We performed a comparison between Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) 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."The initial setup is easy."
"It is an ETL tool, which does the extract, transform, and load."
"The most valuable feature that we use is the Knowledge Modules."
"ODI's most valuable features are it utilizes the database engine and is very lightweight."
"Most of the functions are very straightforward, like the data model, mapping, package, and load plan. Thus, a new user could get started very fast."
"Oracle provides great documentation."
"The tool improved our data integration workflow primarily due to its compatibility with Oracle. Its integration makes it very convenient for analytics. Its most valuable feature is robust extended capability. The solution's debugging capabilities are good."
"It has the ability to easily load slowly changing dimensions."
"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."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"The fact that it's built on SQL, it makes it easy to write code. The database and the connection are quite smooth."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."
"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 basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"The BA reporting tools, such as Data Services, and ETL tool in SAP Data Services are the most valuable. When we had in-memory requirements, we used HANA. HANA is most preferably for most the customers for in-memory. SAP is the first company that created the in-memory concept."
"There are certain things where it can be improved. Initial solution setup seems a bit complex at the start, it should be improved because it becomes bit tough for a novice to get started on this. Sometimes error description is not helpful to understand the problem it gives some generic type of errors which are at times not that helpful to understand the underlying root cause of the issue."
"The stability of the software could be improved. Sometimes, the software just crashes. "
"If there was an add-on tool to hide the performance issues and solve them for me, then I might be interested in that as it would provide me value."
"ODI could improve by focusing on streamlining its features without unnecessary overhead."
"It has been very good. Just recently, I've faced an issue, but I solved it somehow. While integrating with a file, I faced an issue where I wanted output files, and I had used the text field limited quotations, but at the end of the file, there was a line breakage for the last column. So, we just removed the text field because it was not working correctly for us."
"The solution lacks some functions and features."
"The initial setup is a bit complex compared to other tools."
"Technical Support could be better."
"The interface is not quite user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"Some of the jobs that are built within Data Services require local files, and during initial deployment, those local files cannot be transported between machines simply because of security issues."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"In the future, Data Services should offer a cloud version."
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is ranked 4th in Data Integration with 67 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is rated 8.2, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) writes "Straightforward to implement, scalable, and has good stability and documentation, but technical support could still be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is most compared with Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory and Apache Kafka, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and AWS Glue. See our Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) vs. SAP Data Services report.
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