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"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically.""NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. ​​""I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes.""Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing.""The product is resilient.""NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps.""Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing).""The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."

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"From the use of this solution, we have been able to establish better processes and have greater management of our company.""Internal workflow approval around ESS and MSS leave days, capex approval as well as internal communication to the business have improved the way my organization functions.""They integrated it with the SAP router.""Workflow functionality and internal portal capabilities are the most important features."

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"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface.""I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks.""The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement.""The center management system could be improved.""Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA.""It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain.""Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun.""NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."

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"External portal functionality with suppliers and customers needs improvement.""We encountered stability issues, especially on external functionality around its RFP capabilities.""Due to our business, some setups were very complex.""Our customers expect that a page will open within one second, and I doubt this will happen. Also, opening documentation takes time. Fixing this will help the customer and help to meet their expectations.""The user interface could be improved by making it more user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Nginx is free. I don't have experience with the Plus version."
  • "I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it."
  • "​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. ​"
  • "​NGINX is a free tool in Brazil. There are some companies which do support it.​"
  • "The price is the cost to contract support with a specialized company, usually during consulting hours.​"
  • "Compared to other similar solutions on the market, I think it's over-priced."
  • "You pay for each feature that you want."
  • "The list price of NGINX Plus is close to $5,500."
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  • "​SAP is not for every business. It depends on what is required. SAP is always going to be expensive​."
  • "Because India is so competitive in the IT world, people will start to move away from SAP's pricing because they have a market monopoly. Soon, they will start losing the monopoly part to open source and other things. I don't think their monopoly will run for more than three to four years because people are getting away from these monopolies."
  • "The cost of this solution is high."
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    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 Enterprise Portal allows to create attractive corporate portals that leverage the responsive SAP Fiori launchpad experience. The portal is the Web front-end component for SAP NetWeaver, the comprehensive integration and application platform that facilitates the alignment of people, information, and business processes across organizational and technical boundaries. It's ideal for organizations who require access to many applications and services across system landscapes, especially across JAVA and ABAP-based landscapes. The portal offers a single point of access to SAP and non-SAP information sources, enterprise applications, information repositories, databases and services, in and outside your organization. The portal can be accessed from desktops and from mobile devices, it can provide with the tools to manage and analyze its information resources, and to share and collaborate. With its role-based content, and personalization features, the portal enables users - from employees and customers to partners and suppliers - to focus exclusively on data relevant to daily decision-making processes. The technology and architecture of the portal ensures it is built for the enterprise, providing a secure and scalable environment.
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    Comms Service Provider25%
    Computer Software Company25%
    Energy/Utilities Company17%
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    Financial Services Firm14%
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    NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 27 reviews while SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal is ranked 20th in Application Infrastructure. NGINX Plus is rated 8.8, while SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal writes "The UI makes the setup easy to do from anywhere". NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server, whereas SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal is most compared with Microsoft .NET Framework, Apache Web Server, IIS, IBM DataPower Gateway and IBM WebSphere Application Server.

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