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SAP Data Services vs ibi Data Quality comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 6, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ibi Data Quality
Ranking in Data Quality
12th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Data Scrubbing Software (5th)
SAP Data Services
Ranking in Data Quality
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of ibi Data Quality is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Data Services is 14.3%, down from 14.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Quality
 

Featured Reviews

VP
Offers numerous prebuilt data quality plans that can be reused for various data cleansing tasks
We had many duplicates originating from different source systems. We were able to match and deduplicate a significant amount of data. Additionally, we could synchronize and write back the latest information to the systems that were out of sync, ensuring they had the most recent data. As a result, we could write back and update the source systems.
Ramesh Pampana - PeerSpot reviewer
Has consistently provided impressive data handling capabilities and robust security features
Some of the most valuable features of SAP Data Services ( /products/sap-data-services-reviews ) include data extraction where SAP is the best in that perspective, but when it comes to analytics or the reporting tool, I prefer to connect with Microsoft Power BI ( /products/microsoft-power-bi-reviews ), which is a fantastic tool. Typically, from an end-user perspective, SAP has a huge amount of data, in terms of terabytes of data, but when you analyze that, the best form of visualization is always through Microsoft Power BI ( /products/microsoft-power-bi-reviews ). SAP Data Services provides a best-in-class return on investment, as SAP's vision and forecast are absolutely amazing. They are ahead of technology, building an ecosystem that meets the standards of the fast-changing digital economy. SAP is indeed good at all this now, with so many components such as SAP Signavio, SAP EINS, SAP Work Zone, SAP ALM ( /categories/application-lifecycle-management-alm-suites ), Cloud ALM ( /categories/application-lifecycle-management-alm-suites ), SAP public cloud, SAP private cloud, and BTP, all of which are essential to meet the latest cutting-edge technologies.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Ibi Data Quality offers numerous prebuilt data quality plans that can be reused for various data cleansing tasks. Additionally, it provides a variety of prebuilt match and merge rules for performing master data management,"
"Works quickly to develop and deploy to production."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are extraction and data transformations."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"The solution has good connectivity with SAP."
"It's easy to understand and deploy. It's easy to create new applications, and depending on the complexity of the application, it is easy to deploy the new requirements."
"The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality."
 

Cons

"Special integration support could be improved."
"Their data governance portal can be improved. It lacks data governance-related features. Also, PII and anomaly detection could be valuable use cases for ibi. Adding these features would be a great enhancement."
"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."
"Regarding the pricing for SAP Data Services, I think it's on the higher side. Now, they are coming up with many pricing options, which is tricky; they offer one thing for free, but charge for nine others."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"The pricing of the solution should be improved."
"It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"In the future, Data Services should offer a cloud version."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is a little high to make the product more competetive in the marketplace."
"The price of SAP Data Services is a little high when compared to other solutions. Due to the pricing and capabilities, many clients are switching to other solutions."
"There is a one time purchase fee plus annual maintenance."
"The license price is expensive but medium to large-scale companies, should be able to afford it. Other solutions, such as Talend are easier to afford for smaller companies. Depending on the sources of the data where you are receiving your data you could be paying for more than one license."
"Pricing is good, there is no problem."
"At the entry level, if you're using it only for data integration, it is a little bit cheap. However, for large organizations it can be expensive. There are additional costs apart from the license."
"I rate the product price as one or two on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"Its pricing is as per the enterprise agreement and not a concern for us."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
8%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for iWay Omni-Gen Data Quality?
There is an upgrade to the existing version, where a different license could be used, but we have a perpetual license. I rate the product’s pricing a three out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten i...
What needs improvement with iWay Omni-Gen Data Quality?
Their data governance portal can be improved. It lacks data governance-related features. Also, PII and anomaly detection could be valuable use cases for ibi. Adding these features would be a great ...
What advice do you have for others considering iWay Omni-Gen Data Quality?
For the on-prem solution, we installed a package on the web server. This package included web-based tools and development tools, which were Eclipse-based toolsets. These tools allowed us to design ...
How do you evaluate the ratio of price to quality for SAP Data Services?
I believe the license for the product is fair, even though some competitors offer similar services at lower prices. The difference between the Edge edition and the next one up is significant in pr...
Would you recommend SAP Data Services to complete beginners?
I think after some preparation, a beginner will be able to use SAP Data Services, however, if you are completely unprepared, you may have some issues. I think that in particular you will need a mo...
How has SAP Data Services helped your organization?
SAP Data Services has helped our whole staff understand the data across various sources and systems within the company. Not everyone who works at my organization is an IT expert - most just have av...
 

Also Known As

iWay Software Data Quality, iWay Omni-Gen Data Quality Edition, Omni-Gen Data Quality
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator, BusinessObjects Data Integrator
 

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Sample Customers

ICA Fluor, Estonia Police Department, Kansas City Police Department
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