SAP Data Services Reviews

We use the solution as a tool to do the deployment for the reports.

While we deal mostly with banks, who do not need complex analytics (their reports are largely static). It's useful for telecoms or other sectors that need to monitor daily trends. However, once designed, the banks can use the same report on a daily basis to see their somewhat static results quite easily.

We really like this product. Whenever we have customers, no matter where they are in the world, we suggest this app and we implement SAP for them.

The solution offers very good integration capabilities.

It's a quality product.

After working with the tool for so many years, I can say that overall their services are a really good deal. They continue to enhance their services regularly and are always improving their offering.

The tools that are provided are some of the best on the market and the pricing is really great.

In terms of data integration or other tools, we have a road map and we send out requests for enhancements through our marketing team who is involved in the process.

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.

We have used the solution for ten to 12 years. I myself started with SAP in 2006.

The stability of the solution is excellent. There aren't bugs or glitches that I have seen. The system doesn't crash. Organizations can rely on its performance.

The scalability of the solution is very good. If an organization needs to expand it further after implementation, they shouldn't have any issues. 

We've never had to contact technical support. We have our own team in-house. If there are queries, we tend to resolve them ourselves or use SAP's portal.

We've never really faced any difficulty that would require us to involve SAP directly.

Initially, we did have a few issues around Arabic localization and Arabic values, but once we resolved it, we didn't find many other issues. Most of the reports, the layouts, the data headers, etc. are now in Arabic and it's no problem. 

For myself, I find the initial setup quite simple. However, I have many years under my belt working directly with the product. Someone with beginner-level knowledge might find it a bit challenging. In general, however, it's easy, not difficult.

The length of deployment depends on the organization and requirements. It does take a few days, but some projects are longer than others. It really depends on the client's needs. Each situation is unique.

We're a technical team, so we aren't directly involved in the prices or cost of the solution. Our marketing department handles the details and negotiates prices with SAP. They try to get reductions to lower pricing in the contracts. I have no idea what the exact amount is our company pays on a monthly or yearly basis.

Currently, I am doing some research into an Oracle solution that a client is asking about. While we focus on SAP, they are interested in this Oracle tool. I've been doing some analysis into it to compare the two solutions in case the bank decides that they do indeed want to migrate from SAP to Oracle. 

We are already an SAP gold partner. We have a significant level of partnership with SAP. We also used to do the reports for SAP. This is the only tool that we suggest to our clients and we do the implementation for banks in the Middle East. Nearly all customers have the same tool that we use. We are one of the leading banking software providers in the region.

We do not work with the cloud. We do local installations only. We don't use anything on the cloud because banks normally have policies in place where they cannot share with the cloud for security and risk aversion reasons. 

It is one of the nicest tools on the market and people really should use it.

As compared to the other tools it is easier to implement and easier to understand. It's very efficient especially if you are looking at performance and stability. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. I'd give it perfect marks, but there is always room for some more enhancements.

We use the solution to support data warehousing.

Also for data migration from any legacy system to S/4HANA.

Data Quality in legacy systems and from S/4HANA.

Data migration projects on time and on budget.

The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding. 

The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services. It can be improved for cloud integration to on-premise environments.

I have been using the solution for more than 30 years. 

The solution is a stable and mature tool. It is standardized in such a way that you don't have issues after upgrading it to new versions.

I would rate the product's scalability a nine-point five out of ten. The tool is intelligent enough to split the workload. 

The support classifies your incidents as low priority, medium priority, and high priority. Usually, I am classified as a medium priority and get an answer in 24 hours. I get the fix in less than a week. Support has people who are very knowledgeable about the product. 

Positive

No

The product is simple to setup. If you are setting it up on Windows, then it's just a matter of a few clicks. 

Both, the SI contracted has a good expertise level.

Informatica.

I would rate the product an nine out of ten. The solution suits medium to large enterprise organizations and it would be expensive for small companies. The product is very useful for SAP customers. 

Usually, when clients have agile requirements and want to bring historical data into the new HANA architecture, we use Data Services. This may involve multiple years of data from different systems. We need proper business use cases to map and set up the tools. Additionally, after the data is brought in, we perform reconciliation to show the before and after data transformation. This helps the business understand the changes that occurred during the transformation. 

Data Services, along with tools like Information Steward, allows the usage of machine learning and artificial intelligence to maintain business rules and mappings, making the process easier. When we want to handle data migration internally, instead of relying on external tools like Xfinity, we usually use Data Services.

I have worked with Data Services for a long time, and currently, I find the dashboarding and reporting part to be the most important function. Earlier, this function was not as advanced, but now it provides excellent dashboarding and reporting capabilities. After every data load for each object, we can identify and understand any errors. This helps us schedule and manage data migration projects effectively. It has improved significantly.

The only thing is that it's a very specific product. It works well only for our SAP clients. That is its limitation. There is a lot of competition in that regard. 

It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better. It is built specifically for the SAP environment and follows best practices for SAP. When we want to work in a different environment, it becomes a bit more complex.

