Higson vs. SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)

Hyperon is less appropriate in smaller projects that do not contain a lot of business logic. However, if there are a lot of business rules to manage, many things that might be frequently changed, then Hyperon is a good tool to address it.

The adoption of SAP Extension Suite is growing significantly and it has become a strategic platform for our company. SAP Extension Suite will most likely meet the requirements of most companies to get beyond small workgroup apps and tackle more strategic requirements. The most important thing that SAP Extension delivers is a single UI for development effort for web and mobile deployment.

Incentivized

• Separation of business logic from the app's code
• Decision table performance
• Good GUI

• Reduces the length and cost of system development and integration
• Empowers developers to acquire a new skill to deliver applications and other services efficiently
• Enabled the innovation team to transform the way services are accessed and delivered
• Ensures scalability of apps used simultaneously by thousands of customers

Incentivized

• Pretty high entry threshold
• A few bugs in GUI
• UX might be better in some places

• It was a bit of a hassle to configure at first but once setup it's easy and fast.
• At a certain time they removed key items used in pipelines to force upgrades.
• The new UI though works well feels less intuitive than the previous one.

Incentivized

It's a very good tool to manage business rules. There are certain GUI bugs and a code boilerplate, but overall it does its job really well.

There is documentation on the site to help learn about the tool. There is also an email to ask for help or any other questions. The team responds quickly with a full answer.

Hyperon has got far better performance. It also has far better GUI to manage business rules. On the other hand, Drools has a bigger community to help you with your problems.

We have been able to work in a much more agile way with SAP Extension Suite, and there is a lot of excitement that developing with this platform is significantly faster. SAP Extension Suite is the perfect fit to build great-looking applications that work on any form factor, be it [a] smartphone, laptop, or tablet, and within budget.

Incentivized

• Shorter time to market with new features
• Business users might change things without the help of developers

• Faster development cycle due to native integration with SAP products
• Negative short-term ROI due to the lack of training material and significant differences with the previous version of the same tool (SAP Web IDE)
• Tighter integration with corporate programming guidelines since SAP Extension Suite offers great integration with DevOps pipeline solutions

Incentivized