We performed a comparison between SAP Information Steward and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"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."
"Setup is straightforward."
"The solution is very fast."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"The most valuable feature of SAP PowerDesigner is the testing of the models, it has the best function. Reverse engineering is very helpful too."
"The most valuable features of the solution are it's built very well, easy to use, and simple to describe freely what is needed in logical and physical data models."
"Has a specific template that's very helpful for importing metadata."
"I like the connectivity or the lineage between the models and usability."
"It's a stable system. It never crashes."
"It has helped me to develop the as-is state, design its to-be state, and track the capital investment according to gap analysis."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a very fast reverse engineering process. It does a very expansive comparison."
"Provides the flexibility to create logical and conceptual data models."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"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."
"Performance could be improved."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"There are some minor things that could be easier. We're writing up procedures to bring all the modeling back into one group as this reduces delays in production."
"One disadvantage of SAP PowerDesigner is that you cannot reverse engineer the ALTER statements, so that's an enhancement or area for improvement I'm looking forward to seeing from the SAP team in the future. That should directly reflect on the physical data models my company builds."
"The solution is very, very expensive. It would be ideal if it was a more affordable product."
"The data governance should be improved, like ER/Studio."
"SAP PowerDesigner can improve the ease of use. It is not the best tool on the market because it is tough to navigate and use. A beginner would not be able to use it well, it requires some experience. If the solution was more user-friendly it would be able to be used by more audiences. I do not think many people are aware of this solution and they should use it."
"Not very intuitive or user-friendly."
"It would be helpful if there were glossary, catalog and governance tools. It would help make it a true end-to-end product."
"Connectivity can be improved because it's not very good."
SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Metadata Management with 9 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Metadata Management with 33 reviews. SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Data Services, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, Syniti Information Management and Informatica Data Quality, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer. See our SAP Information Steward vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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