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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 BIG-IP

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 BIG-IP software from Seattle-based F5 Networks is a load balancing and application protection solution suite available on cloud or via virtual editions, on a subscription or perpetual licensing basis.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
    F5 BIG-IPSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 BIG-IPSAP 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
    F5 BIG-IPSAP Business Technology Platform
    Considered Both Products
    F5
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    258 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    808 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    215 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    255 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    179 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    196 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
    Features
    F5 BIG-IPSAP Business Technology Platform
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of F5 BIG-IP and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    F5 BIG-IP
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    Ratings
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    818 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.0782 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.1780 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.4739 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.7655 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.6748 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.0735 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.9723 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings7.7631 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.0714 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.7633 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.4677 Ratings
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    F5 BIG-IPSAP Business Technology Platform
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    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 BIG-IPSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (265 ratings)
    8.4
    (771 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (140 ratings)
    7.9
    (751 ratings)
    Availability
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (12 ratings)
    7.3
    (503 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    3.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    2.4
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 BIG-IPSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    LTM's scope of action goes beyond load balancing. Tools for control, governance, and application enhancement, as well as APIs like iRULE, are very important for day-to-day operations. Furthermore, the F5 BIG-IP WAF offers exceptional security. Advanced firewall and routing functionalities are helpful in more complex environments. O LTM possui um escopo de atuacao que vai alem do balanceamento. Ferramentas para controle, governanca e aprimoramento de aplicacoes e API como iRULE sao muito iportantes para o dia a dia a operacao. Alem disso o WAF do F5 BIG-IP tem uma qualidade de seguranca exceptional. As funcionalidades avancadas de firewall e roteamento ajudam em ambientes mais complexos. This review was originally written in Portuguese and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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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
    F5
    • My company is kind of like it's a safe thing if you log in and you provide another second login to get the code to log in, confirm that it's a correct that you are logged into the account and it just provides more for the company
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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
    F5
    • I think a couple of challenges. One, I mean the cost, it's not an inexpensive product, but I think it's probably parity with value, maybe a little on the pricey side of things.
    • As far as features and what we'd like to see more cloud native type experiences like where NGINX and F5 kind of come together, we're moving more of the cloud just like everybody else, and it's a little clunky right now.
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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
    F5
    Stability of product and easy way to have account manager contact. F5 support team is also always available to help with major issues. Last year during the major OS upgrade F5 team and F5 leadership always shared clear information and F5 team was dedicated to help us to have it closed in record time
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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
    F5
    It is a good product to use but right now it is lacking the automation of certificates, management of iRules and automation of certain configuration. Also creating an APM policy from scratch with many APM agents take a long time due to slow load times of the GUI and the need to create everything from scratch every time. It's tough to reuse the configuration.
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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
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    Support Rating
    F5
    I've supported F5 for three different companies. Our F5 support has been very consistent, regardless who the customer is. F5 technicians are very experienced and provide good support, even when issues are more related to knowledge than they are with the ability of the product to do what you need it to do.
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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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    In-Person Training
    F5
    Practical cases and hands on , many hours of training with tipical cases
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    SAP
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    Online Training
    F5
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    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
    F5
    implementation is fine
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    We are recently not evaluating, but we have started the deployment for WAF and we're using GTM, LTM, you name it. F5, we are using all of them.
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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
    F5
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    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • The F5 BIG-IP has improved all our load balancing needs, we have over 400 LTM VIPs in our environment this all use to be done with DNS round Robin configurations.
    • we have created unique APM solutions to support our external customer base
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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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