Apps Script vs. IBM Cloud Pak for Applications vs. SAP NetWeaver BPM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apps Script
Score 8.0 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
Score 7.2 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Pak® for Applications (CP4Apps) is an end-to-end hybrid cloud application platform, providing flexibility for deployments, building new cloud-native applications, refactoring and re-platforming existing applications. Designed to leverage a collection of application runtimes, modernization tools and a Kubernetes container platform to adapt to their landscape needs.N/A
SAP BPM
Score 7.0 out of 10
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SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management is a business process management offering and application infrastructure. It supports joint modeling of processes, central process execution via a Java-based engine, provision of interfaces for users, and integration of business rules into processes.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Apps Script
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IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
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SAP NetWeaver BPM
10.0
2 Ratings
25% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Apps Script
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IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
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SAP NetWeaver BPM
10.0
2 Ratings
18% above category average
Process designer00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Apps Script
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SAP NetWeaver BPM
10.0
2 Ratings
18% above category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
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IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
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SAP NetWeaver BPM
10.0
2 Ratings
21% above category average
Content management00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apps ScriptIBM Cloud Pak for ApplicationsSAP NetWeaver BPM
Likelihood to Recommend
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7.3
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10.0
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
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5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Google
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IBM
Well suited for customers who are looking for cloud-adoption, and finally to meet the challenges of business innovation for the competitive advantage through DevOps.
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SAP
It is well suited when we need to integrate business processes with SAP ERP and SAP CRM - the solution can be integrated with business rules/procedures defined in SAP ERP/CRM and NetWeaver can be used to monitor the rules and flag off exceptions. When there are multiple workflows running, it tends to slow down running of these processes. Also, it entirely depends on SAP portal for it to run efficiently.
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Pros
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IBM
  • Provides a fantastic range of Application runtimes allowing the most suitable runtime to be selected for the app being implemented.
  • After using Transformation Advisor for quite a while, it is an indispensable tool to help modernize, specifically from WebSphere and Tomcat, towards the lightweight, fast and efficient Liberty runtime.
  • The simplicity of the licensing by wrapping many products into a single offering with a different VPC weighting.
  • Allows us to modernize our runtime from WebSphere Application Server (or ND) to WebSphere Liberty core without sacrificing our WAS licenses.
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SAP
  • Virtual paper trail. Iterations of process and current documentation are all stored as "artifacts", leaving a great trail.
  • Configuration of users. BPM somewhat magically determines which users will be impacted and automates rules.
  • A pro (that is also a con) is the design interface. If you know what you are doing, it is incredibly powerful and malleable.
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Cons
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IBM
  • User Experience and Learning Curve
  • Integration with Third-party Tools
  • Pricing and Licensing Model
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SAP
  • Live readings would be nice.
  • Easier to maneuver
  • Work with all systems with the press of one keystroke
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
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IBM
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SAP
As a big fan of SAP in general, the BPM solution fits right in with all the other things SAP does well, and does it with incredible efficiency
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Support Rating
Google
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IBM
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SAP
We have our own tech support for systems, I would say they probably could use more training on it, I don't really think it's anything regarding the SAP system, but more the knowledge they have on the system itself. It seems to take longer for them to fix any issues we may come across.
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Alternatives Considered
Google
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IBM
Our customer mission-critical core banking applications like Temenos T24 run on best of the breed IBM WebSphere Application Server which is java based-application server. IBM has kept up the promise of providing support, fixpack, and any update. As far as I know, at least by 2030, IBM is committed to continue with WHE which gives customers confidence in their current investments.
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SAP
I found the initial setup of NetWeaver is much simpler than other products especially in an SAP environment where we have SAP ERP/HRM/CRM as it can be well integrated with other SAP products. The only drawback is the need/dependency on SAP Portal. It is better suited in an environment where SAP ERP is running.
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Return on Investment
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IBM
  • We have been able to migrate apps away from the expensive WAS-ND to the more cost-effective WAS-base without throwing away our WAS-ND licenses. With a 1:4 ratio of WAS-ND to WAS-base we've been able to we've been able to save in excess of 75% on licensing charges for these apps.
  • By having a license model based on VPC ratios (1:4:8 - WAS-ND:WAS-base:Liberty core) we've been able to move away from using license pooling resulting in over-allocating (i.e. wasting) CPU cores for each license pool, to using consolidated license pools hosting a combination of WAS-ND, WAS-base and Liberty-core. This has allowed us to reduce our licensing costs accordingly.
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SAP
  • Helped us harness integrated benefit from having SAP ERP/CRM by leveraging NetWeaver to define business processes/rules and monitor exceptions
  • Did not have any negative experience except for the fact that at times when multiple rules run, it can be somewhat slow
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