Odoo 20, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP Business One, Sage 100, weclapp, Xentral, c-entron and Hamburger Software: what is included as standard, what costs extra and where do their strengths lie? Reviewed with German IT service providers, distributors and system houses in mind.
Compliance built in: GoBD document locking, e-invoicing, DATEV with open items reconciliation and dedicated data protection management. Plus IT processes no other system offers as standard: on-call duty with billing, 3CX integration and legally compliant working time recording.
If your business is mainly an online shop, e-commerce specialists offer suitable tools. For payroll, dCM works together with your payroll provider or tax advisor. If you miss a feature, we build it straight into dCM instead of referring you to partners.
With the big vendors, German requirements often come through partners and add-ons, and AI is increasingly billed via credits. dCM delivers implementation, hosting in Frankfurt and customisation from a single source and lets you choose your AI provider freely.
With many ERP systems you talk to a partner who talks to the vendor. With dCM, development, implementation and support sit under one roof in Greven, Germany.
You know the people who set up and develop your system. Short paths, quick answers and, on request, a meeting on site in the Münsterland region.
We migrate your existing data from your legacy system: customers, articles, open transactions and documents. We check the data together with you until the figures match. Coming from c-entron or Hamburger Software, both systems run in parallel until you switch.
If a feature, module or interface is missing, we build it directly. No add-on marketplace, no second service provider, while you keep working.
We rate the vendor's standard product. Anything only available via partners, add-ons or higher editions is marked as limited.
| Criterion | dCM | Odoo 20 | Business Central | SAP B1 | Sage 100 | weclapp | Xentral | c-entron | HS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vendor, operation and price | |||||||||
| Vendor and situation 2026 | dream-soft GmbH, Greven (Germany) | Odoo SA, Belgium | Microsoft | SAP; version 11 announced for 2027 | Sage; AI and cloud in progress per roadmap | part of Exact Group (NL) since 2022 | VC-funded, leadership change 11/2026 | part of Nexoware (LEA Partners), products being merged | part of Suiteify (formerly Infoniqa) since 2025 |
| Operation | web application, hosted in own data centre in Frankfurt | SaaS or on-premises (on-prem only in Custom plan) | SaaS on Azure or on-premises | on-premises, cloud via partner hosting | Windows/SQL on-premises, cloud via hosting partners | SaaS | SaaS | Windows client with SQL Server, on-prem or Azure | Windows client-server, on-premises |
| Data stored in Germany | standardown servers, NTT Frankfurt | limited or add-onEurope region selectable, backups also in Canada; Germany via partners | standardAzure region by localisation, EU Data Boundary | limited or add-ondepends on hosting partner | limited or add-ondepends on hosting partner | standarddata centre in Frankfurt | standardAWS Frankfurt | limited or add-onat customer site or Azure | limited or add-onat customer site |
| Public pricing | free entry plan, then by modules and users | €19.90 per user/month (Standard), €35.90 (Custom), billed annually | €69.30 (Essentials), €95.30 (Premium) per user/month | not public, partner quote | not public, partner quote | €39 to €163 per user/month, helpdesk +€55 | flat €99 to €849/month by order volume | not public | not public |
| Implementation | by the vendor, incl. data migration | Success Pack or partner project | partner project | partner project | partner project | vendor or partner | vendor or partner | vendor | vendor or partner |
| German compliance | |||||||||
| E-invoicing (XRechnung, ZUGFeRD) | standard | standardincl. Peppol | standardincl. Peppol | limited or add-onvia add-on | standard | standard | limited or add-ondocumented by third-party source only | standard | standard |
| GoBD | standardlocking in the document workflow | limited or add-ontools available; certification claims contradict each other | standardIDW PS 880 certificate (2018), update planned for 2027 | limited or add-oncertificate found only for version 9.0 | standardIDW PS 880 per vendor (accounting with Sage DMS) | limited or add-oncompliant per vendor, no certificate found | not standard or not documentedno certificate found | not standard or not documentedno certificate found | standardIDW PS 880 certificate for Finanzwesen 3.00 (2021) |
| DATEV | standardexport plus open items import with reconciliation | limited or add-onfile export (CSV and documents) | limited or add-onvia partner apps only | limited or add-onFI interface, document export via add-on | standardDATEVconnect online with document images | standardposting data and invoice data services | limited or add-onexport, invoice data service 1.0 | limited or add-onDATEVconnect online as add-on module | standarddedicated DATEV edition, partner since 1997 |
| German payroll | not standard or not documentedhand-over to payroll provider | not standard or not documentedno German localisation | not standard or not documented | limited or add-oninterface to DATEV Lohn | standardSage HR Suite | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | standardHS Personalwesen |
