SAP Replication Server vs Workato comparison

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between SAP Replication Server and Workato based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Database Development and Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed SAP Replication Server vs. Workato Report (Updated: May 2023).

SAP Replication Server vs. Workato

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Replication Server

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (19th), Data Integration (33rd)

Workato

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (6th)

Mindshare comparison

SAP Replication Server and Workato aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. SAP Replication Server is designed for Database Development and Management and holds a mindshare of 1.3%, up 0.9% compared to last year.
Workato, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 4.9% mindshare, up 4.2% since last year.

Database Development and Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP Replication Server	1.3%
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer	6.6%
Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials	6.0%
Other	86.1%

Database Development and Management

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Workato	4.9%
Microsoft Azure Logic Apps	13.1%
Boomi iPaaS	12.4%
Other	69.6%

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Featured Reviews

Imran Rafi

SAP HXM & Integration consultant at Kaar Technologies

Foolproof stability and robust system

SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience. One of its notable features is real-time replication, which ensures that data changes are replicated immediately. This is particularly advantageous when we need to execute full processes promptly.

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Isaac Viana

Don't information on the list at ProPacto

Integration support simplifies automation and reduces errors without existing frustrations

In Workato, I can see everything that goes behind the process. You can see how everything works, how the tool works in the background. If something goes bad and an error appears, I can see why it happened. The best features Workato offers, in my opinion, are the easy integration with many different types of tools. The Workato interface is so easy to use. Workato has impacted my organization positively by reducing errors, which is one of the most important improvements I can see, and one great thing is that in Workato I can do many things that the main BPA platform we use does not do. Error reduction has helped our team in Workato as we can see more details about the most common errors and what makes everything go bad. With this specific data, we can develop a new and better solution. Workato helped us to do this. We can see more details about the errors and solve them. Workato has improved a lot of my work because there I can develop many flows easier and faster. At this moment, I do not have anything that frustrates me.

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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

"It speeds up the performance in terms of how fast you are able to access the data, look at it, get it reported to you, and send it to somebody. It also reduces the amount of storage."

"We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done."

"SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy."

"It's pretty good at handling replication, even under high load. It also provides cross-database replication, for example, from Sybase to Oracle."

"SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience."

"Workato allows us to streamline our operations by replacing multiple legacy systems with a single integrated platform."

"Workato is less expensive and offers similar integration capabilities."

"It is very easy to use. It takes complex workloads away, and it provides very smooth integration. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box connectors. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box APIs, which makes it really easy to integrate with applications for different use cases, whether it is in finance, HR, or customer operations. It is by far our favorite integration product."

"Workato reduces total development time as it generates code seamlessly and integrates with SQL databases or APIs through configuration."

"I would recommend Workato because everyone is moving away from writing extensive code."

"Moreover, AI automation simplifies integration development by understanding requirements from prompts and creating the necessary automation."

"The delivery time has drastically improved using Workato because of its low-code feature and pre-built connectors which are very easy to use compared to MuleSoft."

"It is easier to use than other technical open-source technologies."

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Cons

"Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see."

"If someone wants to replicate their data from Sybase to a newer technology for data warehousing or other purposes, it would be better if they supported those."

"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support."

"The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades."

"I would like to see it become mobile-friendly."

"The data flow and debugging processes need improvement, especially for tracing issues."

"One area for improvement is the CI/CD pipeline, which lacks a version control system similar to GitHub for easier deployment."

"Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations."

"The management dashboard in the solution is an area with shortcomings that needs improvement."

"Workato could be improved by adding a proper debugging feature. Currently, there's no way to set breakpoints to stop the process and debug an error as you can in other tools like webMethods."

"The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) capabilities could be improved."

"There are areas of Workato that have room for improvement, and they continue to develop their AI capabilities."

"Integrating on-prem applications is challenging, even though they have an on-prem agent."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a very expensive solution."

"You can pick one of the hosted cloud services as opposed to owning it and doing it yourself. Your cost of ownership on the hardware, the data storage, and the maintenance all go down. It depends on what service you use."

"Workato is an expensive solution."

"On a scale of one to ten, the pricing is around a six. We have a consumption model and the pricing is higher. If you are using any kind of ML-based approach, machine learning, or some advanced analytics, you may have to pay more."

"Speaking about price, I would say that it's market-related. Also, there are costs in addition to the standard license fees since different add-ons depend on what you require."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Retailer

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Replication Server?

It's a pretty good product and stable.

What needs improvement with SAP Replication Server?

SAP can provide better support for cross-database replication to newer technologies. The product supports Oracle, but I am not aware of what other technologies it supports. If someone wants to repl...

What is your primary use case for SAP Replication Server?

It's basically to transfer data from one server to another. It's used for this purpose.

What needs improvement with Workato?

While there are still a few areas where Workato has room for improvement, they’re making impressive strides in advancing their AI capabilities and enhancing their RPA features. Their recent confere...

What is your primary use case for Workato?

We use Workato for our G&A across finance, accounting, procurement, audit and compliance, HR, GTM which covers sales, marketing, customer success, as well as IT. Wherever we need process automa...

What advice do you have for others considering Workato?

I have experience in the automation space for more than 18 years, and I have worked on multiple integration platforms including JCAPS, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus, BPM, MuleSoft, Boomi, an...

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Overview

Information and data-driven insight is what powers business today. But to get the most from your enterprise data, you need a way to bring transactional, streaming, social media, and other data together – regardless of its format and whether it’s structured or unstructured – and be able to analyze it. The challenge is moving, replicating, and centralizing a wide variety of data efficiently, cost-effectively, and quickly enough to meet business demands for active insight. SAP® Replication Server® can help. SAP Replication Server enables the continuous movement of mission-critical application data.

SAP

Named a Leader in iPaaS for Dynamic Integrations by Forrester, Workato is a modern automation and integration platform. With its enterprise-grade capabilities, you can seamlessly integrate and orchestrate workflow automation across cloud and on-premise applications, files and databases without coding.

The Workato team comes from a deep background in building integration products and will continue to expand and change the automation and integration space.

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Sample Customers

Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone

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