SAP Process Orchestration vs Workato comparison

SAP Process Orchestration

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Process Orchestration

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

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Workato

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

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Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (7th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Integration solutions, they serve different purposes. SAP Process Orchestration is designed for Business-to-Business Middleware and holds a mindshare of 7.5%, down 11.7% compared to last year.
Workato, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 4.8% mindshare, up 4.3% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Laxman Molugu

Chief Executive Officer at Saanvi systems inc

Enhances operational efficiency with valuable prepackaged content and cost-effective pricing

For organizations that operate within an SAP ecosystem, SAP Process Orchestration is recommended due to its cost-effectiveness and the availability of valuable prepackaged content. It is important to consider the needs of your industry, as SAP Process Orchestration may not meet all requirements in consumer-oriented sectors. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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Rohit Sircar

Integration Solutions Lead | Digital Core Transformation Service Line at Hexaware Technologies Limited

Great automation and strong workflows useful for integration

The initial setup is quite straightforward. When connecting Workato with your on-premises system, you have to install the Workato agent on your network. It was not complex but a long process to configure and settle. Workato has not gone live for us yet, so only the developers are currently using it. But in terms of users, we will have close to 250 and maybe 30 additional direct users. We are seeing a lot of different use cases where we can add new recipes because we started small, and there are many different areas where we can implement Workato for automation.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The initial setup is easy...The solution gets automatically connected. The deployment takes six months. I rate its setup phase a ten out of ten."

"The performance of data processing has increased."

"t is a pretty stable solution. I have not seen any outages in the solution."

"It is strategically focused to forecast a global integration platform for our business."

"I rate the product's setup phase a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy since it is a very easy process."

"Orchestration is beneficial for us."

"The monitoring is one of the greatest features in Process Orchestration because it is user-friendly and easy for somebody who is not experienced."

"The most valuable feature is the seamless integration with backend systems."

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"The features of Workato are very user-friendly."

"I absolutely think it is worth the money to have Workato as a tool."

"Moreover, AI automation simplifies integration development by understanding requirements from prompts and creating the necessary automation."

"It is very easy to use. It takes complex workloads away, and it provides very smooth integration. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box connectors. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box APIs, which makes it really easy to integrate with applications for different use cases, whether it is in finance, HR, or customer operations. It is by far our favorite integration product."

"It is easier to use than other technical open-source technologies."

"It's easy to understand, makes flows and is efficient."

"I would recommend Workato because everyone is moving away from writing extensive code."

"The most valuable features are easy integration, quick tab to develop, quick tab to market, and interactive integration platform."

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Cons

"The solution could improve by making it more user-friendly by limiting the code required. We have to add some code in some cases where we need complex logic or some other functions. If this was able to be done in a more simplified manner then it would save a lot of effort and time."

"The monitoring governance offered by SAP is too technical and needs to be geared more toward business users."

"SAP Process Orchestration could improve from an API standpoint. This is not an API management tool, which is one of its drawbacks. However, SAP has released an SAP Cloud Platform Integration which has all of the features, such as API management along with process integration to replace what they had previously."

"The responsiveness of technical support needs to be improved."

"The solution is not very scalable because it is at the end of its life."

"I think the main area that SAP PO should improve on is offering pre-delivered content like they do when you use SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI). SAP should not forget that they still have a lot of customers using Process Orchestration and they should focus more on providing pre-delivered content in SAP PO."

"Its administration management feature needs to be simpler to use."

"We encounter challenges while connecting to MQTT and MQDD adapters."

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"Though I find the task-based usage in Workato challenging, requiring careful workflow design."

"Workato could be improved by adding a proper debugging feature. Currently, there's no way to set breakpoints to stop the process and debug an error as you can in other tools like webMethods."

"From the deployment point of view, our customers encounter platform downtime where it does not serve the actual request on the systems."

"The management dashboard in the solution is an area with shortcomings that needs improvement."

"Currently, Workato is a low-code platform without native programming capabilities. I would appreciate having a dedicated programming language for tasks like transformations and functional programming."

"The data flow and debugging processes need improvement, especially for tracing issues. Additionally, Workato struggles with scalability when handling high volumes of data, such as terabytes, requiring chunking for initial data loads."

"Integrating on-prem applications is challenging, even though they have an on-prem agent."

"Based on my experience, it would be really beneficial if the unit tests were improved because when you change a recipe significantly, they do not work anymore, and you have to remake them all."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a very expensive solution. We only pay for the license."

"The fee for maintenance is costly."

"My company deals with different pricing models of the product, according to which we don't pay for the solution directly, but we do pay for the maintenance part."

"The cost of SAP products is quite high but the quality is really good."

"The license is a one-time payment, and additional costs are only incurred on the infrastructure side since it's an on-premise solution."

"We subscribe to annual licenses, and the competitive license cost is reasonable."

"The solution is highly-priced."

"Looking at market conditions, vendors nowadays are giving products at very low price levels. However, SAP Process Orchestration have not yet reduced their prices. The prices could be reduced a lot to stay competitive."

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"Workato is an expensive solution."

"Speaking about price, I would say that it's market-related. Also, there are costs in addition to the standard license fees since different add-ons depend on what you require."

"On a scale of one to ten, the pricing is around a six. We have a consumption model and the pricing is higher. If you are using any kind of ML-based approach, machine learning, or some advanced analytics, you may have to pay more."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

Retailer

Educational Organization

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SAP Process Orchestration?

It provides essential features such as continuous monitoring of all interfaces are crucial for our needs.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Process Orchestration?

SAP solutions are generally expensive. SAP Process Orchestration was integrated with SAP ECC in a package, but my customers have consistently described it as an expensive product.

What needs improvement with SAP Process Orchestration?

The user interface of SAP Process Orchestration should be more modern to enhance its appeal. It can seem complicated and outdated to new users. Additionally, the tool relies on Java, which feels le...

What do you like most about Workato?

Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use.

What needs improvement with Workato?

I am currently in the exploratory phase. While the cloud-native aspect is beneficial, having deployment options similar to MuleSoft would be a great additional feature. Their approach aims to remov...

What is your primary use case for Workato?

I have been using Workato for the past two years now. Our current project was doing automation earlier with workflows using MuleSoft. These have now been moved to Workato for integrating systems fo...

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Also Known As

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, NetWeaver Process Integration

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Overview

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 to the receiver either via the Integration Server, or directly between the systems involved. SAP PI can be installed in different ways: Dual usage type installation: Based on both AS ABAP and AS Java. and Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX): Based on AS Java only.

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