We performed a comparison between SAP Information Steward and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"The Data Cleansing and the scorecard dashboard are very valuable. Additionally, the financial aspect of SAP Information Steward is very good. When a rule is incorrect then it will show how much is it costing the business. These features are very valuable."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"The solution is very fast."
"The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"I've used the reverse engineering feature a lot. I can take a look at the structure of the database and what relationships it has."
"It's a stable system. It never crashes."
"The most valuable feature is the way you can extend it and customize it. With most modeling tools, you fit your modeling process to fit the tool. In PowerDesigner, you can make the tool fit the way you want to work."
"It can automate many routine tasks and save human resources to focus on real problems."
"Provides the flexibility to create logical and conceptual data models."
"It allows us to have proper documentation in terms of the databases."
"Has a specific template that's very helpful for importing metadata."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a very fast reverse engineering process. It does a very expansive comparison."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"The solution could improve by incorporating other applications, such as Power BI to show more visualization. More interaction with other solutions would be a good benefit."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
"Performance could be improved."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"I have found the solution not easy to use. When publishing you have to download the HTML, make adjustments against the updated HTML, convert it to HTML, then finally paste the HTML. There is not an on-the-fly function available to bypass the step-by-step converting process that other solutions have."
"Technical support could be better and more human."
"Connectivity can be improved because it's not very good."
"There are some minor things that could be easier. We're writing up procedures to bring all the modeling back into one group as this reduces delays in production."
"Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted."
"There should be a better usage of current hardware including multicore CPUs, higher resolutions, and multiple displays."
"It would be helpful if there were glossary, catalog and governance tools. It would help make it a true end-to-end product."
"Not very intuitive or user-friendly."
SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Metadata Management with 9 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Metadata Management with 34 reviews. SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Services, SAP Data Quality Management, Innovative Systems eLation Platform, Syniti Information Management and Informatica Data Quality, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and AWS Well-Architected Tool. See our SAP Information Steward vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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