SAP Replication Server offers enhanced data replication for SAP databases with customizable workflows, real-time updates, improved efficiency, and seamless integration with external tools, catering to both private and hybrid cloud solutions.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| SAP Replication Server | 1.8% |
| Oracle Enterprise Manager | 4.0% |
| Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials | 4.0% |
| Other | 90.2% |
| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 2 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 4 |
| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 47 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 36 |
| Large Enterprise | 49 |
SAP Replication Server facilitates effective cross-database replication, including Sybase to Oracle, while enhancing performance with reduced storage use. Despite its robust reliability and beginner-friendly setup, areas such as high transactional processing and cross-database integration to newer technologies require improvement. Integration with HANA and addressing high private instance costs are necessary. The platform supports heterogeneous database communication and is a valuable asset in finance, banking, and analytics across platforms like AWS, Azure, and IBM.
What features does SAP Replication Server offer?Organizations in data analytics, finance, and banking sectors utilize SAP Replication Server to streamline database replication and communication, optimizing processes across AWS, Azure, and IBM. Employee data replication for payroll and business management is simplified, supporting hybrid cloud deployments.
SAP Replication Server was previously known as Sybase Replication Server.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees | 3.5 | I use SAP Replication Server for data transfer between servers. It handles replication well, even under high load, and supports cross-database replication. However, better support for newer technologies is needed to enhance versatility and integration capabilities. |
| Finance Business Process Improvement, Transformation and Project Management at a consultancy with self employed | 5.0 | I use SAP Replication Server to eliminate duplicated databases and reduce storage needs by allowing different databases to communicate efficiently. It improves performance and lowers costs, but private solutions can be expensive due to management and upgrades. |
| SAP HXM & Integration consultant at Kaar Technologies | 4.5 | I find SAP Replication Server to be a reliable solution for real-time data replication, crucial for handling employee master data and payroll systems. However, its pricing could be more competitive, and support response times should improve. |
| Assistant Vice President Sourcing at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees | 3.5 | I use SAP Replication Server for data analytics replication, finding it stable and improving efficiency by automating data warehousing. While setup was easy and support perfect, its high cost and lack of a mobile-friendly UI are significant drawbacks. |
| Enterprise Integration Architect at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.0 | I've used this solution for over 10 years for diverse communications, finding it stable and scalable. While initial setup was complex and integrating with HANA brings major changes, I'm optimistic about new integration platforms. I rate it 8/10. |
| DBA Oracle, Sybase, SQLServer And Cloudera Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees | 3.5 | I've used this solution for eight years. It offers excellent Warm Standby and customer service, despite a complex initial setup and occasional stability issues that support always resolves. Scalability is possible in clusters. |
| Technical Manager at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees | 4.0 | I find this product successfully replicates data between SAP databases, offering flexible business continuity. However, I need improved performance for high transactions, an easier setup, and better customer support, despite it being a strong cross-platform solution. |
It's basically to transfer data from one server to another. It's used for this purpose.
It's pretty good at handling replication, even under high load. It also provides cross-database replication, for example, from Sybase to Oracle.
It is easy for a beginner to use SAP Replication Server. People can use it. There is a lot of information available online on how to configure it.
SAP can provide better support for cross-database replication to newer technologies. The product supports Oracle, but I am not aware of what other technologies it supports.
If someone wants to replicate their data from Sybase to a newer technology for data warehousing or other purposes, it would be better if they supported those.
I have worked on it for two to three years.
It's stable. Not many issues are reported.
We have around more than a hundred applications using it.
Replication Server is pretty easy to install.
We have it on-premises only.
It's a pretty good product and stable.
Since SAP is discontinuing the product, I don't think someone starting fresh should use it. If you are building something from scratch, it's better to use other technologies.
Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.
