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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

    VMware Workstation Pro

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AVMware Workstation Pro is virtualization software which allows running multiple x86-based operating systems on one PC. Users can run Windows, Linux and BSD virtual machines on a Windows or Linux desktop.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP Business Technology PlatformVMware Workstation Pro
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Business Technology PlatformVMware Workstation Pro
    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 PlatformVMware Workstation Pro
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    808 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    SAP Business Technology PlatformVMware Workstation Pro
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of SAP Business Technology Platform and VMware Workstation Pro
    Feature
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    818 Ratings
    2% below category average
    VMware Workstation Pro
    -
    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
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of SAP Business Technology Platform and VMware Workstation Pro
    Feature
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    VMware Workstation Pro
    7.7
    29 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings9.222 Ratings
    Management console00 Ratings6.524 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings7.322 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings9.521 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP Business Technology PlatformVMware Workstation Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (771 ratings)
    7.7
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (751 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (503 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 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 PlatformVMware Workstation Pro
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    I would not recommend using a VM as a complete replacement for your everyday driver, but I would recommend
    it for testing. One way that I use Workstation Pro is with testing GPO's. I can
    make a change to a user or computer GPO, take a snapshot, reboot the computer
    to pull the GPO, see if it worked. If it didn't, I revert to the last snapshot before the GPO was pulled, make some changes to the GPO again, and test on the test VM. The same style
    of testing can be used with creating and changing scripts for computer changes.
    We have a whole computer setup script that installs software and changes a ton
    of settings. On a VM you can test over and over to make sure the script runs
    how you want it to and revert if you didn't like the script outcome. Especially
    handy with software installs, so you don't have to wait for a program to
    uninstall and then edit the script and run the script again. Using snapshots save me so much time in testing!
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
    • It provides a great remote access tool for accessing and managing servers in virtual environment. With the security risks surround remote desktop this provides a good alternative to do the same functions.
    • The app itself is very lightweight and easy to install/maintain.
    • Sandbox testing can be a time consuming thing to setup and do. Workstation makes this easy to create, use, and put away. This make you more willing to put new things in the sandbox and test them before production usage.
    • The cost of workstation is very affordable for the functionality that you get and you can try it for free before you buy it.
    • We use it to run apps that can be difficult to setup or conflict with other apps. We just spin this app VM up run it, and then shut it back down. The startup and shutdown is very quick.
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
    • At the moment, it's incompatible with Microsoft's HyperVM, which is used in Docker and the Linux Subsystem on Windows 2 (WSL 2).
    • VMware shared files sometimes stop working and need to be reset.
    • 3D support is limited to Windows and only certain scenarios.
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
    It's a solid product, and if they make it compatible with HyperVM (WSL, Docker, etc.) it would be great
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
    It is well documented since it is a long actor in the virtualization scene. Easy to use for most user cases. Pretty much not maintenance on the software besides the occasional software updates and/or compatibility issues from time to time.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    VMware by Broadcom
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
    I haven't had to call VMware Workstation support. The majority of the time, whenever I have a problem, I can perform an online search and find the answers I need. Online forums and users with similar situations are generally sufficient to answer any questions I have had, though, from previous experience at another company, their support is outstanding and responsive to circumstances. However, that is generally for a paid support contract and should be expected when you are paying for that support.
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMware ESXi is more enterprise based whereas VMware Workstation offers capabilities at a lower cost and smaller scale. VMware Workstation Pro is also user friendly and easy to install. It can be utilized on a regular desktop system as the name implies. It helps with also demonstrations when needed to clients without having bulky hardware every time.
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    Scalability
    SAP
    It's scalable
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    VMware by Broadcom
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
    • When updating multiple VM's, this is a much quicker option vs trying to either RDP to them or console using Vcenter
    • We are required to run a VM locally for certain tasks, and this has been the most effective way to use it
    • The ability to manage a VM without having to worry about the console freezing up helps with management
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service