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 agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"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."
"It is a scalable and versatile solution."
"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."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"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."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"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 basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"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."
"We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level."
"It's easy to understand and deploy. It's easy to create new applications, and depending on the complexity of the application, it is easy to deploy the new requirements."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working."
"The one place where it could be improved is definitely pricing. That's a very big problem. It depends product to product, but pricing is an issue."
"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 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."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"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."
"Integration with other products could be improved."
"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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