If you have different databases, each one has been created to manage a certain type of transactional data very efficiently. One has been created to manage application and accessory data efficiently. But they both have to communicate with one another. You have duplication data, and it has to be shared back and forth between those two databases. That means you've basically doubled the amount of storage you need, and you've reduced the transactional time because it has to talk to each other before it can talk to you. That's what the technology eliminates: the duplicated databases. You can have multiple databases but only one instance that is used globally, eliminating a lot of replication.
This version of SAP came out in 2015, and everybody's moving to it because they're not really supporting the old version.
You can pick one of the hosted cloud services as opposed to owning it and doing it yourself. Smaller companies cannot buy a bunch of big servers and storage devices and hire people to run the data center. They want somebody else to do it. SAP is also a multi-tenant, so SAP will work with AWS, Azure, and IBM.
If you're one of the tenants in a big server and don't want people to see your data, you can have your own database separate from customer B and customer C. There's a price for that. That's basically private. There's a certain kind of cloud hosting where you're the only tenant. For government companies that are high-tech and don't want their data stolen, they tend to do a private solution, which means they're the only one using it.
You can also use this as a hybrid solution, which allows you to be a tenant in the solution. Your data could even be shared, but company A's data can't be seen by company B or C and vice-versa. That's a public solution where you're using the same database but different people can't see your data in that database.
It speeds up the performance in terms of how fast you are able to access the data, look at it, get it reported to you, and send it to somebody. It also reduces the amount of storage. The performance and the cost of ownership are better because of that technology.
The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades. As a company, you're either hiring or paying an outsourcer to do that, and you have to manage it, keep up with the updates to the hardware, software, and the operating system. It's very expensive because there's a lot to control and take care of.
I have been using this solution for two years.
The reason why there has been a move toward cloud services and service as a software is because it's so much easier. There are fewer databases, and the cost is lower to have it hosted.
You can pick one of the hosted cloud services as opposed to owning it and doing it yourself. Your cost of ownership on the hardware, the data storage, and the maintenance all go down. It depends on what service you use.
The costs start going up as you move to a hybrid solution where you have your own dedicated pieces, but you're sharing parts of it in the public version. That costs a little bit more because you've bought your own database server that keeps your data separate from everybody else.
The private solution is going to be the most expensive version.
I would rate this solution 10 out of 10.
It's a game-changer in technology and allows you to use the service as a software, hardware as a software, platform as a software, etc.
SAP Replication Server, like SuccessFactors, serves as the primary application for all employee master data. However, personal employment information will always be stored in SuccessFactors and then replicated in other SAP ERK applications, including other modules and systems.
For example, employee metadata in SuccessFactors will be duplicated to HANA, which is used to create business partners. These business partners are then utilized in other models, such as material management. For example, if an employee requests any material from the inventory, the relevant data will be replicated from SuccessFactors to the respective system, such as SAP HANA. So, these are the ideal use cases for this solution.
For payroll, we do replicate the employee data to the payroll systems well. It allows us to generate employee monthly summaries and handle payroll cancellations.
SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience.
One of its notable features is real-time replication, which ensures that data changes are replicated immediately. This is particularly advantageous when we need to execute full processes promptly.
The price could be cheaper. There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support.
I have been using SAP Replication Server for the past four years.
SAP Replication Server is a kind of foolproof system. The application is highly stable. The configuration and system performance are consistently reliable.
The solution is scalable.
My experience with the customer service and support team is a bit of a mixed experience. Sometimes they respond promptly with solutions that meet our requirements, but at other times, they take longer than expected, and we don't receive the desired level of support.
The setup process is quite straightforward. We have extensive security documentation that guides us through each configuration step.
With these detailed documents and the assistance of the extension to your document and gateway, the configuration becomes much simpler. Overall, I find it to be a straightforward process.
When we complete the entire cycle, it usually takes around two to three months. This timeframe includes engaging in checkpoint testing and ensuring the solution's readiness for the production environment.
