ERP Financials

Comparison Guide
Introduction

Having an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) finance module is a way for a company to organize its financials as well as meet its
business objectives in the most efficient way. Most solutions aid in generating general ledgers, balance sheets, expense tracking,
and quarterly financial statements.

In this guide, you will learn more about the top 10 ERP vendors who offer finance modules and important features to consider before
implementing such as ease of customization to, user range, financing options.

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Comparison Grids

ERP Financials
Vendor: Product Solution SMB - Enterprise Price Range Financing Options User Range Multi Site

Must contact vendor for

Epicore ERP SMB - Enterprise $4k - $500k Subscription 1 - 2000+
this information

Epicore Express SMB $400 - $5k/Month Subscription 1 - 50 P

Lease, Owner Financing,

Microsoft Dynamics AX SMB - Enterprise $20k - $750k 5 - 1000 P
Financing

11 users for $99/Month,

$49 for each additional
NetSuite SMB - Enterprise $999 - $14,999/Month Annual License User. 500 user package P
available. Unlimited users
for $1Mil/Year

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne SMB - Enterprise $17K - $35K Annually Annual License Over 4K P

Plex Systems Enterprise $5k+/Month Subscritpion 20 - 1000+ P

Owner Financing, Lease

Sage 100 ERP SMB - Enterprise $4k - $20K 1 - 200 P
to Own

Owner Financing, Lease

Sage X3 SMB - Enterprise $2600/User 20 - 1000+ P
to Own

Lease, Owner Financing,

SAP Business ByDesign SMB $1111/User/Month 10 - Unlimited P
Financing

Lease, Owner Financing,

SAP Business One SMB $7k/User?Month 25 - 1000 P
Financing

Modular Pricing (Pay for

Intacct SMB - Enterprise $400 - $10K/Month Unlimited P
what you need)

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ERP Financials (continued)

Vendor: Product Solution Multi National Architecture Database Platform Server OS

Cent OS, Novell SUSE Linux, Oracle Linux, Red Hat

Epicore ERP P Cloud, MS SQL Server MS, Lunix/Unix Enterprise Linux, Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows
Vista, Windows XP

Cloud-based (SaaS), MS SQL

Must contact vendor for Server, MS SQL Express, MS
Epicore Express Web-based Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Unix
this information Access, Progress, QUickbooks,
Salesforce

Microsoft Dynamics AX P SOA, .NET SQL Server Windows 7, 8, Server 2003, Server 2008

Windows 7, 2000, Vista, XP, Mac OS, Linux, HP-UX,

NetSuite P SaaS Netsuite Business OS AIX, Solaris, Unix, IBM OS/400, Web browser (OS
Agnostic)

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne P 1 Oracle Blackberry, Android, iOS

Windows, Mac OS, Novell Netware, Linux, Unix, Solaris,

Plex Systems P 1 MS SQL Server AIX, HP-UX, Compatible With All, Power, i Operating
System, NA/On Demand/Saas, VMS, IBM OS

Cloud, Linux, Mac, Windows, MS SQL Server, ODBC

Sage 100 ERP P Windows
On-Premise, SaaS Online Compliant

Cloud-based SaaS, MS SQL

Sage X3 P MS SQL Server, Oracle Windows, Linux, Unix
Server, Oracle

SAP Business ByDesign P Cloud SAP HANA SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

MS SQL, Progress, IBM,

SAP Business One P SAP HANA SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
DB2, Oracle, SAP HANA

Intacct P SaaS Unix Windows 7,8,8.1, Server 2003, 2008, 2012

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ERP Financials (continued)

Multi-Company Multi-Currency
Difficulty of Bank Cost Accounting Project
Vendor: Product Solution Financial Transaction
Customization Reconciliation & Analysis Accounting
Consolidation Management

Epicore ERP Easy P P P P

Epicore Express Easy P P P P

Microsoft Dynamics AX Not Customizable P P P P P

NetSuite Not Customizable P P P P P

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Easy P P P P

Plex Systems Not Customizable P P P P

Sage 100 ERP Difficult P P

Sage X3 Easy P P P P

SAP Business ByDesign Difficult P P P

SAP Business One Not Customizable P P P P P

Intacct Easy P P P P

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ERP Financials (continued)

Project Costing & Investment Materials
Vendor: Product Solution Revenue Recognition Tax Estimation
Expense Tracing Accounting Management

Epicore ERP P P P P P

Epicore Express P P P

Microsoft Dynamics AX P P P P P

NetSuite P P P P

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne P P P P

Plex Systems P P P P

Sage 100 ERP P

Sage X3 P P P

Has expense tracking but

SAP Business ByDesign P P P P
not costing

SAP Business One P P P P

Intacct P P P P P

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Foot Notes

Features Definitions
Difficulty of Customization The level of difficulty companies will have tailoring this software to fit their company.

This feature helps deter check fraud, reconciles multiple bank accounts, analyzes estimated cashflow, and
Bank Reconciliation controls who can access and adjust balance entries. This module is restricted to those with necessary
access to this information.
These allow you to set up a detailed cost structure for every operation and product to include purchased
Cost Accounting & Analysis materials and components. You can apply the cost structure to inventory at any time to obtain valuation
based on a choice of cost models.
This allows you to group multiple companies to view a consolidated profit and loss statement, balance sheet,
Multi-Company Finanical Consolidation
and trial balance.
This feature tracks and anlyzes transaction activity in multiple currencies. Allows you to perform currency
Multi-Currency Transaction Management conversions, create a range of exhchange rates, record gains and losses due to fluctuations in exchange
rates, and set up unlimited numbers of exchange schedules.
This allows project managers to track actual against estimated costs through forecast completion which
Project Accounting
helps prevent cost overruns and generates bottom line savings.
This allows you to manage jobs on different levels to include the contract, project, and category so you can
Project Costing
specify the cost account to be used in cost transactions for each job category.

Project Expense Tracking This allows you to track purchases and expenses against projects.

This feature helps automate revenue recognition processes and support the latest compliance rules such as
Revenue Recognition
regulations on multi-element sales.

Investment Accounting This is a feature that can help track and optimize investments made within the company.

This feature is also known as inventory management by many vendors and helps you track inventory and
Materials Management
materials in the warehouse.

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Cloud-based (SaaS), IBM DB2, IBM UniData/UniVerse, MS SQL Express, MS Access, ODBC, Compliant, Oracle, Pervasive,
PostgreSQL, Power, Progress, Sage ProvideX, Sybase, abas Open Object Oriented Database, Customized per Client, Proprietary
Universal Compatibility, Quickbooks, Salesforce

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