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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Azure

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

    $29

    per month

    SAP Commerce Cloud

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASAP Commerce Cloud (formerly Hybris) is designed to help businesses sell more goods, services, and digital content through every touchpoint, channel, and device through their multichannel ecommerce and order management solution, available as a SaaS or on-premise.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft AzureSAP Commerce Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Developer
    $29
    per month
    Standard
    $100
    per month
    Professional Direct
    $1000
    per month
    Basic
    Free
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft AzureSAP Commerce Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThe free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.—
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    Microsoft AzureSAP Commerce Cloud
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    Microsoft
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    SAP
    Chose SAP Commerce Cloud
    SAP Commerce Cloud fares very well against the other tools which we had used earlier because comparatively we have got accurate and real time recommendations in SAP Commerce Cloud. It is also very secure and scales up pretty fast because of that we haven't faced any delays or …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
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    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    77 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    88 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
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    Implementation went as expected
    73 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft AzureSAP Commerce Cloud
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Microsoft Azure and SAP Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    8.4
    27 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SAP Commerce Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.725 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.624 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.225 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.326 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.424 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.926 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls8.626 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation8.224 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Microsoft Azure and SAP Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Commerce Cloud
    7.8
    104 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Product catalog & listings00 Ratings8.699 Ratings
    Product management00 Ratings8.1100 Ratings
    Bulk product upload00 Ratings8.196 Ratings
    Branding00 Ratings7.490 Ratings
    Mobile storefront00 Ratings7.291 Ratings
    Product variations00 Ratings8.092 Ratings
    Website integration00 Ratings8.097 Ratings
    Visual customization00 Ratings7.694 Ratings
    CMS00 Ratings7.195 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Microsoft Azure and SAP Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Commerce Cloud
    8.1
    95 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Checkout user experience00 Ratings8.394 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Microsoft Azure and SAP Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Commerce Cloud
    7.7
    82 Ratings
    8% below category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings7.782 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Microsoft Azure and SAP Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Commerce Cloud
    7.9
    93 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Promotions & discounts00 Ratings7.787 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations00 Ratings8.184 Ratings
    SEO00 Ratings7.982 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Microsoft Azure and SAP Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Commerce Cloud
    8.1
    94 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Multi-site management00 Ratings7.987 Ratings
    Order processing00 Ratings8.490 Ratings
    Inventory management00 Ratings8.282 Ratings
    Shipping00 Ratings7.981 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings7.987 Ratings
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    Microsoft AzureSAP Commerce Cloud
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft AzureSAP Commerce Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (96 ratings)
    8.0
    (104 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    8.0
    (38 ratings)
    Availability
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (48 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (48 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft AzureSAP Commerce Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure is particularly well suited for enterprise environments with existing Microsoft investments, those that require robust compliance features, and organizations that need hybrid cloud capabilities that bridge on-premises and cloud infrastructure. In my opinion, Azure is less appropriate for cost-sensitive startups or small businesses without dedicated cloud expertise and scenarios requiring edge computing use cases with limited connectivity. Azure offers comprehensive solutions for most business needs but can feel like there is a higher learning curve than other cloud-based providers, depending on the product and use case.
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    SAP
    SAP Commerce Cloud is well-suited for large enterprises requiring robust personalization, seamless multi-channel integration, and the ability to handle high-volume transactions, especially during peak periods like Black Friday. Its scalability and advanced features make it ideal for businesses needing to manage complex product catalogs and global operations.Enough development capacities are needed to have a best in class shop
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Microsoft Azure is highly scalable and flexible. You can quickly scale up or down additional resources and computing power.
    • You have no longer upfront investments for hardware. You only pay for the use of your computing power, storage space, or services.
    • The uptime that can be achieved and guaranteed is very important for our company. This includes the rapid maintenance for security updates that are mostly carried out by Microsoft.
    • The wide range of capabilities of services that are possible in Microsoft Azure. You can practically put or create anything in Microsoft Azure.
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    SAP
    • Centralized Data Management: SAP Commerce Cloud excels in centralizing data from various operational sectors, which is pivotal in the chemicals industry. This feature allows for better oversight and management of complex supply chains, regulatory compliance, and customer interactions. Having a single source of truth for crucial business data minimizes discrepancies and promotes informed decision-making.
    • Real-Time Data Processing: The real-time data processing capability of SAP Commerce Cloud is invaluable. It aids in timely adherence to regulatory changes and helps in meeting customer demands promptly. In a sector where regulations and market conditions are ever-evolving, real-time data processing is fundamental for maintaining compliance and ensuring customer satisfaction.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The cost of resources is difficult to determine, technical documentation is frequently out of date, and documentation and mapping capabilities are lacking.
