We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward 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."I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"The BA reporting tools, such as Data Services, and ETL tool in SAP Data Services are the most valuable. When we had in-memory requirements, we used HANA. HANA is most preferably for most the customers for in-memory. SAP is the first company that created the in-memory concept."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"The HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."
"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"The most valuable features of SAP Data Services lie in its ability to effectively observe and interpret the information within data related to people or facts, stands out."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"Setup is straightforward."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"The solution is very fast."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"The description of error messages isn't extensive, although they point to the problem. With other solutions, like Talend, I was able to use the debugger to get directly to the problem, but with SAP Data Services the debugger is not working. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the version specifically, but I'm using it in an enterprise environment and I can't do an upgrade."
"In the future, Data Services should offer a cloud version."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"The solution should offer more machine learning and automation."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"Performance could be improved."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"The solution could improve by incorporating other applications, such as Power BI to show more visualization. More interaction with other solutions would be a good benefit."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
SAP Data Services is ranked 2nd in Data Quality with 45 reviews while SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Data Quality with 9 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry, whereas SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, SAP PowerDesigner, Syniti Information Management and Informatica Data Quality. See our SAP Data Services vs. SAP Information Steward report.
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