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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure App Service

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby.

    $9.49

    per month

    Informatica Cloud Data Quality

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AThe vendor states that Informatica Data Quality empowers companies to take a holistic approach to managing data quality across the entire organization, and that with Informatica Data Quality, users are able to ensure the success of data-driven digital transformation initiatives and projects across users, types, and scale, while also automating mission-critical tasks.N/A

    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
    Pricing
    Azure App ServiceInformatica Cloud Data QualitySAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Shared Environment for dev/test
    $9.49
    per month
    Basic Dedicated environment for dev/test
    $54.75
    per month
    Standard Run production workloads
    $73
    per month
    Premium Enhanced performance and scale
    $146
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure App ServiceInformatica Cloud Data QualitySAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFree and Shared (preview) plans are ideal for testing applications in a managed Azure environment. Basic, Standard and Premium plans are for production workloads and run on dedicated Virtual Machine instances. Each instance can support multiple applications and domains.——
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    Community Pulse
    Azure App ServiceInformatica Cloud Data QualitySAP Business Technology Platform
    Considered Multiple Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Informatica
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    SAP Integration is the main reason for SAP API Management. We use Azure Data lake in quite a few instances.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    More tight Integration in the SAP world
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Its pricing and the ease to deploy and managing the applications.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    I'm not sure of similar products.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    82%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Would buy again
    807 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    585 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    803 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    416 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    608 Answers
    Features
    Azure App ServiceInformatica Cloud Data QualitySAP Business Technology Platform
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure App Service and Informatica Cloud Data Quality and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Azure App Service
    6.2
    7 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Informatica Cloud Data Quality
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    818 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces7.27 Ratings00 Ratings8.0782 Ratings
    Scalability6.97 Ratings00 Ratings8.1780 Ratings
    Platform management overhead7.37 Ratings00 Ratings7.4739 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability6.35 Ratings00 Ratings7.7655 Ratings
    Platform access control7.46 Ratings00 Ratings7.6748 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration5.86 Ratings00 Ratings8.0735 Ratings
    Development environment creation6.27 Ratings00 Ratings8.0723 Ratings
    Development environment replication5.86 Ratings00 Ratings7.7631 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification6.17 Ratings00 Ratings7.0714 Ratings
    Issue recovery4.26 Ratings00 Ratings6.7633 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes4.66 Ratings00 Ratings7.4677 Ratings
    Data Quality
    Comparison of Data Quality features of Azure App Service and Informatica Cloud Data Quality and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Azure App Service
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica Cloud Data Quality
    8.2
    4 Ratings
    5% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Data source connectivity00 Ratings8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data profiling00 Ratings8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Master data management (MDM) integration00 Ratings8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data element standardization00 Ratings7.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Match and merge00 Ratings7.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Address verification00 Ratings8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Azure App ServiceInformatica Cloud Data QualitySAP Business Technology Platform
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    SAP Data Services
    Score7.8 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure App ServiceInformatica Cloud Data QualitySAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    8.4
    (771 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (751 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (503 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.4
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure App ServiceInformatica Cloud Data QualitySAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    You may easily deploy your apps to Azure App Service if they were written in Visual Studio IDE (typically.NET applications). With a few clicks of the mouse, you may already deploy your application to a remote server using the Visual Studio IDE. As a result of the portal's bulk and complexity, I propose Heroku for less-experienced developers.
    Incentivized
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    Informatica
    For effective data collaboration, systematic verification of customer information, and address, among others, Informatica Data Quality is a fruitful application to consider. Besides, Informatica Data Quality controls quality through a cleansing process, giving the company a professional outline of candid data profiling and reputable analytics. Finally, Informatica Data Quality allows the simplistic navigation of content, with a dashboard that supports predictability.
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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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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Extremely easy to deploy and update from Visual Studio
    • It integrates seamlessly with other Azure PaaS resources
    • It has an in-depth integration with AppInsights, so you can understand errors and their root cause easily.
    • Easy to create and delete, what is not the same case in a IaaS resource
    • It escalates based on CPU workload and some other resource variables.
    • Configuration changes are almost immediate
    • Offers an excellent abstraction from hardware backend of the platform
    • That's updated very often, saving time and the risk of a self-performed update over a IaaS
    • That's really easy to develop for Web Apps
