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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Azure

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

    $29

    per month

    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
    Microsoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Developer
    $29
    per month
    Standard
    $100
    per month
    Professional Direct
    $1000
    per month
    Basic
    Free
    per month
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThe free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    I have used but not evaluated some other products that are similar to SAP Business Technology Platform, like Microsoft Azure. The principle is the same: cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services. It offers …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Initially, SAP Business Technology Platform works hand in hand with S/4 HANA and the SAP product suite, but also can go and extra mile and integrate with other non-SAP products and services at hand. It's capable enough to understand the ERP use cases component and develop …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    I selected SAP Business Technology Platform because it seamlessly integrates ERP and business applications, providing a clear and unified environment for data management and analytics.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    SAP Business Technology Platform provides the services in a kind of ready-to-use. There is no requirement to first configure a whole environment. It makes it easy to just use the services and create new solutions on top of that.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    the integration capabilities for SAP solutions are a big plus for BTP
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Way ahead in the game.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Similarly, also used MS Azure. If you compare, both have pros and cons. I think it really depends on the scenario to choose the right platform.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Ability to develop and customise to handle complex business processes. It's cost effective despite being a bit more and time taking to implement, as it enhances labor savings. Not just in customer service, it has similar benefits in finance, warehousing, delivery and web …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    SAP Business Technology Platform is much closer to SAP and provides ready made connectors etc., so the effort to implement was much lower.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    SAP Business Technology Platform is easily connectable using standard solutions to the onpremise backend SAP systems. Services can be linked with each other and with SAP systems in a managed and secure way, while with the other products getting the data, access and networking …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    33 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    549 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    388 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    545 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    284 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    34 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    412 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Microsoft Azure and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    8.5
    19 Ratings
    6% above category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.418 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Microsoft Azure and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    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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    Small Businesses
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9.5 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (88 ratings)
    8.3
    (488 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    7.6
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (28 ratings)
    7.7
    (477 ratings)
    Availability
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (28 ratings)
    7.5
    (312 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (2 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
    Microsoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure is particularly well suited for enterprise environments with existing Microsoft investments, those that require robust compliance features, and organizations that need hybrid cloud capabilities that bridge on-premises and cloud infrastructure. In my opinion, Azure is less appropriate for cost-sensitive startups or small businesses without dedicated cloud expertise and scenarios requiring edge computing use cases with limited connectivity. Azure offers comprehensive solutions for most business needs but can feel like there is a higher learning curve than other cloud-based providers, depending on the product and use case.
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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
    Microsoft
    • Microsoft Azure is highly scalable and flexible. You can quickly scale up or down additional resources and computing power.
    • You have no longer upfront investments for hardware. You only pay for the use of your computing power, storage space, or services.
    • The uptime that can be achieved and guaranteed is very important for our company. This includes the rapid maintenance for security updates that are mostly carried out by Microsoft.
    • The wide range of capabilities of services that are possible in Microsoft Azure. You can practically put or create anything in Microsoft Azure.
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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
    Microsoft
    • The cost of resources is difficult to determine, technical documentation is frequently out of date, and documentation and mapping capabilities are lacking.
    • The documentation needs to be improved, and some advanced configuration options require research and experimentation.
    • Microsoft's licensing scheme is too complex for the average user, and Azure SQL syntax is too different from traditional SQL.
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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
    Microsoft
    Moving to Azure was and still is an organizational strategy and not simply changing vendors. Our product roadmap revolved around Azure as we are in the business of humanitarian relief and Azure and Microsoft play an important part in quickly and efficiently serving all of the world. Migration and investment in Azure should be considered as an overall strategy of an organization and communicated companywide.
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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
    Microsoft
    As Microsoft Azure is [doing a] really good with PaaS. The need of a market is to have [a] combo of PaaS and IaaS. While AWS is making [an] exceptionally well blend of both of them, Azure needs to work more on DevOps and Automation stuff. Apart from that, I would recommend Azure as a great platform for cloud services as scale.
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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
    Microsoft
    It has proven to be unreliable in our production environment and services become unavailable without proper notification to system administrators
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    We were running Windows Server and Active Directory, so [Microsoft] Azure was a seamless transition. We ran into a few, if any support issues, however, the availability of Microsoft Azure's support team was more than willing and able to guide us through the process. They even proposed solutions to issues we had not even thought of!
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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
    Microsoft
    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
    Microsoft
    As I have mentioned before the issue with my Oracle Mismatch Version issues that have put a delay on moving one of my platforms will justify my 7 rating.
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    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
    Microsoft
    As I continue to evaluate the "big three" cloud providers for our clients, I make the following distinctions, though this gap continues to close. AWS is more granular, and inherently powerful in the configuration options compared to [Microsoft] Azure. It is a "developer" platform for cloud. However, Azure PowerShell is helping close this gap. Google Cloud is the leading containerization platform, largely thanks to it building kubernetes from the ground up. Azure containerization is getting better at having the same storage/deployment options.
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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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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • For about 2 years we didn't have to do anything with our production VMs, the system ran without a hitch, which meant our engineers could focus on features rather than infrastructure.
    • DNS management was very easy in Azure, which made it easy to upgrade our cluster with zero downtime.
    • Azure Web UI was easy to work with and navigate, which meant our senior engineers and DevOps team could work with Azure without formal training.
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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

    SAP Business Technology Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service