Equip-Soft and Microsoft Dynamics vs. Oracle
Oracle is recognized as a good solution for the equipment dealer industry, but in today’s competitive and ever changing marketplace many equipment dealers industry businesses have been selecting Equip-Soft over Oracle for the following reasons:
1. Equip-Soft & Microsoft Dynamics can grow with your business. Microsoft Dynamics provides affordable scalability for your growing business. With benchmarked performance up to 2,250 users and rich functionality across financials, supply chain management, and customer relationship management, you can be confident in the ability of Microsoft Dynamics to meet the needs of your business now, and as it grows in the future. Using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft Dynamics provides enterprise-level reporting, flexible decision-making support, and timely, relevant business insight at a low cost with significantly high usability and flexibility. Equip-Soft builds on this, giving you all the insight into your business operations that you need to make real-time, informed decisions, and can even help with critical tasks such as performing instant Product Recalls.
2. Equip-Soft & Microsoft Dynamics provide a low cost of ownership. Equip-Soft and Microsoft Dynamics have partnered to cost-effectively support the changing requirements that are frequently necessary for customers to adapt, grow, and maintain a competitive edge in their business. Independent research has demonstrated that Microsoft Dynamics offers a high return on investment (ROI) and low overall cost of ownership. Microsoft Dynamics has also designed their licensing to be cost-effective. It is based on concurrent users versus named users and has no imposed user minimum or maximum, so it evolves as your needs do for the life of your business. Equip-Soft is focused on ensuring the unique business needs of the equipment dealers industry are understood and met. To that end, all R&D dollars are spent addressing issues specifically related to the equipment dealers business, including feedback collected constantly from our client base.
Doing your research is essential when evaluating ERP vendors to select the right fit for your business. If you are looking at Oracle as a potential solution, then consider asking these questions to help you make an informed decision:
1. What does a typical Oracle implementation or support team look like? How many administrators are recommended? How many developers? How many support personnel?
2. Does your proposal include the use of an Oracle Accelerator for streamlined implementation? What specifics actually govern this offer? Will I have to conform my business to match Oracle's ideas of how to run a business in order to get the benefits of the rapid implementation? How will the cost and time of implementation be affected if I want to have the solution modified to meet my unique business practices?
3. Do I have to license named users instead of concurrent users or user sessions? What is the difference, and what do you see as the pros and cons of each?
4. Is there a minimum number of users I need to license?
5. Can you provide details on the cost and steps to migrate to the new Oracle Fusion Applications? If I’m running one of Oracle’s current generation of applications, what functionality from my product is part of the Fusion Applications? What functionality will I lose?
6. If I’m not using Oracle’s database and middleware to support my Oracle Business Applications today, will I need to do so in the future? What cost and potential business disruption do I face in making that platform change?
7. Will my business be audited by Oracle in the future to determine my usage of the application? If so, will this affect my maintenance costs or overall cost of ownership in using Oracle applications?
Equip-Soft offers a complete product roadmap and upgrade path, providing customers with a stream of new features over the lifetime of use. Through our Customer Care Program, clients are provided with upgrades at no cost.
Equip-Soft helps equipment distributors manage growth and improve efficiencies through its rentals, service sales, parts, and fleet management software. This is done by matching up the best technology with the best business processes.
Most importantly, Equip-Soft is, just as the name suggests, completely focused on the needs of the equipment dealers industry -not pharmaceutical, CPG, chemical, or any other industry. We know equipment dealer companies and their business needs and challenges are unique, and that is why we continually grow and focus our expertise in one industry – your industry.