We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Quality solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level."
"You can always manipulate a lot of things as long as you have the skill level."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"The user interface is ok."
"The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"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 API tool in this product is very valuable; it is very easy to onboard and use."
"The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"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."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is very fast."
"Setup is straightforward."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"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."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"Data Services SAP is lacking in sources and target databases compared to Informatica. SAP Data Services should have more connectivity."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"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."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"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."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"Performance could be improved."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
SAP Data Services is ranked 2nd in Data Quality with 45 reviews while SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Data Quality with 9 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry, whereas SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, SAP PowerDesigner, Syniti Information Management and Informatica Data Quality. See our SAP Data Services vs. SAP Information Steward report.
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