We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and SSIS 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."Its integration capabilities and the data migration capabilities are the most valuable. It is very good for SAP and non-SAP tools. It has very good integration with SAP, but it also has the capabilities to connect to other systems. We find it very helpful and stable."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"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 most valuable feature is the logging capability."
"You can always manipulate a lot of things as long as you have the skill level."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"The user interface is ok."
"The fact that it's built on SQL, it makes it easy to write code. The database and the connection are quite smooth."
"The performance is better than doing it in some alternative ways. We don't have to worry about so much manual work."
"SSIS is an easy way to do data integration from various data sources. It doesn't matter whether it's a database, flat files, XML, or Web API. It can talk to the and join them all together."
"The technical support is very good."
"It's a competent product."
"We can connect with multiple data sources easily using an external connector in SSIS."
"The performance is good."
"It is easily scheduled and integrates well with SQL Server and SQL Server Agent jobs."
"The solution is stable."
"Data Services SAP is lacking in sources and target databases compared to Informatica. SAP Data Services should have more connectivity."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"Integration with other products could be improved."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."
"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."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"The creation of the measure in the DAC's model could be improved."
"We have issues with SSIS connectors while extracting data from Excel sources."
"Video training would be a helpful addition."
"There was also not enough instructions from Microsoft in regards to this application or this technology, which can easily be improved upon."
"SSIS sometimes hangs, and there are some problems with servers going down after they've been patched."
"Improving the login procedure would make our reporting easier on monitoring our ETL processes."
"We have a stability problem because when something works, it works one time. The next time, it doesn't work."
"A change in the metadata source cripples the whole ETL process, requiring each module to be manually reopened."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 69 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SSIS 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 SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Matillion ETL. See our SAP Data Services vs. SSIS report.
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