We performed a comparison between Microsoft MDS and SAP Master Data Governance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Master Data Management (MDM) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The backup and restore functionality are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"The most valuable feature is the administration console."
"Technical support is very good."
"What I like about Microsoft, is that it has a huge database with many users."
"The best thing about it is that it comes with the Microsoft package."
"The tool is easy to use."
"Unlike specialized tools, MDS is adaptable for various industries, making it a versatile choice for master data management."
"It has a very good feature called Excel plug-in. You just have to install the plug-in, and then it directly connects to the MDS instance where you can maintain and manage your data and publish it right through Excel. You don't need to go to the front end to make any changes. It has easy integration with SQL Server, and you can use SSIS to do the ETLs. It is a part of the Microsoft stack. It works with most of the Microsoft stuff."
"Some of the features that I have found to be beneficial are the search and uploads functions."
"Validates all aspects from security to authorization and authentication."
"The scalability is very good."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of SAP Master Data Governance is very easy."
"User-friendly and provides customized reports and personalized data."
"The product is easy to use and is beneficial from a data governance perspective."
"The data capturing and data governance features are valuable."
"Microsoft MDS isn't getting strong support because Microsoft is focusing more on cloud solutions."
"The solution could be better integrated into Microsoft's other products."
"The stability could be improved."
"I do not like using Silverlight and Internet Explorer. The new 2019 version gets rid of that, which is one of the reasons why we are looking to switch."
"There are occasions when the solution maintains SD and we get duplications of MDS."
"Microsoft MDS' language should be simple so everyone can use it easily."
"Most of the Microsoft partners, especially digitally, are separate. Personnel are business people, and they do not have technical expertise, so you end up as a company spending a lot of money training your staff and your engineers."
"The only drawback is that it does not have the matching, merging, and all true MDM components. For these, you have to use another competent called Data Quality Services (DQS). You need to plug it in and use it along with MDS for true MDM. Both of these are integrated together, but you have to do them separately, whereas, in Profisee, there are a couple of screens where you can configure the matching process, create matching rules, and other things, and everything is in one product, which is not the case with MDS. In order to implement a true MDM, you need MDS, DQS, and SSIS. You have to use MDS to store your golden records, DQS to configure and standardize all your rules and matching percentages, and SSIS to load the data to DQS and MDS. At the same time, you also need Melissa Data to clean up your addresses to validate and standardize the addresses. That's the main component of true MDM. It would be good if they can create a true matching component inside MDS and merge MDS and DQS."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"They should improve the solution's performance as sometimes the process consumes much time."
"There were challenges with handling multiple values within a single input field at the screen level."
"The solution lacks some flexibility."
"The multidomain MDM feature is based on EIP systems, which may not be a good model for all master data."
"The documentation provided for the MDG extensions by Utopia could be improved."
"Overall, they just a little bit more flexibility in terms of assigning roles or adding new roles. We have a longer approval process, so we need to break it down into more roles than what is typically available and we need to hard-code it."
"The price can be improved."
Microsoft MDS is ranked 2nd in Master Data Management (MDM) Software with 18 reviews while SAP Master Data Governance is ranked 1st in Master Data Management (MDM) Software with 22 reviews. Microsoft MDS is rated 7.6, while SAP Master Data Governance is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft MDS writes "Useful Excel plug-in, good scalability, and good integration with SQL Server and other Microsoft products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Master Data Governance writes "Provides efficient technical support services, but it could be more affordable ". Microsoft MDS is most compared with Informatica MDM, Profisee, Reltio Cloud, TIBCO EBX and Oracle Data Relationship Management, whereas SAP Master Data Governance is most compared with Informatica MDM, TIBCO EBX, Reltio Cloud, IBM InfoSphere MDM and Semarchy xDM. See our Microsoft MDS vs. SAP Master Data Governance report.
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