We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and SAP Replication Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The user interface is ok."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"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 maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done."
"SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience."
"It speeds up the performance in terms of how fast you are able to access the data, look at it, get it reported to you, and send it to somebody. It also reduces the amount of storage."
"SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy."
"Integration with other products could be improved."
"We encounter challenges while exporting implemented rules, such as those applied to objects like the material master, into a format like Excel for documentation and further analysis."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"There should be some kind of enhancement that can be done on the admin side of certain sites where we can assign the roles and responsibilities. We should be able to control who is using the tool and how."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support."
"I would like to see it become mobile-friendly."
"Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see."
"The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while SAP Replication Server is ranked 27th in Data Integration with 6 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SAP Replication Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Replication Server writes "Eliminates replication and allows you to use only one database, speeding up performance and reducing amount of storage". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry, whereas SAP Replication Server is most compared with Qlik Replicate, Oracle GoldenGate, Fivetran and Azure Data Factory. See our SAP Data Services vs. SAP Replication Server report.
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