Cohesity DataProtect vs SAP NetWeaver comparison

The compared Cohesity and SAP solutions aren't in the same category. Cohesity is ranked #9 in BRS , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 3.2% mindshare in the category. SAP is ranked #2 in SG , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Cohesity DataProtect

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97% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (9th), Cloud Backup (8th)

SAP NetWeaver

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOA Governance (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

Cohesity DataProtect and SAP NetWeaver aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Cohesity DataProtect is designed for Backup and Recovery and holds a mindshare of 3.2%, down 4.2% compared to last year.
SAP NetWeaver, on the other hand, focuses on SOA Governance, holds 3.7% mindshare, down 7.1% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Giovanni Golinelli.

Hybrid IT Architect at Quanture Spa

Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support

The deployment depends on the environment. Deploying on VMs is relatively simple. But for most of our customers, we implement physical clusters with at least three configured hosts using the existing model. So, it depends on the setup. Implementing DataProtect itself wasn't particularly challenging. One key requirement for successful DataProtect deployment is proper network configuration. If the network setup isn't right, you won't achieve optimal performance. We have developed a service for some of our customers where they implement an appliance or physical cluster of Cohesity at the customer site. Then, we use cloud clustering to replicate, and even in production, a second copy of the protected data. And in some cases, we have developed some disaster recovery procedures using Cohesity.

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Bala Hamisu

Planner at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

Good for management and easily generate payslips at any point in time

We use NetWeaver for our appraisal process, the procedure for maybe benefits and emoluments. You can use it to generate your base leaves and other stuff. We mainly use it for human capital management or staff. Then we have a P2P, document signing, peer-to-peer. I've used those functions for a long…

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

Pros

"The solution's SQL cloning is great, and its Instant Mount restoration of virtual machines is brilliant."

"It is also very easy to determine which VMs are being backed up and which ones aren't. This is helpful to make sure nothing is being missed."

"Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour."

"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."

"Within the system, we have rule-based access control, single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and basic identity and access management features."

"Cohesity DataProtect is a reliable solution for performing backups within a suitable timeframe, and its forever incremental model is particularly effective for the customer's needs. Additionally, the solution handles instant recovery and file-level recovery from a VMware image backup seamlessly."

"I love the ability to clone a virtual server in only minutes."

"The most valuable features are the rapid VM restores and the ability to quickly find files and download them directly to my desktop so that I can put them where I need them to be."

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"We can use different transaction codes to check the performance of the system, and if we are unable to access a particular transaction, we can still check the table to see what is happening."

"Finance and distribution are the most important features."

"We strongly rely on our SAP data. We need access to the information to analyze it, so the solution allows us to make use of the data that we get from SAP. This is the most valuable aspect of the solution."

"The integration feature is valuable."

"I like that I don't need any extra tools to keep the solution up and running."

"It is the central point for all our data storage. We have one single version of the truth that we can communicate to all our customers."

"With SAP, you can trust what it tells you."

"The flexibility and the customizability this solution has when adapting to our business requirements is a huge benefit."

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Cons

"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."

"The solution has a more complex setup than Veritas and Veeam."

"I think Cohesity could add more platform support. For example, they could improve integration with DB2 or make the integration S3 object storage a little tighter. Some of that stuff could use some work, but overall, it's a relatively comprehensive platform."

"The platform has certain limitations, mostly stemming from the restrictions imposed by the VMware API and some other factors. One area where there is room for improvement is the tracking of replicated copies, especially in the context of remote archive duplication."

"The one area where we would like to see additional improvements is with reporting. There are very granular reports from each grid. There are also some built-in reports within Helios (SAS Management Console) that offers basic reporting. However, for complex, large-enterprise environments, a more robust reporting engine that supports detailed audit reporting and enhanced ad hoc reports would be welcome."

"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."

"Cohesity cluster upgrades have not been as easy as a single button click. They are a manual process that requires upgrading each node into a cluster individually."

"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."

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"The product documentation can be improved."

"Scalability would be a good improvement in future releases, if they do release future versions. They tried to create a seamless style, but it's not necessarily scalable to big development environments that we're trying to achieve."

"Though SAP NetWeaver has been pretty stable and mature, some issues arose after some customizations, so that's an area for improvement."

"It needs more improvement in terms of user-friendliness. SAP wasn't user-friendly at all."

"SAP NetWeaver it's still complex for a normal user unless you memorize those action codes."

"SAP is likely transitioning to S4, so it is unlikely that they will continue to use NetWeaver."

"SAP NetWeaver should be better integrated with other products outside of SAP."

"There could be regular updates to make the system more stable and capable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"My advice is to always negotiate for better pricing."

"It has reasonable pricing, and we know they can give discounts. If you look at the primary pricing or the list pricing, it conforms to the market pricing, but you have to have a discount on it. Otherwise, it is way too expensive."

