We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and SAP Information Steward 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."It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"We can scan anything."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The solution scales well."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"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 solution is very fast."
"Setup is straightforward."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities."
"This solution is hard to set up and its interface is not user-friendly. It's also not as stable, and the technical support takes a lot of time to solve simple problems."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"Performance could be improved."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"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."
"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."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Metadata Management with 9 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". 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 Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo, whereas SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Data Services, SAP PowerDesigner, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality and Syniti Information Management. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. SAP Information Steward report.
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