We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and SAP Data Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has an efficient design flow."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"Provides good security features."
"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."
"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."
"It is a powerful product with a broad range of features."
"The fact that it's built on SQL, it makes it easy to write code. The database and the connection are quite smooth."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"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 solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"Its integration capabilities and the data migration capabilities are the most valuable. It is very good for SAP and non-SAP tools. It has very good integration with SAP, but it also has the capabilities to connect to other systems. We find it very helpful and stable."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
"The product should improve its support."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."
"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."
"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."
"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"Some of the jobs that are built within Data Services require local files, and during initial deployment, those local files cannot be transported between machines simply because of security issues."
"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"The interface is not quite user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"The initial setup is complex."
"There should be some kind of enhancement that can be done on the admin side of certain sites where we can assign the roles and responsibilities. We should be able to control who is using the tool and how."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
"The solution could improve the overall features. There is a lot that can be done in the solution, therefor there are areas where it can improve. Additionally, there is a need to make it easier for one to create connections to other non-SAP systems. The flexibility to connect to other non-SAP systems is needed."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry. See our IBM App Connect vs. SAP Data Services report.
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