We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and WhereScape RED based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"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 user interface is ok."
"The feature of SAP Data Services has enhanced our company's business processes because we are able to run around 800 jobs in areas like data extraction and transaction objects."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"I like the data vault implementations."
"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."
"WhereScape RED has improved our business's ability to generate needed reporting without requiring a large team of developers to manually code all of the necessary plumbing."
"WhereScape's deployment package is a fantastic feature. The application allows for selecting specific objects that you would like to deploy from one environment to another rather than deploying the entire database."
"RED has provided us the ability to integrate, stage, and transform data from diverse sources into an enterprise-grade data warehouse which meets the needs of my organization, but it also enables us to easily and quickly make ETL or DW changes."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"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."
"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."
"The pricing of the solution should be improved."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"In the future, Data Services should offer a cloud version."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."
"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."
"Customization could be better."
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SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while WhereScape RED is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Matillion ETL and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog.
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