We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and WhereScape RED based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."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 product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"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 solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"The user interface is ok."
"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 logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."
"RED has provided us the ability to integrate, stage, and transform data from diverse sources into an enterprise-grade data warehouse which meets the needs of my organization, but it also enables us to easily and quickly make ETL or DW changes."
"I like the data vault implementations."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"WhereScape is really helpful in terms of architecture data. Everything is one of automation. Two people can do thousands of tables in one day or two. It saves a lot of time."
"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."
"RED generates comprehensive documentation and regenerates it as quickly as things changes, but it also provides impact documentation."
"This is a fantastically robust DW tool that will make you at least 10 times faster in producing a DW."
"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."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"We would like the different tools offered within this solution to be available as standalone entities, rather than having to purchase the entire package when we only require a few features."
"The initial setup is complex."
"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."
"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."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."
"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"Customization could be better."
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SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while WhereScape RED 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 WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Matillion ETL and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog.
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