    • The documentation needs to be improved, and some advanced configuration options require research and experimentation.
    • Microsoft's licensing scheme is too complex for the average user, and Azure SQL syntax is too different from traditional SQL.
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    SAP
    • It's a little pricey; further cost reductions will expand product selection; also, trained operators are required.
    • HAC occasionally functions extremely slowly and does not provide any problem messages; it simply gets stuck. Logging into the Backoffice for testing purposes causes a lot of trouble; it does not enable us to log in in one attempt, and the page refreshes every time we enter in the credentials.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Moving to Azure was and still is an organizational strategy and not simply changing vendors. Our product roadmap revolved around Azure as we are in the business of humanitarian relief and Azure and Microsoft play an important part in quickly and efficiently serving all of the world. Migration and investment in Azure should be considered as an overall strategy of an organization and communicated companywide.
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    SAP
    SAP Commerce and Spartacus together becomes one of the omnichannel powerhouse of commerce application. It also comes with edge advantage with out of the box integrations with many SAP applications and also non-SAP applciations which gives it edge advantage over other tools. The main reason being the integration becomes easier as SAP shares the common data schema and model across all its product line and new feature releases are compatible with all the SAP product line.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    As Microsoft Azure is [doing a] really good with PaaS. The need of a market is to have [a] combo of PaaS and IaaS. While AWS is making [an] exceptionally well blend of both of them, Azure needs to work more on DevOps and Automation stuff. Apart from that, I would recommend Azure as a great platform for cloud services as scale.
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    SAP
    More true headless and a more rationale pricing. Since moving from the Hzbris Monolyth towards SAP Commerce Cloud a lot of progress has been made, but dissecting the monolyth into composable components where you just pay for what you use is still a longer journey and here pricing should be more realistic. Things become so expensive once they have the SAP stamp on them (example the SAP CIAM)
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    It has proven to be unreliable in our production environment and services become unavailable without proper notification to system administrators
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    We were running Windows Server and Active Directory, so [Microsoft] Azure was a seamless transition. We ran into a few, if any support issues, however, the availability of Microsoft Azure's support team was more than willing and able to guide us through the process. They even proposed solutions to issues we had not even thought of!
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    SAP
    We have the right to open a ticket or submit request to SAP support teams for all the problems we have experienced. They also provide solutions for critical issues within 48 hours. In addition, the product has support documents such as a user guide and admin guide. In addition, there is a strong community of users. In this way, we can access solution of some specific problems that we have fallen on from there.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    As I have mentioned before the issue with my Oracle Mismatch Version issues that have put a delay on moving one of my platforms will justify my 7 rating.
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    SAP
    Scalability of the product was good Seamless integrations were helped in reducing the implementation for the development team to integrate with the SAP ERP Product framework helped customer to customize and adapt the new features which were developed basis business processes and ease of customer experience. Deployment and creation of the build becomes very easy with the CCv2 setup.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    As I continue to evaluate the "big three" cloud providers for our clients, I make the following distinctions, though this gap continues to close. AWS is more granular, and inherently powerful in the configuration options compared to [Microsoft] Azure. It is a "developer" platform for cloud. However, Azure PowerShell is helping close this gap. Google Cloud is the leading containerization platform, largely thanks to it building kubernetes from the ground up. Azure containerization is getting better at having the same storage/deployment options.
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    SAP
    SAP Cloud is much better than GoDaddy. it was a smooth transition and every aspect of the program is easier. My scalability increased greatly from GoDaddy to SAp Commerce Cloud and sales are now tracked easier and inventory is at the touch of a button, making sales much easier than previous software.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The business users/admins were able to quickly segment products by brand, allowing for unique branding and header-less page design. As new products are added to the SAP backend, all characteristics and pricing automatically migrate to Commerce Cloud. We also segment our user sign-on (domains) by brand and allow targeting displays.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • For about 2 years we didn't have to do anything with our production VMs, the system ran without a hitch, which meant our engineers could focus on features rather than infrastructure.
    • DNS management was very easy in Azure, which made it easy to upgrade our cluster with zero downtime.
    • Azure Web UI was easy to work with and navigate, which meant our senior engineers and DevOps team could work with Azure without formal training.
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    SAP
    • It has a positive impact on my client's business and ROI is higher than expected. As orders count is increasing due to smooth and better experience.
    • My current client's customers have given very positive experience about new website built on SAP Commerce Cloud.
    • Due to SAP Commerce Cloud website rollout is very easy and due to it, my current client has introduced around 25 websites. As SAP Commerce Cloud logic needs to develop once and can be reused for multiple websites easily with minimal effort.
    • Branding is also very easy as promotions, events can be implemented on the website easily and with minimum time.
    • SAP Commerce has helped our client to integrate the Recommendation tool ISS which is easy to configure after this tool product sale is increased. The best thing was that integration was very easy and quick.
    • One option of Blue/Green deployment helping us to check the production release in advance on production environment. Prev we don't have this option and many times face P1 issue in prod which had ruined client reputation. But now this feature is helping lot
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    ScreenShots

    SAP Commerce Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Product Cockpit for managing catalogs, categories and product contentScreenshot of Order Management Capabilities including sourcing and allocation rulesScreenshot of commerce sites on two different mobile devicesScreenshot of a landing page from an e-commerce siteScreenshot of a web page with product categories and search results from an e-commerce siteScreenshot of headless commerce storefronts