Senior Advisor at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Dec 4, 2025
The support has become much more bureaucratic. Often when you log a question with support, they will not be able to adequately answer the question. The product itself has problems in that other relational databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server have the same issue to deal with, but with those platforms, they are taking advantage of the new instruction set. There are some additional Intel instruction sets or instructions in their Intel instruction set. With SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, they did not bother to incorporate support for the new instruction set instructions. In certain circumstances, the database does not operate properly. It is unable to do what it needs to do. If you do your research and go on the internet and see what happens with Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, what comes back is that it takes 4% longer to perform a lot of the instructions. When you are using the new instruction set, it adds 4% to the runtime of the database. With SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, it does not do that. In certain circumstances, it is unable to perform the instructions efficiently. You would think that SAP would simply have recompiled the binaries, but in certain circumstances, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise gets trapped in trying to perform these operations without the benefit of the new instruction set. This is a major handicap for the product. At one point, I was talking to technical support and they told me they do not modify their product for this little company Intel. They are basically making their user base suffer with not fully functional products. This is related to the endianness of the way certain operating systems work. It becomes more difficult to perform certain operations. When you have to perform operations at runtime, it adds 4% overhead. 4% overhead is acceptable, and you can run with that. But not when the product suffers serious decline in performance. Then it becomes a major problem. If you are running into this issue, it is a show stopper. If you are not running into that and are remaining stable on one platform, then it is fine. There may be other areas where SAP is not putting the investment into SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise where in a previous Sybase independent world they would have because it was necessary. A cross-platform dump and load makes it a critical issue. Aside from that particular case, it is kind of an eight. They turned a functional product into something where you have to go through a difficult process to do the conversion. They could not have been more short-sighted, and I do not think they put more development dollars into the product because they were being cheap and made a decision to not invest further. The overall rating for this review is 8.
Technical Consultant and SME at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Nov 4, 2025
Transaction handling efficiency is dependent on how fine-tuned you have done that part, depending upon your organization's requirements. If you need some data to be fetched in less than a fraction of seconds, if it is a read-write operation, or if it is only a read operation, the tuning of the database is done depending upon that. If your requirement is to fetch data, suppose you are fetching data from a bank about how much account money is there, if you fetch your data for that simple thing, it will take five to 10 minutes that will hold up for you. It is better to have an environment where you can access the data within a fraction of seconds. This type of server can be relied upon for that fraction of seconds response time. Overall, I would rate this product a 9.
Principal Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
May 13, 2024
On a personal level, if someone is going for a new database and it's entirely new to their firm, I would rather suggest going for the latest technology. Ultimately, if SAP is going to decommission it, for example, if somebody implemented it today, and in five years, SAP decommissioned ASE, you would be in a place where you have to migrate from ASE to another database. That would be another hectic task, particularly if your production is live. So, if somebody is going to start using SAP ASE now, on a personal level, I wouldn't recommend it. I would suggest going for some of the latest databases that offer much better product support. Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I would suggest that you consider it is loaded with a lot of features. However, the cost could be a constraint. If you are comfortable with that, then you should go for it. Overall, I would rate it a seven out of ten. The rating is based on the services it provides, which we find good. The drawbacks include price. When I talk about services, I refer to the integration capabilities. Integration capabilities encompass various aspects, such as B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-customer) integrations. SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise has predefined standardized methods in place, reducing the need for customization.
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Executive Director at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
Real User
Jul 7, 2021
It's important to make sure the product fits your requirements, otherwise it's a waste of money. We needed to solve workflow management issues, that was very, very critical. There might be cheaper applications out there that can solve other issues. I rate this solution a seven out of 10.
IT Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Jan 27, 2020
We're using a whole package of software from SAP. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. There's nothing the solution needs to improve, although no solution is perfect. There are just minor technical bugs that we need to contend with occasionally. We also need some things that were not part of the original design. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. The solution is very good. We do have a few problems here and there, but technical support is right there to assist whenever anything arises.
