NGINX Plus vs SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management comparison

F5 and SAP are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. F5 is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3, while SAP is ranked #25. F5 holds a 10.8% mindshare in AIS, compared to SAP’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management and NGINX Plus compete in different technology sectors, with SAP focusing on business process management and NGINX on web serving. Depending on business needs, SAP may offer superior process automation, while NGINX excels in web and traffic management.

Features: SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management provides extensive business rule management, seamless SAP integration, and customizable solutions for enterprises. NGINX Plus delivers high-performance load balancing, security enhancements, and traffic management to ensure availability and performance optimization.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management might have a complex deployment due to enterprise-level integration, balanced by organized support channels. NGINX Plus offers straightforward deployment with extensive documentation and support resources, facilitating a quicker setup.

Pricing and ROI: SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management often requires a higher upfront investment linked to its process management capabilities, potentially resulting in a substantial return for enterprise users. NGINX Plus provides competitive pricing with strong long-term value through its performance and scalability benefits, offering a quicker potential return due to performance efficiencies.

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Categories and Ranking

NGINX Plus

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (6th)

SAP NetWeaver Business Rule...

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

25th

Average Rating

6.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of NGINX Plus is 10.8%, down from 11.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management is 0.4%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ritesh-Bakhru

Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation

NGINX cannot be a replacement for your traditional load balancer with what we use in the network today. However, with applications going toward microservices, NGINX is definitely a way forward. F5 has many traditional load balancing features, so they still need to bring some of those features to NGINX. NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5. I think F5 is trying to implement those features in NGINX so they can improve the balancing on NGINX, but I think that will take some time. With the traditional F5 set up, the same OS can do load balancing, firewalls, and even policy enforcement. If we are able to bring some of those capabilities to NGINX, I think it would become a versatile solution and usage would definitely increase.

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Herve Guerin

Architecte SAP & Infrastructure at Teamwork

Good stability and good visibility but requires a better user interface

We're an SAP partner. We do also deploy some clients to the cloud, but 95% of the work we do with the solution is on-premises. I'd rate the solution six out of ten. I'm an architect, so I don't know enough about the implementation side to really be able to share any relevant first-hand experience in regards to setting the solution up.

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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

"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."

"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."

"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."

"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."

"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."

"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."

"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."

"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."

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"There are many features of the solution that are quite useful. For us, the most valuable aspect may be visibility."

Cons

"The center management system could be improved."

"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."

"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."

"The user interface could be improved."

"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."

"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."

"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."

"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."

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"The solution could improve its user interface."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the solution's community edition which is free of cost."

"It's an open source solution, so it's free."

"Nginx is free. I don't have experience with the Plus version."

"The cost is reasonable."

"The list price of NGINX Plus is close to $5,500."

"NGINX is a free tool in Brazil. There are some companies which do support it."

"I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it."

"There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free."

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - IIS or NGINX Plus?

IIS is a flexible, secure, and manageable web server to host anything on the web. IIS’s scalable and open architecture can handle the most demanding tasks. From media streaming to web applications,...

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What do you like most about NGINX Plus?

It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX Plus?

My use case involves using the free and open-source version of NGINX, making it cost-effective as I haven't incurred any costs.

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NetWeaver Business Rules Management

Overview

NGINX Plus is a versatile solution that offers load balancing, caching, proxying, and API deployment capabilities. It can be deployed on private or public clouds and is ideal for building CDN solutions. The solution can also be used to secure web applications and replace web services like Apache.

NGINX has helped organizations improve functioning, reduce downtimes, and offer a DevOps-friendly solution. Its community support and documentation are highly regarded, and its configuration is more straightforward, making it a recommended choice over HAProxy.

SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management (SAP NetWeaver BRM) is part of the SAP NetWeaver AS Java. SAP NetWeaver BRM enables your organization to externalize business rules and manage them flexibly across multiple installations for greater agility, for consistent and transparent enforcement of policies across the entire enterprise.

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Sample Customers

Locaweb, AppNexus, Wix, Reliam, Montana Interactive, MuleSoft, Warpwire, Discovery Education, InkaBinka, WordPress.com, Gogo, GOV.UK, NASA

Dansk Supermarked A/S, Ego Pharmaceuticals Pty. Ltd, Kaeser Kompressoren, Lenovo

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