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SUNAGO Matrix vs SAP Business One: A Tool You Adopt vs an ERP You Implement

SAP Business One is a complete small-business ERP with a genuine project module. SAP documents a hierarchical project tree with stages and subprojects, Phase Budget and Total Variance, Gantt charts, time sheets, a billing wizard, built-in CRM with sales opportunities and win probability, a general ledger, and India GST localisation. SUNAGO Matrix does not compete on breadth. The honest difference is shape and buying experience.

Real project cost, at a price you can see

SUNAGO Matrix is project economy you can start using this week, at a price you can see: EUR 3 per seat per month, with each hour costed from salary, utilization and overhead so project margin is right rather than optimistic. Replacing the finance system itself is a different purchase, and not one SUNAGO Matrix is built for.

Key Differences

A Cost Rate That Is Actually True

For a consulting firm the cost of an hour is not the salary divided by a standard year. SUNAGO Matrix computes each person's cost per hour as annual salary divided by their billable hours, after part-time capacity, vacation entitlement and their real utilization, then adds that person's share of company overhead, with non-billable colleagues' salaries rolled into the overhead pool. Every margin, EAC and FAC here is built on that rate. A tool that costs hours at a number you typed in will report a project margin that is wrong in your favor.

Published Price

SUNAGO Matrix costs EUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly, published. SAP Business One is sold through partners and priced per implementation, so the number depends on a conversation. That is a difference in transparency, not a claim that SAP is expensive.

Adopt vs Implement

SUNAGO Matrix is a tool you start using. SAP Business One is an ERP you implement, usually with a partner, covering finance, inventory and CRM as well as projects. SAP itself lists "Quick deployment" among the product's benefits, so treat any specific timeline claim with care and get it from your partner.

Forecasting as the Product

SUNAGO Matrix puts Estimate at Completion and Forecast at Completion on every project as standard. SAP documents Phase Budget and Total Variance, which is budget-against-actual reporting; a forecast of where the project lands is a different question from what it has cost so far.

Feature Comparison

FeatureSAP Business OneSUNAGO Matrix
Cost per hourNot documentedSalary divided by that person's own billable hours, after part-time capacity, holiday entitlement and actual utilization, plus their share of company overhead
Published priceSold via partners; no published per-seat priceEUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly
Cost at completion (EAC / FAC)Phase Budget and Total Variance documented; EAC/FAC not namedEAC and FAC on every project
General ledger and financialsYes, a full ERP covering accounting and financialsNo; invoices and syncs to Xero

Who Should Choose What?

Choose SAP Business One if:

  • You are replacing your finance system: SAP describes Business One as covering "accounting and financials, purchasing, inventory, sales and customer relationships (CRM) to reporting and analytics"
  • You need a real project hierarchy: SAP documents that "Subprojects can contain further subprojects underneath them, and so on, forming a hierarchical tree of subprojects". SUNAGO Matrix has nothing equivalent
  • You want CRM and pipeline inside the ERP, with opportunity probability predicted by the system rather than entered by hand

Choose SUNAGO Matrix if:

  • Your project margins are only as good as your cost rate: SUNAGO Matrix derives each hour's cost from salary, real utilization, vacation and company overhead rather than a number someone typed in
  • You want to see the price before you book a meeting: EUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly, published
  • Your finance system is settled and the gap is project economy: EAC and FAC on every project, not budget-versus-actual after the fact
  • You want deals, delivery, timesheets and capacity in one product without an ERP implementation around it
  • You want capacity planning that nets vacation and absence out of availability

SUNAGO Matrix and SAP Business One: three years of license cost

One question: how many people. The totals below are three years of license cost at each vendor's own published price. Where a vendor puts the capability SUNAGO Matrix includes in a higher package, that is shown too - and where that package has no published price, that is shown as well, because it is the part a buyer cannot work out alone.

Three years, the horizon buyers budget in.

SUNAGO Matrix

one plan, everything included

€4,320 over 3 years

€3 per seat/month, billed yearly · no seat minimum · no tier above this one

SAP Business One

sap.com/products/erp/business-one.html · read 2026-08-06

Publishes no price

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Each figure is in the currency that vendor publishes in. Nothing is converted, and no combined saving is shown across two currencies, because an exchange rate is a number we cannot document for you. License cost only: implementation, training and support are priced separately by most of these vendors.

See the full price page for what is in the plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does SUNAGO Matrix calculate the cost of an hour?
Not by dividing salary by a standard year, which is the mistake that makes consulting project margins wrong. For salaried staff, cost per hour is annual gross salary divided by that person's billable hours, where billable hours are their capacity adjusted for part-time percentage, minus vacation entitlement, multiplied by their actual utilization rate. On top sits their share of company overhead: yearly operating expenses divided by the firm's total billable hours, with the salaries of non-billable colleagues rolled into that overhead pool. So a consultant at 60 percent utilization costs materially more per billable hour than the same salary at 85 percent, and every project margin, EAC and FAC reflects it.
What will this cost us?
EUR 3 per seat per month, billed yearly, on a single plan with everything included. There is no feature ladder to climb and no module to add later. For comparison, SAP Business One is sold through partners and publishes no per-seat price. Price out the plan you would actually need at your headcount and the sums are easy to do.
How long before we are actually using it?
Days, not a project. You create the workspace, add your people with their salary, capacity and utilization, and import or enter your live projects. From that point every logged hour updates cost, margin, Estimate at Completion and Forecast at Completion automatically. There is no implementation partner in the middle and no configuration phase to get through before the numbers mean something.
We already run SAP Business One. Is there a reason to look at this?
The usual one is that project margin only becomes visible after the fact, and it is wrong when it does, because the hourly cost behind it was typed in rather than derived. SUNAGO Matrix costs every hour from salary, real utilization, vacation and company overhead, then forecasts where each project lands while there is still time to act, with the deal pipeline and resource capacity in the same product. If that is the gap you have, it is worth a look. If it is not, you are probably fine where you are.

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