We performed a comparison between Microsoft .NET Framework and SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The web development and Microsoft Windows service development capabilities are among the most valuable features offered by the Microsoft .NET Framework. This language platform is highly user-friendly, with plenty of online examples and information available, as well as a robust development environment."
"The addition of generics to handle common functionality across types, and the more recent upgrade of the dataset to the Entity Framework, has cut development time drastically, while increasing quality and confidence between builds."
"It is a stable solution."
"Ease of use, the richness of the libraries and basically very good development tools."
"Microsoft .NET Framework continually innovates, particularly in Visual Studio, which focuses on improving languages, debugging, and .NET functionality."
"The Windows Communication Foundation is the biggest advantage we get from the .NET Framework."
"In my opinion, the best thing about Microsoft .NET is the fully featured framework. It provides most of the things which a normal developer requires of any application out of the box."
"The most valuable thing about Microsoft .NET Framework is that it is an enterprise-grade language and platform."
"From the use of this solution, we have been able to establish better processes and have greater management of our company."
"Internal workflow approval around ESS and MSS leave days, capex approval as well as internal communication to the business have improved the way my organization functions."
"Workflow functionality and internal portal capabilities are the most important features."
"They integrated it with the SAP router."
"They should have more training materials available that are specific to .NET. We spend a lot of money training our engineers."
"One thing that could be improved is the tooling and IDE for .NET in non-Windows environments like Mac."
"The solution has difficulty integrating with other products. There are no such difficulties if you have the same platform, hardware, and operating system."
"It is of great concern to us that the solution is not very powerful on cross platform, at it impedes the ability to build and scale with it."
"The product’s reliability needs improvement."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"The .NET open source community could be larger."
"You need to have the technical expertise to use this product."
"Our customers expect that a page will open within one second, and I doubt this will happen. Also, opening documentation takes time. Fixing this will help the customer and help to meet their expectations."
"External portal functionality with suppliers and customers needs improvement."
"Due to our business, some setups were very complex."
"We encountered stability issues, especially on external functionality around its RFP capabilities."
"The user interface could be improved by making it more user-friendly."
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Microsoft .NET Framework is ranked 4th in Application Infrastructure with 47 reviews while SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal is ranked 21st in Application Infrastructure. Microsoft .NET Framework is rated 8.4, while SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft .NET Framework writes "Intuitive, easier to develop, maintain, and migrate from the old framework to newer versions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal writes "The UI makes the setup easy to do from anywhere". Microsoft .NET Framework is most compared with IIS, Magic xpa Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus, whereas SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal is most compared with NGINX Plus, Apache Web Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our Microsoft .NET Framework vs. SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal report.
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