SAP Process Orchestration Reviews

This is a core integration platform for SAP-centric integrations.

The product roadmap suggests it will approach the end of support in several years, and a lot of innovations are now implemented by SAP not in SAP PO, but in SAP Integration Suite, hence, the platform is stable, but doesn't receive a lot of new features in recent updates.

It is a stable solution. I rate its stability as a ten.

I rate the solution's scalability as an eight. It requires some good technical knowledge for the scalability to work.

The platform is very stable and robust, its capabilities can satisfy a wide spectrum of requirements that are typical for on-premises integration scenarios. Though, given the product roadmap, eventually, customers will have to migrate to SAP Integration Suite, and they shall plan migration efforts in advance.

We use the solution to integrate multiple projects with SAP or non-SAP applications.

The solution allows the transformation of data through different technologies. We can integrate it with multiple new technologies.

The solution's administration management feature is very complicated to use. They should make it easier to access.

I have been using the solution for more than five years.

It is easy to scale the solution.

We contacted the solution's tech support for a few issues while running multiple processes on a single server. Their response was good.

Neutral

The solution's initial setup process is slightly complex. I rate the process around five or six.

The solution is highly-priced.

We have evaluated Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft BizTalk. They are suitable products for large-size companies. 

The solution is more suitable for small and mid-sized businesses. I rate it as an eight.

I have been a solution architect since 2005. I have a lot of experience with SAP Process Orchestration. I have a lot of experience with many kinds of integration between all kinds of processes. SAP Process Orchestration is the tool we chose to use to help us effectively design and improve workflows.  

The components that we use a lot and find very valuable are the integration map, the routing and we also use planning products for SAP in order to map each process there. My colleagues and I have extensive experience in process development, solutions, and architecture.  

All the integration, all the data maps, all the routing functions are good. These things are well managed by SAP. The ST-PI (Solution Tools Plug-In) that is part of the integration of the cloud services is also well-designed.  

In my opinion, the part that SAP needs to improve in Process Orchestration is the monitor and governance. The monitoring governance offered by SAP is too technical. Only the consultants that have technical skills or development skills are able to manage this product. What is missing, in my opinion, is a better business monitoring component.  

Our company creates business monitoring in UI5 and Fiori applications that help the customer to have a better view of what good monitoring is. With the technical monitoring of SAP, someone in the organization has to have technical skills rather than business skills. So using these solutions in combination, we are able to give the client another more business-oriented kind of monitor and governance which is not so technical.  

I am a solutions architect, a consultant, and partner of a tech services company that does integrations since 2010. Our core business is process orchestration, process integration, development for SAP HANA, and mobile application development. I have some experience with some BPM (Business Process Management) and I have a lot of experience with PI/PO (Process Integration and Orchestration).  

I would say SAP PO is stable because it offers the possibility to implement an architectural cluster with some nodes for the security layer and also for the stability. SAP PI/PO uses on-premises information. So if you have to connect an application on the LAN or potentially the same network, it is good. But if you needed to integrate an external service, you probably need to use the SAP PI product because the service is not an on-premise application.  

The scalability of SAP PI can be adaptive as a solution for targeted software integration.  

Since early on, I never needed a lot of support from SAP because their solution is stable. Probably the first time we used this product it was unstable, so we contacted them and they needed to issue a patch in order to fix some issues. But the latest releases of SAP are stable, so we do not need to use the SAP support often. When we do, it is good. If the customer pays to have the support, they are always available.  

I previously worked with Dell Boomi. Dell Boomi is a part of the process for cloud server integration. We had previous experience with TIBCO. But mostly, our experience is based on SAP products.  

The main differences or advantages of SAP over other vendors has grown. SAP is now one of the leaders in integration. But of course, if the customers need an integration broker or need a solution for integration, SAP is probably the first choice for the customer. Because if you have another product like Oracle or Microsoft, or third parties that are not SAP products — or the customer chooses a different solution like Boomi — all the integration of these applications may be more challenging.  

SAP Process Orchestration can be used even if you do not have other parts of the SAP digital suite. But I recommend the PO or PI if the customer has another handler like SAP S/4HANA,  or HDCC. Otherwise, I suggest other diagnostic products.  

The initial setup for the product is straightforward and easy. At this point, we deal mostly only with the application part. So when we have to integrate components on the back end, the basic part is not so difficult. That is about one or two days of work per layer. The initial part of the installation may take some time, but it is easy. You need to set up the communication between the third-party application systems and you have to hook that to the ethernet in order to get to the point where you start with development integration.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as an eight-out-of-ten.  

Additional features that I would like to see in the next release to improve the rating would be to improve the governance of the monitor component and adopt SAP PI/PO with the new connectors that have the capabilities to work better with applications. All they are offering with the solution currently is the ability to integrate application to application or business to business.  

It's a technical product. We primarily use the solution for our infrastructure.

It's a mid ware. We use it due to the fact that we need to deal with messages between our system and external systems. We need to construct communication channels, interface with them to define how much time or how many times we need to complete each interaction between the system. We also need it for monitoring issues, and we use Solution Manager to monitoring interfaces.

The solution is working well. We don't have any operational problems with it at all.

We don't have to load or deploy technologies from several vendors. It's a mid ware that provides us all that we need in a technical view. For example, if we need to use a Java connector, it provides this for us. It's a specific and specialized product.

The most valuable feature for us is the fact that we can deploy interfaces in a secure way. It helps us reduce vulnerabilities on the internet due to the fact that it allows for the best interface in a dedicated link between companies. 

The solution offers very good documentation and manuals to assist with understanding the solution.

We centralize all interfaces that we need to have. However, we spend too much money and time to construct each interface. This is required due to the fact that the systems are outdated. We need to be working with new interfaces that are required in the SAP Process Orchestration or use an older interface that is not by SAP PO. 

