We performed a comparison between Alteryx Designer and SAP Data Services 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."When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis."
"I like Alteryx Designer's drag-and-drop feature, where you drag a component, configure it and quickly run it."
"The product is intuitive and easy to use."
"I like Alteryx's browser tool because you can view how your data is handled live. There are many other valuable tools like transpose and the crosstab. You can quickly pivot your data, and there are connections throughout the database. It's so easy to create a connection. If you connect to sign apps or a more complex database, the tool contains all the tools you need."
"I have been using Alteryx Designer only for data modeling and data structuring."
"Alteryx Designer's user interface is great, as it is very user-friendly."
"Workflow automation, in general, is valuable."
"The features I found most valuable are the preparation features – the Join and the Transform."
"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"The HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"The feature of SAP Data Services has enhanced our company's business processes because we are able to run around 800 jobs in areas like data extraction and transaction objects."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level."
"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 user interface is ok."
"Alteryx Designer overall should be easier to use."
"The actual usage part of it needs to be explained more. It's too vague right now."
"Alteryx needs to improve its web governance. The gallery you use to filter the data is something else that could use some work. For instance, if you have a report connected to a database and want to filter a specific user, you should be able to suggest a specific region or a particular year. I know that the Alteryx isn't designed for data governance, but that would be great to think about."
"Its price can be improved. It is too expensive for our country. Because of its high price, we can't sell Alteryx Designer in this region. We used to be their reseller partner. There is also an additional cost for automating the data and running the flows, which makes it even more expensive. It will be very good if they can let users automate the data for free. Other solutions like Tableau provide this feature for free."
"The only thing is sometimes it can be a bit slow."
"Alteryx Designer's cost should be improved."
"It would be simpler if they provided a component where you could simply enter some parameters and see the results."
"Based on my experience, the tool could be improved by providing sample reports or pre-configured workflows tailored to specific industries, like finance. It needs to integrate an AI chatbot as well."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"The description of error messages isn't extensive, although they point to the problem. With other solutions, like Talend, I was able to use the debugger to get directly to the problem, but with SAP Data Services the debugger is not working. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the version specifically, but I'm using it in an enterprise environment and I can't do an upgrade."
"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."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"Scheduling of jobs in the sequence is not available. It's a very tedious process to do that particular task. If there was a tool to schedule in the sequence that would be extremely helpful."
"The interface is not quite user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
Alteryx Designer is ranked 9th in Data Integration with 27 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. Alteryx Designer is rated 8.0, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx Designer writes "An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". Alteryx Designer is most compared with Azure Data Factory, FME, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS and SnapLogic, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Talend Data Management Platform. See our Alteryx Designer vs. SAP Data Services report.
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