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

Ranking in other categories

Business-to-Business Middleware (7th)

Workato

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

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 5.1%, down 8.7% compared to last year.
Workato, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 5.0% mindshare, up 3.6% since last year.

Business-to-Business Middleware Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP Process Orchestration	5.1%
IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services	13.2%
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite	10.9%
Other	70.80000000000001%

Business-to-Business Middleware

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Workato	5.0%
Boomi iPaaS	8.0%
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform	6.7%
Other	80.3%

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

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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AshishPatil1

Technical Consultant at IST Technology

Data processing efficiency increases with workflow automation but could improve on handling high volume data

The most valuable feature of Workato is that billing is based on task actions; whatever actions we take on the Workato platform will determine the task consumption and billing for each workflow. More optimized workflows lead to less billing for clients. Furthermore, they have introduced a Copilot feature for automation, helping build recipes and code with simple prompts. Additionally, they are developing AI solutions for clients. These are some top features, along with various others implemented per client specifications, such as CICD implementation and runtime connection changes. The benefits of using Workato for our customers include automating business workflows and data integration. By addressing their manual efforts, which are time-consuming and prone to errors, Workato helps clients reduce costs while increasing productivity. We implement solutions that enable seamless data integration between different systems, minimizing time-consuming manual processes. A positive impact we see is cost reduction, as manual efforts are significantly lowered. For example, in production support teams, manual processes are streamlined through CICD implementation, allowing for a seamless integration of different environments with minimal errors and faster deployment.

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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 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 standard adapter with EBA abilities is the most valuable feature. It has good process integration."

"SAP Process Orchestration offers easy maintainability and is a very flexible tool that easily adapts to any integration standards and artifacts that are readily available."

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

"The performance of data processing has increased."

"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 initial setup is easy."

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"Personally, I enjoy using Workato, and my company feels that it results in significant time savings since it is easy to understand and allows new team members to onboard quickly."

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

"With Workato, as soon as an invoice is put in our vendor management system, we sync it within two to three minutes, providing a real-time experience."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

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

"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."

"It serves as a one-stop shop where you can maximize coverage on both the automation and AI side."

"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."

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Cons

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

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

"The product roadmap suggests it will approach the end of support in several years, and a lot of innovations are now implemented by SAP not in SAP PO, but in SAP Integration Suite, hence, the platform is stable, but doesn't receive a lot of new features in recent updates."

"Process Orchestration needs to provide secure connectivity as no one has any data information."

"I think the big improvement required in the tool stems from the fact that the whole issue around it is that we have some downtime failures during upgrades and patching."

"The cloud capability features need improvement."

"It does not have all of the industry-standard solutions available in PO and it is not plug and play, so we have to do a lot of development."

"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."

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

"Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations."

"The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) capabilities could be improved."

"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."

"I would like to see the dashboarding and reporting processes improved."

"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."

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

"It is tedious to make a tailor-fit function."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"The pricing depends on what type of client you are with SAP and the contract you have. There is a licensing cost that needs to be paid."

"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 fee for maintenance is costly."

"Normally, you will have to choose CPU-based licensing...I rate the tool price a five out of ten."

"The price of SAP Process Orchestration was reasonable."

"There are fees in addition to the licensing."

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"Workato is an expensive solution."

"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."

"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

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Retailer

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	26

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

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 is your primary use case for SAP Process Orchestration?

The main use case for SAP Process Orchestration is that it's an SAP proprietary tool which integrates within SAP and outside SAP. It's the most familiar middleware tool which is used for integrations.

What needs improvement with Workato?

In Workato, there are some limitations regarding very high transactional data in file formats. For instance, we have a 90-minute job timeout, and queues larger than 10,000 size will be purged. Addi...

What is your primary use case for Workato?

The usual use cases for Workato include real-time data processing from either SFTP or SAS, and we have implemented multiple use cases for our clients in the past 3.5 years. For example, the employe...

What advice do you have for others considering Workato?

I have been working with clients for Workato implementation, focusing on consulting and implementing solutions for their business needs. We automate basic workflows and handle various complexities ...

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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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