OutSystems vs. SAP Business Technology Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OutSystems
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
The OutSystems Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service solution for rapid delivery of responsive web and mobile applications. It includes functionalities required to develop, deploy, manage and change web and mobile applications. It is targeted at the delivery of enterprise applications that require integration with backend systems, complex business rules and logic, usable interfaces and flexibility to change. It can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises or in hybrid environments.
$4,000
per month
SAP Business Technology Platform
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
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.
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Pricing
OutSystemsSAP Business Technology Platform
Editions & Modules
Basic
$4,000.00
per month
Pro
$10,000.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OutSystemsSAP Business Technology Platform
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSAP BTP offers tailored pricing models designed to meet any business scenario
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Community Pulse
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Our current PowerApps license doesn’t include the premium connectors yet; PowerApps is costly when it includes the use of premium connectors such as Rest API and SAP Connectors (which mainly is the integration points for most of the applications developed in our company). SAP …
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Features
OutSystemsSAP Business Technology Platform
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
OutSystems
8.8
52 Ratings
3% above category average
SAP Business Technology Platform
-
Ratings
Visual Modeling8.049 Ratings00 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces9.050 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Security8.549 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform User Management9.047 Ratings00 Ratings
Reusability9.552 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Scalability9.049 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
OutSystems
-
Ratings
SAP Business Technology Platform
7.4
306 Ratings
10% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.7296 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings8.2292 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings6.9281 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.7256 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings7.5288 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings7.7289 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings7.2280 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings7.0240 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings6.8271 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings6.8240 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.5265 Ratings
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User Ratings
OutSystemsSAP Business Technology Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(129 ratings)
8.3
(310 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(4 ratings)
7.0
(5 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(3 ratings)
8.0
(299 ratings)
Support Rating
7.5
(44 ratings)
6.9
(206 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(2 ratings)
6.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
OutSystemsSAP Business Technology Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
OutSystems
Well suited for internal exposure of business processes (invoicing, API layer to other systems, customer maintenance etc), whether a UI is required or not. Not so well suited for full fledged web design. An OutSystems application must serve one particular business need, if gets too much functionalities and responsibilities it tends to get chaotic and complex.
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SAP
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.
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Pros
OutSystems
  • Developing end user interfaces with ease and speed with a modern look and feel.
  • First class low code development to reduce time to market with visual programming
  • Their technical support team is fast and responsive. We've yet to have any issues they could not resolve.
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SAP
  • 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!
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Cons
OutSystems
  • Price – The licensing model of OutSystems is very expensive and not suitable for small scale developments. This is offset by the time to develop and stability for larger scale developments
  • Flexibility on PaaS version – The PaaS hosted version of OutSystems limits your flexibility to access the front end and backend database systems which can significantly restrict your options on high data volume developments or where anything requiring slightly out of the ordinary access is required
  • Same price for PaaS and self-hosted system. Licensing model dictates that you pay the same price even when you host the system on your own hardware which effectively means you pay more to manage the infrastructure yourself
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SAP
  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
OutSystems
We are very happy with OutSystems and our developers deliver good work. OutSystems lets us build new software on a regulare (2 weekly) basis, which is highly flexible and adjustable. Even without very much experience, our developers manage to build usefull software, which is working a lot better than our previous (legacy) software.
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SAP
As many customers have SAP landscape, the SAP Business Technology Platform is slowly becoming an integral part of the cloud solutions.
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Usability
OutSystems
I am really happy using OutSystems in my work. It gives me the opportunity to create good working software without having had very much IT-experience before. It also made me more interested in the background of IT and learning different languages.
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SAP
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.
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Support Rating
OutSystems
The tech support is very reachable. Usually by [email] from but also by phone if needed. We had some difficulties at the start with understanding "what our machine was doing" under high performance load. After some good sessions understanding our needs they delivered good solutions for our problems we had in the beginning.
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SAP
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.
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In-Person Training
OutSystems
Excellent material full of hands on that improve the understanding of the platform.
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SAP
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Online Training
OutSystems
The online training material is well designed and explanations are step by step, helping trainees to understand and follow each exercise and new concept.
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SAP
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Implementation Rating
OutSystems
In a large company, patiently and consistently work the behind the scenes politics with business and IT partners across the firm.
This is transformational - you will need a solid set of key business partners to lock arms together to move forward.
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SAP
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.
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Alternatives Considered
OutSystems
I tried to use WordPress with some success. Also looked at Joomla. But when I saw OutSystems I knew I had been wasting my time there. It takes you longer to get going with OutSystems - but even I as a novice realized immediately that Outsystems is simply in another league. Outsystems is powerful. (Can you compare WordPress and Joomla to Outsystems - I don't think so).
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SAP
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.
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Return on Investment
OutSystems
  • The ease of use of the OutSystems development process has been the biggest ROI for us. We have developed our Framework product and maintained/enhanced it with only 4 workers.
  • OutSystems has enhanced their product very significantly over the last 4 years. They have gone from a simple to use tool to a very simple to use sophisticated tool that covers the standard mainframe-based computing apps and the apps used on handheld mobile devices all using the same basic set of development tools.
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SAP
  • 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.
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