In some ways, it is an issue of control, I agree. But I've done SAP, currently doing AX, and I don't think I've seen anything u couldn't generally (programming) do in one system versus the other other than the following: In SAP, you can't be a carwash business day one and a cake maker day two. In AX you can, but on day three you'll be washing cakes! :)
The SAP templates are a general reference, lots of wriggle room. I think you have to ask yourself if no one else is doing something, is it a very good idea....or a very bad one. Business procedures are pretty well documented worldwide I think, results really depend on the talent in the company and how it's used, not software. As far as small firms go, it depends on money and inclination...some businesses want to concentrate on business and treat the software like it's automatic, some like to play with the software until they run out of money or business or the attention shifts. Don't think I've ever seen a situation where a particular erp software was a major factor in the success or the failure of a business, too many other factors more immediate. I know lots of people kid themselves that their current business practices are always the best fit, but experience would surprise most of them. To summarize, I would say that client total control over a total lack of control describes AX, and that supplier total control over supplier total control describes SAP. :) Pick your poison :) K ----- Original Message ---- From: lars_kjaersgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:14:20 PM Subject: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Re: Axapta vs SAP I think the preference is very much a cultural issue. SAP is based on extremely many templates, from which the system is configured. SAP-R3 can be configured based o more than 7.000 templates categorised in so many different businesses. Based on my little knowledge, I think SAP has a very strong concept for firms who wants to adapt to other businesses "best practice" processes. On the contrary, here in Denmark, I think the time is running i the Ax way of customizing the system. Here we are primarily talking about small extremely adaptable firms, who often wants full control over the business and informationsystem. Best regards Lars --- In Axapta-Knowledge- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, kevin murray <kevin_w_murray@ ...> wrote: > > I've worked both Axapta and SAP. SAP is extremely flexible to configure at set up but after that it's much harder work than Axapta to customize on the fly. The plus to this is that technical support has seen u're problem before, whereas in Axapta MBS support is much much less responsive, due to customization every customer has unique problems. > > It boils down to people who like to keep the business up and running versus people who like to play with software. Bottom line, I think Axapta is too flexible and SAP is too inflexible, but if it were my business and all things were equal, I'd go with SAP, not being a fan of 'unique' (usually meaning 'crazy') business processes. The very inflexibilty of the software actually discourages knee-jerk reactions, allows some evaluation time. > > On the other hand, fixing Axapta over and over again is very profitable! :) > Kevin > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Varden Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Axapta-Knowledge- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:55:37 AM > Subject: Re: [Axapta-Knowledge- Village] Axapta vs SAP > > > The only thing I have done concerning SAP is buying and reading a book for the ABAP/4 programming language. Someone can correct me if I am wrong on this one but as far as I know SAP does not have the high level of flexibility for customization that Dynamics AX has and from my reading and comparison the interface is not as intuitive for the developer and user as Dynamics AX. > > To a large extent I think people want to be able to customize their unique business processes instead of being forced to use something out of the box that may fail as a result inflexibility. 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