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

6.8

Number of Reviews

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Business-to-Business Middleware (2nd)

Workato

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

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Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (5th)

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 7.1%, down 11.5% compared to last year.
Workato, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 5.0% mindshare, up 4.3% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Vasanth Kumar Sabaapathi

Senior Lead Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Simplified integrations bring flexibility and efficiency to diverse industries through comprehensive features and robust support

SAP is already trying to make improvements for SAP Process Orchestration by releasing updates every quarter, including patches and modules, and from a security standpoint, while it's a tightly coupled tool, they are introducing a lot of enhancements aligned with current market trends. There are standard contents readily available for starting integrations, which suit around 90% of every industry across verticals including pharma, manufacturing, and employee data central with SuccessFactors integration. Regarding functionality-wise improvements in SAP Process Orchestration, they are now incorporating the Salesforce system. Previously, we needed to rely on a third-party adapter for integration within SAP, but now they are building their own adapters to connect with Salesforce. Additionally, there are options like data connectors using Ariba coming up with SAP Process Orchestration. There's much more to explore, especially as they release new patches, enhancements, and adapters each quarter.

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Isaac Viana

Don't information on the list at ProPacto

Integration support simplifies automation and reduces errors without existing frustrations

In Workato, I can see everything that goes behind the process. You can see how everything works, how the tool works in the background. If something goes bad and an error appears, I can see why it happened. The best features Workato offers, in my opinion, are the easy integration with many different types of tools. The Workato interface is so easy to use. Workato has impacted my organization positively by reducing errors, which is one of the most important improvements I can see, and one great thing is that in Workato I can do many things that the main BPA platform we use does not do. Error reduction has helped our team in Workato as we can see more details about the most common errors and what makes everything go bad. With this specific data, we can develop a new and better solution. Workato helped us to do this. We can see more details about the errors and solve them. Workato has improved a lot of my work because there I can develop many flows easier and faster. At this moment, I do not have anything that frustrates me.

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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

"Process Orchestration fulfils the need for middleware to mediate types of connectivity."

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

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

"The product has good technical support but you usually will not need it because it is quite stable."

"The performance of data processing has increased."

"With the latest version what I find to be the most valuable are the REST, SuccessFactors, and Ariba Network adapters."

"The most valuable features of SAP Process Orchestration are the standard APIs that we can use."

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

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

"The initial setup was very easy."

"I definitely recommend Workato to others; it is the best product in our technology stack, allowing us to integrate legacy systems and address diverse requirements."

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

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

"Workato allows us to streamline our operations by replacing multiple legacy systems with a single integrated platform."

"Workato reduces total development time as it generates code seamlessly and integrates with SQL databases or APIs through configuration."

"The delivery time has drastically improved using Workato because of its low-code feature and pre-built connectors which are very easy to use compared to MuleSoft."

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Cons

"The cloud capability features need improvement."

"The user interface of SAP Process Orchestration should be more modern to enhance its appeal. It can seem complicated and outdated to new users."

"SAP should improve the user interface, as it often lacks modern features and aesthetic appeal."

"It is not a scalable solution for the cloud. I would not recommend this for the cloud."

"The older version of the solution will no longer be supported."

"I feel that support is an area that needs improvement. They need to improve the response time and address the customer's issues as soon as possible."

"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."

"Some configurations can be a little tricky."

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"There are storage limitations in Workato. The event streams come with a limitation of only 512 KB."

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

"One area for improvement is the CI/CD pipeline, which lacks a version control system similar to GitHub for easier deployment."

"The data flow and debugging processes need improvement, especially for tracing issues."

"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."

"From a technical standpoint, the security features at the data orchestration level could be more organized, and improvements in certificate management are necessary."

"A limitation is that their cloud presence is only in North America and Europe."

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was a bit challenging in the past because the client I was working for did not have an unlimited license to use unlimited tasks and could not create many different processes and flows in Workato."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is not a low-priced solution, but I can say that it is competitively priced in the market."

"The pricing for this solution is fine."

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

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

"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."

"There are fees in addition to the licensing."

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

"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."

More SAP Process Orchestration pricing and cost advice

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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?

The price for SAP Process Orchestration is a little high when compared to market trends, which is just how the business is. I would rate it an eight.

What needs improvement with SAP Process Orchestration?

What do you like most about Workato?

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

What needs improvement with Workato?

The customization capabilities could be enhanced significantly. Having used other integration tools such as Boomi and MuleSoft in the past, the features in Workato appear to be at a primitive stage...

What is your primary use case for Workato?

The main use cases include API-related scenarios, sales cycle processes, and invoicing operations. This primarily involves the purchase journey of the company, where Workato serves as an integratio...

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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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