We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services vs SAP Process Orchestration based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The main difference between the two solutions is that SAP Data Services users find deployment to be complex. In addition, SAP Data Services users say the solution needs better connectivity. For these reasons, SAP Process Orchestration is the preferred solution.
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"The fact that it's built on SQL, it makes it easy to write code. The database and the connection are quite smooth."
"The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"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 initial setup is easy...The solution gets automatically connected. The deployment takes six months. I rate its setup phase a ten out of ten."
"The solution offers very good documentation and manuals to assist with understanding the solution."
"Process Orchestration fulfils the need for middleware to mediate types of connectivity."
"The product has good technical support but you usually will not need it because it is quite stable."
"The monitoring is one of the greatest features in Process Orchestration because it is user-friendly and easy for somebody who is not experienced."
"The monitoring tools are the most valuable feature."
"t is a pretty stable solution. I have not seen any outages in the solution."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Process Orchestration is its flexibility in being able to build integrations with SAP systems and non-SAP systems."
"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."
"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"In the future, Data Services should offer a cloud version."
"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."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
"Data Services SAP is lacking in sources and target databases compared to Informatica. SAP Data Services should have more connectivity."
"The cloud capability features need improvement."
"SAP Process Orchestration could improve from an API standpoint. This is not an API management tool, which is one of its drawbacks. However, SAP has released an SAP Cloud Platform Integration which has all of the features, such as API management along with process integration to replace what they had previously."
"It's very difficult to find errors in a simple way."
"It is not a scalable solution for the cloud. I would not recommend this for the cloud."
"The solution could be more scalable."
"Process Orchestration doesn't provide authentication for data sent to us, meaning we have to rely on client certificate-based or basic authentication."
"We encounter challenges while connecting to MQTT and MQDD adapters."
"The solution is not very scalable because it is at the end of its life."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while SAP Process Orchestration is ranked 1st in Business-to-Business Middleware with 28 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SAP Process Orchestration is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Process Orchestration writes "A tool that can be useful for small integrations and large integrations". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, Palantir Foundry and SSIS, whereas SAP Process Orchestration is most compared with Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, IBM B2B Integrator and TIBCO BusinessWorks. See our SAP Data Services vs. SAP Process Orchestration report.
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