Microsoft Application Server (deprecated) vs. SAP Business Technology Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Application Server (deprecated)
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Application Server is an expanded server role in the Windows Server® 2008 operating system. It provided an integrated environment for deploying and running custom, server-based business applications. These applications respond to requests that arrive over the network from remote client computers or from other applications. Application Server is deprecated.N/A
SAP Business Technology Platform
Score 8.5 out of 10
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SAP 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
Microsoft Application Server (deprecated)SAP Business Technology Platform
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Application Server (deprecated)SAP Business Technology Platform
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Microsoft Application Server (deprecated)SAP Business Technology Platform
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Application Server (deprecated)
8.0
9 Ratings
0% above category average
SAP Business Technology Platform
-
Ratings
IDE support9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Security management9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Administration and management7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Application server performance9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Installation7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance7.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Application Server (deprecated)
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Ratings
SAP Business Technology Platform
7.5
819 Ratings
3% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.9783 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings7.9780 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.3739 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.5656 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings7.5749 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings7.9735 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings7.8724 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings7.5632 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.0715 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings6.8634 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.4678 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft Application Server (deprecated)SAP Business Technology Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(9 ratings)
8.4
(675 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(24 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.8
(660 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
7.4
(455 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(11 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
5.6
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
4.9
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(3 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
3.8
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
3.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
3.6
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft Application Server (deprecated)SAP Business Technology Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Microsoft Application Server has been incredible this past year during COVID. Previously I would have said that we could go without it, but after this past season, I’m glad we have utilized it. Without having this software set up prior to COVID, we would have been in a tough situation. I mention COVID a lot because we were able to continue our work almost seamlessly this entire year.
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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
Discontinued Products
  • Microsoft Application Server has proven to be highly reliable and effective at deploying to all of its clients.
  • Application performance is surprisingly good and responsive even in bandwidth-constrained environments and generally very reliable.
  • All software programs are manageable from a single location, even when bandwidth is limited.
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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
Discontinued Products
  • Some security hotfixes and general release updates require restarts.
  • We wish it supported more applications out of the box.
  • Thin client support would be great for MS Application Server.
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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
Discontinued Products
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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
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I have found Microsoft Application Server to be incredibly easy to use. I have used dozens of similar programs and have always struggled to navigate through all the functions. So far I have been able to adapt and learn this software with ease. I rarely run into a problem that I wasn’t easily able to move forward on with a few tips.
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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
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SAP
Services are generally available
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
Stability is one of the first things we consider when evaluating software. MS Application Server has been rock solid and has reduced the time that our IT staff dedicates to maintaining our legacy applications.
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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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Online Training
Discontinued Products
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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
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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
Discontinued Products
It has a similar feature to what Microsoft Application Server has but at a greater cost and also having to deal with another vendor when we could use a full Microsoft Stack for better training and support.
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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
Discontinued Products
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SAP
It's scalable
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Our ROI has been great since it has enabled our IT staff to have a central location to perform application updates which enables us to save time and money.
  • Deployment is very easy since the internal applications that required constant updating are now updated in one central location.
  • It's a lot easier to be within compliance protocols requirements.
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SAP
  • Infusing Generative AI capabilities easily into our solutions with existing talent with minimal learning curve, has been very impactful. We have been able resolve several challenges for our clients with AI capabilities, that we could not, previously.
  • Integration Suite is quite extensive in capabilities for bringing together the IT landscape into a single ecosystem.
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ScreenShots

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