Certinia ERP Cloud vs. Sage 100

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Certinia ERP Cloud
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Certinia ERP Cloud automates financial management on the Salesforce platform. The customer-centric ERP software includes a general ledger, automated billing processes, and financial intelligence.N/A
Sage 100cloud
Score 7.2 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Sage 100 (or Sage 100cloud is a business management software offering a broad range of modules designed to meet the many needs of virtually any business. It encompasses financial operations and accounting, payroll, business intelligence, CRM, eBusiness, manufacturing and distribution.
$0
Per Seat per Month
Pricing
Certinia ERP CloudSage 100
Editions & Modules
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Sage 100 ERP Standard
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Sage 100 ERP Advanced
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Sage 100 ERP Premium
Per Seat per Month
Sage 100 ERP Online
Per User per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Certinia ERP CloudSage 100cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Certinia ERP CloudSage 100
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.4
2 Ratings
16% above category average
Sage 100
8.5
8 Ratings
17% above category average
Pay calculation8.52 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.02 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.02 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.4
4 Ratings
13% above category average
Sage 100
6.5
9 Ratings
12% below category average
API for custom integration8.84 Ratings3.06 Ratings
Plug-ins8.03 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.4
5 Ratings
5% above category average
Sage 100
5.1
15 Ratings
44% below category average
Single sign-on capability8.65 Ratings4.115 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.15 Ratings6.114 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
7.9
5 Ratings
12% above category average
Sage 100
7.0
17 Ratings
0% below category average
Dashboards8.45 Ratings2.011 Ratings
Standard reports6.55 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Custom reports8.85 Ratings9.915 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
7.9
6 Ratings
4% above category average
Sage 100
7.6
17 Ratings
0% above category average
Accounts payable8.05 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Accounts receivable7.14 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Global Financial Support8.01 Ratings5.04 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers7.01 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations6.33 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Configurable Accounting7.43 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.73 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
10.0
3 Ratings
25% above category average
Sage 100
6.8
11 Ratings
13% below category average
Inventory tracking10.03 Ratings6.011 Ratings
Automatic reordering10.03 Ratings6.78 Ratings
Location management10.03 Ratings6.06 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.1
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Sage 100
7.9
10 Ratings
3% above category average
Pricing8.02 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Order entry8.02 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Credit card processing8.52 Ratings4.110 Ratings
Cost of goods sold8.02 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Order Orchestration00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.7
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Sage 100
7.7
7 Ratings
4% above category average
Travel & Expense Management10.01 Ratings6.05 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting7.01 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Billing Management00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Period Close00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
9.3
1 Ratings
20% above category average
Sage 100
8.0
5 Ratings
5% above category average
Budgeting and Forecasting9.01 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Project Costing9.01 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Cost Capture10.01 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Capital Project Management9.01 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance10.01 Ratings7.83 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition10.01 Ratings7.83 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.2
1 Ratings
19% above category average
Sage 100
5.0
1 Ratings
30% below category average
Project Planning and Scheduling7.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers7.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality8.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools8.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
Sage 100
7.0
1 Ratings
4% below category average
Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
Sage 100
5.0
1 Ratings
31% below category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Contract Authoring00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Contract Repository00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Supplier Management00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
Sage 100
4.4
1 Ratings
38% below category average
Risk Repository00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Control Management00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Issue Detection00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Remediation and Certification00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
Sage 100
7.1
3 Ratings
6% above category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Fulfillment Management00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
Sage 100
8.2
3 Ratings
11% above category average
Production Process Design00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Production Management00 Ratings8.43 Ratings
Configuration Management00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Work Execution00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
Sage 100
7.8
3 Ratings
11% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Inventory Planning00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
Sage 100
1.4
1 Ratings
134% below category average
Proposal Management00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Product Master Data Management00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Certinia ERP CloudSage 100
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(8 ratings)
8.0
(21 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.6
(5 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Certinia ERP CloudSage 100
Likelihood to Recommend
Certinia
For accounting systems, users and/or evaluators often want to see some type of matrix or "heads up" comparisons of specific features and functionality of a system in key areas such as: 1) General Ledger 2) Order to Cash cycle 3) Purchase to Pay cycle 4) Cash management 5) Inventory and/or Cost Accounting (Projects/Jobs, etc) 6) Revenue Recognition 7) Fixed Assets management 8) Budgets 9) Tax 10) Reports and Analysis It would be great if this kind of matrix existed to be filled in by reviewers so that others could benefit from their perspectives about the applications and how they address or handle the specific features/functionality. With respect to FinancialForce, the company has found that nearly all the key features it needed were available from the application.
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Sage
For small and medium business in the distribution and light manufacturing space, Sage 100 is probably the best bang for your buck. As a very scaleable system, you can modify the system to meet the needs of a growing business without making gross changes to the core of the system
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Pros
Certinia
  • User interface is more modern and user-friendly than other software
  • Dashboards allow for good visual interpretation
  • Reports are able to be customized to better fit users' needs
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Sage
  • Simple to implement and use. Operation very intuitive so new employees are quickly trained.
