We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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 solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The most valuable feature is the data integration for data warehousing."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"The solution is stable."
"The HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."
"You can always manipulate a lot of things as long as you have the skill level."
"Its integration capabilities and the data migration capabilities are the most valuable. It is very good for SAP and non-SAP tools. It has very good integration with SAP, but it also has the capabilities to connect to other systems. We find it very helpful and stable."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"The user interface is ok."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"It doesn't have any big data connections. It would be good to have them because most of the systems are moving towards big data. There should also be a user-friendly way to interact with the cloud. Its loading process is very slow. It takes a lot of time for around 5 or 6 million records, and we are not able to provide real-time data to the vendors due to this delay. Its performance needs to be improved. It is also like a legacy system. It is not updated much. In higher versions, they only do small changes. We would like to have new features and new technologies."
"It takes a lot of time to actually trigger your job and then go into the logs and other stuff. So all of this is really time-consuming."
"The graphical user interface (GUI) feels a lot like the interfaces from the 1980s."
"The solution should offer more machine learning and automation."
"The pricing of the solution should be improved."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere DataStage writes "User-friendly with a lot of functions for transmission rules, but has slow performance and not suitable for a huge volume of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Matillion ETL, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Informatica Cloud Data Integration. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. SAP Data Services report.
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