SAP PO offers uniquely convenient solutions for both SAP and non-SAP integrations. I do not see solutions such as SAP CPI, BTP as an alternative to on-premise SAP PO. They are solutions that can be used together and provide different advantages. It should not be forgotten that there are very advanced complementary products such as BPM, BRM that come with SAP PO license. As a result, I don't think there is any integration that cannot be done with SAP PO (and its ecosystem). It is extremely mature, secure and can be sized smoothly from the smallest systems to giant systems with the largest tps needs. I rate SAP Process Orchestration an nine out of ten.
How does a successful SAP deployment work?Outsourcing allows you to avoid the cost of employing and training internal employees, as well as the cost of maintaining an on-premise infrastructure. In addition, we will address SAP implementation so that you may optimize your potential in today's competitive business climate: https://www.cleveroad.com/blog/why-outsource-sap/
Leadership-SAP Operations and Technologies- Global Delivery Hub at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
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Top 10
2023-09-06T09:57:23Z
Sep 6, 2023
If you have SAP ERP, SAP Process Orchestration is the best solution. It allows easy integration across your landscape and with third-party systems. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Solutions Architect at a retailer with 51-200 employees
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Top 10
2023-03-09T21:55:17Z
Mar 9, 2023
Adobe has stated it is ending support for Process Orchestration in 2027, so it would be better to look for an alternative like SAP CPA. I would give Process Orchestration a rating of nine out of ten.
Enterprise Applications Manager at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
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Top 20
2023-02-07T18:46:17Z
Feb 7, 2023
There is some monitoring that you can do in the platform in the interfaces which is beneficial. It's a little difficult to use, but it is a typical SAP design. I rate SAP Process Orchestration a nine out of ten.
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.
Someone who has to work on a PO should at least have a basic understanding of Java because as it is an integration tool, the way SAP provides to transform the messages from one structure to another is very good. This understanding of Java as a backend is important because SAP also supports writing mappings on Java, which they call it Java Mappings. I would rate this tool from an ESB point of view for integrating on-premise applications, a nine out of ten, not as an overall integration tool. An overall integration tool has API management which is missing. I rate SAP Process Orchestration a seven out of ten.
Technological Partner at Code-10 IT Consultants SL
Real User
2021-12-21T10:07:00Z
Dec 21, 2021
My advice is that it's not a good idea to re-implement the wheel. It's better to go with secure and mature tools. And if you have a SAP ecosystem it's better to stick with the products of SAP. SAP PO is a very mature product and if you're going the cloud middleware route, I'd put forward that it's a good idea to have a hybrid test scenario with a combination of SAP PO on-premise and SAP Cloud Platform Integration together. I would rate SAP Process Orchestration a nine out of ten.
I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've been pretty happy with the product so far. I would recommend the solution to others. All SAP products are good. As long as businesses are flexible they will be fine. If they try to customize any of the SAP solutions themselves, it becomes really hard in terms of the process.
Global Integration Lead & Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
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2021-09-20T15:54:35Z
Sep 20, 2021
I recommend SAP Process Orchestration because it has currently reached maturity over the last few years. I can see on the online forums there are many questions raised by customers and SAP is slowly taking care of all the issues that people were facing. This is a good solution and they do not need to quit using it to move to a cloud version. I rate SAP Process Orchestration an eight out of ten.
Infrastructure Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2021-01-27T10:01:16Z
Jan 27, 2021
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.
Sr. ABAP Developer at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
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2021-01-22T20:00:33Z
Jan 22, 2021
We're just a custumer. We don't have a business relationship with the company. The last I checked, we were using the 7.5 version. It may have since switched to 7.6, however, I'm not 100% sure. We typically use the latest version of the solution. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate this product at a nine. We've been pretty happy with it overall.
