Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT vs. SAP Business One

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Financial Edge NXT is a cloud accounting solution tailored for nonprofits that provides a general ledger, projects, grants, endowments, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, banking, and more. It offers real-time reporting, with one-click drill-down functionality and export capability.N/A
SAP Business One
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
SAP Business One is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and medium-sized businesses, The product encompasses functionality around sales, customer relationships, inventory, operations, financials and human resources.
$99
per month
Pricing
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTSAP Business One
Editions & Modules
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Limited
$99.00
per month
Starter
$110.00
per month
Pro
$132.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTSAP Business One
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBlackbaud is currently offering the first six months of Financial Edge NXT free for new customers. Limited conditions apply.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTSAP Business One
Considered Both Products
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
Chose Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
  • Overall, the user interface is far superior
  • Fund accounting capabilities
SAP Business One

No answer on this topic

Features
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTSAP Business One
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
9.8
11 Ratings
29% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
9.6
39 Ratings
25% above category average
API for custom integration00 Ratings9.537 Ratings
Plug-ins00 Ratings9.636 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
9.5
43 Ratings
13% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.335 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.642 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
8.2
44 Ratings
12% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings7.739 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.544 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.440 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
5.8
45 Ratings
28% below category average
Accounts payable00 Ratings9.545 Ratings
Accounts receivable00 Ratings9.844 Ratings
Global Financial Support00 Ratings7.627 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings8.430 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings9.337 Ratings
Configurable Accounting00 Ratings9.135 Ratings
Standardized Processes00 Ratings9.340 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
9.0
44 Ratings
13% above category average
Inventory tracking00 Ratings9.444 Ratings
Automatic reordering00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
Location management00 Ratings9.640 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
6.6
42 Ratings
17% below category average
Pricing00 Ratings8.840 Ratings
Order entry00 Ratings9.442 Ratings
Credit card processing00 Ratings2.023 Ratings
Cost of goods sold00 Ratings9.041 Ratings
Order Orchestration00 Ratings9.532 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
6.9
38 Ratings
8% below category average
Billing Management00 Ratings9.233 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings9.529 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management00 Ratings6.022 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting00 Ratings8.627 Ratings
Period Close00 Ratings9.334 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.0
19 Ratings
8% below category average
Budgeting and Forecasting00 Ratings7.017 Ratings
Project Costing00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
Cost Capture00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
Capital Project Management00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition00 Ratings6.116 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.9
16 Ratings
12% above category average
Project Planning and Scheduling00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools00 Ratings5.09 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.7
15 Ratings
5% above category average
Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
8.3
18 Ratings
17% above category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
Contract Authoring00 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Contract Repository00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
Supplier Management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
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Ratings
SAP Business One
7.9
10 Ratings
18% above category average
Risk Repository00 Ratings8.38 Ratings
Control Management00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Issue Detection00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Remediation and Certification00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
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Ratings
SAP Business One
7.3
24 Ratings
7% above category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization00 Ratings8.516 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management00 Ratings7.814 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
Fulfillment Management00 Ratings5.117 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings7.315 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
6.1
20 Ratings
19% below category average
Production Process Design00 Ratings2.018 Ratings
Production Management00 Ratings8.218 Ratings
Configuration Management00 Ratings2.014 Ratings
Work Execution00 Ratings4.016 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings5.016 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.0
26 Ratings
2% below category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.124 Ratings
Inventory Planning00 Ratings7.226 Ratings
Performance Monitoring00 Ratings6.720 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
9.1
18 Ratings
23% above category average
Proposal Management00 Ratings5.414 Ratings
Product Master Data Management00 Ratings8.616 Ratings
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTSAP Business One
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(156 ratings)
8.5
(50 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.4
(15 ratings)
4.6
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(10 ratings)
8.8
(14 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.8
(15 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(7 ratings)
2.8
(24 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTSAP Business One
Likelihood to Recommend
Blackbaud
The look of the reports and the platform is great. It's easy to lookup vendors and find some information. I wish the flow to navigate around the system was more intuitive. We tend to do more going back and forth to move to another vendor. It must be an easier solution. But that's the learning curve piece we need.
