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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ASecurely connects distributed apps and services across public cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Utilizing Infrastructure as Code, App Connect provisions resources and maintain uniform policies across multiple sites.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 Distributed Cloud App ConnectSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectSAP Business Technology Platform
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    808 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectSAP Business Technology Platform
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
    -
    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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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    8.4
    (771 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (751 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (503 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.4
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    My advice is if your firm build multi-cloud, high availability SaaS products or you just run polyglot workloads across kubernetes and VMs, then F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect is your guy. Coming from an expert, just start with a few core services or else you will be overwhelmed.
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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
    • Ease of use - standing up a new site took very little time, less then an hour.
    • Connecting the dots - the ease at standing up a load balancer and advertising it on CEs was simple and straight forward. Once you get familiar with the field layout it's very comparable to BIG-IP
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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
    • User access roles should be more granular what we currently have
    • user interface should be user friendly
    • Setup process and guided workflows could add a user friendly process for first time users
    • log export from SIEM tool still require a manual intervention
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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
    At this point it has become too focal to our operations. An entire department could collapse if we dropped it now or in the near future. My experiences as mentioned in the previous questions tell of its gravity
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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
    Because it’s so straightforward. There’s not much to it.
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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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    Performance
    F5
    From what we have been able to test load/responsiveness is quick and when we've tested out reporting and troubleshooting modules they have pulled the correct information in quick timeframes. We haven't been able to test out any software integration with Splunk of other software on our system since we are still in early POC stages but from what we've been told we should be able to implement that in our environment
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    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
    F5
    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
    F5
    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
    F5
    -F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides more granular security policies with features like DOS, WAF etc and others lack -F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides high performance global network and other rely on public internet and impact is latency and it gives F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect a better user experience
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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
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • Inconsistent policies and procedures and now its all seem to be sorted and now requires less support
    • Deployment cycle time was reduced and achieves a faster adoption of newly added contents
    • Saved migration cost and more gave durability to the existing setup
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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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