We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange 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."The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"The product's initial setup phase was not complex. The tool is easy to install onto any of the servers, and you can integrate it."
"The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface."
"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"Its integration capabilities and the data migration capabilities are the most valuable. It is very good for SAP and non-SAP tools. It has very good integration with SAP, but it also has the capabilities to connect to other systems. We find it very helpful and stable."
"The most valuable features of SAP Data Services lie in its ability to effectively observe and interpret the information within data related to people or facts, stands out."
"The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"The product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"Real-time has not been enhanced that much over the past few years. There has not been as many features added like they did before."
"Scheduling of jobs in the sequence is not available. It's a very tedious process to do that particular task. If there was a tool to schedule in the sequence that would be extremely helpful."
"Newer feature integration is lagging behind the company acquisitions and the product could do more to service a broader range of devices."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"We would like the different tools offered within this solution to be available as standalone entities, rather than having to purchase the entire package when we only require a few features."
"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."
"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."
"In the future, Data Services should offer a cloud version."
"The interface is not quite user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry. See our Informatica PowerExchange vs. SAP Data Services report.
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