We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Quality solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."
"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 user interface is ok."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"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."
"The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"The solution is very fast."
"Setup is straightforward."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"The Data Cleansing and the scorecard dashboard are very valuable. Additionally, the financial aspect of SAP Information Steward is very good. When a rule is incorrect then it will show how much is it costing the business. These features are very valuable."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."
"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."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
"The interface is not quite user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"Performance could be improved."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"The solution could improve by incorporating other applications, such as Power BI to show more visualization. More interaction with other solutions would be a good benefit."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
SAP Data Services is ranked 2nd in Data Quality with 45 reviews while SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Data Quality with 9 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry, whereas SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, SAP PowerDesigner, Syniti Information Management and Informatica Data Quality. See our SAP Data Services vs. SAP Information Steward report.
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