ERP Product/Project Lifecycle Management
Introduction
Businesses are constantly changing and it’s important for your organization to keep up with industry trends and technology by creating new, different and exciting products and services for customers in order to stay competitive. This can be easily achieved with business management software such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) to help guide you through every stage of creating new business goods to go to market with. This guide provides a side by side comparison of the top ten ERP product/project lifecycle management solutions. A lot of providers offer features such as work order management, quality assurance, and production planning and scheduling.
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Comparison Grids
ERP Product/Project Lifecycle Management Vendor: Product Solution
SMB - Enterprise
Price Range
Financing Options
User Range
Multi-Site
Infor LN
SMB, Medium, Enterprise
$25K - $1M
Lease, owner financing
20 - 2,500
Infor Syteline
SMB, Medium, Enterprise
$25k - $500k
Lease, owner financing, lease to own
5 - 1000
Epicore ERP
SMB, Medium, Enterprise
$4k - $500k
Lease, owner, lease to own
2000+
SMB
$400 - $5k/mo.
Subscription
1 - 50
Enterprise
$15k - $400k
Licensed
15 - 1000
SMB, Medium, Enterprise
$12k - $350k
Lease, financing
25 - 1000+
Enterprise
$5k+/mo.
Subscription
20 - 1000+
SMB - Enterprise
$2600/user
Owner financing, lease to own
20 - 1000+
SMB
$150/user/mo
Lease, owner financing, financing
10 to Unlimited
SMB, Medium, Enterprise
$20k - $750k
Lease, owner
5 - 2,500
Siemens Teamcenter
Enterprise
1
2
10,000+
IFS Applications
Enterprise
$300k - $2M
Lease, owner
50 - 50,000+
Epicore Express Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One Oracle eBusiness Suite Plex Systems Sage X3 SAP Business ByDesign Microsoft Dynamics AX
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ERP Product/Project Lifecycle Management (continued) Multi-National
Archtecture
Database Platform
Server OS
Difficulty of Customization
Infor LN
SOA
IBM DB2, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Postgress Enterprise Server
Windows, Linux, Unix
N/A
Infor Syteline
SOA
MS SQL Server, Cloudbased (SaaS)
Windows
Easy
Epicore ERP
SOA
MS SQL Server 2014, Linux, Unix
Linux, Windows, Unix
Easy
Epicore Express
Cloud
Web based
SaaS, Multitenant SOA
N/A
Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One
Cloud & Mobile
MS SQL Server, IBM DB2
Linux, Windows, HP-UX
Easy
Oracle eBusiness Suite
Web
MS SQL Server, Progress, IBM DB2, Oracle
Mac OS, Linux, Windows, Unix, Novel Netware, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
Easy
Plex Systems
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Compatible with all database platforms
Compatible with all OS
N/A
Sage X3
Cloud-Based (SaaS), on premises
Windows SQL Server
Wiindows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Linux, AIX, Web Browser (OS agnostic)
Moderate
Cloud
Cloud-based (SaaS), Quickbooks
Windows
Difficult
Vendor: Product Solution
SAP Business ByDesign Microsoft Dynamics AX
SOA, .NET, Cloud
MS SQL Server, Oracle, Cloud-based (SaaS), MS Azure
Windows
N/A
Siemens Teamcenter
Cloud
Windows SharePoint, MS SQL Server
Windows
Easy
IFS Applications
Cloud-Based (SaaS), Oracle, Mobile
Oracle, Cloud-based (SaaS)
Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
N/A
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ERP Product/Project Lifecycle Management (continued) Vendor: Product Solution
Work Order Management
Infor LN
Project Management
Job Management
Planning & Scheduling
Quality Assurance
Yes
Infor Syteline
Epicore ERP
Yes
Epicore Express
Yes
Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One
Yes
Oracle eBusiness Suite
Yes
Plex Systems
Yes
Sage X3
Yes
SAP Business ByDesign
Microsoft Dynamics AX
Siemens Teamcenter IFS Applications
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Yes
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Comparison Grids
ERP Product/Project Lifecycle Management Vendor: Product Solution
Plant Manager’s Dashboard
Product Lifecycle Management
Real-Time Alerts
BOM Management
Infor LN
Infor Syteline
Epicore ERP
Yes
Epicore Express
Yes
Yes
Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Plex Systems
Yes
Sage X3
Yes
Oracle eBusiness Suite
SAP Business ByDesign
5
Microsoft Dynamics AX Siemens Teamcenter
Yes
IFS Applications
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Footnotes
Features
Definitions
User Range
This is the average number of users this product supports.
Multi-Site
This product can be used across multiple sites at multiple locations.
Multi-National
This product can be used globally between sites.
Achitecture
This is the overall layout and design on which the software resides, such as Cloud, on-premises, mobile, etc.
Database Platform
This is the database upon which the software and modules are built.
Server OS
This is the server the software is most compatible with.
Difficulty of Customization
Easy to difficult. This is indicative of the cost of customizing the software to meet specific business needs.
Work Order Management
This feature allows for tracking and tracing work orders submitted and completed throughout the product lifecycle.
Project Management
A project management module typically allows tracking of each project within the organization.
Job Management
Job management allows tracking of individual jobs performed in a project in terms of work received.
Quality Assurance
The primary function of quality assurance in an ERP software module is the filing and construction of quality control. Control over reception, rejections, clients, claims, etc. This is helpful for internal auditing.
Plant Manager’s Dashboard
This is an easy to understand visual graphic representation of essential business performance metrics accessible from a single screen. Charts, graphs, and other visual data depictions provide at a glance status monitoring in any given functional area.
Product Lifecycle Management
This is a systematic approach to managing changes a product goes through from design to retirement.
Real-Time Alerts
Real time alerts are sent as notifications to management and leadership.
BOM Management
This feature manages bill of material (BOM) information and changes.
Financing only available at time of purchase Information not available, contact vendor 3 Available through a Supplier Schedules module 4 Dashboard with multiple views, Plant Manager Dashboard not specified 5 Executive Management Dashboard 6 Cloud-Based (Saas), IBM DB2, IBM UniData/UniVerse, MS SQL Server, MS SQL Express, MS Access, ODBC Compliant, Oracle, Pervasive, PostgreSQL, Power, Progress, Sage ProvideX, Sybase, abas Open Object Oriented Database, Customized per Client, Proprietary`, Other, Universal Compatibility, Quickbooks, Salesforce 1 2
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