On adding additional functionality to improve artificial intelligence, machine learning, and integration, I think most of it is already considered in the roadmap.

I have been working with SAP Data Services for a very long time. I started using it at the time for business projects. We have extensively used it for data migration and other purposes.

It's a very stable product now because it has been around for many years. I would rate it a ten out of ten. 

Data Services is a highly scalable product. I would give it a nine or ten.

Around two hundred users use Data Services.

We seek technical support from SAP when we encounter errors that we can't resolve on our own, especially those related to standard master data. We have a support agreement with SAP, and our customer has maximum attention, so we get immediate assistance. It's been very good.

I mainly work with SAP, but I do familiarize myself with competitor products to stay informed. There are reasons why competitors have an edge. Flexibility and scalability are areas where other vendors like Xfinity or SMP might perform slightly better. They are more heterogeneous in that regard.

The setup process is not very complicated, and the integration is also straightforward. Connecting to systems and using prebuilt extractors through interfaces make it easier. So the setup is not very complicated.

Only one or two people are required from a system maintenance perspective because there aren't many technical problems. Additionally, there are four people dedicated to technical development. So, in total, it's less than five or six people handling the technical aspects.

Usually, we work with the business team. Once they bring in the system, they install the best practices and such. Then they connect the system, and that's when I get involved to start the integration process, mapping, and working with tables. It's quite easy. I also do some test driving. So, I work with teams.

In our current project, we are using it in a hybrid manner. However, in other projects, I have worked with both on-premises and cloud deployments.

I would give it around a three, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price. It's relatively expensive compared to other vendors, but it is competitive.

I work with HANA, group reporting, analytics cloud, and other BW-related solutions as a functional architect. I've been working in SAP for more than 22 years. I primarily focus on finance and controlling.

In general, I would give it a rating of nine or ten.

We use the product for data migration and integration. It also works as a pipeline for data warehouses.

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. The preservation of this insightful aspect is the product’s best part.

An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users. They could provide a simpler way to understand the ongoing business process. Additionally, they should include data catalogs in the next release.

We have been using SAP Data Services for ten years.

I rate the platform’s stability an eight out of ten.

I rate the platform’s scalability an eight out of ten. It depends on individual organizational needs and their choice of deployment, with cloud solutions offering better accessibility.

They could provide examples in the technical support tutorials.

The initial setup is simple. However, the complexity can increase if there is a need for collaboration with other teams, such as database administrators and security personnel. It takes a few days to complete the process.

The product’s on-premise version is expensive for a medium-sized company.

SAP Data Services acts as a support tool, providing the necessary infrastructure for ensuring data quality. However, ultimately it depends on the user’s ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications to achieve optimal results. The real-time data integration feature allows us to view granular data.

I recommend it to others and rate it an eight out of ten.

From an integration perspective, normally, we're using SAP Data Services, however, I can only use it from an ETL perspective.

This is used to extract business content from the system. It's the tool that allows you to extract business consent and for purposes of business intelligence; businesses use it for legally reporting requirements.

There is what you call a subsystem, however, the data within stuff itself is not flexible so that you would be able to use tools like Power BI with it as it is. In order to use Power BI tools and so on, you need data to be in a certain layout and to be extracted in a certain structure. This tool allows you to do that.

Having different ways of extracting data has been very useful. We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level. 

The solution is very stable.

It's a user-friendly product.

The deployment is quick and it's straightforward to set up.

They could make it easier to work with web services. They need to make things like connecting to Google Databases, and so on, easier. They also have a data connection layer. If you could connect to those web-based data mixes with other vendors, web vendors, that should help.

Glitches are very, very few and far between. It's very user-friendly. I won't complain much there.

We've found the solution to be scalable. 

We have five or six people who are data analysts who use it. 

There are no plans to increase usage with their current model of work.

Whenever we needed technical support services it's been there for us, however, we hardly have ever needed support.

We did not use a different solution.

The initial setup is very easy. It takes about a day for implementation and setup. 

You only need one person to handle deployment and maintenance tasks.

We used a consultant to assist us with the implementation process. 

I cannot speak to the exact cost of the solution, however, in terms of if you look at the consulting fee, and you work up debt on a yearly basis, it might be $50,000 USD. There aren't additional costs beyond the standard fee.

We did look at Informatica as well before choosing this solution.

We are end-users. We provide services for the customer. I would not necessarily be the customer. I would provide services on behalf of the customer.

We've installed what we call a specific DDI. We use a hybrid setup.

I'd advise new users to know the product more before they implement it. It's important to be familiar with it before you commit.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten in the environment in which it's used, which is the best tool. In an environment where you've got theft as a source and you've got many targets, there are very few solutions that can match it.

SAP Data Services is a very general tool for SAP as a source and SAP as a destination. It can also connect to any source and any destination. This is a very valuable aspect of the solution.

The logic is simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction.

You can also do data transformation any way you want to. You can do any kind of transformation to your data and you can change the data.

