SAP Process Orchestration Other Advice

Vishal Khare - PeerSpot reviewer
IT manager at Electrolux Home Products

I use the solution to integrate different processes in our company. For any integrations that require mapping on top of SAP IDoc, I use PI/PO.

The solution helps streamline B2B processes in our company, considering that we deal with a lot of 3PL integrations. SAP helps deal with areas like dispatch advice and IDocs, along with aspects related to the mapping that my company does with the help of SAP PI/PO, which is something mostly based on the recipient's requirements. My company has not exposed PI/PO to external parties. My company has another gateway that gets connected with SAP PI/PO, another third party we deal with, but PiP is currently only used for mapping purposes in our organization.

I Just provide the specifications to my company's team, and they take care of SAP PI/PO.

I don't have the experience to speak about how SAP Process Orchestration's user interface has enhanced our company's productivity.

I recommend the product to those who plan to use it, especially those who use SAP ECC. If possible, users should possibly use it for external or third-party connections. Users need to have their architecture and framework correct to be able to use integration platforms in their environment.

I rate the overall tool an eight to nine out of ten.

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Sudheer Patnaik - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect Engineer at Philip Morris International

When it comes to the maintenance part, there are two ways of maintaining the product. The product's maintenance phase includes the maintenance of the application and the maintenance of the infra. For the maintenance of the application, my company has around seven people, and for the maintenance of the infra, my company has around ten people.

I would not recommend the solution to those who plan to use it. I don't think anyone would consider the product anywhere since SAP itself doesn't give much consideration to Process Orchestration.

I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.

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Devang_Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
Leadership-SAP Operations and Technologies- Global Delivery Hub at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

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.

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MA
SAP Manager at Sadaqat Corporation (Pvt) Ltd

I will recommend the solution as it is a very secure solution. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.


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RS
SAP Process Orchestration Team Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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. 

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BM
SAP Consultant at Ford Motor Company

I rate SAP Process Orchestration an eight out of ten. I look forward to working with cloud platforms.

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Sudheer Patnaik - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect Engineer at Philip Morris International

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.

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Vishal Khare - PeerSpot reviewer
IT manager at Electrolux Home Products

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.

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Shashank ShekharSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a retailer with 51-200 employees

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.

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Noelia Fernandez Conejo - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration architect at Dyson

It is a good solution. I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.


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PS
Global Integration Lead & Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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AV
Technological Partner at Code-10 IT Consultants SL

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.

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AP
AVP IT at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

It is highly recommended for customers seeking a lightweight application. Overall, I would rate it seven out of ten.

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Sourhita Das - PeerSpot reviewer
Professional 1 software engineer at DXC technologies

SAP Process Orchestration is deployed on-cloud in our organization.

Overall, I rate SAP Process Orchestration an eight out of ten.

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VK
SAP Integration Architect

The platform is very stable and robust, its capabilities can satisfy a wide spectrum of requirements that are typical for on-premises integration scenarios. Though, given the product roadmap, eventually, customers will have to migrate to SAP Integration Suite, and they shall plan migration efforts in advance.

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AM
Sr. ABAP Developer at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

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.

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BT
Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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GK
Head of Supply Chain Management at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The solution is more suitable for small and mid-sized businesses. I rate it as an eight.

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MB
Enterprise Applications Manager at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

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.

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Vasanth Kumar Sabaapathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I rate this solution a nine out of ten. SAP is good in the market.

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SK
Solution Architect - SAP Banking at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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.

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SN
Senior Integration Engeneer at ATOS

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.

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Atakan Köycü - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Negzel Teknoloji A.Ş.

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.

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RM
Partner & SAP Netweaver Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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.  

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WK
Works at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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MD
Infrastructure Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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RR
Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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. 

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AS
Consultant (SAP Integration) at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

I recommend this solution to others if you are thinking of migration.

I would rate SAP Process Orchestration a six out of ten.

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