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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Confluent

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.

    $385

    per month

    SAP NetWeaver MDM

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/ASAP NetWeaver MDM is based upon technology from the A2i acquisition in 2004. This is a comprehensive master data management suite and competes with IBM InfoSphere, Oracle Siebel UCM, Informatica, and Tibco.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM ConfluentSAP NetWeaver MDM
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM ConfluentSAP NetWeaver MDM
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).—
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    User Ratings
    IBM ConfluentSAP NetWeaver MDM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    IBM ConfluentSAP NetWeaver MDM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    If you have a need to stream data, real time or segmented structured data then Confluent is a great platform to do so with. You won't run into packet transfer size limitations that other platforms have. Flexibility in on-prem, cloud, and managed cloud offerings makes it very flexible no matter how you choose to implement.
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    SAP
    Fairly easy to set up and get started even in large enterprises with the help of the configuration tools that come with the product. Also, the workflow engine can be defined with relative ease and monitored. Perhaps this product works very well in an SAP environment as it can be integrated with other SAP products
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Products work great.
    • Training is available.
    • Customer support is good.
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    SAP
    • SAP MDM comes with a workflow engine that can be used by the business to define workflows, run workflows and monitor workflows
    • SAP MDM also enables to create, read, update, and delete master data well across the organization
    • With proper setup, it has helped prevent bad master data in the production environment
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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    SAP
    • HANA is used for consolidation and there is adequate room for improvement in the consolidation function
    • Business users can also contribute to improving the business workflows if there were a simple wizard set up for this purpose - at present, contributions are made through IT ticketing system
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform.
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    SAP
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations.
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    SAP
    IBM Infosphere was considered but was much more expensive and also perhaps would have taken more time for initial setup. SAP MDM was selected because we found it easier to work with other SAP products and its ability to integrate well within the overall larger SAP environment and was also easier to configure.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • It enables us to develop event driven application.
    • It increases our ability to handle streaming data.
    • It reduces latency of communication.
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    SAP
    • A positive impact from an ability to leverage a single master data across the entire organization
    • A positive impact from an ability to prevent bad master data in production
    • Not a negative but could have been easier with a wizard set up for users to contribute to modify rules
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