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SAP
SAP Business One would be more useful if it contained tools to acommodate the growing need of online sales. A more complete shipping module which handles tracking numbers with the common couriers would be great. A built in warehouse management system would be great designed to be used with barcode scanners
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Pros
Blackbaud
  • Uploading and inputting information is easy due to a clear format and outline.
  • Researching and finding past information is quick and easy to navigate due to searching and filtering options as well as the ability to name the files for quick searches.
  • Pulling project titles and accounts - you can have a large amount of projects and accounts and are able to know them through the system without having to memorize each individual title.
  • Being able to export a general ledger for an account to excel while still being formatted correctly.
  • Having the ability to filter in what transactions are pulled in the general ledger. You are able to easily look at all the activity or only activity in a certain time frame or other specific filters.
  • There is always access to help from Blackbaud services for any sort of difficulty.
  • Learning and the ability to attend Blackbaud classes are readily and easily available so you can increase your knowledge and ability to serve well in your organizations' role.
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SAP
  • SAP Business One is more suitable for small and medium scale enterprises
  • SAP Business One is : analytics, mobile technologies, cloud technologies
  • SAP Business One has exceptional performance in handling business functions such as purchasing and operations and customer relationship management
  • An important key features of SAP Business One is Reporting and Analytics.
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Cons
Blackbaud
  • Queries is not fully set up yet and could use more functionality within the reporting structure
  • Recurring payments do not seem to be moving forward and we have several annuities that run quarterly
  • Queue appears to be going away and report scheduling is coming, however, you cannot send to users outside of your organization. We run so many monthly reports that we used to have emailed out via queue that now we have to run them manually and save them to a sharepoint site for our campus partners to access.
  • A little concerned with printing checks once database view goes away since the one time I tried it the printing margins were totally off.
  • Integration of papersave products and cash receipts.
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SAP
  • Following a bench mark process - this seems contradicting to flexibility however we have wished we could follow more of an industry benchmark. Our challenge as a small company has been knowing how to properly use the system. We have discovered that we have set up the system wrong based and are using it improperly which has cause a lot work to correct.
  • Better live reporting options - current we are on prem SQL. Yes SAP is moving to HANA however smaller companies like ourselves are not ready for that. We need to be able to maintain our existing SQL DB. We also have a demand for live BI Reporting. It has been difficult to do this with our current set up.
  • Error handling - have found it very difficult to troubleshoot. Errors are not always clear and answers are hard to find.
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Likelihood to Renew
Blackbaud
BB seems to forcing changes on customers at a faster rate. This company needs stability because it is understaffed in accounting. There isn't time to drop everything and work up workarounds or even try to judge effects. There also isn't the time to find a replacement suite unless things get really bad.
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SAP
As I said before, it is a first level tool, well developed, and with very strong development support, although the learning curve, its implementation, the cost-benefit ratio, the price and the user experience is not the most suitable for small and medium-sized companies. It is a company with extensive experience, market positioning, technical support and expanded use
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Usability
Blackbaud
I don't have much to compare it to but if I speak of just the reporting options; sometimes there are so many options I spend more time finding the "perfect" report when a basic report with minimal columns is needed. But I know I can always add to the report if asked.
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SAP
I would like to give 8 out of 10 rating for SAP Business One because SAP Business One is a good choice for the mostly used business management solutions for the small and medium-sized companies. SAP Business One can help in optimizing the existing business process and enables streamline business processes for the daily activities for all users across the entire organization. The importance realization of SAP Business One implementation is based on the selection of the good reputation partner and its approach for the entire implementation. SAP Business One is a user-friendly and easy to use Enterprise system that the organization can benefit its features and functionalities by utilizing it.
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Reliability and Availability
Blackbaud
No answers on this topic
SAP
The SAP Business One software is up and running every time
you need it as it was planned. In more than 6 years that we have been
using the product, it has never been unavailable and if it ever was, it was because of a planned maintenance window scheduled in the company.
