Finland-based software company Comptel is the preferred operations support system provider for the telecommunications industry worldwide. With more than 20 international locations, Comptel was recently in the market for an enterprise resource planning system that would help keep the company connected across its myriad locations.
The company had been running SAP R3 in three of its offices, and home-grown systems in other locations. With so many different systems, consolidating financial data across the company was a complex and time-consuming process. What the company needed was a single ERP system.
The competition came down to SAP ECC and Microsoft Dynamics AX.
“SAP ECC had more modules and features than we really needed or wanted to pay for,” says Comptel CFO Mikko Hytönen. “And no vendor, except for Efima, our Microsoft partner, could really tell us how they would meet our needs in a simple and cost-effective manner.”
One of the main advantages of adopting Dynamics AX as a service is that Comptel was able to avoid the long implementation process typically associated with major ERP software system deployments. The deployment took 10 months, compared to a predicted 13- to 16-month deployment if Comptel had gone with SAP ECC.
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