We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and SAP Data Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"The solution scales well."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"The product seems stable enough."
"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"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."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"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."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"The scalability is tough."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"We encounter challenges while exporting implemented rules, such as those applied to objects like the material master, into a format like Excel for documentation and further analysis."
"We would like the different tools offered within this solution to be available as standalone entities, rather than having to purchase the entire package when we only require a few features."
"Newer feature integration is lagging behind the company acquisitions and the product could do more to service a broader range of devices."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "They listen to their customers, so if something is missing or not working, they will put it on their roadmap". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. SAP Data Services report.
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