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."You can also schedule and run data quality on the critical data elements on the databases."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level."
"The user interface is ok."
"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."
"You can always manipulate a lot of things as long as you have the skill level."
"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"The solution is outdated and is not on cloud."
"There should be some kind of enhancement that can be done on the admin side of certain sites where we can assign the roles and responsibilities. We should be able to control who is using the tool and how."
"It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production."
"The solution could improve the overall features. There is a lot that can be done in the solution, therefor there are areas where it can improve. Additionally, there is a need to make it easier for one to create connections to other non-SAP systems. The flexibility to connect to other non-SAP systems is needed."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"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."
"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 pricing of the solution should be improved."
"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."
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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 Informatica Data Quality, IBM QualityStage and Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, 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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