We performed a comparison between IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer and SAP Data Services 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."What's most useful in IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is you can access it from anywhere. It's also pretty easy to learn, so even non-technical business people use it and found the solution easy to learn."
"You can also schedule and run data quality on the critical data elements on the databases."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."
"It's easy to understand and deploy. It's easy to create new applications, and depending on the complexity of the application, it is easy to deploy the new requirements."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"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"The solution is outdated and is not on cloud."
"What could be improved or added to IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is more connectors. This solution comes in a package with IBM InfoSphere DataStage and is missing a lot of connectors to various, new data sources, so IBM needs to work on that area. Compared with competitors such as Informatica and Alation which acquired other small companies to work on the connectors, IBM has not done any testing and has tried to develop the connectors in-house, but that's taking a lot of time. As a result, my company is unable to connect to a lot of data sources, particularly modern data sources."
"The interface is not quite user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"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."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"Integration with other products could be improved."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"The description of error messages isn't extensive, although they point to the problem. With other solutions, like Talend, I was able to use the debugger to get directly to the problem, but with SAP Data Services the debugger is not working. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the version specifically, but I'm using it in an enterprise environment and I can't do an upgrade."
"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."
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IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is ranked 11th in Data Quality with 6 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 2nd in Data Quality with 45 reviews. IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is rated 7.6, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer writes "Accessible from anywhere and easy to learn even for non-technical users, but needs more connectors and faster issue resolution from technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is most compared with IBM QualityStage, Informatica Data Quality and Innovative Systems eLation Platform, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry. See our IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer vs. SAP Data Services report.
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