Certinia ERP Cloud vs. NetSuite ERP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Certinia ERP Cloud
Score 7.8 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
NetSuite ERP
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
NetSuite is a suite of ERP and accounting modules which is sold in various editions aimed at different size customers. The multi-country, multi-currency version is an additional module called OneWorld. Netsuite is a SaaS system and is not offered in an on-premise edition.N/A
Pricing
Certinia ERP CloudNetSuite ERP
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Certinia ERP CloudNetSuite ERP
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUsers subscribe to NetSuite for an annual license fee. The license is made up of three main components: core platform, optional modules and the number of users. There is also a one-time implementation fee for initial setup. New modules and users and can be added as a business grows.
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Community Pulse
Certinia ERP CloudNetSuite ERP
Considered Both Products
Certinia ERP Cloud
Chose Certinia ERP Cloud
NetSuite is much better in that it can produce financial statements, has a subscription module, and is just as customizable as FinancialForce. If you have a midsized company, NetSuite may be better suited for your business needs. FinancialForce requires a lot of in-house …
Chose Certinia ERP Cloud
Compared to other accounting software FinancialForce Accounting has its good and bad aspects but overall it is a good option. Reporting directly from FinancialForce Accounting can be difficult to do, but standard accounting tasks are straightforward and not time-consuming to …
Chose Certinia ERP Cloud
The initial allure of FinancialForce Accounting was the fact that we were very happy with Salesforce.com and the ability to integrate FinancialForce Accounting with Salesforce.com easily (although it was time-consuming). But after analyzing its functionality it was also …
NetSuite ERP

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Certinia ERP CloudNetSuite ERP
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.4
2 Ratings
15% above category average
NetSuite ERP
1.1
15 Ratings
147% below category average
Pay calculation8.52 Ratings1.013 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.02 Ratings1.010 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.02 Ratings1.39 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.4
4 Ratings
15% above category average
NetSuite ERP
9.1
74 Ratings
23% above category average
API for custom integration8.84 Ratings9.164 Ratings
Plug-ins8.03 Ratings9.447 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.4
5 Ratings
3% above category average
NetSuite ERP
9.1
81 Ratings
11% above category average
Single sign-on capability8.65 Ratings9.262 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.15 Ratings9.180 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
7.9
5 Ratings
13% above category average
NetSuite ERP
9.1
72 Ratings
27% above category average
Dashboards8.45 Ratings9.171 Ratings
Standard reports6.55 Ratings9.170 Ratings
Custom reports8.85 Ratings9.170 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
NetSuite ERP
7.6
256 Ratings
0% below category average
Accounts payable8.05 Ratings8.3250 Ratings
Accounts receivable7.14 Ratings8.3231 Ratings
Global Financial Support8.01 Ratings9.326 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers7.01 Ratings9.428 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations6.33 Ratings9.041 Ratings
Configurable Accounting7.43 Ratings9.435 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.73 Ratings9.337 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
10.0
3 Ratings
24% above category average
NetSuite ERP
8.8
48 Ratings
11% above category average
Inventory tracking10.03 Ratings9.747 Ratings
Automatic reordering10.03 Ratings8.528 Ratings
Location management10.03 Ratings9.235 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.1
2 Ratings
4% above category average
NetSuite ERP
8.7
205 Ratings
11% above category average
Pricing8.02 Ratings9.153 Ratings
Order entry8.02 Ratings8.1201 Ratings
Credit card processing8.52 Ratings8.437 Ratings
Cost of goods sold8.02 Ratings8.748 Ratings
Order Orchestration00 Ratings9.421 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
NetSuite ERP
7.3
197 Ratings
1% below category average
Travel & Expense Management10.01 Ratings8.331 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting7.01 Ratings8.527 Ratings
Billing Management00 Ratings8.4186 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings9.327 Ratings
Period Close00 Ratings9.335 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
NetSuite ERP
6.3
32 Ratings
19% below category average
Budgeting and Forecasting9.01 Ratings5.926 Ratings
Project Costing9.01 Ratings5.823 Ratings
Cost Capture10.01 Ratings5.822 Ratings
Capital Project Management9.01 Ratings4.014 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance10.01 Ratings9.413 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition10.01 Ratings6.722 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
8.2
1 Ratings
18% above category average
NetSuite ERP
4.0
17 Ratings
52% below category average
Project Planning and Scheduling7.01 Ratings8.514 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers7.01 Ratings3.311 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality8.01 Ratings3.010 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools8.01 Ratings3.68 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
3.1
12 Ratings
84% below category average
Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings3.57 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
3.3
19 Ratings
71% below category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings3.58 Ratings
Contract Authoring00 Ratings2.010 Ratings
Contract Repository00 Ratings3.58 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings3.613 Ratings
Supplier Management00 Ratings9.513 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
3.2
11 Ratings
68% below category average
Risk Repository00 Ratings3.58 Ratings
Control Management00 Ratings2.011 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments00 Ratings3.57 Ratings
Issue Detection00 Ratings3.58 Ratings
Remediation and Certification00 Ratings3.58 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
3.0
17 Ratings
78% below category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization00 Ratings2.89 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management00 Ratings2.88 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management00 Ratings2.88 Ratings
Fulfillment Management00 Ratings9.414 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings2.511 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
8.9
16 Ratings
17% above category average
Production Process Design00 Ratings8.512 Ratings
Production Management00 Ratings8.514 Ratings
Configuration Management00 Ratings9.410 Ratings
Work Execution00 Ratings9.412 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings8.514 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
7.8
131 Ratings
7% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.617 Ratings
Inventory Planning00 Ratings7.4128 Ratings
Performance Monitoring00 Ratings8.514 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Certinia ERP Cloud
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
3.8
13 Ratings
62% below category average
Proposal Management00 Ratings2.610 Ratings
