SAP Information Steward Reviews

For the most recent project that I was working on with SAP Information Steward, we did the data profiling and created the rules, and then eventually presented the results on the scorecard.

As a client, they will want to look at their data and the quality is important. We do the data profiling to show them how their data looks. Eventually, we will be facilitating the rules from the business, the other business users, and the functional people. We incorporate those rules into SAP Information Steward which allows us to show the clients the data versus the rules that they have given us. We show them through a scorecard, it is like a dashboard.

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.

It shows the business how that data looks like. When they link the financials it shows them if the data is dirty, and how much it costs the business. There are special features for cleansing the data that are beneficial. It is a huge task to cleanse data manually, automating it through the Data Cleansing package is very valuable.

The user interface is user-friendly and is object-oriented. It is simple for the user to interpret what is happening. I am very happy with the product.

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.

I have only used SAP Information Steward for a short period of time.

The stability is very good. It has a high performance.

The solution is flexible, it can be used for many sized companies. It can be used for small, medium, and large companies, it's quite a good tool it scales easily.

In the most recent project, because I was a data lead, I wasn't using SAP Information Steward very much. It was our data stewards that were using it. However, I used it extensively in my previous project which was a few years ago when I was a data steward.

I have not been in contact with the technical support directly. For most issues that we've had, we provide them to our administrator, and our administrator was the one who was usually in touch with the technical support.

There were times where they were able to quickly resolve issues. They have their own SLA to follow. Sometimes they do not follow their SLA but and this is because their SLA does not match ours because ours is shorter and theirs is longer. 

The implementation is straightforward. The size of the team to do the implementation of SAP Information Steward depends, a typical team would be approximately five data stewards and one administrator. The time it takes for the implementation is approximately two days, it is not complex.

There is some maintenance that is required for SAP Information Steward, such as patching and updating.

SAP Information Steward is an expensive solution compared to others.

After I used SAP Information Steward, I used others solutions, such as Ab Initio and Informatica.

I believe ETL tools are ETL tools. They are all object-orientated, and only from different companies. It goes to the preferability of a client if they want to use one or the other. However, pricing is different when compared. Most clients would choose the other tools rather than SAP because SAP is a bit pricey. They'll probably opt for another tool because it's more cost-effective for them.

I would recommend SAP Information Steward because it delivers good work when it comes to our business requirements and is fast.

I rate SAP Information Steward a nine out of ten.