We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services vs SAP Process Orchestration based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The main difference between the two solutions is that SAP Data Services users find deployment to be complex. In addition, SAP Data Services users say the solution needs better connectivity. For these reasons, SAP Process Orchestration is the preferred solution.
"We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"I like how SAP Data Services links reporting and data integration. That's what's most interesting. You also have the opportunity to leverage the power of the Data Services server."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the logging capability."
"t is a pretty stable solution. I have not seen any outages in the solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I rate the product's setup phase a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy since it is a very easy process."
"The solution is stable."
"It provides essential features such as continuous monitoring of all interfaces are crucial for our needs."
"The initial setup is easy...The solution gets automatically connected. The deployment takes six months. I rate its setup phase a ten out of ten."
"SAP Process Orchestration is middleware where we are able to manage and interact with everything from a single location. One of the most beneficial areas is monitoring which is very easy because it is all in one place. There are many adapters added recently that can be used for new functionality. The solution is easy to operate and it is more mature than the cloud solution provided by SAP."
"In my opinion, SAP PO is the most mature suite of tools to integrate processes across SAP environments at this moment. It's really unbeatable because it allows you to integrate whatever scenarios you can imagine."
"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."
"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."
"The pricing of the solution should be improved."
"Data Services SAP is lacking in sources and target databases compared to Informatica. SAP Data Services should have more connectivity."
"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."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"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."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
"The product roadmap suggests it will approach the end of support in several years, and a lot of innovations are now implemented by SAP not in SAP PO, but in SAP Integration Suite, hence, the platform is stable, but doesn't receive a lot of new features in recent updates."
"SAP needs to improve a lot in terms of the orchestration part so that more adapters can be provided to users, which are areas where the solution has downsides."
"The usability is an area where it can be improved upon."
"I feel that support is an area that needs improvement. They need to improve the response time and address the customer's issues as soon as possible."
"The solution could be more scalable."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the ease of implementing new projects and improve overall stability in our implementations."
"Process Orchestration needs to provide secure connectivity as no one has any data information."
"SAP Process Orchestration breaks down sometimes."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while SAP Process Orchestration is ranked 1st in Business-to-Business Middleware with 28 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SAP Process Orchestration is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Process Orchestration writes "A tool that can be useful for small integrations and large integrations". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, Palantir Foundry and SSIS, whereas SAP Process Orchestration is most compared with Mule Anypoint Platform, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, webMethods Integration Server, IBM B2B Integrator and TIBCO BusinessWorks. See our SAP Data Services vs. SAP Process Orchestration report.
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