We performed a comparison between IBM Public Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The price of IBM Cloud is most valuable for us. The service is personable and gives us a good rapport. I can't say it's the best, but it was enough for our needs."
"It's straightforward, has a good environment and is cost-effective."
"The beauty of cloud service providers, especially public cloud service providers, is that they are scalable every time when you need them because their payment model is pay-as-you-go."
"There is no installation for this product because it is a cloud product."
"For non-complex applications, the IBM Cloud works fine and the price is much lower than the competitors."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Public Cloud is the AI integrations."
"It is a scalable product. You can scale it up and down."
"I've found the stability to be excellent. The performance is good."
"The solution has a lot of great features."
"The most valuable features of SAP Cloud Platform are security integration and scalability."
"It’s great that we have the entire suite of SAP at our fingertips."
"The pre-delivered content from the SAP cloud platform is definitely a strength."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"The features I found most valuable are the integration options."
"One of the best features of this solution is that it is web-based and you can log in and work on it from anywhere."
"One of the most valuable features I have found is that the solution is secure."
"The product should offer more computing, similar to Amazon."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"While they have about 99% of what we need, the only exception, perhaps, was the push notification feature that was discontinued. They delayed the replacement product."
"Recently, we just faced some issues with the operating system due to the end of life of CentOS 6...So, then the client wanted to try it out under AWS instead of IBM. In short, it has some complexities."
"Maybe performance enhancers and reports could be better improved. If they do so, it would be better. Of all the drawbacks I saw, this would be the biggest enhancement."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly deployment process in the next release of this solution."
"The deployment can be a bit of a pain. There are a lot of packages and a lot of options and it can require complex configuration to get it right."
"There is not a lot of support for this solution, which is something that needs to be improved."
"Planning features are limited to the finance module."
"When I started looking at the client's IT architecture, I started by doing a study of their services, DVM, data volume, and management services. According to the results, they could be a lot better at this."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements with the price and the licensing."
"Usability is a challenge most of the time and not being able to get all of the information."
"I can’t speak to features that may be missing."
"The product needs improvement for serverless native integrations. They should opt for serverless features as all the customers worldwide choose cloud-based products."
"What I would like to see improved is the learning curve."
"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."
IBM Public Cloud is ranked 9th in PaaS Clouds with 16 reviews while SAP Cloud Platform is ranked 6th in PaaS Clouds with 38 reviews. IBM Public Cloud is rated 8.0, while SAP Cloud Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Public Cloud writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and has helpful support". 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". IBM Public Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Cloud and Salesforce Platform, whereas SAP Cloud Platform is most compared with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Mule Anypoint Platform and webMethods.io Integration. See our IBM Public Cloud vs. SAP Cloud Platform report.
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