SAP Process Orchestration vs Workato comparison

SAP Process Orchestration

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We performed a comparison between SAP Process Orchestration and Workato based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Process Orchestration

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

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Business-to-Business Middleware (2nd)

Workato

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

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Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (9th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Integration solutions, they serve different purposes. SAP Process Orchestration is designed for Business-to-Business Middleware and holds a mindshare of 9.3%, down 15.3% compared to last year.
Workato, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 3.8% mindshare, down 4.7% since last year.

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Vishal Khare

IT manager at Electrolux Home Products

A tool that can be useful for small integrations and large integrations

It is a pretty scalable solution. You can use the tool for small integrations and large integrations. From a use case perspective, all the people, around 3,000 employees, use the tool in my organization since some form of the product's integration capabilities are used in the company and have their own requirements of interfaces. There are no plans to increase the use of the solution in my company. My company has a couple of managers and developers to do the coding and mapping in SAP PI/PO. If I talk about the APAC region, I have almost eight to ten people who take care of the tool's complete technical area.

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Rohit Sircar

Integration Solutions Lead | Digital Core Transformation Service Line at Hexaware Technologies Limited

Great automation and strong workflows useful for integration

The initial setup is quite straightforward. When connecting Workato with your on-premises system, you have to install the Workato agent on your network. It was not complex but a long process to configure and settle. Workato has not gone live for us yet, so only the developers are currently using it. But in terms of users, we will have close to 250 and maybe 30 additional direct users. We are seeing a lot of different use cases where we can add new recipes because we started small, and there are many different areas where we can implement Workato for automation.

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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 most valuable feature of SAP Process Orchestration is its flexibility in being able to build integrations with SAP systems and non-SAP systems."

"Great monitoring tools and has its own alert framework."

"The monitoring tools are the most valuable feature."

"The most valuable features of SAP Process Orchestration are its system monitoring and alerts."

"SAP Process Orchestration has all the features that are necessary."

"The initial setup is easy...The solution gets automatically connected. The deployment takes six months. I rate its setup phase a ten out of ten."

"In my opinion, SAP PO is the most mature suite of tools to integrate processes across SAP environments at this moment. It's really unbeatable because it allows you to integrate whatever scenarios you can imagine."

"The initial setup is easy."

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"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"It's easy to understand, makes flows and is efficient."

"Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use."

"Their automation and workflows are very strong, and you can build the workflows very easily and quickly."

"It is very easy to use. It takes complex workloads away, and it provides very smooth integration. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box connectors. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box APIs, which makes it really easy to integrate with applications for different use cases, whether it is in finance, HR, or customer operations. It is by far our favorite integration product."

"It is easier to use than other technical open-source technologies."

"The most valuable features are easy integration, quick tab to develop, quick tab to market, and interactive integration platform."

Cons

"SAP Process Orchestration breaks down sometimes."

"Its administration management feature needs to be simpler to use."

"Some configurations can be a little tricky."

"The responsiveness of technical support needs to be improved."

"SAP needs to improve a lot in terms of the orchestration part so that more adapters can be provided to users, which are areas where the solution has downsides."

"It is scalable, but there can be performance issues with high data volume or traffic, especially during month ends."

"The cloud capability features need improvement."

"It does not have all of the industry-standard solutions available in PO and it is not plug and play, so we have to do a lot of development."

More SAP Process Orchestration cons

"The only minor drawback would be if there was a UI at the front of it, for apps and for a portal as well, it would make it really easy. It would be really useful if there were more apps capabilities."

"I would like to see the dashboarding and reporting processes improved."

"A limitation is that their cloud presence is only in North America and Europe."

"From the deployment point of view, our customers encounter platform downtime where it does not serve the actual request on the systems."

"The management dashboard in the solution is an area with shortcomings that needs improvement."

"It is tedious to make a tailor-fit function."

"Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company deals with different pricing models of the product, according to which we don't pay for the solution directly, but we do pay for the maintenance part."

"The solution is highly-priced."

"There are fees in addition to the licensing."

"The product is not a low-priced solution, but I can say that it is competitively priced in the market."

"The license is a one-time payment, and additional costs are only incurred on the infrastructure side since it's an on-premise solution."

"The fee for maintenance is costly."

"Looking at market conditions, vendors nowadays are giving products at very low price levels. However, SAP Process Orchestration have not yet reduced their prices. The prices could be reduced a lot to stay competitive."

"We subscribe to annual licenses, and the competitive license cost is reasonable."

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"Speaking about price, I would say that it's market-related. Also, there are costs in addition to the standard license fees since different add-ons depend on what you require."

"On a scale of one to ten, the pricing is around a six. We have a consumption model and the pricing is higher. If you are using any kind of ML-based approach, machine learning, or some advanced analytics, you may have to pay more."

"Workato is an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

Educational Organization

43%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SAP Process Orchestration?

It provides essential features such as continuous monitoring of all interfaces are crucial for our needs.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Process Orchestration?

The main concern is the cost. If additional help is needed due to lack of skill, we have to pay for SAP support.

What needs improvement with SAP Process Orchestration?

There are two main areas for improvement: performance and cost. The cost is quite high, and if it were reduced, it might also improve the performance, potentially allowing us to access a more effic...

What do you like most about Workato?

Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use.

What needs improvement with Workato?

Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations. Workato's licensing model is a bit co...

What is your primary use case for Workato?

We use Workato for iPaaS, which is like a middleware enterprise service bus. We use it for transformation, quick data migrations from one platform to another, and building connectivity. It's got ov...

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Also Known As

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, NetWeaver Process Integration

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Overview

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration facilitates the integration of business processes that span different departments, organizations, or companies. SAP PI is based on general standards so as to enable 3rd-party systems to be integrated. At the center of SAP PI is an XML-based communication that uses HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). Irrespective of the scenario used, the application-specific contents are transferred in messages in user-defined XML eXtensible Markup Language) from the sender to the receiver either via the Integration Server, or directly between the systems involved. SAP PI can be installed in different ways: Dual usage type installation: Based on both AS ABAP and AS Java. and Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX): Based on AS Java only.

Named a Leader in iPaaS for Dynamic Integrations by Forrester, Workato is a modern automation and integration platform. With its enterprise-grade capabilities, you can seamlessly integrate and orchestrate workflow automation across cloud and on-premise applications, files and databases without coding.

The Workato team comes from a deep background in building integration products and will continue to expand and change the automation and integration space.

Sample Customers

Lenovo, Dansk Supermarked A/S, Ego Pharmaceuticals Pty. Ltd, Kaeser Kompressoren

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