We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and TIBCO Spotfire 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 most valuable feature is the logging capability."
"The API tool in this product is very valuable; it is very easy to onboard and use."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"The BA reporting tools, such as Data Services, and ETL tool in SAP Data Services are the most valuable. When we had in-memory requirements, we used HANA. HANA is most preferably for most the customers for in-memory. SAP is the first company that created the in-memory concept."
"The most valuable features of SAP Data Services lie in its ability to effectively observe and interpret the information within data related to people or facts, stands out."
"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."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"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."
"It’s stable and straightforward."
"It's scalable."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The most valuable feature is the map visuals that help us connect to the geo-specialized data which is more advanced than other solutions."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."
"The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized."
"One of the main features is integrated statistical analysis."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"Integration with other products could be improved."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"The pricing of the solution should be improved."
"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 way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."
"When it comes to data manipulation, there are features which are good, but one of the features which has really been missing in Spotfire is an offline ability for data manipulation."
"I would like to see the visualization library in this solution expanded, so that I can increase what I can offer to our clients."
"Print capability and trigger-based events."
"The design of the UI could be improved."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"The data compression has room for improvement."
"The Text Area feature needs to be more user-friendly. It is a little clunky to use, and it is difficult to consistently format text."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 15 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 13th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 10 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Easy to use, simple to implement, and offers very good mapping capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO Spotfire writes "Flexible, offers a single pane of glass, and is highly customizable". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS and Palantir Foundry, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our SAP Data Services vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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