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SAP Data Services vs Striim comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

SAP Data Services
Ranking in Data Integration
16th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Data Quality (4th)
Striim
Ranking in Data Integration
47th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (27th), Streaming Analytics (23rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of SAP Data Services is 1.5%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Striim is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAP Data Services1.5%
Striim0.6%
Other97.9%
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Ramesh Pampana - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
RV
Data Engineer
Real-time data capture has accelerated releases and now improves trust in our data warehouse
The checkpoints would help me to figure out where the problem was if there's any lag, but I had to do a lot of manual work to figure out where the lag is. Striim would not intuitively tell me the culprit table or database behind the lag. I believe that is an improvement Striim could definitely do. Passwords were an issue. Property variables were not supported for passwords, meaning I had to make sure the password is manually populated. I believe if Striim could read from AWS secrets or its own secret mechanism to store the password, that would really save a lot of time so that I don't have to keep updating the password whenever there is any change. The user experience of triggering alerts if there's any lag which Striim identified, which is outside normal processing time, could intrinsically be done by Striim. I believe that was lacking. I would wait for Striim to tell me, instead of me going and validating whether Striim is lagging behind. If Striim could itself tell me that it's seeing a lot more volume than expected, that would really make me give it a higher number.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"SAP Data Services has been around for a while and still performs its job well; it remains a fast data-moving tool, faster than most new ones."
"The development is faster than SSIS or Talend."
"The most valuable features of the solution are extraction and data transformations."
"The most valuable feature is the user interface."
"The HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."
"Striim is capable of absorbing a large number of transactions, and the difference between the two databases is always less than a second, which demonstrates efficiency and highlights the variety of sources and targets I have used."
"We were confidently in a situation to call Snowflake as a single source of truth, and I believe with Striim, we were able to do that because without Striim, the SLA would be much higher, and there would not have been much confidence in Snowflake."
 

Cons

"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 that seems to need to be improved in this product is that it isn't completely ready to compete as it should in the market."
"There are still a lot of glitches with SAP Data Services as of now."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"Technical Support: Not good enough."
"Sudden crashing of DS making unsaved changes lost, happens usually when logged in for a long amount of time."
"The user experience of triggering alerts if there's any lag which Striim identified, which is not normal, could intrinsically be done by Striim."
"I think Striim could be improved with better pricing and enhanced documentation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"The product’s on-premise version is expensive for a medium-sized company."
"The price is very reasonable."
"Pricing is good, there is no problem."
"The pricing is a little high to make the product more competetive in the marketplace."
"The enterprise version of SAP Data Services is free."
"It's relatively expensive compared to other vendors, but it is competitive."
"At the entry level, if you're using it only for data integration, it is a little bit cheap. However, for large organizations it can be expensive. There are additional costs apart from the license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Construction Company
16%
Healthcare Company
13%
Retailer
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise36
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

How do you evaluate the ratio of price to quality for SAP Data Services?
I believe the license for the product is fair, even though some competitors offer similar services at lower prices. The difference between the Edge edition and the next one up is significant in pr...
Would you recommend SAP Data Services to complete beginners?
I think after some preparation, a beginner will be able to use SAP Data Services, however, if you are completely unprepared, you may have some issues. I think that in particular you will need a mo...
How has SAP Data Services helped your organization?
SAP Data Services has helped our whole staff understand the data across various sources and systems within the company. Not everyone who works at my organization is an IT expert - most just have av...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Striim?
My experience with the pricing, implementation cost, and licensing of Striim is that it is somewhat expensive.
What needs improvement with Striim?
I think Striim could be improved with better pricing and enhanced documentation.
What is your primary use case for Striim?
I use Striim to perform change data capture from relational databases to non-relational databases in my organization. I implement CDC with Striim by transferring data from Oracle Database to MongoD...
 

Also Known As

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator, BusinessObjects Data Integrator
Striim Platform
 

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Sample Customers

EMC Corporation, LivePerson, Eldorado, Mozzart, The VELUX Group, AOK Bundesverband, Hilti Group, Nissha Printing Company Ltd., Asian Paints, Aareal Bank Group, Migros Group
Sky, UPS, MACY'S, EMAAR, HSBC
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