"The solution's pricing is quite high, more so than that of its competitors, Veeam, Veritas and Rubrik."

"Cohesity came in at the best price. Setup was included and done in half a day."

"The tool's pricing is average."

"Ensure that you understand the per TB licensing model. Also, Exchange backups are not native to Cohesity and require Kroll."

"We purchased support from Cohesity to ensure that should we face an issue, we don't have to deal with different service providers."

"I expect the system to probably pay off within the first two years."

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"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a nine to ten since it is an expensive solution."

"The licensing costs are on a yearly basis."

"SAP NetWeaver requires a license, but I'm not sure how the licenses and payments were coordinated."

"It's a very expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cohesity DataProtect?

Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with m...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataProtect?

I find Cohesity DataProtect to be expensive.

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What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

What areas have room for improvement? Is there anything that could be simplified to make it better?

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What do you like most about SAP NetWeaver?

The human capital management module is valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP NetWeaver?

Software and hardware costs are typically handled by separate departments.

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What needs improvement with SAP NetWeaver?

It needs more improvement in terms of user-friendliness. SAP wasn't user-friendly at all. In interacting with it, it should have a more customizable interface. The interfaces aren't user-friendly, ...

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Also Known As

Cohesity

NetWeaver, SecurStore

Overview

What is Cohesity DataProtect?

Cohesity DataProtect is a top-level, sophisticated, software-defined backup and recovery solution created for cloud environments. Cohesity DataProtect is made to hyperscale and is one the most thorough policy-based protection solutions available on the market today.

Cohesity DataProtect melds multiple-point products into a single software that is able to be deployed as on-premise or consumed as a service.

Top Features:

Hyperscale made easy: Cohesity DataProtect improves data protection by doing away with the need for backup silos and administers backup and recovery with a single user-friendly, easy-to-understand interface. Cohesity DataProtect provides extensive 24/7 enterprise-class protection for a large, varying set of sources, including virtual and physical servers, NAS and SaaS workloads, relational and distributed databases, and traditional and containerized applications.

Super fast recovery: Cohesity DataProtect offers near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and near-instant recovery time objectives (RTOs) to satisfy your business service-level agreements (SLAs). Using Cohesity Helios’ unified data plane and control plane you can immediately search and recover data on any Cohesity cluster, located anywhere. DataProtect distinctively minimizes downtime by immediately mass restoring any amount of virtual machines (VMs) to any point in time, and lowers data protection costs by as much as 70% or more.

Backup as a Service: Feel free to take advantage of the elasticity of the public cloud and the cost-effective value of Cohesity DataProtect when delivered as a service. When you choose an OPEX option, you can eliminate the need for on-premises hardware. There is a SaaS option that will allow you to very simply configure your backup workloads and immediately begin protecting your vital all-important data and applications.

It’s as easy as: sign-up, connect, and protect!

Ransomware protection: Cohesity DataProtect offers stellar recovery at scale. The solution is so intuitive, it has machine learning-based anomaly detection to stop incidents before they happen. Cohesity DataProtection can provide immutable backups, Datalock write once, read many (WORM), encryption, and role-based access control (RBAC).

Cohesity DataProtect integrates well with many of today’s top solutions, including, but not limited to:

Hypervisors: VMware vSphere (5.5 and later), Microsoft Hyper-V (2019, 2016, 2012 R2), Nutanix AHV and RHeV

Kubernetes-based data and application state

Cloud: AWS EC2, Amazon RDS, Azure VM, and Google Compute

Physical: Windows, Linux(RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Debian, Ubuntu), AIX (7.x), and Solaris

Databases: Oracle (11g R2, 12c), Oracle RAC and SQL (2008 or later)

Distributed Databases (NoSQL and Hadoop): MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Apache, Cassandra, Cloudera, and Hortonworks.

Bare Machine Recovery: Windows and Linux

Applications: MS Exchange (2010 SP3 or later), MSFT Active Directory, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Groups), SalesForce (SFDC), and SAP HANA

Primary storage: Pure FlashArray, HPE Nimble, and Cisco Hyperflex

NAS: Pure FlashBlade, NetApp, Isilon, IBM GPFS, Google EFS, Elastifile, and generic solutions*

Reviews from Real Users

One reviewer, who is head of IT infrastructure at Kampmann says, “Cohesity really is a Next-Gen Data Management Software,” and goes on to indicate that Cohesity “works flawlessly with easy replication of backups and numerous supported backup sources.”

Another user, who is a senior network engineer at a legal firm, relates that "Cohesity is a robust and feature-rich solution"

Cohesity

SAP NetWeaver is an open application platfrom that provides a comprehensive set of tools and Web services technologies that support seamless enterprise application integration, master data management (MDM), system integration, and more.

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Sample Customers

Tribune Media

Schaidt Innovations GmbH & Co. KG, Satellites Unlimited Inc., German Football Association, FMC Corporation, Deutscher Fu_ball-Bund

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