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."The solution is stable."
"The solution is applicable for both technical and business users."
"The most valuable features are data quality, data integrate transformations, match-merge, and a few MDM solutions we build into data quality transformation."
"I give the stability a ten out of ten."
"The user interface is flexible and the visibility of the data flow is amazing."
"It is very useful for testing purposes and designing mappings for small projects. If you go for IDQ in the mapping itself, you can see the data. You can then correct it, and test it so easily. It is working fine. It is also stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"We are able to set rules, establish a data quality management platform, and monitor the quality."
"We use it for various use cases, including data provisioning, data validation, continuous monitoring of data quality, and data standardization."
"Setup is straightforward."
"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 scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is very fast."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"One area that could use improvement is the speed of the web interfaces. At present, they are very slow. I think it is essential that we are original and robust on-premises."
"There is room for improvement in the Data Marketplace aspect."
"Although we are very satisfied with the design of the UI, executing tasks with it can be difficult."
"The customer servive and support could be faster. There is a slow turnaround."
"The ability of the product to leverage the power of big data could be improved."
"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."
"I would like to see better visuals for business users, such as a dashboard where they can precisely track where problems are."
"Informatica is very expensive."
"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 support team is not very responsive."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"Performance could be improved."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"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 TS 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 iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, SAP PowerDesigner and Collibra Catalog. See our Informatica Data Quality vs. SAP Information Steward report.
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