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."
"The integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."
"This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"You can always manipulate a lot of things as long as you have the skill level."
"It is a powerful product with a broad range of features."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"I have worked with Data Services for a long time, and currently, I find the dashboarding and reporting part to be the most valuable function."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"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."
"Their technical support needs improvement."
"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."
"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."
"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."
"I want some more business intelligence applications. People need to know more and more about data, including the transformation rules, etc. Informatica is a better product for data cataloging. SAP should update the data catalog."
"It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"Data Services SAP is lacking in sources and target databases compared to Informatica. SAP Data Services should have more connectivity."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Newer feature integration is lagging behind the company acquisitions and the product could do more to service a broader range of devices."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"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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