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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Epicor Grow

    Score6.3 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Grow, from Epicor since the March 2022 acquisition, is a business intelligence software that is designed to empower businesses to become data-driven and accelerate growth by aligning team objectives and inspiring strategic decisions.N/A

    MATLAB

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMatLab is a predictive analytics and computing platform based on a proprietary programming language. MatLab is used across industry and academia.

    $49

    per student license

    Pricing
    Epicor GrowMATLAB
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Student
    $49
    per student license
    Home
    $149
    perpetual license
    Education
    $250
    per year
    Education
    $500
    perpetual license
    Standard
    $860
    per year
    Standard
    2,150
    perpetual license
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Epicor GrowMATLAB
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Epicor GrowMATLAB
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    Epicor Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    16 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Epicor GrowMATLAB
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Epicor Grow and MATLAB
    Feature
    Epicor Grow
    8.0
    32 Ratings
    2% below category average
    MATLAB
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    Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Epicor Grow and MATLAB
    Feature
    Epicor Grow
    7.7
    31 Ratings
    4% below category average
    MATLAB
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    Drill-down analysis7.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Epicor Grow and MATLAB
    Feature
    Epicor Grow
    6.7
    29 Ratings
    20% below category average
    MATLAB
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    Publish to Web7.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling6.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Epicor Grow and MATLAB
    Feature
    Epicor Grow
    7.0
    26 Ratings
    13% below category average
    MATLAB
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Epicor Grow and MATLAB
    Feature
    Epicor Grow
    7.0
    31 Ratings
    19% below category average
    MATLAB
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    Multi-User Support (named login)7.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Epicor Grow and MATLAB
    Feature
    Epicor Grow
    7.7
    26 Ratings
    1% below category average
    MATLAB
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    Responsive Design for Web Access8.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.513 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Epicor Grow and MATLAB
    Feature
    Epicor Grow
    7.0
    20 Ratings
    10% below category average
    MATLAB
    -
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    REST API7.020 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Epicor GrowMATLAB
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Epicor GrowMATLAB
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
    9.0
    (55 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (5 ratings)
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (5 ratings)
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    10.0
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.1
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Epicor GrowMATLAB
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Epicor Software
    Grow.com is well suited if you have a lot of data or client data to manage. If you do not have tons of data, there are other options out there that are a bit more simple and easy to use and a better price.
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    MathWorks
    MATLAB really does best for solving computational problems in math and engineering. Especially when you have to use a lot of functions in your solving process, or if you have a nonlinear equation that must be iteratively solved. [MATLAB] can also perform things like integration and derivation on your equations that you put into it.
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    Pros
    Epicor Software
    • I love the fact that you have a team of developers who can help me build metrics or fix metrics that I do not create properly. I had to learn SQL in order to really build the metrics that mattered, which was a lot of fun, but resulted in many broken metrics. The vendor's team was great in responding to me requests for help!
    • Really, really appreciate the fact that Grow has SQL formulas to reference when building metrics. Again, as a novice, this accelerated my ability to learn and not have to leave your site and resources and stay within the Grow web properties.
    • Great account managers who check in regularly and are willing to help out whenever needed.
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    MathWorks
    • It has a very user friendly library which helps users learn this software fairly quickly in a short span of time.
    • The graphical user interface provided by the software is really good.
    • The code that a person writes allows options for debugging.
    • One can visualize the flow of control of their code inside MATLAB.
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    Cons
    Epicor Software
    • There are basic labeling issues with some of the graph types. Wish there was more customizability here, especially on complex graphs.
    • Could help more with analysis of data and trends, but that's going into full-fledged BI territory.
    • The functionality of being able to snapshot data isn't quite there.
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    MathWorks
    • MatLab is pricier than most of its competitors and because of this reason, many organizations are moving towards cheaper alternatives - mostly Python.
    • MatLab is inefficient when it comes to performing a large number of iterations. It gets laggy and often crashes. Python is better in this regard.
    • There is a limited number of hardware options (mostly NI) that can be connected directly to the data acquisition toolbox.
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    Usability
    Epicor Software
    This tool is definitely a little bit difficult to be able to figure out at first, but after some time of learning you can definitely pick it up. I do wish there were more resources online that would be able to help speed up the learning process
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    MathWorks
    MATLAB is pretty easy to use. You can extend its capabilities using the programming interface. Very flexible capabilities when it comes to graphical presentation of your data (so many different kinds of options for your plotting needs). Anytime you are working with large data sets, or with matrices, MATLAB is likely to be very helpful.
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    Support Rating
    Epicor Software
    The support team is very helpful and in every situation we have needed help in, they have been able to assist. So I have had a good experience with them
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    MathWorks
    The built-in search engine is not as performing as I wish it would be. However, the YouTube channel has a vast library of informative video that can help understanding the software. Also, many other software have a nice bridge into MATLAB, which makes it very versatile. Overall, the support for MATLAB is good.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Epicor Software
    Grow doesn't have as many advanced analytics features and other capabilities as some other 'dashboard' platforms on the market. Simply, if you want a tool for internal use only that has high-level analytics capabilities (regressions, completely custom visualizations, modeling), Grow probably isn't the platform for you. To put it another way, if you have a team of data engineers and scientists doing complex analysis, Grow might not make the most sense. However, if you understand the value of data/visualization/dashboards, but lack some of those skillsets in your company, Grow might be the perfect fit. Not only is it incredibly scalable and reasonably priced compared to other market solutions, but their transform capabilities really stand out. They have many native data transformations that mimic SQL coding of a dataset, without requiring any knowledge of SQL. They've converted these transformations to easy-to-use tools in the platform, which are perfect for the less-technical user.
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    MathWorks
    How MATLAB compares to its competition or similar open access tools like R (programming language) or SciLab is that it's simply more powerful and capable. It embraces a wider spectrum of possibilities for far more fields than any other environment. R, for example, is intended primarily for the area of statistical computing. SciLab, on the other hand, is a similar open access tool that falls very short in its computing capabilities. It's much slower when running larger scripts and isn't documented or supported nearly as well as MATLAB.
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    Return on Investment
    Epicor Software
    • Made it so much easier and faster to access data across tools
    • Lessened the time exporting and uploading data to excel/sheets for analysis
    • Made data and metrics more easily accessible to others in our orgs
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    MathWorks
    • MATLAB helps us quickly sort through large sets of data because we keep the same script each time we run an analyzation, making it very efficient to run this whole process.
    • The software makes it super easy for us to create plots that we can then show to investors or clients to display our data.
    • We are also looking to create an app for our product, and we will not be able to do that on MATLAB, therefore creating a limiting issue and a new learning curve for a programming language.
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