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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Elastic Beanstalk

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

    $35

    per month

    SAP Business Technology Platform

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the company's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, that brings together intelligent enterprise applications with database and data management, analytics, integration and extension capabilities into one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments, including hundreds of pre-built integrations for SAP and third-party applications.N/A

    ReadyAPI

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/AReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in their CI/CD pipelines without needing to code.N/A
    Pricing
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology PlatformReadyAPI
    Editions & Modules
    No Charge
    $0
    Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.
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    Pricing Offerings
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology PlatformReadyAPI
    Free Trial
    NoYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology PlatformReadyAPI
    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
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    SAP
    No answer on this topic
    SmartBear
    Chose ReadyAPI
    SOAP UI provides a much better way to create load tests with a friendly UI, in comparison other frameworks which we found hard to learn and maintain the scripts
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
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    93%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
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    97%
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    29 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    90%
    Implementation went as expected
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    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology PlatformReadyAPI
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk and SAP Business Technology Platform and ReadyAPI
    Feature
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    7.8
    28 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    818 Ratings
    2% below category average
    ReadyAPI
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    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces8.018 Ratings8.0782 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability7.028 Ratings8.0780 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead8.027 Ratings7.4739 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability7.022 Ratings7.7655 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control8.027 Ratings7.6748 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration8.027 Ratings8.0735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation7.027 Ratings7.9723 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication8.028 Ratings7.7631 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification8.027 Ratings7.0714 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.025 Ratings6.7633 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes8.026 Ratings7.4677 Ratings00 Ratings
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    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    OpenText UFT One
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Red Hat OpenShift
    Score9.1 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    SoapUI Open Source
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology PlatformReadyAPI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (28 ratings)
    8.4
    (771 ratings)
    7.0
    (65 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    7.3
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    7.9
    (751 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    7.4
    (503 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    3.2
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    2.3
    (2 ratings)
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    2.4
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology PlatformReadyAPI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    I have been using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for more than 5 years, and it has made our life so easy and hassle-free. Here are some scenarios where it excels -
    • I have been using different AWS services like EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Serverless, etc. And Elastic Beanstalk makes our lives easier by tieing each service together and making the deployment a smooth process.
    • N number of integrations with different CI/CD pipelines make this most engineer's favourite service.
    • Scalability & Security comes with the service, which makes it the absolute perfect product for your business.
    Personally, I haven't found any situations where it's not appropriate for the use cases it can be used. The pricing is also very cost-effective.
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    SAP
    If you want to use a well-designed SAP technology to shift into the cloud, you will be more than satisfied with the BTP services overall. There are some improvements for beginners to help them get a better overview of what to do and how to start with their account. My recommendation is to take a foundation training course from the SAP learning hub to prepare for the first steps.
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    SmartBear
    As stated, we do a LOT of API testing, the swaggerhub import makes it easy to add APIs. This is very well-suited, as well as easy management of the steps/cases/suites inside of ReadyAPI. The one thing I do wish ReadyAPI was better suited for is changes to data, we have a lot of test cases in ReadyAPI and if we make a change to how the backend data is structured, one-by-one adjustments need to be made to the steps. Less appropriate, UI testing.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Getting a project set up using the console or CLI is easy compared to other [computing] platforms.
    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports a variety of programming languages so teams can experiment with different frameworks but still use the same compute platform for rapid prototyping.
    • Common application architectures can be referenced as patterns during project [setup].
    • Multiple environments can be deployed for an application giving more flexibility for experimentation.
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    SAP
    • It is very easy to use.
    • All the documentation around it is geared towards the enterprise use case, unlike some other hyperscalers' platforms.
    • The SAP Business Technology Platform is very good because it's got the SAP customer and their business processes in mind. Probably my favorite thing about it is how easy it is to get up and running with a new use case and how well it natively connects to an SAP solution.
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    SmartBear
    • Ease of use (ability to automatically import API definitions, Jenkins integration for running in the pipeline).
    • Detailed test reports (allow to easily identify weak spots during both functional and performance testing).
    • One platform for all tests (allows to closely couple and reuse existent tests).
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Limited to the frameworks and configurations that AWS supports. There is no native way to use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a Go application behind Nginx, for example.
    • It's not always clear what's changed on an underlying system when AWS updates an EB stack; the new version is announced, but AWS does not say what specifically changed in the underlying configuration. This can have unintended consequences and result in additional work in order to figure out what changes were made.
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    SAP
    • The Automation Integration service has some outdated workflows
    • New services should be available as entitlements as soon as they are released for a particular region without having to buy them from SAP for zero dollars
    • Any subaccount should be able to change the IAS tenant. Currently, if you set it up for a particular IAS, you cannot change to another tenant and are required to recreate the services in a new subaccount.
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    SmartBear
    • Needs good documentation
    • Need to improve the performance of the tool
    • Setup is very complex and for such [a] commercial tool, it should easy and straightforward
