Dynamics NAV and SAP - Features and Capabilities Comparision
Dynamics NAV and SAP are undoubtedly the most popular ERP
(Enterprise Resource Planning) software solutions available today. Often many
business owners are confused which amongst the two is a better ERP solution for
them. So, in this post, we will compare these two premier ERP solutions on
different parameters to help the readers make a more prudent decision.
• Global Approach:
Dynamics NAV offers 52 localisations and supports 44 languages, compared to the
41 localisations and 28 language support of SAP.
• Partners:
Dynamics NAV has over 10,000 partners worldwide against more than 11,500
partners of SAP.
• Popularity:
Dynamics NAV is being used by over 100,000 companies across the globe, whereas
SAP is being used by more than 31,000 companies.
• Maturity:
Dynamics NAV is the revamped version of Navision, which was first released in
1983, whereas SAP is a revamped version of TopManage that was first released in
1996.
• Licensing: Dynamics
NAV offers two types of licenses: Perpetual and Subscription with added
flexibility that the subscription licenses can be used for on-premise as well.
So, the data can be migrated to and from the cloud as per the requirement. On
the other hand, SAP offers separate licenses for on-demand and on-premise
requirements, which substantially cuts the flexibility option.
• User Types:
Dynamics NAV allows two types of users: Full users and Limited users. On the
other hand, SAP allows 4 types of users: Full users, Limited CRM users, Limited
Logistics users, and Limited Financial users.
• Reporting:
Dynamics NAV offers reporting features like SSRS, Direct export to Excel, and
Jet Report Express, whereas SAP offer Crystal reports, and HANA (in-memory)
reporting features. Both Crystal and SSRS reports allow users to utilize the
power of SQL. SAP HANA delivers better performance in data warehousing
in-memory while Jet Reports helps in fetching data to Excel, and Direct export
to Excel allows the NAV users to work on raw data easily.
• Support: Dynamics
NAV offers mainstream support for 5 years and extended support for 10 years
after the release at a onetime maintenance cost of 16% of the license costs. On
the other hand, SAP offers only 4 years of support for every release, and its
onetime maintenance cost is 16% of the license costs.
• Office
integration: Dynamics NAV being a Microsoft product offers tighter integration
with Office, which is also a Microsoft technology. On the other hand, SAP only
offers basic MS Office Excel export and Outlook for CRM functionalities to the
users.
• Instant messaging
& Social media: Dynamics NAV offers richer IM and social media features
given its Outlook and Yammer integration attributes. However, SAP offers only
IM features.
• Intranet and
Publishing: Dynamics NAV offers seamless integration with SharePoint that helps
a lot in intranet and publishing; these features are not available in SAP as it
does not support SharePoint integration.
• CRM integration:
Dynamics NAV offers tight integrations with its sister product Dynamics CRM;
SAP, on the other hand, has a basic CRM integrated with it.
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