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Informatica Cloud Data Quality vs SAP Information Steward 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

Informatica Cloud Data Quality
Ranking in Data Quality
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP Information Steward
Ranking in Data Quality
10th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Metadata Management (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of Informatica Cloud Data Quality is 7.9%, down from 10.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Information Steward is 3.2%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Quality
 

Featured Reviews

TaherDungrawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Has good reusability and CDI features
I use Collibra Data Quality. I switched to Informatica because Collibra cannot integrate. Colibra Cloud Data Quality is a very basic tool. There is no integration capability. If you have problem records, there is no fix to remediate them using the same tool. With Informatica, you can integrate with CDI and then create a remediation plan.
FranciscoSantos - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides accurate data that is validated against a personalized reference tool
For most SAP customers, Information Steward is enough because it is able to build quality data rules to detect issues in the source systems like SAP HANA, Business Warehouse, or other systems. A business user can first organize their data into several data domains. For example, procurement, human resources, and logistics setup. The domains can build data quality dimensions where you can describe the kind of rule that you are going to use. The user then can immediately see if something is wrong with their data using traffic lights. Another great feature of SAP Information Steward is the accuracy that the content is followed by validating against the reference tool. With the solution, you are creating data quality dimensions. Within these dimensions, you are creating business data quality rules that are looking for specific fields. From these rules, you can create a scorecard. The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits. SAP tables have field names that are very cryptic, making them hard to understand the meaning of the fields. Metapedia helps describe these fields in business terms.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The out-of-the-box features and standard profiling options provide quick visibility of the data within minutes, which facilitates discussions with the business."
"Initial setup was fairly easy."
"The quality of the data improves with Informatica Cloud Data Quality."
"I would definitely recommend Informatica Data Quality to others."
"The reusability factors are nice. The Cloud Data Quality is much better. A major flaw in the previous version was integration with the catalog, which is now seamless."
"The most beneficial feature of Informatica Cloud Data Quality is it's cloud-based."
"The most valuable feature is the rule specification."
"The user-friendliness and performance of Informatica is quite impressive."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"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 very fast."
"The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
 

Cons

"In certain domains, I am looking for material-level match features that are not customizable. The current solution requires code-writing and tweaking, while other solutions offer material-level matches."
"You cannot import the data discovery rules you create in the solution to the Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC)."
"The downside of Informatica Cloud Data Quality is that it requires a developer to write rules and maintain the systems. This creates a significant cost and time burden."
"Informatica Cloud Data Quality has significant room for improvement. It is not stable, and there are several issues, especially on the cloud side, unlike the on-premise version which was very stable."
"The integration with older technology and cloud quality needs improvement."
"In the on-premises version, features like web service consumer and web service provider are available, but these functionalities are currently unavailable in the cloud edition."
"Support response time could be better."
"Informatica Cloud Data Quality could improve by adding more algorithms for matching and mastering. We currently only have five or six. Additionally, the parallelism in data is better in other solutions, such as IBM."
"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."
"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."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"The support team is not very responsive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing costs attached to the solution are pretty high, but then, with the cloud model, the prices depend on what it provides for the value of money, which I feel was very high."
"We pay for a yearly subscription."
"Informatica Cloud Data Quality is a costly solution."
"A bit pricey, and better tools are available for a lower price."
"SAP Information Steward is an expensive solution compared to others."
"I do not know if there were additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
"Smaller-sized organizations may not be able to invest in SAP Information Steward because of the cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Educational Organization
7%
Manufacturing Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
14%
Computer Software Company
10%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Informatica Cloud Data Quality?
The profiling features are much better than the on-premise version.
What needs improvement with Informatica Cloud Data Quality?
The downside of Informatica Cloud Data Quality is that it requires a developer to write rules and maintain the systems. This creates a significant cost and time burden, especially since we followed...
What is your primary use case for Informatica Cloud Data Quality?
The main use case we had with Informatica Cloud Data Quality was real-time data quality monitoring. When customer information was entered into a tool in real time, we were able to run data quality ...
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Also Known As

Cloud Data Quality Radar
Information Steward, SAP Data Insight
 

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Sample Customers

Freddie Mac, Rabobank
American Water, Graphic Packaging International, OSRAM Licht AG, Maxim Integrated
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