We performed a comparison between Informatica Data Quality and SAP Information Steward based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Quality solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Seeing the data in the mapping itself is really nice."
"Informatica Data Quality is a product that is worth the money."
"The solution is applicable for both technical and business users."
"The profiling feature in Informatica Data Quality is incredibly effective for data governance."
"I like the connectivity and richness of features for the technical team, the maturity of the product, and that it had a cloud version. There is Informatica Cloud, and it is part of the Informatica Cloud platform."
"I give the stability a ten out of ten."
"We use it for various use cases, including data provisioning, data validation, continuous monitoring of data quality, and data standardization."
"I do find Informatica Data Quality is stable. It generally maintains a high level of reliability and stability, making it an asset."
"The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary."
"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 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."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is very fast."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"Setup is straightforward."
"Although we are very satisfied with the design of the UI, executing tasks with it can be difficult."
"I would like to see better visuals for business users, such as a dashboard where they can precisely track where problems are."
"It can be improved in terms of performance and execution. I'm expecting better performance. It currently has some restrictions in terms of execution. For example, if we want to run it in the command mode and execute it, there are some restrictions, and we are facing some issues with a huge volume of data. These restrictions are not there in Informatica PowerCenter because we are able to execute a huge volume of data, and there are more ways to execute it."
"One area that could use improvement is the speed of the web interfaces. At present, they are very slow. I think it is essential that we are original and robust on-premises."
"Managing the licenses with the on-premises version was difficult."
"The customer servive and support could be faster. There is a slow turnaround."
"There's certainly room for improvement. One crucial area is generating detailed reports on file statuses. Presently, this is represented visually, often as graphs or charts. Such reporting could offer comprehensive insights into the areas that demand attention and further scrutiny."
"The tools required to migrate existing mappings and server rules through cloud data quality are not available."
"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."
"SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product."
"Performance could be improved."
"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."
"Granularity could be reduced from an application level to the object level."
"We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
Informatica Data Quality is ranked 1st in Data Quality with 18 reviews while SAP Information Steward is ranked 7th in Data Quality with 9 reviews. Informatica Data Quality is rated 7.8, while SAP Information Steward is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Informatica Data Quality writes "Offers cloud version, good connectivity and data profiling features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Information Steward writes "Great for collecting, monitoring and planning storage capacity; functionality could be improved". Informatica Data Quality is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Quality, Talend Data Quality, Trillium Quality, Oracle Data Quality and Ataccama ONE Platform, whereas SAP Information Steward is most compared with SAP Data Services, SAP Data Quality Management, Innovative Systems eLation Platform and Syniti Information Management. See our Informatica Data Quality vs. SAP Information Steward report.
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