SAP Business Technology Platform Reviews

I use the solution in my company for mostly integrations and some portal development.

The most valuable feature of the solution is its interface.

The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required.

The solution's technical support's ability to respond to calls and resolve queries are areas where improvements are required.

I have been using SAP Cloud Platform for five years. My company operates as a solution provider. My company uses it extensively to provide solutions for our customers.

My company serves the needs of enterprise-sized companies where the product is used.

Medium-sized businesses can also use the product, but they need to see what they need and how they plan to integrate it.

I rate the technical support a seven to eight out of ten.

I have experience with SAP Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

If you have people who know how to deploy the product, then it is not at all complex.

The number of days required to deploy the product depends on the part of the solution our company provides.

The product's pricing varies and depends on the customers' needs.

I like SAP Cloud Platform over Microsoft Azure since the former is more well-integrated into our company's environment. Microsoft Azure does have its share of benefits, but it does not align with the space where I work. SAP is a bit faster in our company's environment.

Speaking about a project where SAP Cloud Platform was crucial and used extensively, I would say that in our company, most of our development involved integrating into SAP's business systems.

Speaking about whether the tool is useful for data analysis, I know that most of the tools are used for integration between systems, but we have also written some applications for users to connect to and work with the system.

My company is investigating the AI services offered by the product since it is a fairly new technology on an SAP platform. My company has used the AI part for some of our own research work and to build project reports.

The product improved our company's business operations since we got value out of it.

In terms of time to market, the product has undergone quite a lot of development, and I feel that it is constantly improving. In general, SAP Cloud Platform has a fairly decent time to market.

I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

Our clients use the product for dashboards and reports.

The product captures data in real time. It enables real-time communication. We need not use the ETL process. The data is put up in report formats, and dashboards are created based on the reports. It covers all the areas of sales, finance, and manufacturing for reporting purposes.

Planning features are limited to the finance module. Planning features for other modules must be improved. We have to purchase separate components to cover the production, procurement, and pay cycles. Ideally, everything should come into one bucket. We should not have to buy two products to plan for production and finance.

I have been using the solution for three years.

I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten.

The tool is scalable. If we want to add some more dashboards or anything, we have to coordinate with the consultant, and they will enable it. We must contact the consultant if we use all the core modules and want to introduce client maintenance with additional features. The consultant will bring all the information into the system and make it ready for the business. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

SAP’s support is good.

The initial setup was not tough, but it was not easy. We should have a qualified resource to get it done. The person should have knowledge of finance and S/4HANA to collect data from different sources and make it easily available for dashboards.

One consultant is enough to deploy the solution. They would need input from people from finance and other departments. If there is any change in the dashboard, the consultant must handle it. If we are just running simple reports daily, the maintenance is easy. The ease of maintenance depends on the business requirements.

The ROI is good. Once the dashboards are ready, they give the owners and CXOs a decision-making edge. We can also do what-if analysis.

The solution is worth the money. I rate the pricing a three or four out of ten. It is subscription-based.

The product is perfect for budgeting and financial reporting. However, it needs to be improved to plan for manufacturing and production. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

SAP Cloud Platform's installation is not straightforward. You need a person with knowledge to handle it. 

The solution is scalable. 

SAP Cloud Platform is stable. 

The tool's deployment depends on the number of installation points and takes one to two months to complete. 

SAP provides good discounts. 

I rate the product a ten out of ten. It has very good intelligent service and local features. 

Our primary use case is for the interface.

The features I found most valuable are the integration options.

The areas I think this solution should improve are monitoring and adapting.

In the next release, I'd like to see features like alerting.

I have been using this solution for about two or three years.

My impression is that this solution has good stability. I would rate it an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

My impression is that this solution's scalability options are quite good. There are currently two people using this solution in our company.

I would say that the initial setup process was not straightforward and was not complex, but rather something in between. I would say that this process took around one month. The issue with the setup is that in the beginning, it was difficult to understand and learn how every dependent works with other products and sub-products.

We're paying I believe $30,000 per year for the SAP Cloud Platform.

Overall, I would rate this product an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

Our company uses the solution to monitor interfaces in our pipeline such as e-Invoice for India. 

