#1 most frequent
United States of America
42.0%9,682 installations of 23,036
What is SAP Business Technology Platform?
SAP 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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service
Top Performing Features
Ease of building user interfaces
Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools
Category average: 7.9
Scalability
Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand
Category average: 8.2
Services-enabled integration
Ability to integrate with cloud applications and data via APIs and pre-built connectors
Category average: 8
Areas for Improvement
Platform management overhead
Resources required to keep platform up and running
Category average: 7.4
Issue recovery
Ease of recovery from problem state
Category average: 7.3
Issue monitoring and notification
Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems
Category average: 7.3
Who Buys & Uses SAP Business Technology Platform
#2 most frequent
Germany
9.0%2,066 installations of 23,036
#3 most frequent
India
6.2%1,421 installations of 23,036
Pros
- Strong integration capabilities for connecting SAP and non-SAP systems (40% of reviewers)
- HANA DB performance and real-time data replication (16% of reviewers)
- Enables automation and workflow creation
Cons
- Integration challenges, particularly between SAP and non-SAP products (20% of reviewers)
- Confusing or non-transparent pricing and licensing (16% of reviewers)
- Performance issues reported by some users (12% of reviewers)
Finally a platform which actually time saving
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In my organisation we use SAP Business Technology Platform to make data easy to use. For example our sales numbers are all over place in excel making reports takes hours. Now this platform gives live dashboards, connect all systems. we can see product performance in any location quickly. This avoids mistakes, saves time. currently we are mainly using it for sales but planning to use for inventory and customer insights also
Pros
- For ex: in our sales team before using this platform we had numbers coming from different regions in separate Excel sheets. Its bringing all our data together, making it easy to use
- Previously it used to take lot of time collecting & checking everything, but still at times numbers didnt match. With this platform all the data is connected in one place and we can see live dashboards.
- we built app on top of this, like tool to track customer followups, good for automation
Cons
- We were automating process to send followup emails to customers after sale but logic setup is confusing it does not trigger as expected. We have checked multiple times if workflow ran which is little frustrating.
Return on Investment
- with live dashboards & automated data updates, we can see product performance instantly that helped us take decisions faster.
- like tracking customer followups we built small tools on top of btp, which reduced lot of manual emails & reminders. Overall it made our work less errorprone more efficient
Usability
Alternatives Considered
SAP Address and Geocoding Directories
Other Software Used
ASAPP Customer Experience Performance (CXP)
SAP Business Technology Platform
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Being global SAP Business Technology Platform lead for Ford Motor Company, I am leading the SAP Business Technology Platform transformation for various services. This includes SAP Integration Suite, Build Workzone, SAP Build, AI Core, Test automation, QIR etc. In addition to that, we are also looking forward to solutions like VERTEX, Print queues, ADS etc in SAP Business Technology Platform.
Pros
- Integration Suite with no doubt
- SAP Build Workzone is a very good product
- Also a very good platform for various tech
Cons
- Monitoring is completely missing in SAP Business Technology Platform
- Another thing that"s missing is a good overview in form of dashboards showing current status etc
Return on Investment
- Faster deployments
Usability
SAP Business Technology Platform as enabler for fast track implementation
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I am working as the SAP Platform manager responsible for implementing, running and administering SAP Business Technology Platform on the foundational level. "My" use case is to enable our functional teams to leverage SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP Business Technology Platform is open for all our SAP landscapes including full ERP suite, full aftersales/PS&L, warehouseing and so on.
Pros
- Easy to start / Implement
- Connectivity is running well with S4 cores
- Easy enabling development for new use cases
Cons
- User Management is painful. Split in different layers, no real overview, services user management could be completely different
- We are having several issues with licensing. Some licenses are getting lost out of nowhere (but we get good support from our SAP partners)
- No clear 3 Tier on subaccount level, which means at the end we pay for one environment at least 3 times which we used to just pay once
Return on Investment
- We are currently starting the SAP Business Technology Platform journey having ~100 Subaccounts.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
SAP Access Control and SAP Identity Management
Other Software Used
SAP Access Control, SAP Identity Management
SAP BTP review from a SaaS ABAP stack perspective
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We were building a SaaS product as an add-on for SAP and non-SAP ERP systems, within the tax compliance domain. The product targets a specific German tax law. We want to offer the solution with minimal implementation costs, in order to reach medium and smaller companies.
Pros
- It allows building a SaaS platform, within the ABAP stack.
- It offers integration with on premise systems.
- It has a number of admin apps, ready to use.
- It has built-in user and role management.
- It offers patched and updated ABAP environmnts.
Cons
- In the ABAP environment, I cannot add a git repository to a software component after creating the software component. And there is no way to transfer the development artefacts to a new software repository.
Return on Investment
- Positive: Delivery of software to customers is done fast.
- Negative: initial learning curve, especially for technical cloud architects
Usability
Other Software Used
SAP Business Warehouse, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio Code
SAP Business Technology Platform review by Maurice
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use the SAP Business Technology Platform products to support our S4HANA system, C4C, SF, Datasphere, etc in the daily business. SAP Business Technology Platform makes our live easier because staying close to the standard, means you can build new solutions very quickly. We like how easy and fast we can deploy new applications and also the pricing model.
Pros
- Integration between SAP and Non-SAP
- Data enrichment for SF
- Expose applications to internet
Cons
- Use the same licensing for all product, datasphere is now out of SAP Business Technology Platform
- All SAP Business Technology Platform applications should use the same roadmap, not that there are differences in the usage (like Cloud connector, in Datashpere is a different setup)
- Usage of SAP Business Technology Platform AI needs another contract
Return on Investment
- Very fast integration possible between SAP and Non-SAP applications. There less need to develop our own connector which saves a lot of time and money.
- Usage of the centralized Identity Services (IAM & IPS) for all SAP Business Technology Platform applications can be all done with our own SAP team. Normally we have to ask our Identiy Team to provide the SAML2 certificates. Having 30 applications we have a lot of administrative effort to renew these certificates every year.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
SAP Datasphere
Other Software Used
Redwood RunMyJobs
