We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and SAP Data Services 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."We can scan anything."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The product seems stable enough."
"The solution scales well."
"The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality."
"I like how SAP Data Services links reporting and data integration. That's what's most interesting. You also have the opportunity to leverage the power of the Data Services server."
"The API tool in this product is very valuable; it is very easy to onboard and use."
"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 HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."
"The feature of SAP Data Services has enhanced our company's business processes because we are able to run around 800 jobs in areas like data extraction and transaction objects."
"The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"The scalability is tough."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"This solution is hard to set up and its interface is not user-friendly. It's also not as stable, and the technical support takes a lot of time to solve simple problems."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"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."
"Scheduling of jobs in the sequence is not available. It's a very tedious process to do that particular task. If there was a tool to schedule in the sequence that would be extremely helpful."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. SAP Data Services report.
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