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.
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SAP Business ByDesign
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SAP Business ByDesign
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
Optional
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.
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SAP Business ByDesign
Considered Both Products
SAP
Verified User
Chose SAP Business ByDesign
Oracle did not fit the size of our company and the needs that we had. It was also much more expensive but the product itself was not really designed for our size. We selected SAP Business ByDesign, even over the regular SAP software, because it is designed for small and medium …
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Jefe de sistemas de información in Information Technology at Gilat Perú (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees)
Chose SAP Business ByDesign
SAP Business ByDesign has all functionalities that other systems have and more. Additionally, SAP Business ByDesign can be used from activation. The processes in this system are ready to use. SAP Business ByDesign only needs a few initial configurations to work. SAP Business …
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Sales Representative in Sales at Glassdoor (Internet, 51-200 employees)
Chose SAP Business ByDesign
ByDesign stacks up well against the competition. Companies that do multiple things are usually the best fit (manufacturing, distribution, and service). The more 'modules' used, the fewer competitors will be able to meet the company's needs. It is not inexpensive, but if the …
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Managing Director in Corporate at Acclimation (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Chose SAP Business ByDesign
As far as cloud ERP is concerned SAP Business ByDesign was the best in terms of what it had on offer for a professional services company managing projects and service requests. Also, I liked the SAP migration path and the move to running the whole system on the in memory HANA …
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Verified User
Chose SAP Business ByDesign
ByDesign is a step in the right direction for improving and advancing. I would say that it has a way to go before it is a reliable replacement.
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Verified User
Chose SAP Business ByDesign
By Design was selected before I joined the company. Recently I have started working with NetSuite, which has its strengths and weaknesses as well, but is easier to customize to your business needs.
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Director of Finance in Finance and Accounting at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Chose SAP Business ByDesign
The accounting team went from struggling to keep data integrity and completeness to the ability to have more capacity to grow with the increased revenue and not need to hire any additional accounting staff. Now that we have completed one year on the system and had our …
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Features
SAP Business ByDesign
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
8.4
2 Ratings
16% above category average
Benefit plan administration
4.51 Ratings
Direct deposit files
9.11 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
9.2
5 Ratings
19% above category average
API for custom integration
9.24 Ratings
Plug-ins
9.25 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
9.3
5 Ratings
13% above category average
Single sign-on capability
9.04 Ratings
Role-based user permissions
9.65 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
9.2
5 Ratings
24% above category average
Dashboards
8.85 Ratings
Standard reports
9.25 Ratings
Custom reports
9.65 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
8.7
5 Ratings
12% above category average
Accounts payable
9.24 Ratings
Accounts receivable
9.24 Ratings
Global Financial Support
9.22 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers
9.22 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations
8.82 Ratings
Configurable Accounting
9.22 Ratings
Standardized Processes
8.01 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
9.1
4 Ratings
14% above category average
Inventory tracking
9.24 Ratings
Automatic reordering
10.03 Ratings
Location management
8.03 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
8.5
4 Ratings
8% above category average
Pricing
9.24 Ratings
Order entry
9.24 Ratings
Credit card processing
4.51 Ratings
Cost of goods sold
9.24 Ratings
Order Orchestration
9.22 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
9.2
3 Ratings
21% above category average
Billing Management
8.83 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management
9.22 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management
10.02 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
10.01 Ratings
Period Close
9.22 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
9.2
2 Ratings
19% above category average
Budgeting and Forecasting
10.01 Ratings
Project Costing
9.22 Ratings
Cost Capture
9.22 Ratings
Capital Project Management
9.22 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance
8.01 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition
9.22 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
8.3
3 Ratings
19% above category average
Project Planning and Scheduling
9.23 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers
8.02 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality
8.02 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
10.0
1 Ratings
30% above category average
Award Lifecycle Management
10.01 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
8.0
1 Ratings
14% above category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared
8.01 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
8.01 Ratings
Supplier Management
8.01 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
9.2
3 Ratings
32% above category average
Warehouse Workforce Management
9.22 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of SAP Business ByDesign
Feature
SAP Business ByDesign
9.0
3 Ratings
19% above category average
Production Process Design
9.23 Ratings
Production Management
9.23 Ratings
Configuration Management
8.02 Ratings
Work Execution
8.02 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs
9.23 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of SAP Business ByDesign
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
SAP BYD work centers are consistent and easy to navigate once you understand one work center. The document flow tab that is in each window allows one to see all related transactions. Document flow is important because one is able to see the flow of transactions and can therefore reverse transactions by following the document flow in reverse. It is possible to group items in each overview screen to see what items are open. The system is working as hoped.
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Because SAP Business ByDesign allows us to improve our work, reduce the operational steps, implement audit controls, allows us found standard reports or it allows us to create new ones if you need more than the exists are enough for your work or your needs. Overall, SAP Business ByDesign allows us to standardize our operations, enhance our work, improve our skills, work over a web environment or mobile interface.
The Business ByDesign support is stablished since you contract the service with SAP. SAP resolves according to the service level agreement. Currently, we continue with the service and we are using the support channels available. We are receiving the support. The SAP support gets an incident and after that, they contact us to resolve the incident, if necessary, they set the meeting to understand it or we explain the incident
I recommend implementing all workshops during the ERP selection that you need to know very well about the ERP software. It allows us to gather information to accurate the plan of the project implementation. Additionally, we must reach the high-level commitment to achieve the main goals, to define the RACI matrix and communicate to all project stakeholders.
ByDesign stacks up well against the competition. Companies that do multiple things are usually the best fit (manufacturing, distribution, and service). The more 'modules' used, the fewer competitors will be able to meet the company's needs. It is not inexpensive, but if the needs of the company have the complexity from either a global perspective and need localizations and foreign currency, or a volume perspective and need resources greater than what can be easily housed on-premise, ByDesign should be a top consideration.
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Positive - Access to the real-time reporting allowing for faster decision making especially when fixed price projects are heading into an over budget position.
Positive - Complex KPI can now be tracked and as a consequence intensive plans can be made to capitalise on this level of reporting. Staff also have clear visibility over their own performance.
Negative - We are a bit on the small side at 30 employees for a ByD solution so it was relatively expensive for us. It would be a much better value preposition above 50 employees.
