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."It is a powerful product with a broad range of features."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the logging capability."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"The HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."
"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"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."
"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."
"Support is absolutely excellent, efficient, and timely."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"RED generates comprehensive documentation and regenerates it as quickly as things changes, but it also provides impact documentation."
"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"There should be some kind of enhancement that can be done on the admin side of certain sites where we can assign the roles and responsibilities. We should be able to control who is using the tool and how."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"The interface is not quite user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"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."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"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."
"Customization could be better."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"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."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"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."
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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 Ab Initio Co>Operating System.
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