There is a new tool that is going to replace this one, which will be more for platform integration data services. This is a close-knit tool that SAP is suggesting for different solutions. There's a lot lacking in it. You cannot do a lot of transformations. We are facing a lot of issues from that. As a whole, Data Services, is good, but not the platform integration of the Data Services aspect.

The preview for on-prem data services needs more information. The scheduling is also weak. Scheduling of jobs in the sequence is not available. It's a very tedious process to do that particular task. If there was a tool to schedule in the sequence that would be extremely helpful. 

The system is very stable. We have not faced any challenges since implementation.

Scalability is not an issue with this solution.

We have not used a single technical support call for SAP, which is great. As a whole, technical support was good, but recently we have been facing a delay because unless you raise a call with a very high priority there is a delay in the support. A very high priority means you have a financial loss or your computer system is not accessible. I would say the quality of support has been degrading as of late but we are somewhat satisfied with support overall.

The initial setup is very straightforward. It's not too complex.

SAP services handled the implementation. It was part of a larger implementation called a Systems Operations Planning Tool.

We use the on-premises version of the solution. We have started using the Cloud Platform Integration with the CPA Data Service. It's a hybrid: both on-premises and cloud.

SAP Data Services has a tool, but it is not a cloud-capable solution. I would advise users thinking about integrating this solution to look at your entire landscape. If you have any cloud systems as part of your landscape, then you need to have a clear understanding of what BODS is capable of doing. BODS Data Services is not good for the cloud.

I would rate this solution seven out of ten because cloud integration is not available and the scheduling part is very immature at this point.

SAP Data Services is used to integrate data sources. We use the solution service for other projects we are involved in.

The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources.

The solution could improve the overall features. There is a lot that can be done in the solution, therefor there are areas where it can improve. Additionally, there is a need to make it easier for one to create connections to other non-SAP systems. The flexibility to connect to other non-SAP systems is needed.

I have been using SAP Data Services for approximately 17 years.

SAP Data Services is stable.

I rate the stability of SAP Data Services a seven out of ten.

The solution is scalable. You are able to increase the services that can be used.

This solution is best suited for medium-sized companies and above.

We are using SAP Data Services extensively. Every time we have the requirement we use this solution, but it's not the standard way for us to collect data. If we need standard data collection we use this tool.

We have up to three people in the queue to use the solution. We use the tool once in a while.

I rate the scalability of SAP Data Services a seven out of ten.

If we have issues the support is there to assist us. For example, when there are new features, they collect information about the new feature and try to add it to the next release.

I have been using Informatica prior to SAP Data Services. Informatica is the better solution, it is more user-friendly and flexible for creating connections.

The initial setup of SAP Data Services is easy. The length of time it takes for the implementation depends on the tool you use. If you use the desktop tool it should not take long.

The license price is expensive but medium to large-scale companies, should be able to afford it. Other solutions, such as Talend are easier to afford for smaller companies. Depending on the sources of the data where you are receiving your data you could be paying for more than one license.

My advice to others is they should consider if you need to use SAP Data Services. If it is a new business use case it might not be necessary. For example, if you are in an area where the landscape is mainly SAP, then it might make more sense to use the solution. However, if there is a need to connect data from other systems, or other services, then you don't necessarily need to use SAP Data Services as an option. You have to make sure the use case fits the solution.

I rate SAP Data Services an eight out of ten

We use the solution to migrate data from legacy systems to other systems, including SAP and non-SAP systems.

The data migration is easy and convenient to extract, load, and transform. A minimal SQL knowledge is sufficient to handle the application. Syniti needs more technical knowledge. Getting the resourcing facilities is in high demand in India. It is easy for us to get the resources for Data Services. The resources also have the potential and knowledge in SAP. In addition, the loading mechanism in Data Service is much more efficient than Synity.

The cleansing feature is not as efficient as Syniti. The reporting is good because we have followed one standard template for years. Many customers are fine with the reporting mechanism, but it is time-consuming. We have to do the report manually, but Syniti can generate the reports.

The price could be lower, and technical support could be more responsive.

I have been using SAP Data Services for 15 years.

The product is stable.

The solution is scalable.

The technical support is good, but it is a time-consuming process. They also have their protocol, process, and product based on the client.

We have to pay for the support first. If you get an error, technical support will check, and we have to pay. We have to get approval from the client because we have to pay for it.

Neutral

The initial setup is simple and takes a week to complete.

We need an additional resource for deployment because one person handles administration and technical data migration.

We have a separate administration team to look after the deployment.

SAP Data Services costs are relatively high compared to other data services solutions. However, SAP has recently changed its pricing model to be more usage-based, which can make it more cost-effective for some organizations. The new pricing model charges based on the number of CPU processes used, which can be more expensive for organizations with high data processing needs. However, the new pricing model can be more affordable for organizations with lower data processing needs. Additionally, the cost of SAP Data Services can vary depending on the country where it is being used.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.