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."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."
"Setup is straightforward."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is very fast."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"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 a very pragmatic tool. It's quite easy to use."
"I've used the reverse engineering feature a lot. I can take a look at the structure of the database and what relationships it has."
"The physical database model is definitely the most valuable feature because it describes normalization exactly the way you understand the data, and it deploys it perfectly with open source systems."
"The feature I found valuable in SAP PowerDesigner is extraction. I also like that my company hasn't faced any issues because of the clear documentation about SAP PowerDesigner."
"It has helped me to develop the as-is state, design its to-be state, and track the capital investment according to gap analysis."
"It allows us to have proper documentation in terms of the databases."
"SAP PowerDesigner is fairly stable."
"I like the property sheet capability and the user-defined attributes that you can set up."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"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."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"This product does not have a good BPMN Modeler."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"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."
"UI could be improved by enabling simpler navigation."
"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."
SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Metadata Management with 9 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Metadata Management with 34 reviews. SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. 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 Services, SAP Data Quality Management, Innovative Systems eLation Platform, 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 AWS Well-Architected Tool. See our SAP Information Steward vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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