GeneXus vs SAP Mobile Platform comparison

GeneXus and SAP are both solutions in the Mobile Development Platforms category. GeneXus is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.5, while SAP is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.7. GeneXus holds a 3.3% mindshare in MDP, compared to SAP’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GeneXus users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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83% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

SAP Mobile Platform and GeneXus compete in the enterprise mobility and application development category. GeneXus might have the upper hand for companies prioritizing rapid innovation and adaptability.

Features: SAP Mobile Platform shines with its strong security, robust integration capabilities, and enterprise-grade connectivity. GeneXus is notable for its low-code development environment, support for multiple technologies, and ease of deploying complex applications.

Room for Improvement: SAP Mobile Platform could enhance its deployment speed and simplify its setup process. It might also benefit from improved usability for less technical users. GeneXus could work on refining its front-end capabilities and provide more streamlined updates. Increased visibility into deployment processes and optimization of integration complexity are also areas for improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP Mobile Platform provides extensive support designed for large-scale deployments and complex integrations, though this may challenge deployment speeds. GeneXus offers a more intuitive deployment process that supports rapid application launches, backed by personalized customer service.

Pricing and ROI: SAP Mobile Platform generally involves a higher setup cost, justified by its advanced features and robust support. GeneXus offers a lower initial investment, providing better ROI for businesses focused on quick development without extensive technical resources.

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Categories and Ranking

GeneXus

Ranking in Mobile Development Platforms

10th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Low-Code Development Platforms (20th)

SAP Mobile Platform

Ranking in Mobile Development Platforms

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile App Platforms (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Mobile Development Platforms category, the mindshare of GeneXus is 3.3%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Mobile Platform is 3.2%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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XavierEspinoza

Internal System Coordinator at Red CEDIA

Offers a simplified architecture with outstanding integration capabilities

The integration capabilities of GeneXus are highly valuable for our organization. The metadata obtained within the logic of different systems is also vital. Due to the solution, our company team doesn't have to work with multiple languages and integrations can be made with C Sharp. JavaScript can also be used with GeneXus, the tool takes charge of all the rest and has a simple architecture. The solution can be used out of the box without facing any issues and nothing much needs to be done with frameworks. In our case we need to use Python with GeneXus, we use Ironpython to embed python code in C# .

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ShahzadRafique

Chief operation management at AutoSoft Dynamics Pvt Ltd

Flexible, well-designed, and offers good scalability

It's not that difficult to set up. SAP has provided the complete installation and configuration scripts, and there's ample documentation available. Implementing it is not an issue. If you are just talking about installing the standalone SAP Mobile Platform, that won't take more than two to three hours. The problem is that when you have multiple integrated third-party integrations, it can be longer. In that case, the deployment really depends on how you actually do it, as, in a financial institution, there is a lot of middleware and other third-party systems that are also integrated with your system. We have a complete set of APIs exposed to different partners, and how everything goes together depends on what type of integrations are there and how complex they are. That said, it should not take more than three to four hours when it comes to only the standalone SMP.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The integration capabilities of GeneXus are highly valuable for our organization"

"The front-end features are the most valuable."

"With the solution, I can work a normal day. I can plan my work and any other activities for days ahead."

"In Knowledge Base, being able to model the workflow before developing the screens is great. We first work with the tables or the transactions using GeneXus and then we work on the screens."

"The integration module is the most valuable feature of this solution for our business, as it allows our clients to create new systems based on their outdated databases, across all API's."

"This solution works extremely quickly in terms of enabling an application in a production environment."

"GeneXus evolves with technology."

"With GeneXus, we can create logical representations of transactions in the form of objects."

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"If we work with the mobile extension of the ERP platform, we save time."

"Two of the very fascinating features that make SAP Mobile Platform stand out from other platforms are its offline capability and integration capability."

"The initial setup is not overly complex."

"Both platforms, the SAP Mobile Platform, and SAP, are highly valuable for our company because they facilitate integration, which can be expensive. It's very convenient to connect and create billing accounts through the SAP Mobile Platform."

"One valuable feature of SAP Mobile Platform is its enterprise-grade standard and maintained APIs, available out of the box for easy integration with various systems."

"Technical support is helpful."

"It's not that difficult to set up."

Cons

"GeneXus's user interface has room for improvement."

"GeneXus is a wonderful tool for the backend. It's the best in the world, but for the frontend, GeneXus needs to improve. There should be easier steps for managing various aspects, such as alerts and messages to show to the end-users."

"It would be better if GeneXus had a wiki. The developer needs some experience to work with the tools. It would be better if they could improve the community. If we have some problem, I open a ticket that takes us to a board, and I have to describe my issue in detail. If the tools have a general community for us to explore with some videos or some articles, I think that that may help the developer."

"Documentation is always an issue. In order to develop with GeneXus, there is very little documentation. The documentation is not clear enough in order to develop a great tool."

"It would be helpful to have additional assisted processing with training."

"The tool needs to be tuned before being used. You need some experience to get the best out of the tool."

"There are issues in integrating it with other solutions."

"We would like to see more extensions and more user controls added to the front-end of this solution, in order to help developers manage the website."

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"The cost of the SAP Mobile Platform is high, and there is room for improvement in its pricing."

"The licensing model is a bit dated."

"The tool is not easy or simple to integrate with other infrastructures."

"SAP has announced that they'll be ending the support on the SAP platform."

"The toolkit to develop front end applications, especially native applications, is not that good."

"If it was low code or no code it would be ideal."

