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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Dynamics SL

    Score5.1 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Dynamics SL is one of the ERP products in the Dynamics family. This product was acquired from Solomon 2000. The product is typically used by SMBs, particularly in project-based businesses (e.g. construction). It has strong accounting and project management capabilities.N/A

    SAP Business Technology Platform

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the company's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, that brings together intelligent enterprise applications with database and data management, analytics, integration and extension capabilities into one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments, including hundreds of pre-built integrations for SAP and third-party applications.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft Dynamics SLSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Dynamics SLSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Dynamics SLSAP Business Technology Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
    808 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Dynamics SLSAP Business Technology Platform
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    12% above category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct deposit files9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    6.0
    6 Ratings
    23% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    API for custom integration6.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plug-ins6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    8.7
    10 Ratings
    3% above category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability7.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    8.0
    10 Ratings
    6% above category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    7.1
    11 Ratings
    8% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Accounts payable6.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Accounts receivable6.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global Financial Support6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers6.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations3.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standardized Processes6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    5.7
    6 Ratings
    33% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Inventory tracking5.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location management6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    6.2
    4 Ratings
    25% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Pricing6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order entry3.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit card processing7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subledger and Financial Process
    Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    5.7
    4 Ratings
    28% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Billing Management6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cash and Asset Management7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Travel & Expense Management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Period Close6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Financial Management
    Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    4.7
    3 Ratings
    47% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Budgeting and Forecasting7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Costing6.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost Capture2.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Capital Project Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Revenue Recognition2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Grants Management
    Comparison of Grants Management features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    6.3
    1 Ratings
    17% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Award Lifecycle Management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manufacturing
    Comparison of Manufacturing features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Production Management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Supply Chain
    Comparison of Supply Chain features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    20% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Inventory Planning6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Microsoft Dynamics SL and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics SL
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    818 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.0782 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.1780 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.4739 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.7655 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.6748 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.0735 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.9723 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings7.7631 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.0714 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.7633 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.4677 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Dynamics SLSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (18 ratings)
    8.4
    (771 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.4
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    3.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.9
    (751 ratings)
    Availability
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    7.3
    (503 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    1.4
    (2 ratings)
    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.4
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Dynamics SLSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    For a small to mid-size business, MS Dynamics SL is effective. We are capable of managing our finances with a very low risk of error. We have worked with MS Dynamics for almost 15 years and have more than doubled the size of our business in that time with very few issues from the program. We have exponentially increased our revenue and reporting demands and have found SL to be very dependable and stable. The program does have the occasional glitch and those are sometimes outside of the realm of expertise of our IT department. SL support is excellent, but their timeliness is not as urgent as ours.
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    SAP
    If you want to use a well-designed SAP technology to shift into the cloud, you will be more than satisfied with the BTP services overall. There are some improvements for beginners to help them get a better overview of what to do and how to start with their account. My recommendation is to take a foundation training course from the SAP learning hub to prepare for the first steps.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Provides flexibility for complex project based cost accounting
    • Strong and flexible allocation processer for cost allocations, markups, and pricing
    • A "Flexible Billing" module under the project controller series that allows for multiple billing formats ranging from fixed price schedule of values, T&M or Cost Plus, and scheduled billing.
    • Flexible reporting with options using Crystal Reports, SSRS, a Quick Query tool, and ability to tie into MS Office tools such as MS Access and MS Excel
    • Tight integration with Financials, but also the ability to integrate with modules such as Sales Order, Inventory, and Field Service
    • Customization abilities ranging from a VBA (visual basic for application) foundation to allow customizing existing forms to the ability to use the SDK (Software Development Kit) to build more complex customizations that integrate with Dynamics SL.