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is a high-performance relational database management system designed for mission-critical, data-intensive environments. It provides a centralized environment for storing and managing data, with the ability to handle a wide range of data types and a modularization technique allowing easy customization.
SAP ASE is particularly valuable for financial operations, as it offers integrated financial features. The solution also offers various control agents...
The support has become much more bureaucratic. Often when you log a question with support, they will not be able to adequately answer the question. The product itself has problems in that other relational databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server have the same issue to deal with, but with those platforms, they are taking advantage of the new instruction set. There are some additional Intel instruction sets or instructions in their Intel instruction set. With SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, they did not bother to incorporate support for the new instruction set instructions. In certain circumstances, the database does not operate properly. It is unable to do what it needs to do. If you do your research and go on the internet and see what happens with Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, what comes back is that it takes 4% longer to perform a lot of the instructions. When you are using the new instruction set, it adds 4% to the runtime of the database. With SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, it does not do that. In certain circumstances, it is unable to perform the instructions efficiently. You would think that SAP would simply have recompiled the binaries, but in certain circumstances, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise gets trapped in trying to perform these operations without the benefit of the new instruction set. This is a major handicap for the product. At one point, I was talking to technical support and they told me they do not modify their product for this little company Intel. They are basically making their user base suffer with not fully functional products. This is related to the endianness of the way certain operating systems work. It becomes more difficult to perform certain operations. When you have to perform operations at runtime, it adds 4% overhead. 4% overhead is acceptable, and you can run with that. But not when the product suffers serious decline in performance. Then it becomes a major problem. If you are running into this issue, it is a show stopper. If you are not running into that and are remaining stable on one platform, then it is fine. There may be other areas where SAP is not putting the investment into SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise where in a previous Sybase independent world they would have because it was necessary. A cross-platform dump and load makes it a critical issue. Aside from that particular case, it is kind of an eight. They turned a functional product into something where you have to go through a difficult process to do the conversion. They could not have been more short-sighted, and I do not think they put more development dollars into the product because they were being cheap and made a decision to not invest further. The overall rating for this review is 8.
Transaction handling efficiency is dependent on how fine-tuned you have done that part, depending upon your organization's requirements. If you need some data to be fetched in less than a fraction of seconds, if it is a read-write operation, or if it is only a read operation, the tuning of the database is done depending upon that. If your requirement is to fetch data, suppose you are fetching data from a bank about how much account money is there, if you fetch your data for that simple thing, it will take five to 10 minutes that will hold up for you. It is better to have an environment where you can access the data within a fraction of seconds. This type of server can be relied upon for that fraction of seconds response time. Overall, I would rate this product a 9.
On a personal level, if someone is going for a new database and it's entirely new to their firm, I would rather suggest going for the latest technology. Ultimately, if SAP is going to decommission it, for example, if somebody implemented it today, and in five years, SAP decommissioned ASE, you would be in a place where you have to migrate from ASE to another database. That would be another hectic task, particularly if your production is live. So, if somebody is going to start using SAP ASE now, on a personal level, I wouldn't recommend it. I would suggest going for some of the latest databases that offer much better product support. Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
I would suggest that you consider it is loaded with a lot of features. However, the cost could be a constraint. If you are comfortable with that, then you should go for it. Overall, I would rate it a seven out of ten. The rating is based on the services it provides, which we find good. The drawbacks include price. When I talk about services, I refer to the integration capabilities. Integration capabilities encompass various aspects, such as B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-customer) integrations. SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise has predefined standardized methods in place, reducing the need for customization.
I rate SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise eight out of 10.
It's important to make sure the product fits your requirements, otherwise it's a waste of money. We needed to solve workflow management issues, that was very, very critical. There might be cheaper applications out there that can solve other issues. I rate this solution a seven out of 10.
We're using a whole package of software from SAP. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. There's nothing the solution needs to improve, although no solution is perfect. There are just minor technical bugs that we need to contend with occasionally. We also need some things that were not part of the original design. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. The solution is very good. We do have a few problems here and there, but technical support is right there to assist whenever anything arises.