We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SAP Data Services 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."It is quite useful and powerful."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"It's a robust solution."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"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 feature is the ETL functionality."
"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"The product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"The API tool in this product is very valuable; it is very easy to onboard and use."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"The pricing should be lower."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"Its documentation is not up to the mark. While building APIs, we had a lot of problems trying to get around it because it is not very user-friendly. We tried to get hold of API documentation, but the documentation is not very well thought out. It should be more structured and elaborate. In terms of additional features, I would like to see good reporting on performance and performance-tuning recommendations that can be based on AI. I would also like to see better data profiling information being reported on InfoSphere."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to 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."
"Integration with other products could be improved."
"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."
"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 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."
"In the future, Data Services should offer a cloud version."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere DataStage writes "User-friendly with a lot of functions for transmission rules, but has slow performance and not suitable for a huge volume of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Matillion ETL, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Informatica Cloud Data Integration. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. SAP Data Services report.
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