We performed a comparison between BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS and SAP Data Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Development and Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."
"BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."
"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"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 HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."
"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."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."
"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"Newer feature integration is lagging behind the company acquisitions and the product could do more to service a broader range of devices."
"The solution should offer more machine learning and automation."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"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."
BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is ranked 20th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is rated 8.6, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS writes "Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is most compared with Dataloader.io, AWS Database Migration Service, IBM App Connect and Qlik Replicate, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry. See our BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS vs. SAP Data Services report.
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