The deployment process typically involves integration testing to ensure both systems can communicate successfully. After that, we proceed with the internet testing phase, where we test the scope items and verify that the required data is properly transferred to the target system. This process includes unit external testing within our system. Once the development system performs as expected, the changes are transferred to the production system for deployment.
I have worked with the replication server as well as application and integration servers. So I have experience in working with cloud integration, specifically cloud integration that includes safety measures. I have used the business technology platform and worked with application software.
I would rate the solution a nine out of ten because there is always room for improvement from a technical perspective.
I would definitely recommend it to others.
We use this solution for replication with a modern data platform for data analytics.
Currently, there is a Hadoop-based infrastructure with several engineers to maintain the data. Now, using SAP Replication Server, it has become automatic.
It requires fewer people to put data in the data warehouse.
We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done.
The user interface can be made similar to other startup operations that provide data connections on the spot.
I would like to see it become mobile-friendly. It is currently the direction everyone is interested in. We are still primarily interested in PCs, where every dashboard and every interaction occurs.
We have seen that 90% of people are using smartphones. The interface is adopted to the mobile where it is easily accessible.
SAP Replication Server is stable.
We are replicating in one location. One-to-one, it is working fine.
When we replicate more than one location, we will explore this area further.
We have approximately 1,000 users in our company.
Technical support is perfect! I would give them a 100 out of 100.
The initial setup is straightforward. It is easy.
It's a very expensive solution.
We have a separate team that is working with the SAP Server applications. I am researching the SAP connectors to connect with our database.
We have to learn more about this solution before we can recommend it.
I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
We use this solution for all kinds of communications like RFC, BAPI, IDoc, connecting with the orders, accounts, finance, data stuff, banking, everything.
SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy.
Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see. But at this moment, with the old versions we were using on-premise and that connectivity point of view, we see some challenges, but this is not a problem and it's stabilized. Once the connection is established, we don't see any challenges.
I have been using this solution for more than 10 years.
It has been stable for the last 10 years that we have been using the tool.
The solution is scalable.
Normally with SAP, we have a dedicated, in-house team. They run the system and fix problems if there are any, but it is very rare because it's pretty stable.
Setup was a little complex.
For maintaining the solution, we have a dedicated basis team, functional team, admin team, and security team. Many team members are needed to maintain the solution.
I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.
Warm Standby, because you can read/write very easily, if necessary. Just unlock logins.
Yes, We had a standby open where all reports were executed on it. It is possible to create temporary objects on standby, in similar products it is impossible to do this.
OLTP Application and Transactional.
For eight years.
Yes, but they were always was solved by support.
Yes, but it is possible to use in cluster systems.
10 out of 10; very high quality.
Yes, we used Oracle GoldenGate, but only to receive data from other applications.
It's complex. It's necessary to understand a little about infrastructure, like network LAN and VLAN environment.
I don't have this information.
Yes, Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Guard, but both have less features than Sybase.
This product has a catalog with the location of all the objects which were replicated. It's very simple to maintain.
For version 12.5, some operations on roles management could be easier. But in version 15.7, there are more alternatives.
The most valuable thing about this product is that replicates data between SAP databases (ASE to IQ) very successfully.
Very flexible in business continuity.
There is a need to improve performance in high transactional processes.
Eight-plus years.
No.
Yes. There is a need to improve performance in high transactional processes.
There have been some instances of insufficient technical support.
We also tested Attunity and GoldenGate replication products at a sufficient level in terms of price performance.
The initial setup is not so easy. A user-friendly interface is needed.
I recommend it to SAP (ASE, IQ, HANA, etc.) database users.
Yes, Attunity and Oracle GoldenGate. I can say that this is the most successful replication at the database level. At the table level, however, I can say that Attunity is the most successful. In terms of user friendliness, Attunity is one level above. Regarding support, I can say Oracle's GoldenGate.
It is a good product because it supports cross-platform, although the product interface needs to be improved.
