SAP Replication Server vs Workato comparison

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SAP Replication Server

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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

May 2023

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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 (20th), Data Integration (45th)

Workato

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (5th)

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 1.8%, up 0.7% compared to last year.
Workato, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 4.6% mindshare, up 3.7% since last year.

Database Development and Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP Replication Server	1.8%
Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials	4.2%
Spotlight	3.7%
Other	90.3%

Database Development and Management

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Workato	4.6%
Boomi iPaaS	7.3%
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform	6.5%
Other	81.6%

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

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reviewer1834542

Finance Business Process Improvement, Transformation and Project Management at a consultancy with self employed

Eliminates replication and allows you to use only one database, speeding up performance and reducing amount of storage

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. As a company, you're either hiring or paying an outsourcer to do that, and you have to manage it, keep up with the updates to the hardware, software, and the operating system. It's very expensive because there's a lot to control and take care of.

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AshishPatil1

Technical Consultant at IST Technology

Data processing efficiency increases with workflow automation but could improve on handling high volume data

The most valuable feature of Workato is that billing is based on task actions; whatever actions we take on the Workato platform will determine the task consumption and billing for each workflow. More optimized workflows lead to less billing for clients. Furthermore, they have introduced a Copilot feature for automation, helping build recipes and code with simple prompts. Additionally, they are developing AI solutions for clients. These are some top features, along with various others implemented per client specifications, such as CICD implementation and runtime connection changes. The benefits of using Workato for our customers include automating business workflows and data integration. By addressing their manual efforts, which are time-consuming and prone to errors, Workato helps clients reduce costs while increasing productivity. We implement solutions that enable seamless data integration between different systems, minimizing time-consuming manual processes. A positive impact we see is cost reduction, as manual efforts are significantly lowered. For example, in production support teams, manual processes are streamlined through CICD implementation, allowing for a seamless integration of different environments with minimal errors and faster deployment.

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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

"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."

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

"We use this solution for all kinds of communications like RFC, BAPI, IDoc, connecting with the orders, accounts, finance, data stuff, banking, everything."

"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."

"This product has a catalog with the location of all the objects which were replicated, and it's very simple to maintain."

"Currently, there is a Hadoop-based infrastructure with several engineers to maintain the data, and now, using SAP Replication Server, it has become automatic and requires fewer people to put data in the data warehouse."

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

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

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"The initial setup was very easy."

"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."

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

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

"The automation in Workato is very good, their automation and workflows are very strong, and you can build the workflows very easily and quickly."

"The integration was done within a week, what we thought might take us two months to complete."

"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."

"Allowed us to work around a product limitation in our CRM to send emails from our Marketing Automation platform."

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Cons

"It's complex. It's necessary to understand a little about infrastructure, like network LAN and VLAN environment."

"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."

"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."

"It's a very expensive solution."

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

"There is a need to improve performance in high transactional processes."

"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."

"Setup was a little complex."

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

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

"The data flow and debugging processes need improvement, especially for tracing issues. Additionally, Workato struggles with scalability when handling high volumes of data, such as terabytes, requiring chunking for initial data loads."

"Though I find the task-based usage in Workato challenging, requiring careful workflow design."

"Currently, Workato is a low-code platform without native programming capabilities. I would appreciate having a dedicated programming language for tasks like transformations and functional programming."

"Based on my experience, it would be really beneficial if the unit tests were improved because when you change a recipe significantly, they do not work anymore, and you have to remake them all."

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

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"It's a very expensive solution."

"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."

"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."

"Workato is an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

17%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Retailer

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

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?

In Workato, there are some limitations regarding very high transactional data in file formats. For instance, we have a 90-minute job timeout, and queues larger than 10,000 size will be purged. Addi...

What is your primary use case for Workato?

The usual use cases for Workato include real-time data processing from either SFTP or SAS, and we have implemented multiple use cases for our clients in the past 3.5 years. For example, the employe...

What advice do you have for others considering Workato?

I have been working with clients for Workato implementation, focusing on consulting and implementing solutions for their business needs. We automate basic workflows and handle various complexities ...

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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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