SAP Data Services Room for Improvement

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Associate Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

There is always room for improvement when it comes to the sources being dynamic, however, it is not something that can be done easily. These changes, take years to come into the picture, and it's usually the patch upgrade that comes in. Those are very less at the functional level. 

At the integration level, there could be a certain set of improvements to connect to various other systems.

There are still a lot of glitches with SAP Data Services as of now. 

I'd like for them to make scheduling much more dynamic when we create jobs. 

The dependencies to other systems, when we are running a job, we have certain problems, some optimization schemes, if it can be implemented for the data flows when we run it. If we had multiple data loaders and if we could use that at the same time while ensuring the backend data system doesn't get affected, it would be ideal. 

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Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The only thing is that it's a very specific product. It works well only for our SAP clients. That is its limitation. There is a lot of competition in that regard. 

It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better. It is built specifically for the SAP environment and follows best practices for SAP. When we want to work in a different environment, it becomes a bit more complex.

On adding additional functionality to improve artificial intelligence, machine learning, and integration, I think most of it is already considered in the roadmap.

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SS
Data Engineer at KASP

Improvement is required since so many SQL-related things are happening. So, we can reduce those SQL parts, and we can use some in-built functions of the solution. So, the reduction in the SQL part is something that is an ongoing process and is not something that has completely been improved. Slowly, SAP is releasing some functions, and we are using those functions.

The processing side has been improved. So, the features are the same.

Improvement is required. All kinds of new functionalities are coming, including new processing techniques. The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements. Because right now, all kinds of big data technologies have come, and those integrations need to be adapted by SAP more.

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Consultant SAP BODS at GyanSys Inc.

With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks. I don't know how to fix the issue related to the tool's ability to connect with Azure Databricks. I have been looking into Informatica and some other tools to see how they connect with Azure DB. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in the product.

In the future, my company should be able to extract data from SAP ECC to Azure Databricks and load it into Azure Databricks.

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Uchenna Obiji - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Systems Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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MZ
Senior Functional Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is some room for improvement across the product, however, for the most part, we are happy with it. 

We have had some language issues. There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now.

It is expensive. 

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FS
Director at Pixel Studio PTY

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 are no issues from a technical point of view, and the issues are from a security point of view. In this scenario, we need to be sure that we have all of the files in the same centralized environment in order to get one big server to fulfill several or many developers.

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KV
Data Migration Specialist at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

The cleansing feature is not as efficient as Syniti. The reporting is good because we have followed one standard template for years. Many customers are fine with the reporting mechanism, but it is time-consuming. We have to do the report manually, but Syniti can generate the reports.

The price could be lower, and technical support could be more responsive.

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RambabuMandala - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Senior Advisor at Dell EMC

Data Services SAP is lacking in sources and target databases compared to Informatica. SAP Data Services should have more connectivity.

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BI MANAGER at a engineering company with 51-200 employees

An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users. They could provide a simpler way to understand the ongoing business process. Additionally, they should include data catalogs in the next release.

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PradeepKumar22 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Governance Lead at Centrient

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. There could be feasibility in creating a rule book or documentation of rules applied during the data integration processes.

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Paul Mazvarira - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead Analytics at a non-profit with 11-50 employees

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.

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Anzize BADAROU - PeerSpot reviewer
BI MANAGER at Abtech

I want some more business intelligence applications. People need to know more and more about data, including the transformation rules, etc. Informatica is a better product for data cataloging. SAP should update the data catalog. 

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SZ
Data analyst at ASR Nederland N.V.

In the future, Data Services should offer a cloud version.

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FS
Director at Pixel Studio PTY

The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services. 

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