SAP Data Services pros and cons

Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions.

You can always manipulate a lot of things as long as you have the skill level.

We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level.

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.

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 basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information.

I like how SAP Data Services links reporting and data integration. That's what's most interesting. You also have the opportunity to leverage the power of the Data Services server.

The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality.

I appreciate having access to the SAP data.

Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome.

At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems.

They could make it easier to work with web services.

Data Services SAP is lacking in sources and target databases compared to Informatica. SAP Data Services should have more connectivity.

The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster.

The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex.

I want some more business intelligence applications. People need to know more and more about data, including the transformation rules, etc. Informatica is a better product for data cataloging. SAP should update the data catalog.

It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files.

It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production.