We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere Information Server and SAP Information Steward 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."This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."
"The integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is very fast."
"Setup is straightforward."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"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."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server should be more scalable. It should have the option to change the configuration to run on a single, non-multiple node, or multi-threading processing."
"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."
"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."
"Their technical support needs improvement."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"Performance 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."
"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."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"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."
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server is ranked 10th in Metadata Management with 7 reviews while SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Metadata Management with 9 reviews. IBM InfoSphere Information Server is rated 8.4, while SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere Information Server writes "Prompt support, reliable, but lacking scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". IBM InfoSphere Information Server is most compared with IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Qlik Replicate, IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Data Services, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, SAP PowerDesigner and Syniti Information Management. See our IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. SAP Information Steward report.
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