We performed a comparison between Informatica Data Quality 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."There are a couple of valuable features. One is that it is very quick on the profiling. So, you get a very fast snapshot of the type of data that you're looking at from the profiling perspective. It can highlight anomalies in the data."
"The solution is applicable for both technical and business users."
"The solution is stable."
"The user interface is flexible and the visibility of the data flow is amazing."
"The most valuable features are data quality, data integrate transformations, match-merge, and a few MDM solutions we build into data quality transformation."
"We use it for various use cases, including data provisioning, data validation, continuous monitoring of data quality, and data standardization."
"I like the connectivity and richness of features for the technical team, the maturity of the product, and that it had a cloud version. There is Informatica Cloud, and it is part of the Informatica Cloud platform."
"Seeing the data in the mapping itself is really nice."
"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."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"The solution is very fast."
"Managing the licenses with the on-premises version was difficult."
"I would like to see better visuals for business users, such as a dashboard where they can precisely track where problems are."
"The customer servive and support could be faster. There is a slow turnaround."
"Their UI needs improvement. Their scorecards and reporting also need improvement. Their data quality reporting, especially their dashboards and scorecards, is lackluster at best. Its reporting capabilities are limited. If you want to do anything beyond its limited reporting capabilities, then you're going to have to use an external reporting tool such as Power BI or something like that."
"Considering internal data from legacy systems, it is quite difficult to know if Informatica Data Quality meets that high level of accuracy criteria."
"There is room for improvement in the Data Marketplace aspect."
"The tools required to migrate existing mappings and server rules through cloud data quality are not available."
"The tool's performance is an area that should be given further consideration."
"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."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"Performance could be improved."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
Informatica Data Quality is ranked 1st in Data Quality with 18 reviews while SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Data Quality with 9 reviews. Informatica Data Quality is rated 7.8, while SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Informatica Data Quality writes "Offers cloud version, good connectivity and data profiling features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". Informatica Data Quality is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Quality, Talend Data Quality, Trillium Quality, Oracle Data Quality and Ataccama ONE Platform, whereas SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Data Services, Innovative Systems eLation Platform, SAP PowerDesigner and Collibra Catalog. See our Informatica Data Quality vs. SAP Information Steward report.
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