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View from SAP Business Technology Platform developer
November 22, 2022

View from SAP Business Technology Platform developer

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SAP Business Technology Platform

We are SAP partner consulting companies. We provide solutions for customers in various SAP projects. I am currently working as a Senior specialist consultant for solutions in SAP Business Technology Platform development and implementation.
  • One stop extension for SAP products extension
  • Integrating Data from different SAP products
  • Provides wholistic view of business processes across the product
  • Adopting open source standards for development
  • Licensing of different services
  • Integration between 3rd party systems
  • Faster adoration of development from open source platforms
  • For clients with a bigger ERP system, realizations of TCO are usually observed after 3-4 years on average.
  • For clients having smaller ERP foot print we are yet to see positive TCO
  • As not many resources are available, finding the right talent is often challenging
  • Not many existing consultants have a wholistic picture of how SAP Business Technology Platform architecture and security works
As strictly speaking, from a technical perspective, with the SAP ecosystem the SAP Business Technology Platform has unparalleled capabilities but where in many cases customers already have many Cloud-native solutions built on other platforms, so they are not willing to invest heavily in the new platform.
SAP Business Technology Platform has integrated many open-source technologies over time however the rate of adoption is slow compared to open-source products due to the nature of the products. Also needing more upskilling of the existing consultants adds additional burden and difficulties in AMS services.
Azure Active Directory is one of the most commonly used dips across various solutions, as a IDP hence when using SAP Business Technology Platform IDP needs more effort.

Do you think SAP Business Technology Platform delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with SAP Business Technology Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Business Technology Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of SAP Business Technology Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP Business Technology Platform again?

Yes

When there are multiple 3rd part systems involved, often the integration performance or ease of integration is not up to other integration tools. Compared to other tools, SAP Business Technology Platform's initial cost is very high, which often proves challenging to convince customers.

SAP Business Technology Platform Feature Ratings

Platform-as-a-Service
7.2
Ease of building user interfaces
8
Scalability
7
Platform management overhead
9
Workflow engine capability
7
Platform access control
8
Services-enabled integration
6
Development environment creation
8
Development environment replication
Not Rated
Issue monitoring and notification
5
Issue recovery
6
Upgrades and platform fixes
8

Using SAP Business Technology Platform

Solution architects and developers
100 - 1. SAP Business Technology Platform admin and security experts
2. SAP Business Technology Platform development
3. RPA developers
  • Side by side extensions
  • Integration of systems
  • Process automation
  • Creation templates for applications that businesses process are not supported by SAP products
  • As a one stop place for all the cloud native developments
As many customers have SAP landscape, the SAP Business Technology Platform is slowly becoming an integral part of the cloud solutions.

Evaluating SAP Business Technology Platform and Competitors

Not many solutions are designed in a cloud-first approach, hence to change the design phase to design more robust and cloud-ready solutions.

SAP Business Technology Platform Implementation

1. Sometimes the licensing doesn’t make sense, e.g., Difficult to understand the license for ABAP cloud runtime.
2. When SAP Business Technology Platform workflow cost is very high but process automation which offers more features has less cost.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes - 1. Integration of development within SAP products.
2. Developing/integrating applications between sap and 3rd party systems.
3. Development applications needed by 3rd party systems.
Change management was a major issue with the implementation - Often cases where SAP Business Technology Platform Transport management was unable to handle hybrid scenarios, where to use it with others tools to achieve the desired functionality, which in turn raises the cost and resources needed.
  • SAP Business Technology Platform transport management capabilities are still lacking to be used as a single tool for transport within the SAP products.
  • Many customers use are using 3rd party systems in many cases, direct API is proving to be difficult especially in on premise and cloud hybrid scenarios.
  • Sometimes even the best use cases for SAP Business Technology Platform services are not selected due to high initial cost and lack of resources.

SAP Business Technology Platform Support

ProsCons
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
Support cares about my success
None
Due to cost, we did not opt for that.
Yes - Resolution time can be improved.
During go live, the response was much faster and more helpful.

Using SAP Business Technology Platform

ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Convenient
Requires technical support
Lots to learn
  • Integrating various SAP systems
  • Automation of the SAP businesses process
  • Enabling open source development option
  • Understanding the wholistic integration of various systems and handling authentication and authorization
  • Lack of SAP Business Technology Platform knowledge and resources among customers
  • Integration various 3rd party systems
Yes, but I don't use it