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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SPS Commerce

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASPS Commerce is a retail network, connecting trading partners around the globe to optimize supply chain operations for retail partners. SPS Commerce supports data-driven partnerships with cloud technology. Their retail cloud services platform features supplier onboarding, EDI compliance, ERP integration, product content management, and sales analytics.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSPS Commerce
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSPS Commerce
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSPS Commerce
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    SPS Commerce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    808 Answers
    36%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    40%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    45%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    30%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    3 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
    33%
    Implementation went as expected
    3 Answers
    Features
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSPS Commerce
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of SAP Business Technology Platform and SPS Commerce
    Feature
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    818 Ratings
    2% below category average
    SPS Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces8.0782 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability8.1780 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead7.4739 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability7.7655 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control7.6748 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration8.0735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation7.9723 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication7.7631 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification7.0714 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery6.7633 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes7.4677 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSPS Commerce
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Apache Camel
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSPS Commerce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (771 ratings)
    1.0
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (751 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (503 ratings)
    6.2
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    3.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    2.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSPS Commerce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    SPS Commerce
    When you find yourself growing and finding success faster than you can keep up with, SPS Commerce will save your life and your reputation. The services they offer are easy to understand, they are available with suggestions and ideas for better ways, personalization is available to best suit your needs or the needs of your customers so that you can really shine and relieve the worries that come with growing pains. SPS also helps to keep information accurate with less human touching to cause errors.
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    Pros
    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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    SPS Commerce
    • We can easily create and send order confirmations.
    • We respond to the corresponding receiving departments with timely and accurate ASN's.
    • Once the order has shipped, customer service utilizes the invoicing function.
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    Cons
    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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    SPS Commerce
    • We have quite a few people here who use this portal, and we have it set up to receive an email when an order is available to print. As of now, you can only add a few recipients to receive those emails; it limits you.
    • Invoicing is challenging at times as you have to remember to go in and invoice. If you forgot, it is hard to find the order to invoice, as it seems to disappear.
    • We still haven't figured out how to have some of the invoicing features auto-populate, so there isn't so much to fill out. I wish some of those features were easier to use, or find if you have them.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    SPS Commerce
    If I can drop it, I will this year. We gave it a decent try for over 4 years and it has gotten worse with each added connection.
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    Usability
    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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    SPS Commerce
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    SPS Commerce
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    Support Rating
    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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    SPS Commerce
    Phone support is generally very good and you can get a person on the phone within a few minutes. Their emailed customer support however is very poor and often goes several days or longer before receiving a response, if ever at all
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    Online Training
    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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    SPS Commerce
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    SPS Commerce
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    SPS Commerce
    In my opinion, SPS Commerce is the bottom out of all three provided here. I think, essentially, if you are looking to be hands off and only oboard on setup and don't plan on growing your business and want to not understand anything about EDI and how it affects your company, SPS Commerce is a fine choice. Just if you want to do anything beyond that, I believe you are going to have the worst time.
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    Scalability
    SAP
    It's scalable
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    SPS Commerce
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    Return on Investment
    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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    SPS Commerce
    • I enrolled in a product I ended up not using because the vendor that required it ended our working relationship and SPS refused to offer a refund. After I canceled it, they continued to charge our account for three more months of service.
    • The interface is simple and easy to understand and use, so it saved time when preparing shipments.
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    ScreenShots

    SAP Business Technology Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service

    SPS Commerce Screenshots

    Screenshot of SPS Commerce Fulfillment provides real-time visibility to order and shipment statuses.