Big Hulking Software that's slow and and clunky but ultimately helpful
October 21, 2019
Big Hulking Software that's slow and and clunky but ultimately helpful
Score 3 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Sage 100 ERP
We use Sage 100 Enterprise Resource Planning system as our primary accounting and inventory system for the vast majority of our offline non-ecommerce business. It serves as the primary repository for all of our transaction information. We create purchase orders, sales orders, and inventory plans from within the ERP software, as well as manage manufacturing orders.
- The reports are easily customized for management reporting.
- The dashboards are also easily customized for at-a-glance data gathering.
- It functions much like other databases that rely on a one-to-many primary key relationship. If you understand one database, you understand Sage.
- It's painfully slow even for mid-sized businesses like ours without millions of transactions.
- It crashes very, very often and has numerous critical failures.
- Unfortunately, it's a local program so that excludes it from being used remotely. You have to be on site for it to work.
- All of our information is one place, which is good.
- Honestly, it crashes often and we're looking at replacing it.
- It's ingrained in our processes and it has been decent at pulling together disparate pieces of information, but it is also tough to wrangle.
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.