We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and SAP Cloud Platform based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Although SAP is easier to deploy and has better service, Microsoft is a branded, well-known product and numerous organizations worldwide are an active part of the Microsoft Azure Universe. It is strong and powerful and many users are simply more familiar and comfortable using a solution they feel confident will help them get the job done well and that clients can more easily integrate with such a stable product.
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"Azure is a good networking solution from a WAN perspective."
"This is a very stable product."
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"Much more intuitive and more visual than AWS. More obvious where things are and how to change their configurations, etc."
"The tool's most valuable aspect is the account management side. This involves tasks such as assigning credentials to different individuals, managing user accounts, and implementing Privileged Access Management."
"We've got multiple tools on Azure, which is a very good feature of Azure. Our Palo Alto firewall and other things are hosted in Azure. We're using Sentinel as well, which is a security tool that is being used by our SOC teams. I've also used AWS, and I find Azure to be more Windows-driven. Although Azure is newer as compared to AWS, it is growing fast. Microsoft is working towards the betterment of Azure."
"The ability to build custom applications on the BTP platform, reducing customization on the SAP HANA system and improving performance and management."
"Great Integration Suite, with CPI being its stable component."
"I found flexibility most valuable in the SAP Cloud Platform. It's a simple tool that's good even for first-time users."
"Scalability is one of the benefits that we have in using the product."
"One of the most valuable features I have found is that the solution is secure."
"Though I'm not a massive fan of the SAP Cloud Platform, it has good features, such as its integration with other SAP solutions. When integrating with SAP or even the SAP sister company SuccessFactors and other companies SAP has acquired, you also enjoy data features in the SAP Cloud Platform, such as role-based permissions and other characteristics you can import from SAP."
"The solution can scale."
"The solution has a lot of great features."
"The pricing can be reduced."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having more virtual machine operating systems available."
"Their backup strategy is a little complex which racks up the VM to other sole storage areas. This should be improved."
"The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation."
"I don't understand why we spend so much time and money on Azure when Microsoft relies on third-party companies for support in the CSP model. I don't know how the support model works within Microsoft, but giving it to poor-performing third-party companies is not ideal."
"Technical support could be better. They need to be more responsive."
"The solution is less mature than AWS."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
"The addition of more industry use cases would be an improvement."
"I can’t speak to features that may be missing."
"The areas I think this solution should improve are monitoring and adapting."
"I've observed a few bugs in SAP. One recent bug I found in Content Modifier is that when using a predefined header to call the current date, it prints the previous date. These are small bugs I found."
"Speaking about the public cloud, it's a very rigid system. So, there is not a lot of customization possible in a public cloud environment."
"I would like to see more and better support for data transformations."
"The current pricing model is credit-based. We would like to have more information about the usage of the existing applications."
"We need to connect our ERP solution via the VPN. We need to make sure our ERP solutions aren't exposed to the outside world. Our teams really struggle with this."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews while SAP Cloud Platform is ranked 6th in PaaS Clouds with 38 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while SAP Cloud Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Cloud Platform writes "Provides seamless integration with CTI for streamlined data synchronization but complexity and challenges in migrating existing applications to the low-code model for custom application development". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift, whereas SAP Cloud Platform is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, webMethods.io Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform and Salesforce Platform. See our Microsoft Azure vs. SAP Cloud Platform report.
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The choice between SAP Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure depends on your specific requirements, business needs, and existing technology landscape.
SAP Cloud Platform is designed primarily for running and extending SAP applications. If your organization heavily relies on SAP interfaces other software and services, it might be a more suitable choice as it offers seamless integration with SAP products.
On the other hand, Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive cloud platform with a wide range of services, including infrastructure, and databases. It's well-suited for businesses looking for a combination of SAP and AZ Cloud as scalability enterprise-wide supports to seamless OS authentication and SAP with two levels of security.
In conclusion, It is essential to evaluate both platforms based on your organization's existing infrastructure, and future growth plans to scalability if SLA is adaptable.
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One of the best features of SAP Cloud Platform is that it is web-based and you can log in from anywhere in the world. SAP Cloud Platform is suitable for companies of any size; it works well with both large and small companies. Its stability is great and the ability to expand is very simple. SAP Cloud Platform offers smooth integration and data synchronization - the push and pull of data is extremely valuable.
The functionality with SAP Cloud Platform can be difficult. We have experienced some challenges with usability and not being able to get all of the information we need. We would also like to see improvement with security, authentication, and reporting.
Microsoft Azure is extremely scalable with the capability to build an environment quickly. The automation and agility of Microsoft Azure is very valuable. It offers a great information protection feature - you can create custom labels for different documents and files. This keeps data more organized and secure.
Support with Microsoft Azure depends on the plan you purchase; lower-tier plans get limited support. Microsoft Azure can be a very expensive solution overall and can be complex to set up and manage. Integration with other products needs to be better. Microsoft Azure seems to be a bit slow in catching up with what other solutions have to offer.
Conclusion
Microsoft Azure’s biggest downside is the lack of functionality. SAP Cloud Platform provides better integration with other operating systems.
If you or your clients are fully committed to the Microsoft ecosystem, then Microsoft Azure is probably the best option for you.
For those that use other ecosystems, SAP Cloud Platform would be a better fit as they offer better integration with other solutions and broader overall functionality.
I think it's based on the context of your environment and what you want to do. The LinkedIn article by Murali Shanmugham gives you some perspective here.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...
If you use SAP applications extensively, extending them with various services offered by SAP on the SAP Cloud platform would be very useful.
In fact, SAP has made this platform available on hyperscalers like MS Azure, AWS, etc.