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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

Overall user interface is great.

Ease of doing things in ByD is tremendous.

We get all things in one place from sending quote to placing order.

It also provide tracking of order like order is released or in what stage which give clear information to user and make their life simple.

Multiple feature and filter is also their to sort the whole data.

Overall implementation of software is also easy and business process wont get hampered while implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

Multiple function are there, if doesnot learn the steps first it may cause confusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

Because of Tracking and easy of data availability.

We are able to get all the detail of customer which may be past purchase , pending invoices, Last quotation shared.

Also in ByD we are able to track availability of stock so it help in fullfulling our commitment to customer about delivery date and time of material. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAP Business ByDesign Overview

What is SAP Business ByDesign?

SAP Business ByDesign (ByD) is a comprehensive cloud enterprise resource planning software (Cloud ERP) that is sold and operated as software as a service (SaaS) by SAP SE. It is designed for small to medium-sized enterprises as well as subsidiary businesses. The software is designed to provide business processes across application areas from financials to human resources with embedded business analytics, mobility, e-learning, and support. SAP Business ByDesign is built on the principles of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The underlying technology is leveraging SAP's in-memory HANA database. A comprehensive set of prepackaged integrations as well as SOAP and oData webservices ensure easy integrations to other SAP or non-SAP applications. The main application areas: Financial Management (FIN) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Project Management (PRO) and Professional Service Automation (PSA) Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and Procurement Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Production Human Resource Management (HCM) Fund and Grant Management Integrated Business Analytics Executive support and compliance management. ByDesign is deployed in 144 countries and supports 12 languages. 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. The price includes hosting, unlimited storage, access to all application areas (see above), support etc. Updates are delivered automatically four times a year with no IT staff required.

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Want to run your entire business on a single, cloud-based software solution? Discover SAP Business ByDesign. Ideally suited for SMEs and subsidiaries of large corporations, it is a complete, integrated suite that can run your whole enterprise financials, human resources, sales, procurement, customer service, and supply chain.


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All are best and it’s easy to manage and integrate.
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"SAP ByD Best business tool for all your need"
Overall user interface is great. Ease of doing things in ByD is tremendous. We get all things in one place from sending quote to placing order. ...
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SAP Business ByDesign Media

SAP Business ByDesign Demo - Embedded Analytics - Dashboard
With the embedded analytics of SAP Business ByDesign it is easily possible for key users or end users to define dashboards that contain tailored reports and KPIs for their role
SAP Business ByDesign Demo - Example Report
SAP Business ByDesign comes with many reports pre-delivered by SAP. Customers can easily create additional reports or KPIs
SAP Business ByDesign Demo - Document-Flow
For each business document in ByDesign you can open the document flow, which shows you in a graphical the predecessor and successor business docuemnts as well as any associated accounting documents. This shows at what point you are in the entire business process.
SAP Business ByDesign Demo - Project-Gantt Chart
SAP Business ByDesign includes a Project Management module that is integrated with CRM to sell and bill projects, with HR to staff projects, and with SCM and SRM for procurement.
SAP Business ByDesign Demo - Financial Closing-Cockpit
The Financial Closing business scenario helps you to perform financial period-end closing activities to ensure correct financial statements, such as Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement. The Closing Cockpit helps to minimize the risk of missing important steps or incorrect tim...
SAP Business ByDesign Demo - Business-Configuration
SAP Business Bydesign is based on the most modern business process platform in the industry. The underlying functionality allows business users to configure and adapt the solution to their unique and changing needs – without requiring extensive, expensive IT resources
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Sunil Kumar B.
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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

Simple UI

Easy to configure

Ease of cloud and user scalability

Manufacturing industry is best supported in SAP byd.

Business configuration nd application management workcenter does every single activity required Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

Nothing much that can be disliked about the product.

Some of the disadvantages are

1. license types can be made better

2. Ease of integration needs to be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SAP Business ByDesign:

Definitely a go to product for monitoring your daily Business operations. Best suited for manufacturing, professional services, retail and trading industries.

Would definitely recommend all the SMEs to switch to SAP byd to initialize their digital transformation journey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

Overall Business integration

Right data at one click

Better performance analysis and improvement in efficiency

Streamlined Business operations

In system approvals made our life easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

This software assists the company in project planning and maintains a record of all transactions involving goods, money, data, etc. For new users, it is more convenient due to its user-friendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

Undoubtedly it is a great software to use for business purposes but sometimes there are some technical issues you can face while working on it other than this everything is good with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

This ERP software helps us in our businesses in managing finances and human resources like paying bills, hiring new employees, etc. Companies can use the software to manage their interactions with their customers, including keeping track of user information and responding to their queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

Ease of access and use. Allowed for Microsoft Excel exports and direct reporting within Excel, which helps build dynamic reports and weekly analysis of a company's financial health. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

