Addons on BTP for SAP solutions
December 02, 2024

Addons on BTP for SAP solutions

Sivaprakash Murugamalai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Business Technology Platform

We use BTP for hosting multi-tenant applications for our customers, who can use our applications to enhance the functionalities in their SAP applications, with industry specific and local requirements. BTP enables us to embed Gen AI capabilities in the applications that we offer to our clients, and well as complete suite of application development and management tools. SAP Clients are able to easily familiarize with the UI5 based user interfaces that is native to SAP applications now.

Pros

  • Generative AI Hub
  • Cloud Foundry and Kyma Runtime for UI5 apps
  • ABAP and NodeJS Runtime
  • Change and Release Management Tools
  • Digital Workspace and Portals

Cons

  • Multiple development tools for ABAP, No Code and Javascript
  • Sizing and estimation is a bit challenging for some services, based on users and transaction volume
  • Recipes for sizing would be helpful with sample combinations/bundles of services for specific use cases
  • Infusing Generative AI capabilities easily into our solutions with existing talent with minimal learning curve, has been very impactful. We have been able resolve several challenges for our clients with AI capabilities, that we could not, previously.
  • Integration Suite is quite extensive in capabilities for bringing together the IT landscape into a single ecosystem.
The development and deployment of applications require too many services. So, sometimes it is challenging as there are multiple services. The monitoring and logging mechanisms are not very apparent. This makes it difficult to choose the services required during design. Applications that use AI for eg., extraction or chatbots, are great use cases to build on BTP. Also custom applications that require a ERP integration but are not enhancements, are good use cases for development on BTP.
The response times are still very low. Its difficult to route the requests to the right people. In many cases, we don't know yet if the issue is with the product of how we are implementing it, as this platform is evolving fast and in early stages, despite its vast features and capabilities.
I have seen and used at least one use case - The invoice processing use case, using document extraction and document management is a good use case to start with.
BTP is simpler to use for SAP consultants and SAP analysts, with more experience and skills in SAP systems and exposure to SAP ecosystem.

Do you think SAP Business Technology Platform delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with SAP Business Technology Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Business Technology Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of SAP Business Technology Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP Business Technology Platform again?

Yes

If your organization has a lot of SAP talent, and you want to bring together SAP and non-SAP skills together to build solutions, BTP is ideal for you. If you have SAP solutions in your IT landscape, using partner add-ons built on BTP makes it simple to rollout. If you currently don't have SAP talent in your organization, and you are using other cloud platforms already, then BTP ma not be your choice.

SAP Business Technology Platform Feature Ratings

Platform-as-a-Service
7.5
Ease of building user interfaces
10
Scalability
8
Platform management overhead
5
Workflow engine capability
8
Platform access control
6
Services-enabled integration
8
Development environment creation
9
Development environment replication
10
Issue monitoring and notification
6
Issue recovery
6
Upgrades and platform fixes
7

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