We performed a comparison between SAP Information Steward and SAS Data Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica, SAP, Talend and others in Data Quality."The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The Data Cleansing and the scorecard dashboard are very valuable. Additionally, the financial aspect of SAP Information Steward is very good. When a rule is incorrect then it will show how much is it costing the business. These features are very valuable."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"Setup is straightforward."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"In terms of which features I have found most valuable, I would say the importing and exporting features. Additionally, the data sorting, categorizing and summarizing features, especially how it can summarize based on categories. These are the key features."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"Its robustness is valuable. It is a full-fledged suite. We have a data warehouse model, and there are also a lot of data quality management tools. The repository and all other tools are there. So, it is a full package in terms of reporting tools."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"The solution could improve by incorporating other applications, such as Power BI to show more visualization. More interaction with other solutions would be a good benefit."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"Performance could be improved."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
"We implemented it a while ago, and we are trying to improve the data delivery performance. We are looking into how to get faster and automated reporting. We would need better designs and workflows."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
"With SAS Data Management, you have to purchase an external driver, configure all of the tables for all of the data that you will extract from Salesforce. It's not a straightforward process."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"We find we often have to go back and re-train users when there are changes made to the solution because the changes are not intuitive."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
"The solution could use better documentation."
SAP Information Steward is ranked 6th in Data Quality with 9 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 13th in Data Quality with 15 reviews. SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6, while SAS Data Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Data Services, SAP PowerDesigner, Innovative Systems iLytics Enterprise Data Quality and Syniti Information Management, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Tungsten RPA, Microsoft Purview, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Palantir Foundry.
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