It can be dangerous if you don't have enough security, as you can be exposed to a virus attack.

It's very difficult to find errors in a simple way. There isn't a simple way to troubleshoot. When we working with Java technology, Java programming, we need to leverage tracing tools in order to find out where the problem is. It's difficult when errors occur. Troubleshooting is very hard.

Our organization has been using SAP for 15 years. We've been using this particular solution for at least ten years at this point.

The stability of the solution is good. It's a good tool overall. There aren't bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. We find it to be reliable.

All products from SAP have manuals and guides to installing in several ways. The client can choose at what level they want to deploy the product. They can deploy a simple installation without high availability or scalability. 

In our case, our company needed the orchestration in high availability. It was a clustered installation. In terms of scalability, we needed to install additional application servers in the same installation. It's a simple way to have a stronger environment. If you need to grow processing you can just add application servers to the same position. Therefore, I'd say it's pretty easy to achieve scalability if you need to.

While we have a few IT people using the solution closely, in general, almost everyone is on it. It just works in the background, and they may not know it's there, and yet it is.

Technical support is excellent. SAP provides a portal online to allow users to post any kind of problems they need to solve. It's a good service and it doesn't cost anything. Overall, I would say we've been satisfied with the level of assistance provided.

While it does vary from company to company, the initial setup and configuration process is largely straightforward. Some companies may face more complexity. 

In our case, it took us about two to four weeks to deploy the solution.

We are just an end-user and customer. We don't have a business relationship with SAP.

We had two PI or PO installations in my company. Both installations need to be updated or upgraded.

We have several SAP installations in our environment, and I can say that all of them need to be updated. My company takes a long time to make decisions in terms of investing in updating systems. The next investment will need, dozens of millions of dollars in updates. That's not in the local currency, however. We've been postponing updating since I've worked here. Over the next two years, we will need to start a project to renovate everything. We are thinking of installing SAP S/4HANA as all of the servers in our company need to be refreshed anyway.

I'd advise other organizations to not contract outsourcing to make strategies for the company. You need to have your own specialist on your team that can construct or design the strategies for the interface.

I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

Our primary use case is for the business work clause. Even though there could be multiple cloud-based applications in real-time, doing on-premise work, people need some kind of security within their internet server and to do transactions. SAP Process Orchestration would encourage you to translate and do many activities.

It has few disabilities. We can use standard EBA technology to transfer the invoices and make purchases.

The standard adapter with EBA abilities is the most valuable feature. It has good process integration.

There's a rule framework orchestrating the value right from the user role. If a user wanted to give access to someone or the other user has to delay the process order or access the process order, all those things can be orchestrated.

The cloud capability features need improvement.

New connection features will be released like OpenDrive, Dropbox, and SharePoint features. All of those connections have to be launched. Which will help develop us to integrate with many third-party products.

The user interface is good, but it can still use improvement in some areas.  can improve the UI areas. They should show a more graphical representation of the data.

I've been working with it for almost eight years now.

It is a stable product. It has improved performance, agility, and other areas of message transmission.

We can enable chat board integration with this particular tool. I have worked on a chat board integration project also. Scalability-wise, we can integrate any solution and it is highly secured.

We have 40,000 users using this solution.

The maintenance is very easy. From the server-side, there is the regular batch upgrade.

Their technical support is very good. The response time depends on how critical the problem is. They do give a proper response and everything so there's nothing to think about. It was very well handled by the product.

The initial setup was straightforward. 

For EDA a setup can take around 80 plus hours for an end to end connection on BDN. 

We use an integrator that helps with writing an ideally based product. The requirements keep on changing from the functionality of the business and users. We have to integrate and do the transformation based on that. It's very suitable for ideal based technology where the requirements keep on changing from the user and we keep on updating the map inspections.

The licensing costs are fair. There are no additional costs in addition to the standard licensing. 

SAP is the best solution for them to integrate with many other third-party systems or other VRP systems. 

The messaging isn't good at being in real-time. 

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

SAP Process Orchestration is used for file transfers or file conversions before financial data get sent into SAP.

The most valuable features of SAP Process Orchestration are the standard APIs that we can use.

I have used SAP Process Orchestration within the last 12 months.

SAP Process Orchestration is a stable solution.

The solution is not very scalable because it is at the end of its life.

We have approximately 20 people using this solution.

The support from SAP Process Orchestration is very helpful.

The initial setup of SAP Process Orchestration was straightforward. The full employment took approximately three months.

We used a third party for the implementation.

The price of SAP Process Orchestration was reasonable.

SAP Process Orchestration is at its end of life. The next version which will release this solution is probably going to be the CPI or business technology platform.

I would recommend others not to use this solution because a newer version is out called SAP CPI.

I rate  SAP Process Orchestration an eight out of ten.

My rating would have been higher but the newer version, SAP CPI, will have more useful APIs.

This solution is good for specific customers who are not on the cloud.

It is a dying platform. It is going to expire in 2030, so nothing is expected. It is all data. 

SAP has to provide us with a replacement or a way forward in their SAP integration field.

I have been using SAP Process Orchestration for twelve years.

We are using the latest version.

It not a stable solution.

It is not a scalable solution for the cloud. I would not recommend this for organizations that are primarily cloud-based.

This is an ideation tool. There are no users to it. There are only developers and architects.

The number of developers varies from customer to customer, and it can be anywhere from two to two hundred.

It is technical support with SAP, so everyone can make their own guess.

The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy, with nothing fancy required.

Depending on the team, it can take two days to a week to deploy.

It's not an expensive solution.

I recommend this solution to others if you are thinking of migration.

I would rate SAP Process Orchestration a six out of ten.