We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and SAP Cloud Platform based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Although SAP is easier to deploy and has better service, Microsoft is a branded, well-known product and numerous organizations worldwide are an active part of the Microsoft Azure Universe. It is strong and powerful and many users are simply more familiar and comfortable using a solution they feel confident will help them get the job done well and that clients can more easily integrate with such a stable product.
"Microsoft Azure is easy to use."
"The time to market is fast compared back to the traditional on-premise hosting. That is one of the better things I can say because there is no need to worry. The Pack services will enable it to start immediately."
"I have not had a problem with the stability. It is reliable."
"Being cloud-based saves the provisioning aspect of an on-premises solution."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Kubernetes service and API management are the most valuable."
"Managed storage capabilities, which create a very simple way to create, copy, and replicate local or geo-replicate, it's very simple to assign workloads."
"Great Integration Suite, with CPI being its stable component."
"The solution can scale."
"SAP is an excellent company with an excellent reputation, excellent products, and dedicated customer support."
"The HANA replications are very useful."
"The entire SAP ecosystem is a valuable feature. It provides access to SAP S/4HANA, ACG systems, and their Fiori launchpad, making it easy to navigate between them. This makes the enterprise very accessible."
"The maintenance part can be outsourced easily."
"SAP Cloud Platform's most valuable features are its exhaustiveness, scalability with minimum maintenance, and functionality."
"The features I found most valuable are the integration options."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
"It is impossible to sell a cloud-based model here in Venezuela because we have strong inflation and most of our clients are immigrating to on-premises solutions."
"It would be ideal if they could reduce costs a bit. Right now, we find the product to be expensive."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"There could be more documentation and video tutorials to incorporate each and every feature. This way one can easily get the knowledge and implement it."
"Lacks flexibility in terms of storage or resource allocation."
"For deploying multiple resources in a big number, such as in hundreds, we need a streamlined process and more user-friendly scrips. The scripts have to be more user-friendly, and they should also supply some standard templates to deploy multiple resources at a time. Currently, it is very easy to deploy a couple of resources, but if you want to deploy multiple resources, it becomes complex. The material that they provide for integration with an existing on-prem data center is complex. They have to make them user-friendly. The scripts related to resource management need to be simplified."
"I want to see better pricing from the SAP Cloud Platform in the future. I also want more security and scalability from it."
"Planning features are limited to the finance module."
"The addition of more industry use cases would be an improvement."
"I'd like to see more local integration."
"When they innovate too fast, they end up confusing their customers."
"The solution requires more flexibility overall."
"It would be helpful to have additional samples for SoapUI that include interface methodologies and templates."
"The areas I think this solution should improve are monitoring and adapting."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews while SAP Cloud Platform is ranked 6th in PaaS Clouds with 38 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while SAP Cloud Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Cloud Platform writes "Provides seamless integration with CTI for streamlined data synchronization but complexity and challenges in migrating existing applications to the low-code model for custom application development". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Alibaba Cloud, whereas SAP Cloud Platform is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods.io Integration and Mendix. See our Microsoft Azure vs. SAP Cloud Platform report.
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The choice between SAP Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure depends on your specific requirements, business needs, and existing technology landscape.
SAP Cloud Platform is designed primarily for running and extending SAP applications. If your organization heavily relies on SAP interfaces other software and services, it might be a more suitable choice as it offers seamless integration with SAP products.
On the other hand, Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive cloud platform with a wide range of services, including infrastructure, and databases. It's well-suited for businesses looking for a combination of SAP and AZ Cloud as scalability enterprise-wide supports to seamless OS authentication and SAP with two levels of security.
In conclusion, It is essential to evaluate both platforms based on your organization's existing infrastructure, and future growth plans to scalability if SLA is adaptable.
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One of the best features of SAP Cloud Platform is that it is web-based and you can log in from anywhere in the world. SAP Cloud Platform is suitable for companies of any size; it works well with both large and small companies. Its stability is great and the ability to expand is very simple. SAP Cloud Platform offers smooth integration and data synchronization - the push and pull of data is extremely valuable.
The functionality with SAP Cloud Platform can be difficult. We have experienced some challenges with usability and not being able to get all of the information we need. We would also like to see improvement with security, authentication, and reporting.
Microsoft Azure is extremely scalable with the capability to build an environment quickly. The automation and agility of Microsoft Azure is very valuable. It offers a great information protection feature - you can create custom labels for different documents and files. This keeps data more organized and secure.
Support with Microsoft Azure depends on the plan you purchase; lower-tier plans get limited support. Microsoft Azure can be a very expensive solution overall and can be complex to set up and manage. Integration with other products needs to be better. Microsoft Azure seems to be a bit slow in catching up with what other solutions have to offer.
Conclusion
Microsoft Azure’s biggest downside is the lack of functionality. SAP Cloud Platform provides better integration with other operating systems.
If you or your clients are fully committed to the Microsoft ecosystem, then Microsoft Azure is probably the best option for you.
For those that use other ecosystems, SAP Cloud Platform would be a better fit as they offer better integration with other solutions and broader overall functionality.
I think it's based on the context of your environment and what you want to do. The LinkedIn article by Murali Shanmugham gives you some perspective here.
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If you use SAP applications extensively, extending them with various services offered by SAP on the SAP Cloud platform would be very useful.
In fact, SAP has made this platform available on hyperscalers like MS Azure, AWS, etc.