    • Tool says it supports security testing but in reality, it is not at an extensive level.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    As our technology grows, it makes more sense to individually provision each server rather than have it done via beanstalk. There are several reasons to do so, which I cannot explain without further diving into the architecture itself, but I can tell you this. With automation, you also loose the flexibility to morph the system for your specific needs. So if you expect that in future you need more customization to your deployment process, then there is a good chance that you might try to do things individually rather than use an automation like beanstalk.
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    SAP
    Seamless integration with external system and dashboard to monitor the data flow and analysis are very essential for the business. The way the product is designed and modelled lead to minimum business disruptions. Adopting to the new and modern technology was easy. Keeping the central system as clean and adopting project bases development are advantages.
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    SmartBear
    The only reason this isn't a '10' is because of the cost. This product is definitely meant for organizations who are serious about making sure they invest in the full ecosystem of API design, development, maintenance. But there is a significant cost associated with this investment. and because of this cost (and the non-tangible output for executives), it is a difficult line-item to justify in this post-pandemic environment.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    The overall usability is good enough, as far as the scaling, interactive UI and logging system is concerned, could do a lot better when it comes to the efficiency, in case of complicated node logics and complicated node architectures. It can have better software compatibility and can try to support collaboration with more softwares
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    SAP
    Okay, so the content that we have built on the platform is limited to specific testing on the iFlows within integration suite. The visualization layer is nice to use and helps with the design elements, however with developers that are more used to markup languages, it doesn't have the same CLI type feel when you want it. Perhaps the majority of users are that deep, but other platforms have a better CLI type developer experience.
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    SmartBear
    SoapUI allows us to combine multiple tests and adhere
    to the sequence that they need to run in order to complete successfully.
    It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
    good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    SmartBear
    Soap UI has managed to continuously build on it's solid foundation and keep improving by each release. It is by far the most dependable and accurate testing tool out there of its kind. Available via connecting to VM's created as SoapUI test machines give access to it anytime, anywhere practically.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
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    SAP
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    SmartBear
    It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
    good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    As I described earlier it has been really cost effective and really easy for fellow developers who don't want to waste weeks and weeks into learning and manually deploying stuff which basically takes month to create and go live with the Minimal viable product (MVP). With AWS Beanstalk within a week a developer can go live with the Minimal viable product easily.
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    SAP
    The biggest problem we ran into was communication between SAP Business Technology Platform and onsite resources. Unfortunately our SAP Business Technology Platform and Cloud systems are under different customer numbers. I constantly had to open tickets under each customer number because I was unsure of where the issue lied. And having to create a dummy ticket for our ECC systems to open the ECC connections for another ticket under the Cloud customer is a pain.
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    SmartBear
    To be honest, we didnt had much issues with the support, as there is already plenty of online communities available for help. But if ever there were some minor issues with the membership or the certificates, the tech support was always quick and efficient enough to resolve the issue ASAP
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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Training material in Developers Community or from Learning hub are really good... also most of the time we route through Discovery center... so materials provided by SAP is really good.
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    SmartBear
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
    - Do as many experiments as you can before you commit on using beanstalk or other AWS features. - Keep future state in mind. Think through what comes next, and if that is technically possible to do so. - Always factor in cost in terms of scaling. - We learned a valuable lesson when we wanted to go multi-region, because then we realized many things needs to change in code. So if you plan on using this a lot, factor multiple regions.
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    SAP
    Having a full cloud native environment for devlopment of microservices and digitals solutions while having standardized access to our core data on SAP via cloud connector is one of the main benefits of using BTP over others hypervisors. BTP is the standard hyperscaler as soon as something relies on data from SAP systems in our company now
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    SmartBear
    no very easy but lacks documentation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    We also use Heroku and it is a great platform for smaller projects and light Node.js services, but we have found that in terms of cost, the Elastic Beanstalk option is more affordable for the projects that we undertake. The fact that it sits inside of the greater AWS Cloud offering also compels us to use it, since integration is simpler. We have also evaluated Microsoft Azure and gave up trying to get an extremely basic implementation up and running after a few days of struggling with its mediocre user interface and constant issues with documentation being outdated. The authentication model is also badly broken and trying to manage resources is a pain. One cannot compare Azure with anything that Amazon has created in the cloud space since Azure really isn't a mature platform and we are always left wanting when we have to interface with it.
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    SAP
    SAP Concur allows our staff to book, reimburse and remain spend audit compliant. Our Concur system takes feed from Workday and interacts with Credit card vendor. It also makes posting to Accounting and does clearing. SAP Business Technology Platform helped in establishing connection with all these different tools in real time. It helps in getting paid to the card service provider through our Bank through interface, which is built on SAP Business Technology Platform.
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    SmartBear
    ReadyAPI provides intuitive GUI capabilities compared to their own open source product. When compared to Postman, ReadyAPI also supports SOAP based services, which is a saver especially when integrating with legacy or other third party systems.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    It's scalable
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    SmartBear
    It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
    good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing. However, I have read that added monitoring tools have been added, which if so the 7 could possibly go to a 8 or 9.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • till now we had not Calculated ROI as the project is still evolving and we had to keep on changing the environment implementation
    • it meets our purpose of quick deployment as compared to on-premises deployment
    • till now we look good as we also controlled our expenses which increased suddenly in the middle of deployment activity
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    SAP
    • As we are on public cloud, we haven't had many break issues due to being standardized.
    • Project management and expectations working with developers has been overwhelmingly positive and improved.
    • Improved connectivity with us migrating to other SAP products and easier/more mainstream integration methods.
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    SmartBear
    • Very quick regression testing, hence having the testing results very soon, even the same day of deployment
    • for same above reason, it can save money for corporation (so no tedious, costly and erroneous manual testings)
    • The test reports are compatible with TestNG, so the corporation can integrate the reports in our Autamation frameworks such as Allure or Jira Zephyr
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