Why switch to Microsoft Dynamics AX from SAP? Three
great reasons
Making the decision to change your company's financial
management system is a process that requires research and
foresight. Here are four reasons why businesses using SAP financial
management products have decided to make the switch to Microsoft
Dynamics AX.
Microsoft Dynamics AX can improve employee
productivity
In a 2007 analysis that compared the impact of enterprise
software applications on people's productivity, Microsoft Dynamics
AX users on average scored Microsoft Dynamics AX 18 percent
higher than SAP users scored SAP applications. This
Microsoft-sponsored study was conducted by Keystone Strategy, an
independent research firm, and was supervised by Dr. Marco Iansiti,
the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at the
Harvard Business School.
Microsoft Dynamics AX can scale with your business
Microsoft Dynamics AX provides affordable scalability for
your growing businesses. With benchmarked performance up to 1,000
users and beyond and rich functionality across financials, supply
chain management and customer relationship management, you can be
confident in the ability of Microsoft Dynamics AX to meet the
needs of your growing business. Integrate your Microsoft Dynamics
business management solution with the Microsoft SQL Server 2005
database and analytics program. Enjoy enterprise-level reporting,
flexible decision-making support and timely, relevant business
insight at a low cost with significantly high usability and
flexibility.
Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a low cost of ownership
Microsoft Dynamics AX is engineered to cost-effectively
support the changing requirements that are frequently necessary for
customers to adapt, grow, and maintain a competitive edge in their
business. Independent research has demonstrated that, on the whole,
Microsoft Dynamics AX offers a higher return on investment (ROI)
and lower overall costs than other major competitive offerings.
Microsoft Dynamics AX licensing is designed to be
cost-effective. It is based on concurrent users versus named users
and has no imposed user minimum or maximum so it evolves with you
for the life of your business.
Questions to ask SAP before purchasing an SAP solution
If you are considering the mySAP Business Suite or mySAP
All-in-One:
- SAP may offer a fixed-price, fixed-scope implementation of
mySAP All-in-One. What specifics actually govern this offer?
- Do I have to license named users instead of concurrent users or
user sessions? What is the difference and what do you see as the
pros and cons of each?
- Is NetWeaver middleware required for integration with SAP and
non-SAP systems?
- What does a typical All-in-One support team look like? How many
administrators? How many developers? How many support
personnel?
If you are considering SAP Business One:
- What is SAP's future solution roadmap for Business One? Can you
provide documentation supporting that?
- How does Business One fit into SAP's Enterprise Service
Oriented Architecture? To what degree is Business One included in
the development plans for SAP NetWeaver and Duet?
- How many users can Business One reasonably scale to? How many
references can you provide of existing SAP Business One users of
this size?
- What are my choices if I outgrow Business One? Can you provide
details on the cost and steps to migrate to mySAP?
- How much of the functionality being demonstrated is native,
"out-of-the-box" functionality versus functionality developed by a
partner or through a third-party developer? How will this add-on
functionality affect upgrades?