Required manual input of Purchase Orders and Sales Orders. Limited to Excel reporting and did not connect with outside sources such as Docusign, Banks, and Payroll Providers. Limited Automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ease and access to company financial health and the ability to analyze data via Excel Plug-ins. SAP also helps the company track project progress via Purchase Orders and Sales Orders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chetana R.
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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

End user can do customization from front end without knowing any technical stuff.Business configuration can be enabled with detailed questions in simple English. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

Front end still uses HTML5 even when advanced technologies like Ui5, Fiori etc from sap itself is available in market and Sap is encouraging customers to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows Small and medium enterprises to manage their business without much effort and cost.No technical infra is required and intial setup can be done quickly within few weeks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Syed Umer W.
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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

As part of an organization that uses Q2C (Quote to Cash) method for Order Processing, I appreciate the integration that SAP Byd offers. Every step is covered and directly connected to the next and creates a very nice flow of Information through the system.

SAP BYD starts assisting the user at the Sales end where the receipt of a Customer inquiry, raising a quote and creating a Sales Order each get a separate work centre. It then leads to the Purchasing side, which includes Project planning, Materials Management, RFQ and Purchase Orders management. Then finally, at each step of the process (both Sales and Purchasing) the Accounting end is always tracking every movement of Goods & Services, Finances and Data to back the movement, helping in creating the weekly, monthly, and yearly Financial Statements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

SAP ByD does lack in quick customer support for any issues faced. Even though almost all issues are solved, the support has often taken a long time to respond to complaints raised by our organisation. This can cause frustration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

SAP Byd is an effective ERP system for SMEs. It it provides a software solution that easily integrates well with Microsoft Office (Especially Excel) making switching to this software easier for new customers. It has a very user-friendly design. From management point of view Dashboards to show live KPIs for different work Centres is very easy and quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edgar Ramon G.
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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

SAP Business By Design Financials improve the lives of accounting clerks involved in AR and AP by effectively monitoring cash and liquidity without difficulty. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

It can look overwhelming at first because of the need to create manual postings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

SAP Business By Design Financials render parallel accounting which conveniently allows the creation of financial statements compliant with appropriate accounting principles. It benefits users by significantly reducing the need and the time for reconciling accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

All modules in ByD suits to fulfill the daily routine business needs and ease to track data via analytical reports and forms along with the way of document flow and it's UI design seems friendly to navigate with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

Specifically for HCM module, where payroll and compensation processes are not supported by the ByD system. Those processes are really needed to be scoped for all LOB. Due to this gap, suggested to get into the 3rd party integration with this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recently got the requirement in time management scenario like leave and time balances that needs to be captured and sent them to each individual own email of the employees. For which accomplished through using Broadcast Bursting feature in ByD. Benefits of this feature helps employees to aware of their balances left and make their plans accordingly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Samruddhi J.
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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

The user-friendly interface is what I like the most about this system. Also, it is interlinked in such a manner that it covers almost every module together. For business requirements, You can add custom developments fields. SAP provides one functionality with an option to raise an incident where you can set the priority also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

Sometimes you have to spend some extra time entering the data manually; if by any chance you forgot to save the information that time, it is more frustrating because you need to do the same thing again and again. Also, most of the time, the system's performance is slow, and if you don't have a good internet connection, it doesn't work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SAP Business ByDesign:

If you are currently working on any ERP system in which you are facing some issues related to the system and if you want to switch to another ERP system, then definitely I would like to recommend you this system. It is not just because the SAP ByD system is very user-friendly, but it also provides end-to-end solutions covering almost every part of modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

As I have been working on SCM, I like that you can create sales orders, purchase orders, and invoices against those orders in just minimal time. Sap byd systems upgrade seamlessly; you don't have to waste your time. It is easy to communicate with external systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nagi Reddy B.
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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

It's a cloud solution, which is only the best based on the current trend. Some options are user-friendly with logical data collection. Some options are not at all helpful for any medium and big business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

Many points are there to dislike. The first one is the limitation in creating PO. We can't generate more than 100 lines, also the same in sales order. It's not easy to link with other applications and not user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

SAP BYD is not competitive enough with the other existing ERPs in the market. Many bugs in the process defining and configuring, main key areas the system got failed by not allowing to purchase and sales also as traditional company methods. Design should be free and flexible to create PO and receive with Landed cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP Business ByDesign?

The one thing I like most about SAP ByD is the User Interface. It is user friendly and the navigations are easy to understand even for a newbie cause they are straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business ByDesign?

There are some features not available in standard and even if there is a provision to bring it in standard it is tedious and time driven. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business ByDesign solving and how is that benefiting you?

SAP Business ByD is a great tool for the ERP solution requirement of middle market as it allows to build business objects upon the standard to meet customisation requests of business clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.