    • It supports Function Apps and Web Apps into the same "cost black box"
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    Informatica
    • The matching algorithms in IDQ are very powerful if you understand the different types that they offer (e.g., Hamming Distance, Jaro, Bigram, etc..). We had to play around with it to see which best suit our own needs of identifying and eliminating duplicate customers. Setting up the whole process (e.g., creating the KeyGenerator Transformation, setting up the matching threshold, etc..) can be somewhat time consuming and a challenge if you don't first standardize your data.
    • The integration with PowerCenter is great if you have both. You can either import your mappings directly to PowerCenter or to an XML file. The only downside is that some of the transformations are unique to IDQ, so you are not really able to edit them once in PowerCenter.
    • The standardizer transformation was key in helping us standardize our customer data (e.g., names, addresses, etc..). It was helpful due to having create a reference table containing the standardized value and the associated unstandardized values. What was great was that if you used Informatica Analyst, a business analyst could login and correct any of the values.
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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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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Jumps between resource sizes can get expensive
    • You may wind up putting a lot of eggs in one basket--not necessarily a con but something to keep in mind (most of your data will likely be managed and processed through Microsoft products/services if you fully commit to Azure App Service).
    • Learning new technology. If you're moving from on-premises to Azure App Service (or any cloud solutions), you'll likely have to rethink how things are done to achieve the same end results (and/or resources may become expensive quickly).
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    Informatica
    • Several partnerships diminishing the value of technologies
    • Unable to get list of objects from Repository (like sources & targets) that don't have any dependency
    • Scheduling: The built-in scheduling tool has many constraints such as handling Unix/VB scripts etc. Most enterprises use third party tools for this.
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Informatica
    As pointed out earlier, due all the robust features IDQ has, our use f the product is successful and stable. IDQ is being used in multiple sources (from CRM application and in batch mode). As this is an iterative process, we are looking to improve our system efficiency using IDQ.
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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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    Usability
    Microsoft
    I have given this rating because Azure App Service performs very well in terms of speed, reliability, and reducing overhead, and improves overall team productivity, with a little scope for improvement in complex testing scenarios and configurations, scalability concerns in a large setup, and similar tracking and audit needs.
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    Informatica
    Easy to use not only for developers but also business users
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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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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Informatica
    The application works well except an occasional error out while using the system. It usually gets fixed when restarting the Infa server
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    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Informatica
    Performance works just fine. It was able to load 200+ business terms, 150+ DQ automation, etc. very well.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Microsoft has always been known for providing a high standard in terms of customer support and Azure App Service (and as a matter of fact the whole Azure Platform) is no exception. Azure App Service never caused us any issues and we only contacted their customer support for questions regarding server locations and pricing. I feel pretty satisfied with how they treat their customers.
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    Informatica
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Informatica
    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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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Informatica
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    When we chose it, we did so because of its integration with Microsoft applications; now we need to integrate with AI, and Azure doesn't offer a good integration. That is the main reason to change it. It is still great to develop Windows- and Microsoft-based applications, but if we need to integrate with AI, Google wins by far.
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    Informatica
    IDQ is used by a department at my organisation to ensure and enhance the data quality.
    The usage was started with address standardization and now it had been brought to altogether a next level of quality check where it fixes duplicates, junk characters, standardize the names, streets, product descriptions.
    In the past we had issues mainly with duplicate customers and products and this were affecting the sales projection and estimates.
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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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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Informatica
    Scalability works as expected and it is truly an enterprise system.
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    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Deployment of ASP.NET apps at the organization has been sped up.
    • An option to offer access to the version control system on a third platform so that we could easily deploy our apps.
    • Because of Azure App Service's scalability capabilities, the costs of running the services are kept to a minimum. As a result, we may save hundreds of dollars each month compared to the expenses of traditional servers by using fewer resources during slack periods.
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    Informatica
    • Integration with tools like PowerCenter helped faster delivery of product, and at the same time conversion
    • Reduce overall project cost due to bad data , bad quality, exceptions identified nearing go-live and post production
    • Employee efficiency is increased exponentially due to more automated, customized tool
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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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    Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service