Azure Bot Service (Microsoft Bot Framework) vs. SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Bot Service (Microsoft Bot Framework)
Score 7.2 out of 10
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Microsoft offers the Azure Bot Service (replacing the former Microsoft Bot Framework), a managed bot building platform, which provides an integrated environment that is purpose-built for bot development, enabling you to build, connect, test, deploy, and manage intelligent bots, all from one place.N/A
SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
SAP Conversational AI was a platform used to build chatbots and digital assistants in SAP integration. Starting January 2023, SAP Conversational AI, SAP’s chatbot building platform has been set to maintenance mode. Existing customers can continue to use the enterprise edition of the product until the end of their contract.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Azure Bot Service (Microsoft Bot Framework)

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SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
Chose SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
SAP Conversational AI has a better documentation of their APIs. SAP Conversational AI also has a much more active and friendly community with lots of help from the community as well as from SAP co-workers. The integration with SAP (as non-SAP) technologies surpasses that of the …
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(5 ratings)
7.4
(37 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(2 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(4 ratings)
6.5
(32 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Bot Service (Microsoft Bot Framework)SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
It is suited for applications like computerizing messages, or any business thought that would require the entrepreneur to robotize their reactions, particularly assuming they are managing a ton of clients and they can't answer to every single one of them. It'd be the most ideal to computerize messages of enormous associations where the reactions measure up to the clients' assumptions. It would be less appropriate in associations where clients' viewpoints matter and every client is interesting and requires the association's consideration, where the specialist organization doesn't need to sum up the clients' interests.
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SAP
It would be most suitable to help you attain swift conversation flows as you engage with your audiences. The bots are also of indispensable value in handling repetitive tasks around the firm such as automated HR resourcing expeditions or marketing campaigns or any other important but monotonous tasks. I however admit that analyzing the bot's performance is quite complex, have an RPA specialist around.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Real-time communication.
  • Lightweight software protocols.
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SAP
  • SAP has helped me manage my teams cost in material management.
  • SAP Conversational AI has provided with the goal of developing bot analytics to respond to common user face issues when reporting troubleshooting issues with software equipment as well as technical equipment.
  • Has helped deploy new bots to increase response time to employees who require assistance with ordering equipment software as well as application development in software ordering.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • They have simplified the coding for the bot in Azure, but it would help if the coding was further simplified so that non-IT can operate [and] create it easily.
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SAP
  • SAP can certainly provide better and more clear documentation on how to customize and deploy the chatbot/use SAP Conversational AI.
  • There is lot less developer community around SAP Conversational AI so it is hard to get help from outside developers and experts on best practices, hacks and existing applications/integrations.
  • It is hard to use SAP Conversational AI outside SAP S/4HANA Cloud, for example on AWS or GCP or in a multi cloud environment.
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Usability
Microsoft
Azure Bot Service provides an integrated environment for bot development. Microsoft Azure Cloud is fully compatible and its security features. It's more important to pay attention to the logic of business than the specifics of each messenger. We don't have any issues using the bot framework because the implementation is excellent.
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SAP
Chatbots have already acquired most of the market and are still trending with the needs of changing market everyday. It will keep evolving with AI and NLP more to offer for improvements. SAP CAI is a good product to add to an enterprise using SAP ERP Suite
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
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SAP
Never had an issue. SAP CAI shares the same platform as any other product hosted on SAP Cloud Platform (aka BTP) and depends on your hosting (US, Europe, Asia). Maintenance modes are planned and customers are aware of it well in advance in order to mitigate potential impacts on the service offering.
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Performance
Microsoft
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SAP
It's a pure SaaS platform hosted on SAP Cloud Platform (aka BTP). The experience is pretty much seamless with minimum loadings or noticeable lags. The hosting depends on your location so you may want to make sure the instance is available on a server close to you, such as the USA, Europe or Asia.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
Support is helpful when we have a problem, but online documentation is lacking
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SAP
Great support from the people of SAP Conversational AI as of the community. Sometimes it takes a little while for folks of the SAP Conversational AI team to answer but this has mostly to do with the overload of questions and users the product has. The gold-support channel within Slack that SAP Conversational AI has, is a great help to distinguish more professional usage and therefore more urgent questions.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Microsoft Bot Framework is much better and well more established without a lot of proprietary software/coding language. Lex is very limited with integration with standard hardware and network configurations. Lex has performance issues and was too slow to meet near real-time collaboration requirements. Bot Framework complements many other Microsoft communication products and this was key to implementing without a lot of new training required.
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SAP
The platforms have similarities in terms of making the organization more data-driven. However, the use cases are different. SAP Analytics Cloud is used for reporting, deploying dashboards, and scheduling timely delivery of reporting and analytics. SAP Conversational AI is a more front-end product that end users can directly use to navigate the web application better. Both have strengths in their respective areas. Conversational AI is more recent and cutting edge.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Interfaces with the SQL data set, tracks down plans/replies, and tests them with the SDK.
  • Utilizing the system is made conceivable by the Bot Dev gateway. We can interface our bot in excess of ten channels, including Twilio Facebook, Twilio, Twilio, and Slack, and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
  • It is expensive.
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SAP
  • The impact has been very positive for our business objectives. Through the chatbot, our clients can have an immediate response to any of their requests without the need of an intervention of a person or without the use of the telephone or email. Customer satisfaction has been much higher.
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ScreenShots

SAP Conversational AI (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Transform your customer and employee experience with SAP Conversational AI, which combines a powerful bot building platform and a digital assistant nicknamed CoPilot.Screenshot of Bot Training – Plug human-like understanding in your chatbots.Screenshot of Bot Builder – Build adaptable conversational flows through a powerful and visual tool.Screenshot of SAP Conversational AI provides a powerful building platform that allows the building of end-to-end chatbots as well as the customization of your digital assistant.Screenshot of Leverage the power of our highly performing NLP technology capable of building human-like AI chatbots in any language.Screenshot of Understand how your chatbot is used and leverage that data to improve the performance of your dataset.