The solution is very useful and interactive with a dashboard for viewing other interfaces. I use SAP and interact or use many protocols with other software such as Ariba, SoapUI, WebDAV, and web services. 

Sample packages are very helpful when starting development.

It would be helpful to have additional samples for SoapUI that include interface methodologies and templates.

New developers might have some difficulty with the platform. 

I have been using the solution for three years. 

The solution is very stable and reliable. Interruptions from a third party or our server are easily identified.

The solution is scalable and we have no issues interacting with our own software or any other interface files. 

I have not used technical support. 

I used XI/PI, XI/PA, and CPI which are middleware. CPI was an upgrade for XI/PI. 

The setup is of medium complexity and takes a few days to two weeks.  

For implementation, we used a hybrid package provided by SAP where we developed one side and used iFlow for the other side.

The solution works well for use cases that are not complex.

If a use case is complex, you have to split development into many parts. The dashboard comes in handy for developing complex interfaces. 

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

The use case of this product varies according to the customer's needs, but we generally implement it when a customer is looking for a complete SaaS-based model without the need for infrastructure. It saves them from having to take care of any facilities including a data center, redundancy layers, and administration. We are resellers and I'm a service architect. 

The dashboard gives pretty good clarity of what's happening and what needs to be done.

SAP offers very little flexibility in its licensing structure. That said, most of our customers are okay with the price points and we have closed about 50 mid-sized customers with SAP Cloud Platform.

The solution is stable. 

This is an SaaS based model, so scalability is fine. 

The initial setup is straightforward. In terms of maintenance, we operate on a model of shared services so there is no set number of people involved. It changes depending on the need. 

Licensing costs are reasonable and based on the space you're purchasing. There is an annual license fee. 

There are several companies with products in this area and each one has its own unique structure and features, so it's difficult to compare them. It's a matter of choosing the one best suited to your needs.

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

I'm an integration architect, so I'm involved in implementations.

The pre-delivered content from the SAP cloud platform is definitely a strength. They are doing it, but it's still not a fully mature solution yet. So it's good for some business cases, but not for all of them.

The main problem is that there aren't any easy migrations from SAP PO to SAP CPI, so from process orchestration to cloud platform integration. The connectivity requirements, not only with the SAP environment but also with third party systems, are not fully fulfilled. The re-uses of the know-how from the process orchestration can be used but aren't fully used.

I have been using this solution for five years.

Technical support is good.

The setup of subclasses for integration is very easy. It's the cloud version, so they give you a username and password and it's done.

I was the consultant.

I would rate this solution 7 out of 10. 

I think it has room for improvement. They are doing it, but it's still not a fully mature solution yet. It's good for some business cases but not all of them.

The most valuable features of SAP Cloud Platform are security integration and scalability.

The solution’s pricing could be improved.

I have been using SAP Cloud Platform for 14 to 15 years.

SAP Cloud Platform is a stable solution.

SAP Cloud Platform is a scalable solution.

The solution’s technical support is satisfactory.

Positive

I have previously used NetSuite. I find SAP Cloud Platform better than NetSuite. SAP Cloud Platform has all the business processes well defined and well mapped, ready to deploy solutions, whereas NetSuite does not have that. NetSuite has its limitations when it comes to scaling. You can scale with SAP Cloud Platform.

As your business grows, you can start with the public cloud and then move into the private cloud. You can start with B1 and then go to Business ByDesign. Later, you can go to the public cloud and move from public to private. If you have NetSuite and you're growing your business, there's no option but to switch to ERP.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

The solution’s deployment time depends on the business you will implement it for. The deployment takes much less time in the service sector, whereas it takes more time in manufacturing.

The solution generally gives a 20% to 30% return on investment by improving the business processes.

SAP Cloud Platform is an expensive solution.

SAP Cloud Platform is difficult to maintain if you do too much customization. The solution is easy to maintain if it's a standard business process.

The solution can integrate with multiple software, like Concur, an expense management tool. APIs are readily available, and the solution can integrate with multiple banks and tax authorities. The integration of SAP Cloud Platform is quite strong with market solutions like Vertex and Vistex.

Run time data is stored and recalled using the solution's in-memory database technology. It does not need to go into different tables every time to pull the data. Instead of storing the data vertically, it is now stored horizontally, which makes it easy.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.