  • It is very flexible with many modules and many features allows for easy customization to suit particular needs of any department or company.
  • Context sensitive help, training and support make it easy for a company to operate with out a lot of additional outside tech support.
  • Scalable plenty of room to grow as the business grows without being bloated.
  • Pricing is very reasonable.
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Cons
Certinia
  • Since SalesForce was not made with accounting in mind, building FinancialForce as a module on top of SalesForce gives problems because the overarching architect of SalesForce cannot facilitate all the accounting requirements.
  • The FinancialForce integration team was not very good, and did not help us set up our FinancialForce very well. Their customer support is also lacking and takes a long time to respond and troubleshoot our problems.
  • FinancialForce doesn't actually build financial statement reports. We were only able to run a trial balance, and we had to build the statements ourselves in Excel.
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Sage
  • Database backend, Sage 100 relies on the ProvideX database, which has limited ODBC functionality
  • Document management. Paperless Office is not a robust solution for Sage 100 and feels like an add-on.
  • Support. Getting support is tricky, and you will usually have to work with your reseller/support partner.
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Likelihood to Renew
Certinia
The company has now converted its legacy, "home grown" operations system and built it on the force.com platform, and the integration between it and FinancialForce is deeply entrenched. No other application would be able to replicate this functionality, and the company will be able to scale and leverage the force.com platform as it grows.
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Sage
I would put this out to bid, if I were at the same organization. There have been a lot of improvements and changes in enterprise software and my preference would be to find a good web-based or cloud-based tool. Lower overall cost of ownership and improved efficiency would be my target criteria for a rebid of this.
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Usability
Certinia
Change management is always an issue, but the evidence of the application's usability is that both long-time employees (used to the legacy systems for many years) and newer employees have been able to learn the system and improve their business processes.
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Sage
It is easy, flexible, user friendly and feature laden. Out of the box or easily customized to meet our "wish" list . Sage offers a variety of modules and bolt-ons, user defined fields etc., allowing us to conduct business "our way" without forcing us into a one-size- fits- none mold or having to purchase expensive and cumbersome programming modifications
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Reliability and Availability
Certinia
Unless the internet is completely unavailable - which has not happened yet - the application is always accessible. Since FinancialForce is built on the force.com platform, it's uptime is tied to Salesforce security and system performance standards
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Sage
No answers on this topic
Performance
Certinia
If Visualforce pages are enabled, they sometimes slow down the load time.
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Sage
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Certinia
The response time for FinancialForce is exemplary. Immediate acknowledgement of the support request by automatically logging a case/ticket on the provider side, then less than 24-hour follow up by a support team member with specific questions, information or resolution for the issue.
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Sage
Sage Support is very good. I usually get a person on the phone in a short time frame and usually get my issues fixed in one called.
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Online Training
Certinia
Through its Xtra login website available to its customers, FinancialForce offers a complete set of online, video tutorials, training and documentation. Each tutorial is "bite-sized", meaning it imparts instructional, step-by-step information in 2-3 minute narrated videos. For a particular cycle or process, like invoices to payments for example, each tutorial builds on the last so that the user can get a complete picture of the steps and process in less than 10 minutes.
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Sage
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Certinia
The company decided to run parallel for three months in order to soften the impact of the change from the legacy "system" - which users had been interfacing with for over a decade - to FinancialForce. While not recommended, this did provide time for the in-house "super user" team of 2 people to become completely familiar with the application, and thus provide hands-on training and be a resource for the users who would be processing the daily accounting transactions.
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Sage
We had an advantage in implementing the tool in that our director of Ops had been part of the team implementing the ERP for other users so we knew what to expect and were able to avoid a lot of the challenges people sometimes face with implementations. However, the process still took far longer than desired.
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Alternatives Considered
Certinia
FinancialForce Subscription & Usage Billing has more features, more useability, and manages higher numbers of customers. The systems I have used in the past are easier to navigate but couldn't handle this number of customers.
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Sage
I didn't choose Sage 100 ERP -- it was already in use when I started at the organization over five years ago. It has the same types of pros and cons as other big hulking software suites meant to power the infrastructure of corporations. It's slow, tough to customize, and doesn't connect well with other software. It does bring all the information into one place, which is great
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Return on Investment
Certinia
  • Beneficial to easily be able to track impact of fluctuating currencies.
  • Integration with Salesforce.com reduced/elimintated manual entry which saves various colleagues time.
  • Increased visibility over the entire sales cycle because of the integration between Salesforce.com & FinancialForce Accounting.
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Sage
  • We have seen increased efficiencies for our team members processing orders and fulfillment as they are now integrated.
  • We have cut paper/printing/mail expenses by 500% of what we previously spent.
  • Our overall cash management has improved with the visibility from Bank Reconciliation and Financial Reporting.
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ScreenShots

Sage 100cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of General Ledger uses our exclusive dual grid entry for quick, efficient, and accurate data entry. The grid entry format allows you to easily customize the data entry screens.