We performed a comparison between SAP Information Steward and SAS Data Management 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."The solution is very fast."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"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 scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"Setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes."
"Its robustness is valuable. It is a full-fledged suite. We have a data warehouse model, and there are also a lot of data quality management tools. The repository and all other tools are there. So, it is a full package in terms of reporting tools."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"In terms of which features I have found most valuable, I would say the importing and exporting features. Additionally, the data sorting, categorizing and summarizing features, especially how it can summarize based on categories. These are the key features."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"Performance could be improved."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
"The solution could use better documentation."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
"We implemented it a while ago, and we are trying to improve the data delivery performance. We are looking into how to get faster and automated reporting. We would need better designs and workflows."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"One problem is accessing the data using a solution other than SAS. The SAS data, which we create in the SAS, cannot be accessed by other tools. We can't open those data in other applications. So we need to have that application in place."
"We find we often have to go back and re-train users when there are changes made to the solution because the changes are not intuitive."
SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Data Quality with 9 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 13th in Data Quality with 15 reviews. SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6, while SAS Data Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Data Services, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, SAP PowerDesigner and Syniti Information Management, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Tungsten RPA, Microsoft Purview Data Governance, SSIS and IBM InfoSphere DataStage. See our SAP Information Steward vs. SAS Data Management report.
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