SAP Data Services vs SharePlex comparison

SAP and Quest Software are both solutions in the Data Integration category. SAP is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2, while Quest Software is ranked #46. SAP holds a 1.9% mindshare in DI, compared to Quest Software’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of SAP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 19, 2025

SAP Data Services and SharePlex compete in the data management and replication category. SharePlex appears to have the upper hand in terms of replication performance and cost-effectiveness, while SAP Data Services is favored for its comprehensive features and integration capabilities.

Features: SAP Data Services offers robust functionalities for data migration, integration, multi-user support, and a centralized repository. Its integration with SAP systems and strong SQL generation capabilities are notable. SharePlex is recognized for its core replication efficiency, stability, and ability to handle multiple sources and targets, maintaining data integrity effectively.

Room for Improvement: SAP Data Services needs to address challenges with parallel batch processing, web services integration, and cryptic error logging. Enhancements in GUI and multi-language support are also needed. SharePlex could benefit from improved reporting features and broader database integrations, along with incorporating machine learning and AI for performance improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP Data Services is typically on-premises with hybrid and private cloud use, receiving mixed reviews for technical support. SharePlex supports diverse deployment environments, including public cloud, and is praised for its clarity and speed in technical support, although improvements in customer service responsiveness are suggested.

Pricing and ROI: SAP Data Services is perceived as more expensive, especially for SMEs, yet offers strong ROI in data integration and time savings, despite some difficulty justifying its cost. SharePlex is seen as cost-effective, offering good value for money with solid performance in time and cost savings, making it an attractive option for those seeking budget-friendly replication solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Data Services

Ranking in Data Integration

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Quality (2nd)

SharePlex

Ranking in Data Integration

46th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of SAP Data Services is 1.9%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePlex is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP Data Services	1.9%
SharePlex	0.8%
Other	97.3%

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Ramesh Pampana

Manager, SAP Practice at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has consistently provided impressive data handling capabilities and robust security features

Some of the most valuable features of SAP Data Services include data extraction where SAP is the best in that perspective, but when it comes to analytics or the reporting tool, I prefer to connect with Microsoft Power BI, which is a fantastic tool. Typically, from an end-user perspective, SAP has a huge amount of data, in terms of terabytes of data, but when you analyze that, the best form of visualization is always through Microsoft Power BI. SAP Data Services provides a best-in-class return on investment, as SAP's vision and forecast are absolutely amazing. They are ahead of technology, building an ecosystem that meets the standards of the fast-changing digital economy. SAP is indeed good at all this now, with so many components such as SAP Signavio, SAP EINS, SAP Work Zone, SAP ALM, Cloud ALM, SAP public cloud, SAP private cloud, and BTP, all of which are essential to meet the latest cutting-edge technologies.

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Kristopher Wells

Oracle DBA at Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

It reduces the downtime and migration time exponentially

I would rate SharePlex's high availability, and disaster recovery features highly. It works as advertised in terms of rapid fill-over and switch-over opportunities. It reduces the migration time for a multi-terabyte database to an hour or less because it performs real-time replication. SharePlex reduces downtime and migration time exponentially. Something that could take 12 to 24 hours is cut down to one to two hours. By the time you start to migrate, the only remaining replication is a slight difference in data from the point when SharePlex has shut down, and the application has to also switch over to the new database. It allowed the company to replicate data more transparently. Some of the business executives probably don't even know it's there. It works 100 percent of the time, with little downtime or problems. It provides what is needed. There's little concern about whether or not it functions. It's allowed the company to achieve its objectives with its clients, reducing and minimizing downtime for substantial migrations and upgrades. It can reduce hardware and storage costs, but my company doesn't utilize it with high-availability architecture.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."

"SAP Data Services provides a best-in-class return on investment, as SAP's vision and forecast are absolutely amazing."

"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."

"I have worked with Data Services for a long time, and currently, I find the dashboarding and reporting part to be the most valuable function."

"The HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."

"The initial setup is not complex."

"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."

"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."

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"The core features of the solution we like are the reliability of the data transfer and the accuracy of data read and write. The stability of the solution is also excellent."

