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Adobe Commerce vs Elastic Path vs SAP Commerce Cloud comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the eCommerce Platforms category, the mindshare of Adobe Commerce is 13.8%, up from 12.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Path is 1.1%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Commerce Cloud is 14.0%, down from 20.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Vasanth Kumar Sabaapathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers real-time data fetching for e-commerce businesses along with effortless maintenance and excellent tech support
The initial setup is not straightforward, as it varies depending on the business use cases. If experienced professionals are handling the deployment then there are not many obstacles. I would rate the initial setup of Adobe Commerce as nine out of ten. At our company, we work with the cloud version of Adobe Commerce. We used a Waterfall model in our organization, deriving standard SDLC life cycle processes to deploy Adobe Commerce. The solution's initial deployment took around eight months in our company. As part of the initial setup, 11 professionals were required from our company team. The product can be maintained effortlessly.
JG
Provides flexible infrastructure and has good stability
I use the solution to create a B2B e-commerce platform The solution provided a flexible infrastructure with ease of use for creating a proposal for the company. The solution's most valuable feature is the ability to create a B2B platform. It has all the essential features, including payment…
Saleem Shar - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to set up, and extremely scalable, but is expensive
The solution is complex due to the rapid development of new features in SAP Commerce, which requires the changing of older technologies and migration to new ones. This makes the process quite complex, especially when migrating from one version to another. For example, I have been using SAP Commerce versions 18 and 19.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Magento has changed over the years, but one of the most interesting aspects is that it gets the job done, and a vast community of experts is knowledgeable about the solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ease of integration with any upfront platform or CMS solution."
"The product can be maintained effortlessly."
"The most valuable feature in this solution I have found to be that I have the ability to find all the analytics that I need. It has very good integrations with social media platforms and other tools."
"It provides AI features, including a tool called Insight for AI-driven product recommendations."
"The open-source PHP code allows our developers to customize pretty much anything on the platform, including allowing us to add some of the most complex shipping and inventory features for clients who have very specific, industry-related business specifications."
"The customization capabilities of Adobe Commerce are great."
"The platform provides an easy way to customize its features."
"It is a scalable solution."
"SAP Hybris provides us with all of the e-commerce features that a client could need."
"Hybris offers a platform designed for speed."
"It's the best tool on the market and is a complete e-commerce system for product management. For instance, if the customer has a log enterprise level product, they can manage it here."
"The tool has good performance."
"If you have a client and they want to have an e-commerce project that is based on solid principles, you don't need too much time to develop it."
"Hybris Commerce's most valuable feature is the simple integration with ERP."
"The tool supports multiple currencies."
"SAP Hybris Commerce is a very advanced e-commerce platform compared to other platforms such as WebSphere Commerce, Oracle Commerce, and others."
 

Cons

"The solution’s performance could be improved."
"Should have a way to communicate properly with the team that builds the platform"
"I am still playing around and trying to catch up with the latest version to understand all the features, but I do feel that its CMS can be much more streamlined. They provide a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor, which many customers prefer, but based on the implementations that I have done for more than seven years, I have seen that many times, it is run by the marketing team, and they don't find it very comfortable to use. They feel uncomfortable managing and changing the content. As a business user, you need to have at least basic knowledge of HTML, which you cannot expect from all marketing teams. Some companies or organizations have that competency, but many organizations, especially in the Middle East, have a very small team, so it becomes quite difficult for them. This is a common challenge that I have seen across the platforms. Magento is better and easier than Oracle Commerce Cloud, but Shopify is much easier than Magento. A layman or my 10-year-old kid can go ahead and set up a store in Shopify in probably 45 minutes, which is not the case with Magento. Elasticsearch has really been a pain. It takes a toll on the performance. Starting with version 2.4, Magento requires Elasticsearch, which has been causing a lot of serious performance issues. We had a client in the US who was running a promo, and they lost a subsequent number of orders over one and a half hours. They were on the enterprise platform, not open-source. The team had to open a ticket with Magento. Its performance needs to be upgraded, or some kind of guidelines have to be provided for the setup. It looks like even Magento has no clue. When you go through the answers given in the online community, it seems that in spite of having the hardware configurations that they suggest, it is not performing at the optimal level. It should also have a better way to measure performance. Performance measuring has to be much easier. Many times, we see CPU utilization going up and down. We see spikes without any reason. Therefore, we need a better performance management system."
"One significant drawback of Commerce is its substantial size, which allows for extensive customization but also elongates the development process for an e-commerce website."
"I'm not a technical person, but we had some kind of late response in page loading, let's say page load speed."
"The product needs to improve its security. Also, they need to improve B2B features."
"The limited availability of experienced developers can make the product costly to maintain."
"More technical knowledge is required to keep a Magento website running smoothly compared to many other platforms like OpenCart."
"They should provide integration with social networking sites."
"It is very expensive to implement, which is why many companies who can't afford would normally move to Salesforce or Magento."
"Hybris is not currently using microservices."
"They have just started to work with the cloud, but they only support Microsoft Azure."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the product search. There will be multiple criteria to search products and there will be a number of products in different categories. The question is how soon can I find the product which I'm looking for. The search can be improved."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a prime migration from the PrestaShop platform to commerce cloud, and it was very, very complex to migrate some data from one side to the other."
"A public cloud solution of this software would open great possibilities."
"The stack needs to be improved; they need to start using more new technologies."
"The WCS management or content management is not that great."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We transitioned from the platform's commercial license to the open-source version, which helped optimize costs without affecting our sales."
"The product offers an open-source version, which is free. There are licensing options for Adobe Commerce's cloud version."
"Many implementations were open-source. We also had a couple of enterprise-level implementations, but I didn't have visibility on the licensing cost."
"This solution is cheaper than some of its competitors. However, the price depends on which country you are in. In some countries, such as Greece or some Southeastern European countries, the price for the client can be expensive."
"The price of the solution increased after Adobe acquired Magento. At this point, we know the price of Magento and SAP, and while they may have lower entry tickets, they are ultimately comparable."
"The cost of implementation is cheap compared to other solutions."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution is very expensive in Turkey."
"The price is quite high."
"I don't know the cost, but it can be expensive."
"SAP Hybris is expensive, which is why only the large clients use it. At the same time, I think that the return on investment warrants it."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The product is expensive. I would rate its price a seven out of ten. The solution's licensing is yearly."
"The price is too high."
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Comparison Review

it_user9726 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 5, 2013
WCS vs Hybris vs ATG - Feature Smackdown
They say "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", so if you are a purist in one of these technologies you would probably never agree to my comparison matrix, However these are my personal opinion, From my experience standpoint I have longest exposure to WCS Commerce Suite and the least with ATG…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
52%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Manufacturing Company
4%
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Educational Organization
33%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Magento?
The customization capabilities of Adobe Commerce are great.
What needs improvement with Magento?
The limited availability of experienced developers can make the product costly to maintain.
What is your primary use case for Magento?
At our company, we use Adobe Commerce to support a couple of system integrations. The solution is used for real-time ...
What needs improvement with Elastic Path?
They should include information on modular infrastructure for the solution and provide integration with social networ...
 

Also Known As

Magento, EPiServer Digital Commerce
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SAP Hybris Commerce, Hybris
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Magento has over 200,000 customers worldwide, including Bjorn Borg, Heath Ceramics, Harper's Bazaar, Kidstuff, International Military Antiques, Gifts That Gives, and Rovio Entertainment Ltd.
Garmin, TimeInc, Agfa, LVMH, Virgin Media, TeliaSonera, Western Union, LifeWay, Kiabi, TIBCO
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