We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and Talend Data Fabric 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 maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"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 BA reporting tools, such as Data Services, and ETL tool in SAP Data Services are the most valuable. When we had in-memory requirements, we used HANA. HANA is most preferably for most the customers for in-memory. SAP is the first company that created the in-memory concept."
"The HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"We've had no issues with the stability so far."
"It is a smart tool for us to design data pipelines. It lets us populate our three data lake instances. We like this solution for its connection capabilities, since it is very important to be able to use many different types of software. We tested a lot of SAP sources successfully, including cloud sources with SAP. It is also very easy to anonymize data with TIBCO, as well as populating HDFS files, packet files, and raw files. It is very easy to do that with Talend Data Fabric."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The Talend data integration has been one of the most valuable features."
"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 pricing of the solution should be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Newer feature integration is lagging behind the company acquisitions and the product could do more to service a broader range of devices."
"Some of the jobs that are built within Data Services require local files, and during initial deployment, those local files cannot be transported between machines simply because of security issues."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
"Deployment can be difficult, but I didn't test the latest version yet. With Talend products, every release brings a lot of new features and functionalities. This is never a small adaptation, because the tool is maturing, but we need to test the latest version and to check its deployment capabilities."
"We encounter issues getting email notifications. They should provide enough information about the configuration process for email components."
"We are currently using version 7.3.1, but preferred the version before. The problem that we currently have is that Talend are releasing patches for Talend Studio every quarter. Our technical team has to be on top of these patches and constantly ensure everything is updated."
"I would like to see better integration with other tools."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while Talend Data Fabric is ranked 26th in Data Integration with 4 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while Talend Data Fabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Talend Data Fabric writes "Smart tool to design data pipelines that has good connection capabilities ". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry, whereas Talend Data Fabric is most compared with Talend Open Studio, Talend Data Management Platform, Azure Data Factory, Palantir Foundry and Alteryx Designer. See our SAP Data Services vs. Talend Data Fabric report.
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