SAP Process Orchestration vs Workato comparison

SAP Process Orchestration

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Process Orchestration

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

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Business-to-Business Middleware (1st)

Workato

Average Rating

8.4

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 10.7%, down 16.0% compared to last year.
Workato, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 4.0% mindshare, down 5.0% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Laxman Molugu

Chief Executive Officer at Saanvi systems inc

Oct 15, 2024

Enhances operational efficiency with valuable prepackaged content and cost-effective pricing

SAP Process Orchestration is used as a middleware for B2B and AI integrations. It serves as a standard middleware for SAP projects, facilitating data exchange between external partners or internal systems. It is particularly beneficial in the defense industry for orchestrating logistics…

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Rohit Sircar

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

Nov 7, 2022

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 main benefit is that the solution is low maintenance. Moreover, it's the license cost is very low because it's part of the package. The maintenance is standard maintenance. And the updates are regular. So there's a regular update and you can choose whether you want to do those updates or not."

"The product has good technical support but you usually will not need it because it is quite stable."

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

"With the latest version what I find to be the most valuable are the REST, SuccessFactors, and Ariba Network adapters."

"t is a pretty stable solution. I have not seen any outages in the solution."

"The most valuable feature is the seamless integration with backend systems."

"I rate the product's setup phase a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy since it is a very easy process."

"The solution's technical support is good."

More SAP Process Orchestration pros

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I think the main area that SAP PO should improve on is offering pre-delivered content like they do when you use SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI). SAP should not forget that they still have a lot of customers using Process Orchestration and they should focus more on providing pre-delivered content in SAP PO."

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

"The cloud capability features need improvement."

"In terms of technical support, it would be helpful if they handled the tickets a bit faster when queries are sent to them."

"The monitoring governance offered by SAP is too technical and needs to be geared more toward business users."

"It's very difficult to find errors in a simple way."

"We encounter challenges while connecting to MQTT and MQDD adapters."

More SAP Process Orchestration cons

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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

"There are fees in addition to the licensing."

"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."

"The price of SAP Process Orchestration was reasonable."

"Normally, you will have to choose CPU-based licensing...I rate the tool price a five out of ten."

"The fee for maintenance is costly."

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

"It is a very expensive solution. We only pay for the license."

More SAP Process Orchestration pricing and cost advice

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

Educational Organization

41%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

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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 product is not a low-priced solution, but I can say that it is competitively priced in the market. There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges associated with the prod...

What needs improvement with SAP Process Orchestration?

Some configurations can be a little tricky. The consulting team had to spend a long time checking SAP's community forums and documentation to achieve some goals. The tool could release some new fun...

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

Panera Bread, Berkshire Hathaway, Salesforce, Box, Splunk, ComScore, IBM, Complex Media, Microsoft, Home Depot, Cisco, News Corp, Braille Institute

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