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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure SQL Managed Instance

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAzure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that combines SQL Server database engine compatibility with a fully managed and evergreen platform as a service.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 SQL Managed InstanceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure SQL Managed InstanceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Azure SQL Managed InstanceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
    808 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
    Features
    Azure SQL Managed InstanceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure SQL Managed Instance and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Azure SQL Managed Instance
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    15% above category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    819 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces9.02 Ratings8.0783 Ratings
    Scalability9.02 Ratings8.0781 Ratings
    Platform management overhead9.02 Ratings7.4740 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability9.02 Ratings7.7656 Ratings
    Platform access control9.02 Ratings7.6749 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration9.02 Ratings8.0736 Ratings
    Development environment creation9.02 Ratings7.9724 Ratings
    Development environment replication9.02 Ratings7.7632 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification9.02 Ratings7.0715 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.02 Ratings6.8634 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes9.02 Ratings7.4678 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Azure SQL Managed InstanceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.4
    (772 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (752 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (504 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    3.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    2.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure SQL Managed InstanceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Data management scenarios where there is a strong need to provide dynamic context for web based applications. Also can work as an infrastructure piece for ticketing systems without relying on another set of database software. The ease of importing data from Microsoft Excel &/or .csv files makes this really easy to use when importing data into the managed instance.
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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
    • executes the queries efficiently
    • has tools/dashboards to show where the query problems lie
    • alerting for problems
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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
    • hard to use without Microsoft knowledge
    • Intimidating CLI
    • Commands are not intuitive
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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
    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
    it runs the workload very well without causing any issues to the business. there are many applications running on Azure SQL Managed Instances in my organization. Most users are happy with its performance. Is able to provide good dashboard for the visibility of the workload. Can add cpu without a downtime to deal with high workload.
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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
    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    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
    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
    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
    Azure to our enviironment where we have everything integrated stacks up far better than MySQL where we would have to reinvent and use everything to fit a MySQL environment including the data and the commands within that data. Furthermore, doesn't work really well on SQL Management Studio which makes it completely useless for what we are trying to do.
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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
    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • it had a positive impact to my business and allowed me to be able to move my workload from on-premise to cloud.
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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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