SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) vs. Trisotech Digital Enterprise Suite

The adoption of SAP Extension Suite is growing significantly and it has become a strategic platform for our company. SAP Extension Suite will most likely meet the requirements of most companies to get beyond small workgroup apps and tackle more strategic requirements. The most important thing that SAP Extension delivers is a single UI for development effort for web and mobile deployment.

Incentivized

In my experience, Trisotech Digital Enterprise Suite works well as a tool used by business analyts, process experts, and technology based teams who manage knowledge centrally. In my opinion, it does not work great as a fully fledged knowledge management system with wiki articles, decentralised knowledge management, and governance. Using Trisotech Digital Enterprise Suite with SharePoint, Confluence, or a similar tool would work better, however there are downsides to this approach.

Incentivized

• Reduces the length and cost of system development and integration
• Empowers developers to acquire a new skill to deliver applications and other services efficiently
• Enabled the innovation team to transform the way services are accessed and delivered
• Ensures scalability of apps used simultaneously by thousands of customers

Incentivized

• Business logic modelling
• Business process flows
• Business rules

Incentivized

• It was a bit of a hassle to configure at first but once setup it's easy and fast.
• At a certain time they removed key items used in pipelines to force upgrades.
• The new UI though works well feels less intuitive than the previous one.

Incentivized

• Ease of use
• Modern interface design
• Licensing and distrubution

Incentivized

Despite Trisotech Digital Enterprise Suite's great set of features, it's fit will depend on the structure of your business, how you operate, and more importantly - how you want to operate. For us it doesn't provide a complete solution, as we desire to decentralise knowledge management approach with a modern, easy to use system.

Incentivized

We have been able to work in a much more agile way with SAP Extension Suite, and there is a lot of excitement that developing with this platform is significantly faster. SAP Extension Suite is the perfect fit to build great-looking applications that work on any form factor, be it [a] smartphone, laptop, or tablet, and within budget.

Incentivized

Trisotech Digital Enterprise Suite thrives as a process modelling tool, however, in my opinion, it does not compete with SharePoint, which remains a key platform in knowledge management due to it's modern design, ease of use, and ability to customise and manage permissions and sharing easily. I think Process Manager from Nintext also provides better tools for managing knowledge.

Incentivized

• Faster development cycle due to native integration with SAP products
• Negative short-term ROI due to the lack of training material and significant differences with the previous version of the same tool (SAP Web IDE)
• Tighter integration with corporate programming guidelines since SAP Extension Suite offers great integration with DevOps pipeline solutions

Incentivized

• Standardising processes
• Centralising business logic
• Modelling processess

Incentivized