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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

    SSIS

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration solution.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSSIS
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSSIS
    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 PlatformSSIS
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    808 Answers
    84%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSSIS
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of SAP Business Technology Platform and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    818 Ratings
    2% below category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces8.0782 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability8.0780 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
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of SAP Business Technology Platform and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.0
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings9.056 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings5.043 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of SAP Business Technology Platform and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings8.956 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings4.755 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of SAP Business Technology Platform and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings6.035 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings7.145 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings9.140 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings6.451 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of SAP Business Technology Platform and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    5.4
    43 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings6.238 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings4.638 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP Business Technology PlatformSSIS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (771 ratings)
    8.0
    (56 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (751 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (503 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 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 PlatformSSIS
    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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    Microsoft
    As I mentioned earlier SQL Server Integration Services is suitable if you want to manage data from different applications. It really helps in fetching the data and generating reports. Its automation make it very easy and time efficient. It works well with large database as well. But it doesn't work well with real time data, it will take some time to gather the real time data. I would not recommend using it in a real time/fast-paced environment.
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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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    Microsoft
    • Standard ETL use cases for daily loads
    • Loading incoming data from Vendors which is placed on FTP and adding them to the SQL Warehouse
    • Creating outgoing data files and writing them to Vendor FTPs
    • Easy Active Directory integration for seamless connections to SQL Server
    • CI/CD by hosting the code on visualstudio.com
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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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    Microsoft
    • Connection managers for online data sources can be tricky to configure.
    • Performance tuning is an art form and trialing different data flow task options can be cumbersome. SSIS can do a better job of providing performance data including historical for monitoring.
    • Mapping destination using OLE DB command is difficult as destination columns are unnamed.
    • Excel or flat file connections are limited by version and type.
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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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    Microsoft
    Some features should be revised or improved, some tools (using it with Visual Studio) of the toolbox should be less schematic and somewhat more flexible. Using for example, the CSV data import is still very old-fashioned and if the data format changes it requires a bit of manual labor to accept the new data structure
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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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    Microsoft
    SSIS is a great tool for most ETL needs. It has the 90% (or more) use cases covered and even in many of the use cases where it is not ideal SSIS can be extended via a .NET language to do the job well in a supportable way for almost any performance workload.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    SQL Server Integration Services performance is dependent directly upon the resources provided to the system. In our environment, we allocated 6 nodes of 4 CPUs, 64GB each, running in parallel. Unfortunately, we had to ramp-up to such a robust environment to get the performance to where we needed it. Most of the reports are completed in a reasonable timeframe. However, in the case of slow running reports, it is often difficult if not impossible to cancel the report without killing the report instance or stopping the service.
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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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    Microsoft
    The support, when necessary, is excellent. But beyond that, it is very rarely necessary because the user community is so large, vibrant and knowledgable, a simple Google query or forum question can answer almost everything you want to know. You can also get prewritten script tasks with a variety of functionality that saves a lot of time.
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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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Microsoft
    The implementation may be different in each case, it is important to properly analyze all the existing infrastructure to understand the kind of work needed, the type of software used and the compatibility between these, the features that you want to exploit, to understand what is possible and which ones require integration with third-party tools
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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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    Microsoft
    I think SQL Server Integration Services is better suited for on-premises data movement and ADF is more suited for the cloud. Though ADF has more connectors, SQL Server Integration Services is more robust and has better functionality just because it has been around much longer
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    Scalability
    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Microsoft
    • Without this, we would have to manually update a spreadsheet of our SQL Server inventory
    • We would also have poor alerting; if an instance was down we wouldn't know until it was reported by a user
    • We only have one other person who uses SQL Server Integration Services , he's the expert. It would fall to me without him and I would not enjoy being responsible for it.
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