We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and SSIS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"It is a powerful product with a broad range of features."
"I have worked with Data Services for a long time, and currently, I find the dashboarding and reporting part to be the most valuable function."
"It's easy to understand and deploy. It's easy to create new applications, and depending on the complexity of the application, it is easy to deploy the new requirements."
"The most valuable feature is the logging capability."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"It's something I needed for bulk imports. I'm not a big fan of it, but I haven't seen anything better."
"The most valuable features of SSIS are that it works with the query language and it can import data from different sources."
"The setup was easy. All Microsoft products are easy to set up."
"In SSIS, the scope is not only to handle ETL challenges, but it will allow us to do so many other tasks, such as DBA activities, scripting, calling any .exe or scripts, etc."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the fast insert and fuzzy logic matching."
"The initial setup was easy."
"It's saved time using visualization descriptions."
"The setup is straightforward. It's very easy to install."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"I want some more business intelligence applications. People need to know more and more about data, including the transformation rules, etc. Informatica is a better product for data cataloging. SAP should update the data catalog."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"There should be some kind of enhancement that can be done on the admin side of certain sites where we can assign the roles and responsibilities. We should be able to control who is using the tool and how."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"We would like the different tools offered within this solution to be available as standalone entities, rather than having to purchase the entire package when we only require a few features."
"SSIS doesn't have a very good user interface, but if you can work with it, it'll provide you with almost all of the functionality."
"We In upgrading SSIS, we encountered challenges fixing SQL Server and performance issues, including problems during a failover in our data warehouse."
"Involving a data lake or data engineering aspects would be useful. While it is there, we need more features included."
"Video training would be a helpful addition."
"We have issues with SSIS connectors while extracting data from Excel sources."
"Performance could be better."
"Future releases should improve the data lineage, as it currently is not good."
"In terms of its performance, it could be better. That could be something that would be easy and welcomed as an upgrade."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 69 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SSIS is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Informatica Cloud Data Integration, whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and FME. See our SAP Data Services vs. SSIS report.
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