ERP Comparison
Acumatica-vs-NetSuite
Selecting the right ERP system is crucial for long-term business success. This comparison explores the key differences between Acumatica and Oracle NetSuite, helping you make an informed decision.
CAPABILITIES
FEATURE COMPARISON
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WHY ACUMATICA
Key Indicators It’s Time to Move Away from NetSuite
Escalating Costs
Rigid Upgrade Process
Complex and Costly Customization
Challenging Customer Support
Inadequate Scalability
Inflexible Pricing and Contract Terms
Background
Established in 1998, NetSuite went public in 2007 and was acquired by Oracle in 2016. Due to its older design, Oracle NetSuite is limited in deployment options, customization language, and database export capabilities.
In contrast, Acumatica was built with modern web technology for both cloud and on-premises access. We offer anytime data access, flexible licensing, and no user fees, reducing your company’s TCO.
We believe Acumatica offers the best value, performance, functionality, and ease of use among ERP products for small and medium-sized businesses
Feature Comparison
Which One Should You Select?
Choosing the best ERP for your business often comes down to Acumatica or Oracle NetSuite
- Both Acumatica and Oracle NetSuite offer cloud-based SaaS ERP applications
- Both integrate ERP, CRM, eCommerce, and BI
- Both support a variety of vertical industries, from retail to distribution to manufacturing
Cloud-Based
Both Acumatica and Oracle NetSuite provide robust cloud-based SaaS ERP solutions, ensuring accessibility and scalability for growing businesses.
Comprehensive Integration
Each platform integrates essential business functions, including ERP, CRM, eCommerce, and BI, offering a seamless and unified experience.
Industry Versatility
Whether your business operates in retail, distribution, or manufacturing, Acumatica and Oracle NetSuite cater to various vertical industries, providing tailored solutions to meet specific industry needs.
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Why Acumatica Cloud ERP Solution?
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Full Relational Database Export
Oracle NetSuite users cannot directly export their data in a relational format, making it difficult and costly to migrate their data. Acumatica will never hold your data hostage—our built-in automated backup service and snapshot feature allow you to have a fully relational copy of your data at any time.
Customizations Using Industry Standard Tools
Both products are highly configurable, but Acumatica is built using industry-standard C# and .NET. Oracle NetSuite uses proprietary development tools, making customizations more difficult.
Upgrade on Your Schedule
To support its required multi-tenant model, Oracle NetSuite limits when users can update their software. Acumatica provides users with the option to upgrade at any time; Oracle NetSuite charges users for this option.
Flexible Licensing Options
Both products are available through public cloud subscription licensing (SaaS), but Acumatica also offers alternate options to accommodate customers’ unique requirements.
Multiple Deployment Options
While both products are available in the cloud, Acumatica also supports on-premises and hybrid deployments for companies that want to keep sensitive data in-house.
TCO
Both products charge by computing resources consumed, but Oracle NetSuite also charges per user. These costs increase as your company grows, increasing your total cost of ownership over time.
Capabilities To Meet Your Challenges
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Advanced Accounting Capabilities
QuickBooks fulfills the basic accounting needs of fledgling businesses, but as your company grows, your financial requirements become more complex. Acumatica specializes in and delivers the core accounting features you need to run your business, like general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and bank feeds. But it also provides advanced functionalities designed to grow with you.
- Tax Management – secure flexible tax reporting, handle sales tax exemption certificates, streamline tax zone reporting, and gain a complete audit trail.
- Payroll Management – easily set overtime rules, manage deductions and benefits, set up pay groups and employee classes, and define earning type codes.
- Global Accounting – use multiple base currencies, manage multicurrency pricing, and automate buy/sell relationships between entities across borders.
- Acumatica also provides Deferred Revenue Accounting, Fixed Assets Management, Recurring Revenue Management, and more.
Intercompany Reporting
As your business grows and expands locally and globally, you will need to manage multiple entities, currencies, and localizations simultaneously. To achieve this, you want a centralized system that goes beyond just accounting to integrate all your business operations. This keeps all your teams connected to the same set of real-time financial and operational data, fostering company-wide collaboration and informed decision-making.
Multi-Entity and Intercompany Accounting allows you to centralize purchasing, invoicing, and reporting for multiple businesses and teams, automatically allocate accounting transactions among companies, and link bank accounts to specific companies for their exclusive use.
Real-Time Reporting
Acumatica offers a collection of financial reporting and analytic resources that goes far beyond balance sheets and cash flow statements, enabling you to see the health of your company at a glance and quickly spot good or bad trends. Acumatica has a full set of essential reports that can be used out-of-the-box to access real-time data from the system. Easily modify reports, create new reports, and generate pivot tables, directly within Acumatica.
Mobile App
Acumatica’s native mobile app boosts productivity by providing 24/7 remote access to ERP data on iOS and Android devices, allowing users to view accounts, manage approvals, start field service appointments, capture field reports, and retrieve real-time information. You can quickly check order statuses, review stocking levels by warehouse, and manage your business by exception. The app also supports capturing expense receipts, time entries, and electronic signatures on the go—all from a customizable mobile workspace with widgets, favorites, and KPIs to meet individual user needs and priorities.
CRM
Acumatica has an integrated CRM solution for managing leads, contacts, opportunities, and more. Having all accounting, marketing, sales, billing, and financial data in a unified database enables businesses to make better decisions with a single, accurate set of real-time data. With an integrated CRM-ERP solution, every aspect of the customer’s journey is connected to this same dataset, providing businesses with an instant, 360° view of all customer information.
Industry Editions
Since QuickBooks only handles basic accounting, you may be using other industry-specific systems alongside it. Acumatica offers built-in, industry-specific capabilities, eliminating the need to work with disparate systems and data. Here are some examples of the industries we specialize in:
- Manufacturing: Supports multiple manufacturing methodologies, including make-to stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order, project-centric, job shop, batch, and repetitive manufacturing.
- Construction: Tracks projects in real-time, eliminates costly delays, automates workflows to increase collaboration, streamlines communication, and allows for the whole team to log on anytime, from anywhere.
- Distribution: Extensive suite of connected distribution applications for sales, inventory, purchasing, and warehouse management.
- Retail: System for inventory accuracy, omnichannel fulfillment, perfect order rates, and seamless customer communication.
Personalization
Focusing on your experience, Acumatica is designed to be customizable to fit the way you do business. This includes personalizing user views and allowing each person to tailor their Acumatica experience based on their roles and needs.
Ease of Integrations
Acumatica unifies your financial and operational data, providing a single platform for growth and scale. With NetSuite, you have to tack on additional software packages to get this extended functionality. With Acumatica, it’s all built in, so you can do more with less software.
In addition to Acumatica’s built-in advanced accounting, CRM, inventory and warehouse management, and billing solutions, it’s open cloud platform seamlessly integrates with hundreds of third-party applications. This gives you even more freedom to extend and customize the platform to meet your unique needs with integrated solutions and services from our technology partners. It also provides you with the flexibility to retain your preferred functions within your existing software stack.
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Awards, Recognition, and Reviews
Acumatica is widely regarded as one of the top ERP software solutions, consistently earning recognition from industry leaders, trusted publications, and, most importantly, our satisfied customers.
Our Industry Expertise
Built by Acumatica, Delivered by a Top Partner
Though many companies claim to work with manufacturing firms, it’s all about finding the one who can deliver for your specific business needs. Few solutions exist today that can handle both the financial, process, and inventory management needs of companies like yours, and even fewer partners know how to deliver such a solution.
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