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SAP Cloud Appliance Library

Score8.9 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

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What is SAP Cloud Appliance Library?

The SAP Cloud Appliance Library supports automated provisioning and rapid deployment of SAP cloud applications to support rapid undertaking of projects with minimal setup and delay.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features SAP Cloud Appliance Library has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Automation and Orchestration

    Provision of automated services for application migration, VM images, and configuration management

    Category average: 8.3

  • Governance and Compliance

    Risk assessment analysis, audits and resource governance capabilities

    Category average: 8.4

  • Systems Integration

    Integration of internal and external systems to support multi-cloud management

    Category average: 8.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Cloud Management Performance Monitoring

    Monitoring of storage, network and application performance metrics to achieve business service levels

    Category average: 8.5

  • Cost Management

    Provision of tools for cloud instance rightsizing and user chargeback and billing

    Category average: 8.1

  • Resource Management

    Ability to manage and deliver cloud resources such as resource discovery and tagging, asset and license management and cloud-to-cloud migration

    Category average: 9

Reviews

What users are saying about SAP Cloud Appliance Library.
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Cloud Appliance Library - A Simulator and Instructor for Digital Transformation

Verified User
Consultant in Legal (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently exploring the CAL system for Sandboxing and Proof of Concept purpose because we are migrating to S/4HANA Public cloud version. It is mainly used for evaluation and testing purposes.

Pros

  • Accelerates S/4HANA readiness without disrupting ECC
  • Supports development and integration testing for apps and custom solutions
  • PoC purpose

Cons

  • As we are still in exploring phase, I don't have anything right now to suggest improvements

Return on Investment

  • It will help for digital transformation - positive impact
  • Cost efficiency
  • Integration testing becomes easy for BTP Fiori apps

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Joule

Other Software Used

SAP Build, Joule, IBM Cloud Foundry

SAP Cloud Appliance Library - simple - pay as you use

Mohanraj VellingiriView profile
Project Manager in Information Technology at IBM (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP CAL is cloud utility for our client to run our proof of concept(POC) as trail system to testing our real time scenario and get to know our challenge's and take a necessary action plan during our discovery phase and it will help plan our next strategy in preparation phase .

Pros

  • Easy installation
  • Click and use and pay as you use
  • SAAS

Cons

  • Features are simple good and perfect,i dont think any changes while im using SAP CAL
  • Maybe color differentiation for usage's per bite or time
  • Over all time display on master dashboard

Return on Investment

  • Cost effecitive solution's
  • real time testing platform with low cost
  • 100 reliable server and data security

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud Functions

Other Software Used

Google Cloud Build

SAP Cloud Appliance Library - For the Win!

Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Cost comparisons between the hyperscalers.
  • Easy instructions to follow.
  • Spin up on-premise solutions in less than 2 hours.

Cons

  • None at this time, it has worked well for us.

Return on Investment

  • Easy, quick way to access SAP systems.
  • Evaluations.
  • System trials.