"One drawback is that SAP Mobile Platform apps are only available through the browser, making offline capability more challenging to implement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I give the cost of the solution a four out of ten."

"The cost of a GeneXus license is extremely high. At the same time, one person using the solution can do the work of three Java or data developers. I think that's why they charge so much. It's too expensive, which is one reason it isn't widely used."

"The tool's price is good."

"People tend to work with GeneXus if it's cheap, but GeneXus does have licensing policies...Moreover, the cost of resourcing work in GeneXus may make it more expensive than other programming languages."

"I don't know about the price because I am an employee, but I hear it's cheaper than other tools."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten"

"The price is good."

"It's expensive. I'd rate it a four out of ten in terms of pricing."

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"The cost of SAP is extremely high, and it's not affordable for everyone."

"If you already paying for an SAP license and have SAP products that you are using, the price for SAP Mobile Platform is negligible."

"The tool is expensive. I rate the tool's price as an eight or nine out of ten."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about GeneXus?

GeneXus evolves with technology.

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What needs improvement with GeneXus?

GeneXus needs to be more consistent in functionality without any errors. Code generation is highly time-consuming for GeneXus, but in some cases, it saves time as well. Some errors will take too lo...

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What is your primary use case for GeneXus?

Our company uses the latest version of GeneXus. The solution is used in our company to develop various enterprise systems, and GeneXus is used as an integrator, which further facilitates low-cost d...

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What do you like most about SAP Mobile Platform?

One valuable feature of SAP Mobile Platform is its enterprise-grade standard and maintained APIs, available out of the box for easy integration with various systems.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Mobile Platform?

The tool is expensive. I rate the tool's price as an eight or nine out of ten.

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What needs improvement with SAP Mobile Platform?

For a couple of years, SAP deployment and updates were not fair and simple. After the last evolution of mobile development in SAP, I need to check the latest features of the tool. At the company wh...

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SAP Syclo Agentry Mobile Platform, Sybase Mobile Development Platform, Sybase Unwired Platform

Overview

What is GeneXus? GeneXus™ is the best Low-Code Platform that you don't know yet.

It's a Software Development Platform that simplifies and automates the tasks of creating and evolving enterprise applications and multi-channel user-experiences. Great Advantages:

- Higher productivity, with automatic maintenance & evolution
- Multi-Experience, we continuously create new code generators
- Agile, incremental approach, with fully functional prototypes
- Easier to learn, one single language to cover all technologies
- Future-proof, we've been around for 30 years, evolving for you

Key Differentiators against the competition:

- No runtime fees, we charge by developer
- Best theoretical framework, which allows us to evolve
- Best coverage in the market: Most technologies, most languages, most markets and industries
- We run on-premise or on the cloud
- Multiple starting points depending on the type of company you work in, with products for Students, Startups, ISVs, Corporate Development, and SAP technologies

GeneXus uses Artificial Intelligence techniques to create software, enabling truly incremental development of apps, providing a low-code, future-proof development platform for the leading execution platforms and languages, and the most popular DBMS.

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SAP Mobile Platform is a mobile enterprise application platform developed to make it easier to create applications that connect business data to mobile devices for workflow management and back-office integration. SAP Mobile Platform provides a layer of middleware between heterogeneous back-end data sources such as relational databases, enterprise applications and files, and mobile devices that need to read and write back-end data. The platform is very helpful to developers, making it quick and easy for them to link backend data to mobile users on any device at any time and providing them with optimum visibility, which leads to increased profitability.

Using SAP Mobile Platform’s development tools, application developers can write the business logic for mobile applications, as the platform is optimized for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) relationships. The program automatically does the translation necessary to create specialized versions of the new application for a variety of mobile devices and operating systems. This enables quicker and simpler development of complex applications that use multiple data sources and function on a variety of mobile devices. SAP Mobile Platform currently provides advantages across numerous industries to customers of all sizes and backgrounds.

SAP Mobile Platform Features

SAP Mobile Platform has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Appcelerator
Support for Cordova
Eclipse plug-in
Mobile Analytics Kit (MAKit)
Secure access between mobile devices and networks
Mobile SDK
Hybrid Web Container
4GL tooling environment
Integrated mobile device management and app enablement
Support for multiple devices, including Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Windows laptops/tablets.
Integrates with SAP, Remedy Corp, and other apps that leverage database or service-oriented architecture.
Unwired Platform Runtime

SAP Mobile Platform Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing SAP Mobile Platform. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Customizable: SAP Mobile Platform is useful for developing mobile applications as well as for customizing previously existing ones in accordance with requirements and demands.

User-friendly: SAP Mobile Platform develops applications in a powerful and friendly environment that works within any mobile device.

Customer loyalty: Making user-friendly mobile applications that work on all devices encourages engaging loyal customers and staff in improved operations and cutting back on unneeded costs.

Business impact: SAP Mobile Platform has built platforms and mobile solutions that can be extensively used in any device, allowing businesses to grasp the true impact of SAP Mobile Platform on their business growth.

Multi-platform support: Developers may create applications on several platforms using their skill set and preferred tools, which reduces the amount of time, money, and effort required for development.

Secure: SAP Mobile Platform provides cutting-edge technology to speed up the creation of safe, highly scalable commercial mobile applications for every device.

Reviews from Real Users

SAP Mobile Platform stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. These include its integration with mobile devices, its stability, and its technical support. One PeerSpot user takes note of the advantages of these features in his review:

Kumar S., Director - SAP BTP at Incture, writes, “The platform independence is great. I can use it across mobile devices. That's the best aspect of it. It's stable. Technical support is helpful.”

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