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SAP Cloud Platform pros and cons

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PROS

SAP Cloud Platform excels in providing integration flows and data synchronization, allowing seamless connectivity between on-premise and cloud systems.
It offers excellent scalability, making it suitable for businesses of various sizes, from small to large enterprises.
The system's stability is highly praised, contributing to enhanced business operations and performance improvements.
SAP Cloud Platform security integration and reliable customer support add substantial value for users.
The platform's flexibility in supporting customizations and integration options stands out, offering significant versatility for diverse business needs.

CONS

Better connectivity to on-premise systems would assist in supporting older systems migrating to the cloud.
The pricing and licensing structure is high and could benefit from improvements.
There is a need for more flexibility in integrating third-party applications.
Customization to specific business requirements is limited, affecting usability.
Lack of support in the documentation management system and slow document uploading affects performance.
 

SAP Cloud Platform Pros review quotes

Shylaraj AK - PeerSpot reviewer
May 31, 2022
It’s easy to maintain, as everything is handled by SAP.
senioras942459 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 14, 2024
The product's initial setup phase is pretty straightforward.
Taiwo Babalola - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 12, 2023
The ability to build custom applications on the BTP platform, reducing customization on the SAP HANA system and improving performance and management.
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SN
Feb 6, 2020
SAP is an excellent company with an excellent reputation, excellent products, and dedicated customer support.
Sai Nukala - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 29, 2024
The tool's most valuable aspects are the niche technologies and the latest editions. The way these updates are rolled out makes it easy to manage because clients and customers are not responsible for keeping everything up to date. It's SAP's responsibility, which makes it much easier to take advantage of the new features they roll out every month.
senioras942459 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 18, 2019
The mapping transformation allows us to connect our on-premise ECC to the cloud system.
Sajith Paul - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 7, 2022
Though I'm not a massive fan of the SAP Cloud Platform, it has good features, such as its integration with other SAP solutions. When integrating with SAP or even the SAP sister company SuccessFactors and other companies SAP has acquired, you also enjoy data features in the SAP Cloud Platform, such as role-based permissions and other characteristics you can import from SAP.
RR
Mar 4, 2020
Scalability is one of the benefits that we have in using the product.
Deepak Madhavan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 13, 2023
One of the most valuable features I have found is that the solution is secure.
Pratibimb Dwivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 9, 2023
It is a stable solution, as I never encountered issues when using it.
 

SAP Cloud Platform Cons review quotes

Shylaraj AK - PeerSpot reviewer
May 31, 2022
The current pricing model is credit-based. We would like to have more information about the usage of the existing applications.
senioras942459 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 14, 2024
The product's support team has certain shortcomings, not from the solution's portal perspective but from the back-end side.
Taiwo Babalola - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 12, 2023
One crucial aspect where SAP lags behind in flexibility is customization to suit specific business requirements. SAP needs to understand that customization is inevitable and should be more supportive of business-driven customization.
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SN
Feb 6, 2020
They are still developing this product. It does not really have 100% of the necessary features available to properly service business clients
Sai Nukala - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 29, 2024
Regarding improvements, I think the user experience, specifically the developer experience during design time, could be better. Platforms like MuleSoft and Flowgear have much better design times.
senioras942459 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 18, 2019
Better connectivity to on-premise systems would help us to support older systems that are migrating to the cloud.
Sajith Paul - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 7, 2022
From what I understand, the SAP Cloud Platform is for implementation on AWS or Azure, and it's not meant to be a full-fledged cloud solution, so while using the platform, an area for improvement is that it has fewer offerings and is less flexible when compared to AWS. AWS has a lot more flexibility than the SAP Cloud Platform. I've also used Azure in college and AWS in between, and I prefer AWS over the SAP Cloud Platform. The only reason I would ever stick with the SAP Cloud Platform is to create applications integrated with SAP or with other companies within SAP, such as SuccessFactors. When you go into the SAP Cloud Platform web page, it's a bit bland and has relatively limited offerings. For example, there doesn't seem to be in-house MongoDB support, but I realize there's in-house support for the PostgreSQL database, so there are fewer offerings in the SAP Cloud Platform. Yes, you can always go for a database on the actual MongoDB server rather than depending on the offerings of the SAP Cloud Platform. However, it's still better to support MongoDB from the platform, so payment is consolidated, rather than going to a different location to make a payment. Another room for improvement in the SAP Cloud Platform is the need to create an SAP subaccount if you need to use the platform unless you have an SSO login by Google or if you're using a different identity provider such as Microsoft or Google. Instead of requiring dependency on SAP, it would be good if users could use the SAP Cloud Platform even without a subaccount on SAP. For example, when hosting an application on AWS or Azure, you don't have to create an account in Amazon or Microsoft. You can still do it using Google. You can use almost anything, so I'd like SAP to improve by removing the dependency, particularly the requirement to create an SAP account to use the SAP Cloud Platform.
RR
Mar 4, 2020
My impression of the stability is that it is not good. Almost every month there is something new and that makes us nervous about delivery.
Deepak Madhavan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 13, 2023
What I would like to see improved is the learning curve.
Pratibimb Dwivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 9, 2023
The tool's UI is not very intuitive for cloud integration, so it needs research to understand its options and how it may work.