We performed a comparison between Ab Initio Co>Operating System and SAP Data Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Ab Initio reaches the highest performance and is very flexible in processing huge amounts of data."
"Co>Operating System's most valuable feature is its ability to process bulk data effectively."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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 BA reporting tools, such as Data Services, and ETL tool in SAP Data Services are the most valuable. When we had in-memory requirements, we used HANA. HANA is most preferably for most the customers for in-memory. SAP is the first company that created the in-memory concept."
"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the logging capability."
"An awesome improvement would be big data solutions, for example, implementing some kind of business intelligence or neural networks for artificial intelligence."
"Co>Operating System would be improved with more integrations for less well-known technologies."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"Data Services SAP is lacking in sources and target databases compared to Informatica. SAP Data Services should have more connectivity."
"Some of the jobs that are built within Data Services require local files, and during initial deployment, those local files cannot be transported between machines simply because of security issues."
"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."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
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Ab Initio Co>Operating System is ranked 28th in Data Integration with 2 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. Ab Initio Co>Operating System is rated 9.6, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Ab Initio Co>Operating System writes "High performance and flexible solution for companies with large amounts of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". Ab Initio Co>Operating System is most compared with SSIS, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue and Informatica Cloud Data Integration, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry. See our Ab Initio Co>Operating System vs. SAP Data Services report.
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