We performed a comparison between BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS and SAP Data Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."
"I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."
"It is a powerful product with a broad range of features."
"The most valuable features of SAP Data Services lie in its ability to effectively observe and interpret the information within data related to people or facts, stands out."
"I like how SAP Data Services links reporting and data integration. That's what's most interesting. You also have the opportunity to leverage the power of the Data Services server."
"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."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The API tool in this product is very valuable; it is very easy to onboard and use."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"The fact that it's built on SQL, it makes it easy to write code. The database and the connection are quite smooth."
"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."
"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
"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."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"Integration with other products could be improved."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is ranked 21st in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is rated 8.6, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS writes "Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Dataloader.io and IBM App Connect, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry.
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