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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Web Services

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools.

    $100

    per month

    SAP Business Technology Platform

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASAP 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
    Amazon Web ServicesSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Free Tier
    $0
    per month
    Basic Environment
    $100 - $200
    per month
    Intermediate Environment
    $250 - $600
    per month
    Advanced Environment
    $600-$2500
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Web ServicesSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAWS allows a “save when you commit” option that offers lower prices when you sign up for a 1- or 3- year term that includes an AWS service or category of services.—
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Web ServicesSAP Business Technology Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    We selected SAP BTP mainly because our company is already heavily invested in SAP ERP.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Initially, SAP Business Technology Platform works hand in hand with S/4 HANA and the SAP product suite, but also can go and extra mile and integrate with other non-SAP products and services at hand. It's capable enough to understand the ERP use cases component and develop …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    We preferred to use SAP BTP over AWS here. In terms of cost, scalability, reliability it was an easy decision for our organization
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    As such SAP Business Technology Platform (Hana cloud) is great but Snowflake does a good job on scalability and cost side. SAP should think about more innovative ways of calculating cost.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    SAP BTP brings a "business" context to everything. As a result, it is well suited for a business audience. But they often lack technological know-how and so adoption becomes difficult.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Good integration into the SAP ecosystems and lesser complexity compared to the native hyperscaler platforms such as AWS or Azure.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    I felt API gateway is superior when it comes to DevOps integration and the number of connectors and customization, while SAP ChatBot really is a cool product and can easily triumph over AWS Chatbot or azure ChatBot. Even Sap Analytics cloud can be a real competitor for power …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    48 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    808 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    50 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    416 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
    Features
    Amazon Web ServicesSAP Business Technology Platform
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Web Services and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Amazon Web Services
    8.6
    79 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.273 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.074 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.470 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates7.567 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.874 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.367 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.173 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls8.875 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation8.126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Amazon Web Services and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Amazon Web Services
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    819 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.1783 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.1781 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.5740 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.8656 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.7749 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.0736 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings8.0724 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings7.7632 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.0715 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.8634 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.4678 Ratings
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    Amazon Web ServicesSAP Business Technology Platform
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry (discontinued)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Web ServicesSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (91 ratings)
    8.5
    (772 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.4
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (22 ratings)
    7.9
    (752 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.9
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (24 ratings)
    7.3
    (504 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.7
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Web ServicesSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    This is something that is actually common across most cloud providers. A comprehensive understanding of one's use cases, constraints and future directions is key to determining if you even need a cloud solution. If you are a 2-person startup developing something with a best-scenario audience of 1k DAU in a year, you would very likely best served by a dirt-cheap dedicated Linux server somewhere (and your options to graduate to a cloud solution will still be open). If, however, you are a bigger fish, and/or you are actively considering build-vs-buy decisions for complicated, highly-loaded, six-figure requests per minute systems, global loadbalancing, extreme growth projections - then MAYBE you solve all or part of it with a cloud provider. And depending on your taste for risk, reliability, flexibility, track record - it might be AWS.
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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
    Amazon AWS
    • During the month-end, we experience high resource utilization; however, with AWS's scalability, we can effectively tackle the peak load.
    • With AWS IAM, we don't need to set up complete infrastructure for identity and access management, as AWS provides end-to-end IAM services.
    • With AWS, development has become very easy as it's very quick to spin up and destroy the environment, which saves costs.
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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
    Amazon AWS
    • When there is any misconfiguration of EC2 related to SSM Connect. It doesn't clearly states that what particular configuration is missing.
    • Debugging networking related issues could be improved.
    • From the security group page, it's difficult to determine which resource a security group is associated with.
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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
    Amazon AWS
    We are almost entirely satisfied with the service. In order to move off it, we'd have to build for ourselves many of the services that AWS provides and the cost would be prohibitive. Although there are cost savings and security benefits to returning to the colo facility, we could never afford to do it, and we'd hate to give up the innovation and constant cycle of new features that AWS gives us.
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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
    Amazon AWS
    AWS offers a wide range of powerful services that cater to various business needs which is significant strength. The ability to scale resources on-demand is a major advantage making it suitable for businesses of all sizes. The sheer volume of options and configurations can be overwhelming for new users leading to a steep learning curve. While functional the AWS management console can feel cluttered and less intuitive compared to some competitors which can hinder navigation. Although some documentation lacks clarity and practical examples which can frustrate users trying to implement specific solutions.
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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
    Amazon AWS
    Availability is very good, with the exception of occasional spectacular outages.
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    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    AWS does not provide the raw performance that you can get by building your own custom infrastructure. However, it is often the case that the benefits of specialized, high-performance hardware do not necessarily outweigh the significant extra cost and risk. Performance as perceived by the user is very different from raw throughput.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    The customer support of Amazon Web Services are quick in their responses. I appreciate its entire team, which works amazingly, and provides professional support. AWS is a great tool, indeed, to provide customers a suitable way to
    immediately search for their compatible software's and also to guide them in a
    good direction. Moreover, this product is a good suggestion for every type of
    company because of its affordability and ease of use.
    Incentivized
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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
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Amazon AWS
    The API's were very well documented and was Janova's main point of entry into the services.
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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
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon Web Services fits best for all levels of organisations like startup, mid level or enterprise. The services are easy to use and doesn't require a high level of understanding as you can learn via blogs or youtube videos. AWS is Reasonable in cost as the plan is pay as you use.
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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
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Using Amazon Web Services has allowed us to develop and deploy new SAAS solutions quicker than we did when we used traditional web hosting. This has allowed us to grow our service offerings to clients and also add more value to our existing services.
    • Having AWS deployed has also allowed our development team to focus on delivering high-quality software without worrying about whether our servers will be able to handle the demand. Since AWS allows you to adjust your server needs based on demand, we can easily assign a faster server instance to ease and improve service without the client even knowing what we did.
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    SAP
    • As we are on public cloud, we haven't had many break issues due to being standardized.
    • Project management and expectations working with developers has been overwhelmingly positive and improved.
    • Improved connectivity with us migrating to other SAP products and easier/more mainstream integration methods.
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    Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service