We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog 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."We can scan anything."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"The solution scales well."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The product seems stable enough."
"Setup is straightforward."
"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."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"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."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"The scalability is tough."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"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."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"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."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Metadata Management with 9 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6. 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 Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo, whereas SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Data Services, SAP PowerDesigner, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality and Syniti Information Management. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. SAP Information Steward report.
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