We are still in the evaluating phase and we are still evaluating other tools that are available. Based on that, we will be having a round table discussion in a meeting to discuss the outcome and finalize whether we will migrate the interfaces or go with Process Orchestration. They want to evaluate and list the pros and cons of all of the tools. As per the automation roadmap, we are planning to move everything into the cloud. We are just evaluating the cloud, particularly tools that are available. Even though we are hosting on Azure Cloud services, it is still on-premises. They have introduced SAP CPI, and I am not sure whether SAP Process Orchestration is going to be available for much longer as they are investing more into SAP CPI. SAP CPI is the new IPaas tool that is improving and not a mature tool as SAP Process Orchestration. SAP is continuously improving and adding more features to SAP CPI. Many customers are confused, whether they should invest in procure Process Orchestration or SAP CPI. There are some clients that invest in both SAP CPI and Process Orchestration. because due to the current limitations in SAP CPI, they are not able to migrate all the interfaces from SAP PI/PO to SAP CPI. If customers are considering investing in both, then they might want to think about the licensing costs. It will be a burden for them. It will good to have a single middleware tool, instead of multiple middleware tools. I don't understand why the product companies are releasing multiple middlewares to handle various integrations like A2A, B2B, and EDI integrations, etc. It will be a burden for the organizations to procure multiple middlewares for their various integration needs. They have to invest more money in licensing and maintenance. I feel it's a bad practice to develop several middleware tools from the same organization. Instead of developing multiple middleware tools, It would be better to have all of those features into one middleware instead of providing multiple middleware tools? It's more of a business gimmick. I think SAP seems to be following along the same path as they have many middleware tools within SAP. If you see the SuccessFactors, they have a SuccessFactors integration center (IC), where they can integrate the applications using SFTP / REST / SOAP protocols. The IC features are very limited to develop interfaces, it doesn't have flexible monitoring like SAP PO or SAP CPI. Of course, the Integration center (IC) is having some advantages, but it will not suffice for the customer to all the integrations using IC and they have to still invest in Middleware. The SAP CPI area has to improve a lot when compares with the other middleware. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-07-19T08:15:00Z
Jul 19, 2020
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 Team Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-06-04T09:41:23Z
Jun 4, 2020
For any enterprise services, if you want to centralize your integration and have one central place that you move data through, instead of having all these various different connections, running all over the show, then this would be the system to use. You can easily set governance policies, see rules, and manage all connections in and out of your environment, especially from a security point of view. It's a great integration tool and a wonderful idea. I would rate this solution a nine out of 10.
Solution Architect - SAP Banking at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-03-22T06:49:12Z
Mar 22, 2020
At this point, I'm not sure what advice I would give to those people who are researching this type of solution. I am looking at other products because I want to see how good they are. It may turn out that SAP Process Orchestration is still much better, which means that I would continue with it. There are pros and cons with all vendors, so it may not be worth switching if you are already using this. At this point, I am generally satisfied with SAP, but the roadmap is something that is bothering us. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
Partner & SAP Netweaver Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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2020-03-04T08:49:00Z
Mar 4, 2020
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.
I have my own SAP installation on my local server but I'm not using it on production items. I'm just consulting with my customers on their production environment. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. If the solution was more flexible and offered external monitoring features I would rate it higher. The PI portion of the system is quite flexible, but I've had very complex integrations and had to develop an adaptive modem. It needs some more time to really come into its own. I'd recommend the product to others. It's very stable and you can use it for SAP and non-SAP integrations.
SAP Process Orchestration is something that I recommend because it is a very high-quality product. If the support were faster then it would be even better. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
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...
SAP PO offers uniquely convenient solutions for both SAP and non-SAP integrations. I do not see solutions such as SAP CPI, BTP as an alternative to on-premise SAP PO. They are solutions that can be used together and provide different advantages. It should not be forgotten that there are very advanced complementary products such as BPM, BRM that come with SAP PO license. As a result, I don't think there is any integration that cannot be done with SAP PO (and its ecosystem). It is extremely mature, secure and can be sized smoothly from the smallest systems to giant systems with the largest tps needs. I rate SAP Process Orchestration an nine out of ten.
How does a successful SAP deployment work?Outsourcing allows you to avoid the cost of employing and training internal employees, as well as the cost of maintaining an on-premise infrastructure. In addition, we will address SAP implementation so that you may optimize your potential in today's competitive business climate: https://www.cleveroad.com/blog/why-outsource-sap/
It is highly recommended for customers seeking a lightweight application. Overall, I would rate it seven out of ten.
I rate SAP Process Orchestration an eight out of ten. I look forward to working with cloud platforms.
SAP Process Orchestration is deployed on-cloud in our organization. Overall, I rate SAP Process Orchestration an eight out of ten.
If you have SAP ERP, SAP Process Orchestration is the best solution. It allows easy integration across your landscape and with third-party systems. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
It is a good solution. I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.
I will recommend the solution as it is a very secure solution. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.
The solution is more suitable for small and mid-sized businesses. I rate it as an eight.
Adobe has stated it is ending support for Process Orchestration in 2027, so it would be better to look for an alternative like SAP CPA. I would give Process Orchestration a rating of nine out of ten.
There is some monitoring that you can do in the platform in the interfaces which is beneficial. It's a little difficult to use, but it is a typical SAP design. I rate SAP Process Orchestration a nine out of ten.
I rate this solution a nine out of ten. SAP is good in the market.
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.
Someone who has to work on a PO should at least have a basic understanding of Java because as it is an integration tool, the way SAP provides to transform the messages from one structure to another is very good. This understanding of Java as a backend is important because SAP also supports writing mappings on Java, which they call it Java Mappings. I would rate this tool from an ESB point of view for integrating on-premise applications, a nine out of ten, not as an overall integration tool. An overall integration tool has API management which is missing. I rate SAP Process Orchestration a seven out of ten.
