SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) vs. WaveMaker

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

WaveMaker is a great platform for enterprise and SME's because it can save a lot on resources and time. The price is very low compared to the other competitors of WaveMaker and the best thing about WaveMaker is its no lock-in policy, you can always download the code and work on other IDEs. Overall an amazing platform.

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

• WaveMaker has helped us create internal applications in very short amount of time at a very low cost.
• The interface is really clean and it is easy to understand, you need not be an expert coder to work on WaveMaker.
• You can download your developed application and deploy it on any server you wish. There is no lock in whatsoever.
• The support team is super supportive and they are genuinely interested in solving your problems.
• WaveMaker helps you develop web and hybrid applications simultaneously, so you will be saving a lot of time and effort.
• WaveMaker is constantly upgrading and the team makes sure that they inform the users about the upgrades.

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

• I believe that for this case, is important the technical support, which solves you or give workarounds that work for your issues. It answers in 24 hours, in labour days.

Incentivized

There were instances where we had specific requests and the support team was really helpful because they were really concerned about getting me a solution.

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

WaveMaker is much cheaper and performs better.

• 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

• WaveMaker has helped us reduce the number of developers working on the application development.
• It has helped us save a lot of time.

Incentivized