We performed a comparison between SAP Information Steward and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"Setup is straightforward."
"The solution is very fast."
"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."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"It offers a lot of features in one solution. You would have to get multiple other products to bundle together all of the capabilities that you get in just this product."
"It can automate many routine tasks and save human resources to focus on real problems."
"The solution is a very pragmatic tool. It's quite easy to use."
"I've used the reverse engineering feature a lot. I can take a look at the structure of the database and what relationships it has."
"The most valuable feature is the way you can extend it and customize it. With most modeling tools, you fit your modeling process to fit the tool. In PowerDesigner, you can make the tool fit the way you want to work."
"It's a great tool for documentation."
"The most valuable features of SAP PowerDesigner are the creation the flow charts and folders. It is a powerful tool."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"Performance could be improved."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"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."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"There are some minor things that could be easier. We're writing up procedures to bring all the modeling back into one group as this reduces delays in production."
"SAP PowerDesigner can improve the ease of use. It is not the best tool on the market because it is tough to navigate and use. A beginner would not be able to use it well, it requires some experience. If the solution was more user-friendly it would be able to be used by more audiences. I do not think many people are aware of this solution and they should use it."
"Pricing for small consultancies needs improvement. They sustain prices to competing tools. The competing tools tend to do special offers. PowerDesigner SAP doesn't pay much attention to the pricing of it and there are no special offers."
"One disadvantage of SAP PowerDesigner is that you cannot reverse engineer the ALTER statements, so that's an enhancement or area for improvement I'm looking forward to seeing from the SAP team in the future. That should directly reflect on the physical data models my company builds."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
"It would be helpful if there were glossary, catalog and governance tools. It would help make it a true end-to-end product."
"In terms of improvement, the pricing is a bit high."
"Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted."
SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Metadata Management with 9 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Metadata Management with 34 reviews. SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Data Services, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, Syniti Information Management and Informatica Data Quality, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer. See our SAP Information Steward vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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