| Working time recording | standardtime clock, flexitime, statutory breaks, holidays per federal state | standardAttendances with overtime rules | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | standardemployee time tracking from Services plan | standardtime clock from Business plan | not standard or not documented | limited or add-onabsences only, otherwise third-party system |
| Data protection management (DPA, TOMs, records) | standarddedicated module incl. website privacy policy | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented |
| Central change log | standardalways on, system-wide | limited or add-onaudit trail in accounting, field tracking in chatter | standardchange log per table/field, Purview | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented |
| Documents and trade | |||||||||
| Quote to invoice document chain | standarddocument types and follow-up documents freely configurable | standardfixed objects | standard | standard | standard | standardfrom Trade plan | standard | standard | standard |
| Blanket order with call-offs | standard | limited or add-onpurchasing standard, sales via partner module | not standard or not documentednot documented | standardblanket agreement | not standard or not documentednot documented | not standard or not documentednot documented | not standard or not documentednot documented | not standard or not documentednot documented | standardpartial and collective call-offs |
| EDI (EDIFACT, openTRANS) | standardinbound and outbound | limited or add-onvia partners only | not standard or not documentednot documented | limited or add-onvia add-on | limited or add-onvia add-on | limited or add-onpaid module | standardEDIFACT with partner Procuros | standardto IT distributors | not standard or not documentednot documented |
| Own web shop, marketplaces | limited or add-onshop API for external shops | standardwebsite, eCommerce, marketplace connectors | limited or add-onvia partners | limited or add-onvia partners | limited or add-onvia partners | limited or add-onshop connectors | standardcore focus of the system | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented |
| Service and IT operations | |||||||||
| Ticketing, helpdesk | standardboards and tickets | standardSLA, customer portal, AI reply suggestions | limited or add-onservice management only in Premium | limited or add-onservice module, helpdesk as add-on | standardservice tickets | limited or add-onadd-on, ticket billing | standardmail to ticket | standardticket to invoice | not standard or not documented |
| Project time to invoice | standardbudgets, timesheets | standardTimesheets | standard | limited or add-onfrom Professional licence | standardproject module | standard | not standard or not documentednot documented | standard | not standard or not documented |
| On-call duty with billing | standardrotation, customer checklists, hand-over to HR | limited or add-onPlanning, no on-call billing | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented |
| 3CX telephony | standardscreen pop, call log | limited or add-onthird-party modules; own VoIP as alternative | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented |
| Wiki, knowledge base | standardcollections, pages, sharing | standardKnowledge, mature | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented |
| Document management | standard | standardDocuments | not standard or not documented | limited or add-onvia partners | limited or add-onSage DMS as add-on module | standardwith versioning | limited or add-onas a module | not standard or not documented | standardHS DMS |
| Personnel file, HR | standardGerman working time models, time accounts | standardbroad: Employees, Time Off, Planning | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | standard | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | standardincl. applicant management |
| Platform | |||||||||
| Single sign-on | standardOIDC, SAML, LDAP/AD, multiple IdPs | standardOAuth, LDAP; SAML via community module | standardMicrosoft Entra ID | limited or add-onSAML2, only indirectly documented | not standard or not documentednot documented | standardEntra ID, enabled by support | not standard or not documentednot documented | not standard or not documentednot documented | not standard or not documentednot documented |
| AI features | standardfree choice of provider, privacy modes, cost control | standardagents, MCP; billed via IAP credits | standardCopilot included, agents via Copilot credits | limited or add-onper roadmap (GenAI Hub, MCP) | limited or add-onCopilot for Sage 100 still in beta | limited or add-onOCR document capture, otherwise via third parties | standardAgent Hub, MCP; credit-based billing from 2027 | standardagents, MCP server, voice agent | limited or add-onincoming invoice checks |
| Smooth switch from c-entron and HS | standardconnectors, both systems run in parallel | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | not standard or not documented | source system | source system |
The table scrolls sideways. Information on other systems is based on publicly available sources as of 11 Nov 2026, without guarantee.
It is based on vendor documentation, pricing pages and release notes, supplemented by partner reports and user reviews. Where sources contradict each other, the table says so. We welcome corrections.
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