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    SAP
    • It is very easy to use.
    • All the documentation around it is geared towards the enterprise use case, unlike some other hyperscalers' platforms.
    • The SAP Business Technology Platform is very good because it's got the SAP customer and their business processes in mind. Probably my favorite thing about it is how easy it is to get up and running with a new use case and how well it natively connects to an SAP solution.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Reporting in the Project module is lacking functionality. I understand that most companies have specific needs when it comes to tracking project information but the standard reports are not good.
    • I would recommend a product like Management Reporter that is for Projects only. Project Reporter should allow users to pull in all Project related data into reports.
    • Fixing suspended batches. Obviously all of us users have experienced this mess. SL knows what needs to be corrected and there could be some step by step fixes in a separate repair module to do the steps we do in Query Analyzer.
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    SAP
    • The Automation Integration service has some outdated workflows
    • New services should be available as entitlements as soon as they are released for a particular region without having to buy them from SAP for zero dollars
    • Any subaccount should be able to change the IAS tenant. Currently, if you set it up for a particular IAS, you cannot change to another tenant and are required to recreate the services in a new subaccount.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Unfortunately, Dynamics' lack of ability to smoothly integrate with our CRM system is causing us to look at other solutions. The efficiencies that we gain by using Dynamics for our day to day accounting are lost in the constant headaches of getting sales quotes to import properly into the system for invoicing. Another major issue for us has been budgeting and reporting. We currently do all of our budgeting and board reporting in Excel, which is too time consuming and inefficient, especially when a system as robust as Dynamics should easily be able to handle this relatively simple task.
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    SAP
    Seamless integration with external system and dashboard to monitor the data flow and analysis are very essential for the business. The way the product is designed and modelled lead to minimum business disruptions. Adopting to the new and modern technology was easy. Keeping the central system as clean and adopting project bases development are advantages.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    I rate it a 10 because we have removed the fields we don't need so users can really crank the data into the system. The software was designed for the professional services firm in mind but does a tremendous job for construction firms and "blended" companies that are both distribution firms but project centric as well. Perhaps they drop ship inventory to a project where their employees or subs need to work on a project for example.
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    SAP
    Okay, so the content that we have built on the platform is limited to specific testing on the iFlows within integration suite. The visualization layer is nice to use and helps with the design elements, however with developers that are more used to markup languages, it doesn't have the same CLI type feel when you want it. Perhaps the majority of users are that deep, but other platforms have a better CLI type developer experience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    We have had only one unplanned outage for 2 hours in the last 30 months. We shut down for 30 min to 1 hour once a month, but that is for Microsoft OS updates to the servers. Being a 24/7 world wide operation, the reliability is really important. We do get an 8 hour window on the weekend that we can be down for a short period to install Microsoft Dynamics SL updates, but we do not have many of those. On our last version upgrade, we shut the users out at 9:30 am and were fully operational in less than 6 hours. The upgrade was New SQL server, New SL server and 2 new Citrix servers.
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    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Support is only used when needed, so unfortunately ,they get all the odd issues. It's a difficult business, but Microsoft and our firm do a great job of meeting customer needs. We get routine feedback that our support services are very good.
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    SAP
    The biggest problem we ran into was communication between SAP Business Technology Platform and onsite resources. Unfortunately our SAP Business Technology Platform and Cloud systems are under different customer numbers. I constantly had to open tickets under each customer number because I was unsure of where the issue lied. And having to create a dummy ticket for our ECC systems to open the ECC connections for another ticket under the Cloud customer is a pain.
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Training material in Developers Community or from Learning hub are really good... also most of the time we route through Discovery center... so materials provided by SAP is really good.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Just to let it take its course. The implementation for me once I became a part of my former organization was pretty seamless. Just get to know the basics and call the support team to ask questions if you need help on an issue, should they arise. They are ready, willing, and able to help!
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    SAP
    Having a full cloud native environment for devlopment of microservices and digitals solutions while having standardized access to our core data on SAP via cloud connector is one of the main benefits of using BTP over others hypervisors. BTP is the standard hyperscaler as soon as something relies on data from SAP systems in our company now
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Of the comparable mid-range ERP systems, Dynamics SL competes at the lower end based on price, but also above the high-end based on flexibility, data, and reporting. Being able to stay with the same core accounting from a $100 million dollar company to a $3 billion dollar company shows the range of capabilities.
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    SAP
    SAP Concur allows our staff to book, reimburse and remain spend audit compliant. Our Concur system takes feed from Workday and interacts with Credit card vendor. It also makes posting to Accounting and does clearing. SAP Business Technology Platform helped in establishing connection with all these different tools in real time. It helps in getting paid to the card service provider through our Bank through interface, which is built on SAP Business Technology Platform.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    Since the backbone of the database is MS SQLServer, the database can be easily scaled.
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    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • More time is spent on manipulating reports which can and should be automated.
    • Lack of electronic invoicing process and other green technology features creates more cost on printing and storage costs.
    • The lack of a user friendly interface requires more training and a bigger learning curve for staff.
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    SAP
    • As we are on public cloud, we haven't had many break issues due to being standardized.
    • Project management and expectations working with developers has been overwhelmingly positive and improved.
    • Improved connectivity with us migrating to other SAP products and easier/more mainstream integration methods.
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