We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere Information Server 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."IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."
"The integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"The product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"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."
"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 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 API tool in this product is very valuable; it is very easy to onboard and use."
"The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server should be more scalable. It should have the option to change the configuration to run on a single, non-multiple node, or multi-threading processing."
"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."
"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."
"Their technical support needs improvement."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The solution should offer more machine learning and automation."
"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."
"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."
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server is ranked 36th in Data Integration with 7 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. IBM InfoSphere Information Server is rated 8.4, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere Information Server writes "Prompt support, reliable, but lacking scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". IBM InfoSphere Information Server is most compared with IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Qlik Replicate, IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry. See our IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. SAP Data Services report.
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