BizTalk Server vs SAP Process Orchestration comparison

Microsoft and SAP are both solutions in the Business-to-Business Middleware category. Microsoft is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.0, while SAP is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.9. Microsoft holds a 4.6% mindshare in BBM, compared to SAP’s 6.6% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of SAP users who would recommend it.

BizTalk Server

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 27, 2025

BizTalk Server and SAP Process Orchestration compete in the enterprise software market, focusing on integration and automation. BizTalk Server has an advantage in support and cost-effectiveness, while SAP Process Orchestration excels in functionality.

Features: BizTalk Server offers extensive integration and adapter support, strong message handling, and sophisticated tracking capabilities. SAP Process Orchestration delivers comprehensive customization, scalability, and process management features. It offers superior flexibility and extensibility, making it suitable for complex needs.

Room for Improvement: BizTalk Server could enhance scalability, update its interface to improve user experience, and simplify complex configurations. SAP Process Orchestration may benefit from easier deployment, better documentation for beginners, and improved integration with non-SAP products.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BizTalk Server is known for its straightforward deployment and robust customer support, making it easy to integrate with existing systems. SAP Process Orchestration has a more complex setup process but offers detailed technical support to manage intricate deployments.

Pricing and ROI: BizTalk Server is a cost-effective solution with moderate initial costs, focusing on quick ROI through efficient operations. SAP Process Orchestration has higher setup costs, but its extensive features promise significant long-term returns, especially for feature-rich automation needs.

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Categories and Ranking

BizTalk Server

Ranking in Business-to-Business Middleware

8th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (13th)

SAP Process Orchestration

Ranking in Business-to-Business Middleware

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Business-to-Business Middleware category, the mindshare of BizTalk Server is 4.6%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Process Orchestration is 6.6%, down from 10.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business-to-Business Middleware Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP Process Orchestration	6.6%
BizTalk Server	4.6%
Other	88.8%

Business-to-Business Middleware

Featured Reviews

Vignesh Kumar Sekar

Senior Analyst at Sword Group

Enables message routing and provides a secure way to communicate between two systems

The AS2 communication protocol is one of the most advanced processes. It enables a handshake with the source and target systems using certificates. It is the most secure way of communicating between two systems. It is an advantage. We can do a lot of message routing. If we want to handle large data, we can put the data into different patterns to process it. We can do it through sequential convoy or parallel convoy orchestration. BizTalk comes with SQL Server. We can load temporary data in the database and use the batch process from BizTalk. It is an added advantage. Creating agreements is a manual job, but it's quite easy in BizTalk. Even a fresh college graduate can configure AS2 certificates and partner profiles and communicate with other systems. It is easy.

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Vasanth Kumar Sabaapathi

Senior Lead Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Simplified integrations bring flexibility and efficiency to diverse industries through comprehensive features and robust support

SAP is already trying to make improvements for SAP Process Orchestration by releasing updates every quarter, including patches and modules, and from a security standpoint, while it's a tightly coupled tool, they are introducing a lot of enhancements aligned with current market trends. There are standard contents readily available for starting integrations, which suit around 90% of every industry across verticals including pharma, manufacturing, and employee data central with SuccessFactors integration. Regarding functionality-wise improvements in SAP Process Orchestration, they are now incorporating the Salesforce system. Previously, we needed to rely on a third-party adapter for integration within SAP, but now they are building their own adapters to connect with Salesforce. Additionally, there are options like data connectors using Ariba coming up with SAP Process Orchestration. There's much more to explore, especially as they release new patches, enhancements, and adapters each quarter.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"BizTalk Server offers workflow functionality that I find very effective for process automation."

"The BizTalk Server business rule engine was very useful for us and has helped us for the last 12 years."

"Compared to the current solutions I use, like Azure Logic Apps and other cloud services, BizTalk was far better and more reliable."

"The BizTalk Server business rule engine was very useful for us and has helped us for the last 12 years."

"Essentially, you can do whatever you like with these systems, and you do not have to take care about the scaling because if one server is overloaded, it just forwards the message to the next server, even if it were designated to a specific server. It weeds out the messages according to the load. If you want to scale it, you just add new servers."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its integration with the banks. Its messaging and routing capabilities are good."

"The most valuable feature of BizTalk Server is that it will turn XML into flexible transactions."

"BIzTalk's integration with Visual Studio is the most valuable feature of this product."

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"The solution is easy to use."

"The solution offers very good documentation and manuals to assist with understanding the solution."

"The solution is stable."

"The monitoring tools are the most valuable feature."

"t is a pretty stable solution. I have not seen any outages in the solution."