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Performance
Blackbaud
No answers on this topic
SAP
SAP Business One performance depends mostly on the speed of your internal servers, should you have the solution on premise as we do. Sometimes the system tends to be a little slower for some users when others are executing really big reports of performing some batch loads, but generally, the performance is acceptable to all the users.
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Support Rating
Blackbaud
No one is perfect, but this support team is as close as it gets. They respond promptly and if the person I'm talking to doesn't have the answer they find someone that does. They also provide documentation and/or resources to support their responses to my questions. The online chat is awesome and usually all I need
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SAP
I rate my experience with SAP Business One's support team as excellent (10). They are easy to contact and effortless to work with on any issue or concern. I like the support SAP provides for any of their products. SAP has a great backing and I would recommend them to any of my colleagues.
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In-Person Training
Blackbaud
No answers on this topic
SAP
The training I get was a consultant level training, so it's basically a 6 weeks training covering every aspect and every module of the system. It covered most common use cases and exercise training so you can get along with the software, as well as examples so there culd be a better understanding.
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Online Training
Blackbaud
The training is semi helpful if you have already been in the system. If you are completely new it does make it kind of hard since chart of accounts will be different among organizations. For a general idea it is helpful. One complaint on training would be that as FENXT is attempting to go fully to the web solution there were often times things that were moved or changed that even the trainer was unaware of and had to adapt on the fly.
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SAP
Over the past two years SAP has added a great deal of new SAP Business One on-line training for version 9.0 and 9.1. Most of the training is very strong, but some is difficult to understand and follow. Additionally, SAP still has a few holes in their on-line training around Production, Bill-of-Materials, MRP and Service.
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Implementation Rating
Blackbaud
The implementation can be easy depending on how familiar you are with Blackbaud products. It is cloud based so there is not a need for IT involvement but you do need to know your business requirement.
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SAP
These implementations are not easy. Even a standard implementation can be difficult. With a never-been-done-before implementation, the implementation team and the user team need to be thorough with planning, make a decision on key points, and stick to them before any design happens. Our biggest challenge was not from StellarOne, rather it was from the mid-implementation decisions from our internal team. StellarOne did a great job warning us, implementing our decision, and then helping us adjust our SAP to handle the new direction we took.
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Alternatives Considered
Blackbaud
Prior to using Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, a financial software package offered by Sage was used. Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT is much more user friendly, and integrates with the fundraising software used by the Foundation, Raiser's Edge. The integration has eliminated duplicate entry of donor information into the financial software. In addition, the add-in tools provided by Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT make journal entries a much more efficient process.
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SAP
SAP provides the most robust solution, with modules available for all department managers and even options for customization according to the company's special needs. We especially used the Crystal reports options to provide reports for each module. Overall, even if it's not the least expensive option, it has the best value for money.
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Scalability
Blackbaud
No answers on this topic
SAP
For most small businesses, the only way you outgrow SAP Business One is if the nature of your business changes radically. Going from 1 to 50 users is quite easy with SAP B1. Going beyond 50 may require moving to the Hana SAP B1 platform to maintain or improve performance, but the path is there.
Add-ons to SAP B1 can also be added as specific needs are encountered that are not closely met by the standard product. These may be required early in the product life because of the nature of your business, or as you expand the use of SAP B1.
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Return on Investment
Blackbaud
  • Record accuracy has gone up with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT. We are able to keep everything separate using both natural accounts and projects.
  • The AP module has increased our speed in issuing checks. We are able to easily review and see where approvals may be stuck in order to get checks out promptly.
  • The approval chains and easily viewed records of approvals have helped our auditors easily track processes for internal control walkthroughs.
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SAP
  • Employee efficiency has definitely increased with SAP Business One. This is attributed in a lot of ways to information visibility. Our employees are able to gather the data they need, quickly, and effectively.
  • Identifying inconsistencies in pricing has also been accomplished through use of reporting off individual tables. Previously, we weren't able to access our data in such a way as to enable us to write custom reports in-house.
  • We have also benefited greatly from having a single source of all business information. We utilize SAP Business One exclusively in-house. All documentation is attached to specific orders and Business Partners, as well as serialized equipment that has been sold.
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