NGINX Plus vs SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management comparison

F5 and SAP are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. F5 is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.8, while SAP is ranked #23. F5 holds a 9.0% mindshare in AIS, compared to SAP’s 1.1% 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

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (8th)

SAP NetWeaver Business Rule...

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

23rd

Average Rating

6.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of NGINX Plus is 9.0%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management is 1.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Infrastructure Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NGINX Plus	9.0%
SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management	1.1%
Other	89.9%

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Nadeem-Inamdar

Senior Information Security Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Advanced policies and web firewall have strengthened application protection and reduced attack traffic

There were some vulnerabilities in F5. They tried to fix it, but the fixes were not available at the time because they were zero days, so they attempted to fix it, but their support was not proper. Their support should be improved because sometimes features which we need for customization take time, and they are sometimes feasible and sometimes not feasible by the team, so their support and the engineering team should improve their product. I would like to see more features regarding customization which should be built into the application, and the tool optimization should be good, and the dashboard should be more crisp and clear.

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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

"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."

"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."

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

"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."

"The web application firewall feature has helped enhance security for our applications because most of the attacks which are performed on our website are being blocked by it, so the web application firewall is good."

"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."

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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

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

"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."

"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."

"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "

"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."

"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."

"They tried to fix it, but the fixes were not available at the time because they were zero days, so they attempted to fix it, but their support was not proper."

"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."

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"The solution could improve its user interface."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"NGINX Plus is worth it, if you need it. If you do not need the features or support, the free and open source package is more than capable. "

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

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

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

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

"NGINX Plus is an open-source solution with limited additional features. When you try to get additional features in the solution, then you need to pay an extra amount to NGINX Plus."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

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Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	11

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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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Pricing is reasonable and that is fine.

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Also Known As

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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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