My advice is that it's not a good idea to re-implement the wheel. It's better to go with secure and mature tools. And if you have a SAP ecosystem it's better to stick with the products of SAP. SAP PO is a very mature product and if you're going the cloud middleware route, I'd put forward that it's a good idea to have a hybrid test scenario with a combination of SAP PO on-premise and SAP Cloud Platform Integration together. I would rate SAP Process Orchestration a nine out of ten.
I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've been pretty happy with the product so far. I would recommend the solution to others. All SAP products are good. As long as businesses are flexible they will be fine. If they try to customize any of the SAP solutions themselves, it becomes really hard in terms of the process.
I recommend SAP Process Orchestration because it has currently reached maturity over the last few years. I can see on the online forums there are many questions raised by customers and SAP is slowly taking care of all the issues that people were facing. This is a good solution and they do not need to quit using it to move to a cloud version. I rate SAP Process Orchestration an eight out of ten.
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.
I recommend this solution to others if you are thinking of migration. I would rate SAP Process Orchestration a six out of ten.
We're just a custumer. We don't have a business relationship with the company. The last I checked, we were using the 7.5 version. It may have since switched to 7.6, however, I'm not 100% sure. We typically use the latest version of the solution. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate this product at a nine. We've been pretty happy with it overall.
We are still in the evaluating phase and we are still evaluating other tools that are available. Based on that, we will be having a round table discussion in a meeting to discuss the outcome and finalize whether we will migrate the interfaces or go with Process Orchestration. They want to evaluate and list the pros and cons of all of the tools. As per the automation roadmap, we are planning to move everything into the cloud. We are just evaluating the cloud, particularly tools that are available. Even though we are hosting on Azure Cloud services, it is still on-premises. They have introduced SAP CPI, and I am not sure whether SAP Process Orchestration is going to be available for much longer as they are investing more into SAP CPI. SAP CPI is the new IPaas tool that is improving and not a mature tool as SAP Process Orchestration. SAP is continuously improving and adding more features to SAP CPI. Many customers are confused, whether they should invest in procure Process Orchestration or SAP CPI. There are some clients that invest in both SAP CPI and Process Orchestration. because due to the current limitations in SAP CPI, they are not able to migrate all the interfaces from SAP PI/PO to SAP CPI. If customers are considering investing in both, then they might want to think about the licensing costs. It will be a burden for them. It will good to have a single middleware tool, instead of multiple middleware tools. I don't understand why the product companies are releasing multiple middlewares to handle various integrations like A2A, B2B, and EDI integrations, etc. It will be a burden for the organizations to procure multiple middlewares for their various integration needs. They have to invest more money in licensing and maintenance. I feel it's a bad practice to develop several middleware tools from the same organization. Instead of developing multiple middleware tools, It would be better to have all of those features into one middleware instead of providing multiple middleware tools? It's more of a business gimmick. I think SAP seems to be following along the same path as they have many middleware tools within SAP. If you see the SuccessFactors, they have a SuccessFactors integration center (IC), where they can integrate the applications using SFTP / REST / SOAP protocols. The IC features are very limited to develop interfaces, it doesn't have flexible monitoring like SAP PO or SAP CPI. Of course, the Integration center (IC) is having some advantages, but it will not suffice for the customer to all the integrations using IC and they have to still invest in Middleware. The SAP CPI area has to improve a lot when compares with the other middleware. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
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.
For any enterprise services, if you want to centralize your integration and have one central place that you move data through, instead of having all these various different connections, running all over the show, then this would be the system to use. You can easily set governance policies, see rules, and manage all connections in and out of your environment, especially from a security point of view. It's a great integration tool and a wonderful idea. I would rate this solution a nine out of 10.
At this point, I'm not sure what advice I would give to those people who are researching this type of solution. I am looking at other products because I want to see how good they are. It may turn out that SAP Process Orchestration is still much better, which means that I would continue with it. There are pros and cons with all vendors, so it may not be worth switching if you are already using this. At this point, I am generally satisfied with SAP, but the roadmap is something that is bothering us. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
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.
I have my own SAP installation on my local server but I'm not using it on production items. I'm just consulting with my customers on their production environment. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. If the solution was more flexible and offered external monitoring features I would rate it higher. The PI portion of the system is quite flexible, but I've had very complex integrations and had to develop an adaptive modem. It needs some more time to really come into its own. I'd recommend the product to others. It's very stable and you can use it for SAP and non-SAP integrations.
SAP Process Orchestration is something that I recommend because it is a very high-quality product. If the support were faster then it would be even better. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.