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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Compute Engine

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Compute Engine is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product from Google Cloud. It provides virtual machines with carbon-neutral infrastructure which run on the same data centers that Google itself uses.

    $0

    per month GB

    SAP Business Technology Platform

    Score8.4 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
    Pricing
    Google Compute EngineSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Preemptible Price - Predefined Memory
    0.000892 / GB
    Hour
    Three-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
    $0.001907 / GB
    Hour
    One-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
    $0.002669 / GB
    Hour
    On-demand price - Predefined Memory
    $0.004237 / GB
    Hour
    Preemptible Price - Predefined vCPUs
    0.006655 / vCPU
    Hour
    Three-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.014225 / CPU
    Hour
    One-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.019915 / vCPU
    Hour
    On-demand price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.031611 / vCPU
    Hour
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Compute EngineSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices vary according to region (i.e US central, east, & west time zones). Google Compute Engine also offers a discounted rate for a 1 & 3 year commitment.—
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    Community Pulse
    Google Compute EngineSAP Business Technology Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    39 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    549 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    388 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    38 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    545 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    284 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    412 Answers
    Features
    Google Compute EngineSAP Business Technology Platform
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Google Compute Engine and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Google Compute Engine
    7.3
    58 Ratings
    10% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.353 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates7.555 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools3.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images7.357 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support7.958 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls7.957 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Google Compute Engine and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Google Compute Engine
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.4
    480 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.8459 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings7.8459 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.1439 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.2393 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.4443 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings7.8432 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.7429 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings7.3372 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings6.8419 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.9365 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.3402 Ratings
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    Score6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9.5 out of 10
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    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Compute EngineSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (58 ratings)
    8.3
    (488 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    7.7
    (477 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (21 ratings)
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    8.3
    (21 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    7.5
    (312 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Compute EngineSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    You can use Google Cloud Compute Engine as an option to configure your Gitlab, GitHub, and Azure DevOps self-hosted runners. This allows full control and management of your runners rather than using the default runners, which you cannot manage. Additionally, they can be used as a workspace, which you can provide to the employees, where they can test their workloads or use them as a local host and then deploy to the actual production-grade instance.
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    SAP
    SAP Business Technology Platform offers to run the cloud application without worries about availability and accessibility. This is helping us to enable the services that are really suited for us. For example, We have Cloud Identity Services that offer the capability to manage identity directory and also Identity provisioning functionality. Both functionalities helped us to manage the SSO and also enabled the auto-provisioning.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Scaling - whether it's traffic spikes or just steady growth, Google Compute Engine's auto-scaling makes sure we've got the compute power we need without any manual juggling acts
    • Load balancing - Keeping things smooth with that load balancing across multiple VMs, so our users don't have to deal with slow load times or downtime even when things get crazy busy
    • Customizability - Mix and match configs for CPU, RAM, storage and whatnot to suit our specific app needs
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    SAP
    • Services are operated by SAP with outstanding support, always giving a helping hand even if it is custom code or solution provided on the platform
    • Services are easily connectable via standard approach to our backend SAP systems in SAP Rise/HEC
    • Secure access using identities from our existing identity management helping us to safeguard data security from within SAP systems up to custom frontend applications
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    Cons
    Google
    • Built-in monitoring via Stackdriver is quite expensive for what it provides.
    • Initially provided quotas (ie. max compute units one can use) are very low and it took several requests to get an appropriate amount.
    • Support on GCE is limited to their knowledge base and forums. For more hands-on support provided by Google, you must pay for their Premium services.
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    SAP
    • Have specialized connectors for specific industry use case application
    • Have seamless integration with data platform to create data application on the fly this includes both SAP and non-SAP products
    • Create offline SDK and code editing studios to ease the development issues when working remotely
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    Its pretty good, easy and good performance. Also, interface is very good for starters compared to competitors. Infra as Code (IaC) using Terraform even added easiness for creation, management and deletion of compute Virtual Machines (VM). Overall, very good and very easy cloud based compute platform which simplified infrastructure, very much recommend.
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    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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    Usability
    Google
    Having interacted with several cloud services, GCE stands out to me as more usable than most. The naming and locating of features is a little more intuitive than most I've interacted with, and hinting is also quite helpful. Getting staff up to speed has proven to be overall less painful than others.
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    SAP
    Overall, I feel it is build toward as an SAP centric platform. Which is very proper direction for SAP as it is their competitive advantage. However, as a customer, I like to see the cost of the services to come down with the advance of underlay hardware capabilities. Licensing model can be streamlined for easier budgeting and consumption.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    Google Compute Engine works well for cloud project with lesser geographical audience. It sometimes gives error while everything is set up perfectly. We also keep on check any updates available because that's one reason of site getting down. Google Compute Engine is ultimately a top solution to build an app and publish it online within a few minutes
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Google
    It works great all the time except for occasional issues, but overall, I am very happy with the performance. It delivers on the promise it makes and as per the SLAs provided. Networking is great with a premium network, and AZs are also widespread across geographies. Overall, it is a great infra item to have, which you can scale as you want.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Google
    • The documentation needs to be better for intermediate users - There are first steps that one can easily follow, but after that, the documentation is often spotty or not in a form where one can follow the steps and accomplish the task. Also, the documentation and the product often go out of sync, where the commands from the documentation do not work with the current version of the product.
    • Google support was great and their presence on site was very helpful in dealing with various issues.
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    SAP
    I give it 9/10 because its customer support team is responsive and knowledgeable, providing clear guidance on complex issues. We contacted them several times; I want to give one example. When we had a problem with third-party integration, we reached out to them about the issue, and they provided a tailored solution for this.
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    Online Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Compute Engine provides a one stop solution for all the complex features and the UI is better than Amazon's EC2 and Azure Machine Learning for ease of usability. It's always good to have an eco-system of products from Google as it's one of the most used search engine and IoT services provider, which helps with ease of integration and updates in the future.
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    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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    Scalability
    Google
    It works really well with other Google Cloud services, making it easy to build scalable solutions across different teams and locations.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Google
    • With Google Compute we don't have the overhead of managing our own data centers reducing costs and reducing the staff needed to manage systems.
    • As I said earlier, Google's costs are ~1/2 of AWS, so we are able to see a ROI much faster.
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    SAP
    • Infusing Generative AI capabilities easily into our solutions with existing talent with minimal learning curve, has been very impactful. We have been able resolve several challenges for our clients with AI capabilities, that we could not, previously.
    • Integration Suite is quite extensive in capabilities for bringing together the IT landscape into a single ecosystem.
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    ScreenShots

    Google Compute Engine Screenshots

    Screenshot of How to choose the right VM
With thousands of applications, each with different requirements, which VM is right for you?Screenshot of documentation, guides, and reference architectures
Migration Center is Google Cloud's unified migration platform with features like cloud spend estimation, asset discovery, and a variety of tooling for different migration scenarios.

    SAP Business Technology Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service