"I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."

"The core replication and its performance. Performance is crucial, and SharePlex is by far the fastest. The way it handles replication to multiple targets along with basic filtering, as well as from multiple sources to a single target, is very efficient."

"Because of the volume of the transactions, we heavily use a feature that allows SharePlex to replicate thousands of transactions. It's called PEP, Post Enhancement Performance, and that has helped us scale tremendously."

"There are some capabilities within SharePlex where you can see how the data is migrating and if it still maintains good data integrity. For example, if there are some tables that get out of sync, there are ways to find them and fix the problem on the spot. Since these are very common issues, we can easily fix these types of problems using utilities, like compare and repair. So, if you find something is out of sync, then you can just repair that table. It basically syncs that table from source to target to see if there are any differences. It will then replicate those differences to the target."

Cons

"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."

"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."

"We would like the different tools offered within this solution to be available as standalone entities, rather than having to purchase the entire package when we only require a few features."

"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."

"The initial setup is complex."

"The solution should improve connectivity with more source systems and target systems."

"The description of error messages isn't extensive, although they point to the problem. With other solutions, like Talend, I was able to use the debugger to get directly to the problem, but with SAP Data Services the debugger is not working. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the version specifically, but I'm using it in an enterprise environment and I can't do an upgrade."

"Regarding the pricing for SAP Data Services, I think it's on the higher side. Now, they are coming up with many pricing options, which is tricky; they offer one thing for free, but charge for nine others."

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"I would like the solution to have some kind of machine learning and AI capabilities. Often, if we want to improve the performance of posting, we have to bump up a parameter. That means we need to stop the process, come up with a figure that we want to bump the parameter up to, and then start SharePlex. Machine learning and AI capabilities for these kinds of improvement would tremendously help boost productivity for us."

"The reporting features need improvement. It would be very good for users to have a clear understanding of the status of replication."

"I would like more ability to automate installation and configuration in line with some of the DevOps processes that are more mature in the market. That would be a considerable improvement."

"I don't know how easy it would be to change the architecture in an already implemented replication. For example, if we have a certain way of architecting for a particular database migration and want to change that during a period of time, is that an easy or difficult change? There was a need for us to change the architecture in-between the migration, but we didn't do it. We thought, "This is possibly complicated. Let's not change it in the middle because we were approaching our cutover date." That was one thing that we should have checked with support about for training."

"For its function in relation to replication (i.e. filtering), I'd give it a six or seven out of 10. GoldenGate has much more functionality by comparison."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a one time purchase fee plus annual maintenance."

"The price of SAP Data Services is a little high when compared to other solutions. Due to the pricing and capabilities, many clients are switching to other solutions."

"The enterprise version of SAP Data Services is free."

"It's relatively expensive compared to other vendors, but it is competitive."

"The pricing is a little high to make the product more competetive in the marketplace."

"Speaking about prices, Oracle and SAP are market leaders. So, the prices are more."

"The license price is expensive but medium to large-scale companies, should be able to afford it. Other solutions, such as Talend are easier to afford for smaller companies. Depending on the sources of the data where you are receiving your data you could be paying for more than one license."

"Its pricing is as per the enterprise agreement and not a concern for us."

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"It's really good value for the money. There are some things they could improve on, but in terms of the pricing, features, and support, as a holistic package, we are not thinking of anything else at this point in time."

"It is not as expensive as Oracle GoldenGate and has worked really well within our budgets."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

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Financial Services Firm

19%

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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	36

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Questions from the Community

How do you evaluate the ratio of price to quality for SAP Data Services?

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Also Known As

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator, BusinessObjects Data Integrator

Dell SharePlex, SharePlex

Overview

SAP Data Services is a top-ranking data integration and data quality tool. This is a product that aims to provide its users with effective access to their data in order to transform it and connect it to various business processes. SAP Data Services offers companies detailed data insights which improve decision-making and make company operations more effective.

Organizations can increase the value of their structured and unstructured data with the functionalities of this product regarding data integration, quality, and cleansing. Through various components such as:

Simplified maintenance
On-premises deployment
Data quality and integration
Intuitive user interfaces

the product transforms data into a ready-to-use resource for business insights.

