SAP Business ByDesign vs. Workday Extend
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SAP Business ByDesign | Score7.9 out of 10 | Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees) | SAP Business ByDesign is SAP's cloud ERP suite offering, launched in 2007, designed for the SMB market. The product includes a broad range of capabilities including financials, human resources, sales, procurement, customer service, and supply chain. Business ByDesign is a new platform, delivered entirely through a SaaS model, with functionality that overlaps somewhat with BusinessOne, which is also an SMB product, although not a true SaaS product. | N/A |
Workday Extend | Score7.9 out of 10 | N/A | Workday Extend unlocks the Workday Build platform, giving developer and IT teams an end-to-end toolkit to build, run, and scale custom agents, apps, and orchestrations. Builders work in natural language in their preferred agentic IDEs, including Claude Code, Cursor, and Google Antigravity, moving at the speed of thought without sacrificing compliance or control. Custom agents run on the Workday Trusted Agent Platform with live enterprise context, automatically inheriting Workday… | N/A |
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| Additional Details | SAP Business ByDesign is available for a monthly software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription, based on a base package, user types, and number of users. | Workday Extend available in the following options (Contact Workday for specific pricing options): Extend Pro: Unlocks an Agent-Ready environment—letting teams build in plain language (Developer Agent) and run custom agents (Custom Agents & MCP Tools) within Workday's trusted security boundary. Extend Core: Powers traditional app building and custom business logic. | ||||||||||||||
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| Small Businesses | Zoho One Score9.1 out of 10 | Zoho Creator Score7.7 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Zoho One Score9.1 out of 10 | AppSheet Score8.2 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Microsoft Dynamics AX (discontinued) Score4.8 out of 10 | Oracle APEX Score9.1 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.6 | 10.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.0 | - |
| Usability | 8.0 | 10.0 |
| Support Rating | 9.0 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 8.0 | - |
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| ScreenShots | SAP Business ByDesign Screenshots | Workday Extend Screenshots |
















