SAP Business ByDesign Reviews & Product Details

As an Azure Architect, what I appreciate most about SAP Business ByDesign is its architectural cohesion. With its “Suite-in-a-Box” model built on the HANA in-memory database, it helps eliminate the data silos and integration friction that are common in fragmented ERP landscapes. The platform’s native alignment with Enterprise Identity standards also lets us sustain a high-governance environment while keeping administrative overhead to a minimum. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While SAP Business ByDesign offers excellent out-of-the-box governance, its limited extensibility—and SAP’s recent strategic shift toward S/4HANA—make it a difficult choice for long-term architectural planning. From an engineering perspective, the rigidity of the SaaS model and the roadmap’s “maintenance-only” feel are major concerns, especially when weighed against more agile, cloud-native ERP alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unified Suite: Having Finance, CRM, and Supply Chain in one integrated platform helps eliminate data silos and keeps information consistent across teams.

Real-Time Analytics: The embedded dashboards give immediate visibility into KPIs, without the need to rely on external BI tools.

Global Compliance: Excellent support for multi-currency requirements and multi-national accounting standards, which makes it easier to operate across regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform can feel overly rigid, which makes customization difficult and often expensive. The UI also tends to be click-heavy and slow to navigate. On top of that, there’s increasing concern about SAP’s long-term roadmap and how much it will continue investing in this product compared with S/4HANA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about SAP Business ByDesign is that it’s a truly integrated, end-to-end ERP solution. All the core functions—finance, procurement, sales, project management, and supply chain—are connected in one system, which eliminates data silos and reduces manual work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the user interface feels a bit outdated compared to newer cloud ERP solutions. Some screens are not very intuitive, and it can take time for new users to get comfortable navigating the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAP is good for the medium to large enterprise for all departments (Finance, HR, Sales, Inventory, Production) work on one platform. Data is consistent and real-time.

Highly reliable & scalable

Used by big companies worldwide. Can handle huge data and users without performance issues.

Process automation

Reduces manual work, human errors, and saves time in:

Accounting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not for small business its Very expensive

License cost

Implementation cost

Maintenance cost

Not suitable for small businesses with low budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our organiation can grow,with this type ERP software using, we can moderate our all departements in one erp system,reporting is very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

some times system will slow, some reports are not able configure etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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

Simple UI

Easy to configure

Ease of cloud and user scalability

Manufacturing industry is best supported in SAP BYD.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.