Business Resources
Microsoft Dynamics™ vs. Competition
Products
QuickBooks
QuickBooks has standard accounting functions, but Microsoft Dynamics™ GP, offers the ability to remain on one product for the entire lifecycle of your company. Microsoft Dynamics™ GP grows with your business and is designed to have your company up and running quickly, without a huge hit to your company’s budget.
- Twice the built-in functionality than QuickBooks Enterprise
- Advanced reporting and decision-making tools that integrate with Microsoft Office
- Run multiple departments and companies
- Maintains years of history allowing you to make more accurate forecasts.
- Advanced inventory management to keep your customers happy.
- Financial visibility across your entire organization through the structured chart of accounts.
- Personalized home pages allow your employees to work with the information and tasks most relevant to their jobs.
Microsoft Dynamics™ GP offers rich functionality for financials, and supply chain management, along with real-time access to integrated information from all areas of your business.
Peachtree
Peachtree is another accounting package designed for smaller businesses with a limited set of features and standard database functionality. It’s a good starting place, but as your company grows, limitations affect the progress of your business.
Four signs your business has outgrown Peachtree:
- Your company’s transaction volumes are increasing and straining the capacity of the Peachtree database resulting in performance problems due to the time consuming task of navigating across different menus and screens and print reports.
- Your company is growing and you need for more than five users to access the accounting system at the same time.
- Your company’s operations are becoming more complicated and you need a system that offers advanced functionality.
- You have to compile data from several different applications because Peachtree does not off the range of financial, supply chain, and even HR functionality that your company needs.
Microsoft Dynamics™ GP offers rich functionality for financials, and supply chain management, along with real-time access to integrated information from all areas of your business.
MAS 90/200
Although Sage Group has a large install base of small businesses they have undergone significant changes that leave many users uncertain of the products future. Some limitations include:
- MAS 90 has limited scalability especially for more than 10 users
- Very limited multicurrency, multi-national functionality
- Proprietary technology can make integration difficult
- Weakness in workflow control, security and compliance
Microsoft Dynamics™ GP offers rich functionality for financials, and supply chain management, along with real-time access to integrated information from all areas of your business.
NetSuite
NetSuite offers a web-based solution for midsize businesses that integrates Accounting/ERP, CRM, and collaboration tools, but there are several areas where NetSuite falls short compared to SMB Suite:
- The upfront cost of NetSuite’s software does not include the services component. Service thresholds and per-module pricing escalate the overall cost.
- NetSuite's usability, add on costs, deployment, customer support and features limitations can rise potential customer concerns.
- NetSuite’s interface lacks the guided, step-by-step nurturing found in SMB Suite, which could increase initial training time.
- NetSuite’s contract management, telephony integration, and comprehensive workflow are very weak compared to the SMB Suite.
- NetSuite’s CRM solution has a fairly easy to use marketing campaign function as does SMB CRM, but NetSuite’s progress metrics lack luster and detail.
- NetSuite stores their customer’s data in only one data center which is located in a seismic area, and has no back up facility.
- Limited extensibility: few ISV (Independent Software Vendor) applications available
- Missing many functional capabilities, such as extended HR (e.g. recruiting and performance management), materials management, supply chain, etc.
- NetSuite’s local accounting support limited to the U.K. and USA.
The SMB Suite offers rich functionality for financials, supply chain management, and customer relationship management, along with real-time access to integrated information from all areas of your business.