We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Quality solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"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 solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"The API tool in this product is very valuable; it is very easy to onboard and use."
"The product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"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."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"The solution is very fast."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The pricing of the solution should be improved."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"Newer feature integration is lagging behind the company acquisitions and the product could do more to service a broader range of devices."
"Some of the jobs that are built within Data Services require local files, and during initial deployment, those local files cannot be transported between machines simply because of security issues."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"Integration with other products could be improved."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"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."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"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 Data Services is ranked 2nd in Data Quality with 45 reviews while SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Data Quality with 9 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, Palantir Foundry and SSIS, whereas SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, SAP PowerDesigner, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality, Syniti Information Management and Informatica Data Quality. See our SAP Data Services vs. SAP Information Steward report.
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