Executive Summary
SAP is the market leader for business applications. In the current era of business best-practice uncertainty, enterprises need to be able to extend these applications, integrate them with other solutions, and sometimes even build separate applications that run on SAP’s platform and/or integrate with SAP products. Vendors also include stand-alone applications, but have substantial market and mind share among CxOs making decisions about SAP strategy and applications.
To be included in this Constellation Shortlist, vendors must be dedicated to the no-code/low-code space, offer a cloud-based solution, and support the key EAP use cases of extend, integrate, and build. The extend use case refers to the ability to extend SAP applications on various levels. The integrated use case requires that the included vendor provide out-of-the-box integration with SAP. And finally, the build use case refers to the ability to build stand-alone capabilities that can coexist with SAP-shipped or other custom applications. In addition to meeting several other clerical shortlist criteria listed below, these vendors are fully dedicated to making business users more productive, putting them in charge of their automation destiny.
Throughout the last years, AI has been a key trigger to build new application, and the vendors of this shortlist have all added AI capabilities to their portfolio.
Threshold Criteria
Constellation considers the following criteria for these solutions:
- Being a cloud-based solution
- Ability to support the three Constellation enterprise application platform (EAP) use cases:
- Extend
- Integrate
- Build
- Ability to perform the EAP use cases with no-code/low-code tools
- Focus on business users as a key user constituency in the overall user group of the vendor
- Multiple integration points with SAP systems to enable seamless operation of the apps
- A roadmap for how to extend alignment and integration with SAP platforms
- An interest in better usage of the platform by SAP system integrators
- Deliver AI-powered capabilities with customer live in the latest Q4 2025
- A roadmap and better capabilities for bringing AI/ML to these applications
- At least 700 customers in the SAP ecosystem
- Support for multiple languages
- Presence on at least two continents
The Constellation ShortList
Constellation evaluates more than 40 solutions categorized in this market. The Constellation ShortList is determined by client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share, and internal research.
- Airtable
- Appian Platform
- Creatio
- Mendix Platform
- Neptune Software Neptune DX
- OutSystems
- ServiceNow Now Platform
- UI Path App
Frequency of Evaluation
Each Constellation ShortList is updated at least once per year. Updates may occur after six months if deemed necessary.
Evaluation Services
Constellation clients can work with the analyst and the research team to conduct a more thorough discussion of this ShortList. Constellation can also provide guidance in vendor selection and contract negotiation.