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 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."
"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 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."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"It is a powerful product with a broad range of features."
"The API tool in this product is very valuable; it is very easy to onboard and use."
"The product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"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."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"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."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"I would like the stability to improve."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production."
"The solution should offer more machine learning and automation."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"The pricing of the solution should be improved."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
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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