We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and Talend Data Management Platform 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 basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"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 user interface is ok."
"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"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."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"It is a powerful product with a broad range of features."
"Talend Studio has the ability to connect to almost anything to integrate data from files, databases, web services, etc."
"The most valuable features of the Talend Data Management Platform are the components."
"We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need."
"The features that I like the most are the simplicity of the interface, and the ability to quickly develop with a predefined component."
"I like the way that you can use the context variables, and how you can work those context variables to give you values and settings for every development environment, such as PROD, TEST, and DEV."
"I like everything about this product, but the biggest thing is the ease of use."
"They're very competitive in terms of performance, which is a good selling point. It has very rich features. It provides a very rich feature set in the application."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to understand."
"Data Services SAP is lacking in sources and target databases compared to Informatica. SAP Data Services should have more connectivity."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"Integration with other products could be improved."
"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."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"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."
"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."
"They lack in memory capacity."
"Once you get past the basic tools, it gets pretty complicated."
"The documentation from version to version could be more accurate."
"The solution's memory sometimes bottlenecks and that can be challenging."
"Including either XML or JSON in the next release would definitely be a good transformation. I'm not sure if Talend has that feature, but it's one of those requirements that we are working around and have to do some parsing of XML so this could make it easier."
"The stability is good, but the performance is slower when I work on a huge amount of data."
"I'd be interested in seeing the running of Python programs and transformations from within the studio itself."
"The product must enhance the data quality."
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SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 15 reviews while Talend Data Management Platform is ranked 20th in Data Integration with 6 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while Talend Data Management Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Easy to use, simple to implement, and offers very good mapping capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Talend Data Management Platform writes "Extendable with good data integrations and helpful support". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Talend Data Management Platform is most compared with Talend Open Studio, Talend Data Fabric, Collibra Catalog, SSIS and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog. See our SAP Data Services vs. Talend Data Management Platform report.
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