Some of the key components of SAP Data Services include:

Universal data access
Native-text data processing
Intuitive user interfaces
Data quality dashboards
Simplified data governance
Scalability and high performance

Through these components, the product allows its clients to access and integrate data sources and targets with native connectors. Users can derive meaning from unstructured text data, match data to reduce duplicates, and see the impact of data quality issues. The tool also offers the option to enable parallel processing, bulk data loading, and grid computing for high-volume data loads.

SAP Data Services Features

The solution has different features for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and processing of text data. Using these features, clients can manage their company's data easily and achieve excellent results by optimizing it. Some of the product’s features include:

Data integration capabilities: The features regarding data integration provide a wide variety of opportunities. The product is available in 31 languages and connects to many data sources, providing its clients with access to their data anywhere at any time. It is also integrated with the SAP Business Suite applications, allowing users the full experience that the company has to offer. The tool is interconnected with SAP Data Hub, orchestrating data flows through the SAP Data Intelligence solution. Additionally, it supports a large number of third-party data sources, it is optimized for SAP HANA, and provides fine-tuned data replication and transformation through unique mechanisms.
Data quality capabilities: Clients can use a single interface to access designing, testing, debugging, editing, running, maintaining, and monitoring of data integration and data quality. It allows for the delivery of ready-to-use transformations and exposes hidden problems in users' data. With this feature, clients can build a single version of their data that is most efficient for them.
Data profiling capabilities: Companies that work with high-volume data can employ parallel processing, bulk data loading, and grid computing to be able to operate with the data more efficiently. This feature enables unlimited scalability and high availability by various automations. It also provides excellent security for the treated data through encryption and other services.
Processing of text data capabilities: This feature allows users to extract data from unstructured texts and understand it better. It works with 220 different file and text formats and 31 languages.

SAP Data Services Benefits

This solution offers various benefits to its clients regarding the efficient operation of their data. The key benefits of SAP Data Services include:

Broad access to data which can build a better perspective for companies of their information.
Improved decision-making and information management due to efficient data operations.
Ability to utilize various tools to help unify data on premises, in the cloud, or within big data.
The software provides efficient insight for reporting and data analytics.
The tool allows for easy integration with a large number of different databases.
The product provides the opportunity to seamlessly connect with other SAP solutions.
The solution simplifies extract, transform, and load (ETL) construction processes through intuitive graphic software.

Reviews from Real Users

According to Michael Lutz, senior data warehouse developer at Fox Chase Cancer Center, SAP Data Services is a powerful tool that does a lot.

An associate consultant at a consultancy says the tool is easy to use, simple to implement, and offers very good mapping capabilities.

SAP

SharePlex delivers robust database replication and migration capabilities, emphasizing performance, synchronization, and data integrity management. Supporting high availability and real-time data syncing, it serves organizations handling vast transaction volumes, especially in IoT data processing.

SharePlex offers reliable data transfer and efficient multi-target replication. Its features like Compare and Repair utilities assist in maintaining data consistency. With PEP fostering scalability for large transactions, it caters to businesses aiming to cut down migration windows and minimize outages. Users employ SharePlex in real-time syncing and failover scenarios across data centers, crucial for handling extensive transaction data during migrations or upgrades.

What are SharePlex's key features?

Core Replication: Ensures reliable data synchronization across multiple targets.
Data Integrity Management: Maintains accuracy during reading and writing processes.
Compare and Repair Utilities: Facilitate data consistency checks and fixes.
PEP: Enhances performance for large transaction volumes.

Why consider SharePlex for your database needs?

Scalability: Supports large-scale transactions with efficiency.
Minimized Downtime: Provides continuous data availability during operations.
Business Continuity: Enables seamless failover and data center transitions.
Real-time Syncing: Supports time-sensitive data processing requirements.

Organizations in sectors like finance and telecommunications implement SharePlex to maintain uninterrupted operations and ensure quick recovery times. By facilitating database migrations to cloud platforms like AWS, they achieve reduced downtime and enhanced operational efficiency, catering to the rigorous demands of data-driven industries.

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