"SAP Process Orchestration offers easy maintainability and is a very flexible tool that easily adapts to any integration standards and artifacts that are readily available."

"The most valuable feature is the seamless integration with backend systems."

"The initial setup is easy...The solution gets automatically connected. The deployment takes six months. I rate its setup phase a ten out of ten."

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Cons

"The deployment could be simplified."

"It's an on-premises system, requiring physical servers for deployment. This is different from Azure; you don't need any servers with Azure. If you have a subscription, you can do whatever you want. There are unit restrictions based on the environment (like non-production vs. production) in BizTalk. You need physical servers and databases. In Azure, those are not required – it's all in the cloud."

"BizTalk Server needs improvements, especially because we use it for EDI messaging, and it would be very useful to have enhanced tracking capabilities for message tracking and archiving of messages."

"BizTalk Server is an outdated legacy system that does not support messaging."

"It's a complex product because you have many degrees of freedom to connect different parts together. Whether it's sensible or not, is up to you, but the machine does allow it. But because of the vast degrees of freedom, it's complex."

"I didn't find anything particularly valuable in BizTalk Server. It didn't help me, and we are moving away from BizTalk Server to a new platform."

"BizTalk lacks native cloud support. BizTalk doesn't offer in-built support for cloud. We need to use third-party adapters to connect it to cloud services."

"Updating things in BizTalk is a headache."

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"The usability is an area where it can be improved upon."

"This is an on-premise platform and one area they can improve on is having the ability to work with SaaS solutions."

"The user interface of SAP Process Orchestration should be more modern to enhance its appeal. It can seem complicated and outdated to new users."

"SAP needs to improve a lot in terms of the orchestration part so that more adapters can be provided to users, which are areas where the solution has downsides."

"Process Orchestration needs to provide secure connectivity as no one has any data information."

"The monitoring governance offered by SAP is too technical and needs to be geared more toward business users."

"Data modeling is an area of concern in the product where improvements are required."

"The solution could be more scalable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Based on the knowledge, it is relatively cheaper than Azure Identity Services and cloud services in general."

"It was not cheap, but it was affordable."

"BizTalk Server is not freeware. There's a significant licensing cost involved. Be sure you will actually utilize its features fully."

"The solution is expensive."

"The cost will depend on the client's requirements."

"BizTalk Server is cheap. I would rate its pricing a two out of five."

"The cost of SAP products is quite high but the quality is really good."

"The pricing for this solution is fine."

"It's not an expensive solution."

"The fee for maintenance is costly."

"We subscribe to annual licenses, and the competitive license cost is reasonable."

"The solution is highly-priced."

"Looking at market conditions, vendors nowadays are giving products at very low price levels. However, SAP Process Orchestration have not yet reduced their prices. The prices could be reduced a lot to stay competitive."

"The license is a one-time payment, and additional costs are only incurred on the infrastructure side since it's an on-premise solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Retailer

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	26

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BizTalk Server?

The tool's most valuable feature is its integration with the banks. Its messaging and routing capabilities are good.

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What needs improvement with BizTalk Server?

Biztalk server doesn't have API management so that our exposed can be protected against the SQL injection, DOS attacks. However, this is available in IBM WebMethods. The positive impact of BizTalk ...

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What advice do you have for others considering BizTalk Server?

For BizTalk Server's monitoring and alerting tools, we are using a BizTalk 360 monitoring tool. BizTalk 360 is a product that helps us in getting the insight of API response and number of API calls...

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What do you like most about SAP Process Orchestration?

It provides essential features such as continuous monitoring of all interfaces are crucial for our needs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Process Orchestration?

The price for SAP Process Orchestration is a little high when compared to market trends, which is just how the business is. I would rate it an eight.

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What needs improvement with SAP Process Orchestration?

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Also Known As

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SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, NetWeaver Process Integration

Overview

Connects systems both inside and across organizations, exchange data and orchestrate business processes across multiple systems.

Microsoft

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration facilitates the integration of business processes that span different departments, organizations, or companies. SAP PI is based on general standards so as to enable 3rd-party systems to be integrated. At the center of SAP PI is an XML-based communication that uses HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). Irrespective of the scenario used, the application-specific contents are transferred in messages in user-defined XML eXtensible Markup Language) from the sender to the receiver either via the Integration Server, or directly between the systems involved. SAP PI can be installed in different ways: Dual usage type installation: Based on both AS ABAP and AS Java. and Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX): Based on AS Java only.

SAP

Sample Customers

Centrebet, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, QualCare, Wªrth Handelsges.m.b.H, DTEK, Allscripts, United BioSource, Hogg Robinson

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