difference between customization & configuration

[Former Member]

What is the difference between customization & configuration?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The difference between cutomizing and configuration is:

<b>CONFIGURATION:</b> we will configure the system to meet the needs of your business by using the existing data.

<b>CUSTOMIZING:</b> we will customise or adapt the system to your business requirements, which is the process of mapping SAP to your business process.

Also, When considering enterprise software of any type, it is important to understand the difference between configuration and customization. The crux of the difference is complexity.

Configuration uses the inherent flexibility of the enterprise software to add fields, change field names,modify drop-down lists, or add buttons. Configurations are made using powerful built-in tool sets.

Customization involves code changes to create functionality that is not available through configuration. Customization can be costly and can complicate future upgrades to the software because the code changes may not easily migrate to the new version.Wherever possible, governments should avoid customization by using configuration to meet their goals.Governments also should understand their vendor's particular terminology with regard to this issue since words like "modifications" or "extensions" often mean different things to different vendors.

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Gauravjit

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[Former Member]

Configuration -- Doing the required changes in the Standard SAP to meet the requirements.

Customization -- Developing objects (Ex: Extentions & Interfaces) which are not in Standard SAP to meet the requirements.

[Former Member]

Hi Karthik,

Whether it is a config or customization both are done to map SAP into client's business.I will give u a specific example between both.Creation of customer Account group,going for user_exits(i.e. coding) etc comes under customization.

Operations on the document types(or,lf,f1,f2 etc) i.e playing with existing fields or existimg functionality with out much effort is config.if u r not convinced kindly seek from others.

Regards

Ravi Kiran

[Former Member]

Hi

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Award points who are sharing their views with you.

Mohan.

[Former Member]

Simply speaking

Configuration is nothing doing the required changes in the standard sap to meet the requirements of your client(customer).

Customization is doing changes to meet the requirements of your client(Customer).

Mohan