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 user interface is flexible and the visibility of the data flow is amazing."
"We are able to set rules, establish a data quality management platform, and monitor the quality."
"I like the connectivity and richness of features for the technical team, the maturity of the product, and that it had a cloud version. There is Informatica Cloud, and it is part of the Informatica Cloud platform."
"I give the stability a ten out of ten."
"There are a couple of valuable features. One is that it is very quick on the profiling. So, you get a very fast snapshot of the type of data that you're looking at from the profiling perspective. It can highlight anomalies in the data."
"I do find Informatica Data Quality is stable. It generally maintains a high level of reliability and stability, making it an asset."
"The most valuable features are data quality, data integrate transformations, match-merge, and a few MDM solutions we build into data quality transformation."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"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 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."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"Managing the licenses with the on-premises version was difficult."
"I would like to see better visuals for business users, such as a dashboard where they can precisely track where problems are."
"The tool's performance is an area that should be given further consideration."
"There is room for improvement in the Data Marketplace aspect."
"The customer servive and support could be faster. There is a slow turnaround."
"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."
"The ability of the product to leverage the power of big data could be improved."
"It can be improved in terms of performance and execution. I'm expecting better performance. It currently has some restrictions in terms of execution. For example, if we want to run it in the command mode and execute it, there are some restrictions, and we are facing some issues with a huge volume of data. These restrictions are not there in Informatica PowerCenter because we are able to execute a huge volume of data, and there are more ways to execute it."
"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."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
"Performance could be improved."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
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 "Quick on profiling and scales very well, but needs better UI and more reporting capabilities". 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 Microsoft Data Quality Services, 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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