Product Master Data Management00 Ratings3.29 Ratings
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User Ratings
Certinia ERP CloudNetSuite ERP
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(8 ratings)
8.5
(354 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.2
(49 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(231 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(16 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(15 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.1
(215 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
6.4
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
6.4
(17 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(5 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
4.8
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Certinia ERP CloudNetSuite ERP
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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NetSuite
Really in this hybrid environment, being up in the cloud and being able to securely access the data and work from anywhere, I think it's a real game changer for my team. So I really like the fact that NetSuite keeps up with security features and allows users to access it from anywhere.
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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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NetSuite
  • NetSuite does analytics very well.
  • They do reporting very well. I love the ability to have control over how the information flows through my NetSuite, my user roles, and my responsibilities. I can assign certain tasks to certain people, and they do that and then also have the control to approve that and make sure it's done correctly.
  • Just being able to drill down into a particular GL account or into a particular line item and see what really makes that up and what's driving our certain costs.
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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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NetSuite
  • Honestly, right now, my biggest pain point is kind of our own doing, but I would appreciate a little bit more support and help in the area of performance management and kind of understanding how our application is built, what are the best choices for customizing or solving a problem in terms of performance, because our company is rather large, we have a lot of data coming in and out, and that has been an issue for us recently.
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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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NetSuite
NetSuite is able to cover all of our needs, spanning multiple departments and managerial levels. We use it daily for a multitude of functions, including creating promotions, estimating inventory, pulling historical reports, forecasting sales, and more. Overall, we're very satisfied with NetSuite as an ERP solution and recommend it to medium to large businesses.
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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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NetSuite
I have given this rating due to below use cases: - Order Management - Advanced Revenue Management - Invoicing - Automated Billing - Inbound and Outbound Integrations with applications such as Salesforce, Zip, Stripe, Mavenlink, Avalara, Floquast - Project management and billing - Training -Customer Support - Knowledge Article Support
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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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NetSuite
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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Performance
Certinia
If Visualforce pages are enabled, they sometimes slow down the load time.
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NetSuite
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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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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NetSuite
The account rep changes quite often, which requires restarting. Suite Answers is a very good tool but can be hard to use for somebody who is not fully confident with Netsuite. Asking questions that are not already answered in Suite Answers can be rough. Training is readily available, but most of the time stays on the surface and doesn't answer medium to more advanced questions.
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In-Person Training
Certinia
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NetSuite
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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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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NetSuite
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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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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NetSuite
I felt NetSuite Professional Services did an excellent job of guiding us in the implementation. I also felt our internal teams were a little resistant to the change and engagement of new software. Had we performed better engaging and buying into the new software, I would be able to rate the implementation better. Therefore, the lower number should not be viewed as a deficiency with the software or the professional services teams, but as an reminder of how important complete buy-in from the local users is.
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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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NetSuite
Well, the reason why I'm with NetSuite is because obviously it beats out those other options quite considerably. It gave us the whole ecosystem that gave us everything we needed. I didn't need a dedicated administrator whose full-time job is to deal with it like our current system would need to really be useful. I can find people or train people how to use it right away. So for us, that really beats it out compared to the Sage and QuickBooks where we were looking at it from a perspective of, yeah, we can find people who are experts in those fields. They don't scale up to the size that we need as we're going to really quickly go from R&D company into doing tens of millions of dollars a year in revenue and activities. So that's where it beats us out over say Sage or QuickBooks is it's got that complete scalability. We can go to multiple subsidiaries, foreign currency, not a problem. It's got that full functionality.
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Scalability
Certinia
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NetSuite
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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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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NetSuite
  • Positive impact, again, it's our source of truth, so we are able to not have questions about how much money we have in the bank or do we have enough material to build this job. Being able to know those things immediately is super valuable.
  • I mean it's the grease that skids the wheels that gets us to accomplish the things that we do in our business.
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