Likelihood to Recommend It would be a good solution for running serverless applications. Because infrastructure setup and maintenance expenses can be avoided, the investment will pay for itself. The time to value is short, allowing IT to respond to business demands quickly. It aided us in customizing security as well as operating a personal project using to autoscale up and down approach. Also, because there isn't much hassle, items can be pushed into production as soon as possible. Simply push a container, create an application, and you're ready to go. But, It is less suited when you have a static machine or need to keep data in some way and do not want to utilize network storage or a database.
Read full review BTP is particularly good for Integrating S4 and other SAP platforms. It is also good for developing Software like CAP and Fiori Applications. The event mesh is progressing. I am looking forward to the integration with SAP Build APp, SAP Build Code, and SAP Process Automation. Overall, there are good security and roles.
Read full review Pros Managed Environment for partners and customers - shifting skills and speed to CSP A variety of programming model support Elastic scalability for cloud native development and speed Flexible consumption model Containerized workloads with horizontal scalability Here is an example - live demo walk-thru delivered to partners and community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBClYgpDFg Read full review Authentication options - In the past, we needed to really leverage our own solutions for MFA and other security measures, but now, out-of-the-box these options are really good and readily available. Ease of use - the interface has been adjusted to be really easy on the eyes but also simpler, less convoluted, and really well thought out. Modernized SAP experience - compared to the old stuff, SAP is really modernizing all of the experiences. The new house style is rejuvenated, and the company is really becoming more likable compared to 10 years ago! SAP Discovery and Missions are a real treat to see what the upcoming costs are! Read full review Cons For Bigger projects, the Number of jobs and apps can be increased along with maximum memory consumption. The Documentation can be more extensive for freshers and get more engagements from the newcomers. Moving around the security changes can be tricky and hard to change. Read full review Expand the standard integration with S4Hana bringing all tables, such as maintenance plans, task lists, etc. Expand the standard integration with APM (asset performance management). Ability to create BTP “items/events” from an APM alert for example. Add more options to UI. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
Read full review As many customers have SAP landscape, the SAP Business Technology Platform is slowly becoming an integral part of the cloud solutions.
Read full review Usability IBM Cloud Code Engine is good for developers to create a microservice based on typescript and nodejs. The tool can help mange the project very well. It decrease the difficulty for developement and increase deloping speed. However, the code engine UI on IBM cloud does not contain enough features it can support.
Read full review SAP Analytics cloud build on SAP BTP . can be customized to specific business needs by adding applications on the BTP. Data and analysis helped various business units take critical decisions and make road for future enhancements .BTP's ability to connect and integrate various SAP and non-SAP systems, processes can be integrated and digitalized end-to-end. Such as system logging, the available permissions vary within the system.
Read full review Support Rating I have given this rating because there are points that need to be improved with the Support of the SAP Business Technology Platform. Given that there are lots of components and parts within a low-code platform, often there would be a turnaround whether a certain issue is related to the Platform or the Infrastructure.
Read full review Implementation Rating 1. Sometimes the licensing doesn’t make sense, e.g., Difficult to understand the license for ABAP cloud runtime. 2. When SAP Business Technology Platform workflow cost is very high but process automation which offers more features has less cost.
Read full review Alternatives Considered What impresses me most about IBM Cloud Code Engine is the container workload management capability and the Cloud services and dataflow monitoring functionalities. Data security and network security control via IBM Cloud Code Engine is quite excellent and very responsive data integration functions and the first deployment is not very technical.
Read full review We have used the plain cloud foundry variant also, and there were many problems we faced while running applications on cloud foundry. We have also used the GCP platform to run our applications here also faced many problems. SAP BTP services and integration of service are strong points to consider it.
Read full review Return on Investment IBM Cloud Code Engine secures my underlying infrastructure and help manage multiple project data. Easy resources management and the multiple transactions tracking through IBM Cloud Code Engine is amazing. Effective Application isolation from other workload using IBM Cloud Code Engine is perfect. Read full review Nicely linked and Developed a single platform for all Application Development and Deployment. It is easy to use and links each and every service with a single click. Negative impact is SAP BTP way more costlier than any other system like AWS and Azure. Read full review ScreenShots IBM Cloud Code Engine Screenshots