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    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

    Xamarin

    Score6 out of 10
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    SAP Business Technology PlatformXamarin
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    Xamarin
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Business Technology PlatformXamarin
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SAP Business Technology PlatformXamarin
    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
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
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    Features
    SAP Business Technology PlatformXamarin
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of SAP Business Technology Platform and Xamarin
    Feature
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    819 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Xamarin
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces8.0783 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability8.1781 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead7.4740 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability7.7656 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control7.6749 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration8.0736 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation8.0724 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication7.7632 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification7.0715 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery6.8634 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes7.4678 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP Business Technology PlatformXamarin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (772 ratings)
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (752 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (504 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 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
    (1 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)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Professional Services
    3.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    2.4
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    SAP Business Technology PlatformXamarin
    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
    If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and effort from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, Windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done.
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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
    • Xamarin allows you to write cross platform code. This allows companies to build apps more quickly by writing less code. Having code abstracted and reused across multiple platforms allows for more testing and less issues overall.
    • The ability to use Visual Studio is a huge plus. Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's available and being able to write cross platforms apps while in a great IDE makes everything less painful.
    • Xamarin is now free with a large company backing. This means that bugs on the platform get fixed more quickly and there is a large community of developers.
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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
    • Forms - not 100% there. Still needs work but is production ready.
    • iOS - sometimes errors can be hard to understand, if they even show up.
    • Insights - Xamarin offers their own crash analytics software. However, it's not perfect and sometimes doesn't pick up crashes.
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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
    Xamarin has been great for developing different projects efficiently and effectively. It's nice to reuse the core business logic across different platforms so that there are less to maintain and little replications are needed. The biggest benefit is that C# programmers do not have to learn a different language to do mobile development.
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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
    If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and efforts from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    Microsoft
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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
    I never had to contact support for any help. Most of the problems we ran into, we were able to identify and use peer support through blogs and other internet sources to resolve the problems. There are plenty of sources online which provide tutorials, discuss problems, etc. Example: StackOverflow
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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
    Just with any programming tasks, have a plan first. Design out the system, spend time to build it correctly the first time and have plenty of testing and user acceptance opportunities. Xamarin was easy to implement for a C# programmer. However, you need to do tutorials to realize the platform's capabilities.
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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
    Xamarin runs natively on MacOS, and the debugger and other integration and auto-complete tools are far better than Eclipse for C# .NET. It also carries much of the plugin/add-on capabilities that are so desirable on Atom. Eclipse is a better for generalized software development, provided a developer is comfortable switching between the IDE the command line for certain parts of their workflow, like building, package management, or debugging. But for C# .NET development on MacOS specifically, Xamarin is the best product I've used for the job.
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    Scalability
    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Microsoft
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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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    Microsoft
    • Saves development time and deliver fast.
    • Allows inhouse developers build both Android and iOS application without switching languages.
    • Allows use coding in C# in Visual studio IDE from which we can code in different languages. We don't need multiple IDEs installed
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