when first got the software. The training was good. The challenge was that there was a large gap between training and when we went live so we forgot quite a lot

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Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

NetSuite ERP 8.0

Based on 7 answers

Online training is quite strong. I have used for specific pieces of functionality.However it is not sufficient in all areas.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

NetSuite ERP 7.3

Based on 18 answers

Implementation was fine but could have gone quicker.

NetSuite provided me a implementation guide who I did not think was very knowledgeable.

I recommend that you make sure the organization knows how they are going to use the software and come up with an implementation plan before importing all of the data.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Finance and Accounting

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We used Workfront prior to using Accelo, mainly for project management and retainer management. There is no comparison between the two as Accelo blows it away.

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Chris Osterhout

Vice President of Business Strategy

WSOLInternet, 11-50 employees

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Zuora - does one thing and not that well. The best thing about it is consolidated invoicing. It's a point solution that thinks it's a platform. It's difficult to navigate, the navigation doesn't make much sense, and any customization is really just a deceptive crutch. NetSuite is a stark contrast in those areas. Still, I would be remiss not to mention there are a number of minor nuances in Zuora we prefer over NetSuite's SuiteBilling module; some of them add up to noteworthy, but, in the scheme of things, NetSuite is a much better tool and SuiteBilling is maturing.Salesforce - it's a self-perpetuating marketing machine. It's not a bad product, but the praise and popularity are, in my opinion, grossly disproportionate to reality. It's like any other hot brand, and there are products as good or better. NetSuite doesn't beat it in a lot of areas but it is a contender in most, and better in a number of areas. Salesforce's reporting capabilities are weaker (I say clumsy) compared to NetSuite; neither are reporting tools, but NetSuite goes a long way. Perhaps it's because NetSuite is Oracle SQL based and Salesforce kinda made their own flavor. NetSuite chose a better path with their API being Javascript based, where Salesforce is an overly complicated path. Relating records (as mentioned earlier in my review) and then actually viewing them is a strange thing in Salesforce that I think NetSuite makes very easy.

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Joshua Henke

Senior Netsuite Architect / Developer

Q2ebankingFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

NetSuite ERP 8.4

Based on 5 answers

We have been able to scale our business 25X without any major overhaul with Netsuite. Its dashboard setup makes onboarding new employees very easy and allows data to be shared across multiple offices. Its cloud setup does not put any pressure on IT to scale servers or other infrastructure. We have been able to become much more efficient in all aspects of the business.

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Aaron Kleinhandler

CEO

Spectrio, LLCMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Helps with tracking prospects through the sales/marketing funnel
Has led some employees to stop using the tool and going back to spreadsheets. When trying to attach targets to tags you need to do so individually and if you upload a large list you need to do this manually, one by one, and requires a lot of time. So people have gone back to spreadsheets where they could simply just cut and paste new people in.

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Verified User

Professional in Marketing

Computer & Network Security Company, 51-200 employees

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Allowed us to close month-end more quickly and more efficiently
Accountants are able to take on more responsibility as they are spending less time mapping between softwares
Centralized all of Finance's data under one software. Billing, FP&A, and Accounting all use NetSuite for various purposes

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Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

* Per Installation

Accelo Editions & Modules

Edition

Projects (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
Sales (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
Retainers (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
Service (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
ServOps (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$79¹

per user

Additional Pricing Details

ServOps is the all-in-one solution which includes Projects, Retainers, Sales and Service together.

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

NetSuite ERP Editions & Modules

Edition

Base License	$999¹
Access Cost	$99²

per month
per user per month

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Accelo

NetSuite ERP

Accelo

NetSuite ERP