SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product. Rather than creating an evolution of this product, they have created a completely different solution with Data Intelligence that can work in both environments, on the cloud and on-premises. In future releases of SAP Information Steward, I would like to see an easy way to deploy security because currently, it takes too much time.
SAP Data Sevices Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services
Consultant
2021-12-13T11:41:00Z
Dec 13, 2021
We can just play around with the data and generate the reports on whatever data we have. However, we cannot modify anything in the data level itself and proceed accordingly. I would say SAP Data Intelligence is better in that sense. That provides the ability to modify the data and it has the same functionality as SAP Information Steward. We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward. That would be helpful for anyone working on any migration object. It would be beneficial for those who have to generate some dashboards for the business perspective and all. When we work on the legacy data, we can do everything else in SAP BODS. However, in SAP Information Steward, whatever the possibilities are there to manipulate the data should also be in Information Steward. If we are asked to share the report or create a dashboard, we can just do it right from Information Steward. We would like some data manipulation tools for whatever the minimum transformations are. To do the extensive transformations we have other tools. We can use SAP Data Services also. However, these kinds of minimal transformational tasks, if they were available in SAP Information Steward, would be really great.
SAP Data Services Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2021-11-29T14:02:34Z
Nov 29, 2021
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.
SAP ABAP Consultant, SAP Data Services Consultant at Freelancer
Consultant
2021-11-20T11:44:49Z
Nov 20, 2021
An area for improvement would be for the product to be more powerful on its rules and how they link with tables or sources. In the next release, I would like to see a simple view of the data - currently, I have to do some work on the data myself before I can use Information Steward, which I would prefer the product did for me.
A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies. All data resulting from Information Steward remains there, which prevents us from utilizing it to do more deep analysis. We would like to see the export of the resulting data and this is something we have requested from SAP but, as of now, without effect. We wish to be able to extract the resultant information.
I would like to see the granularity of the configuration reduced from a global or an application level to the object level, together with the ability to archive data retention and make reporting and indexes faster. I'd also like the ability to get inside the individual information collections on a more specific level and to get information directly related to a topic. They currently have BIRT, a business information reporting tool and I'm forced to use that to extrapolate information unless I want to go through the command line which has very poorly documented access. They put out a syntax and then you have to experiment to figure out how it actually works. One area of improvement would be the documentation on the application, its third party dependencies, and the functionality of the command line features. I think improvements could be made in performance. I have some situations where I can throw more resources than the application can handle, and I will not get better performance. The issue is that indexing is single-threaded so I'll never be able to make one thread faster. If it could be done in parallel threads, it would all be more efficient. With a date timestamp I'm limited to a single thread, those are the limitations in the threading model of the application. The threading model creates bottlenecks all over the application.
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SAP Information Steward could be improved by offering a cloud version of the product. Rather than creating an evolution of this product, they have created a completely different solution with Data Intelligence that can work in both environments, on the cloud and on-premises. In future releases of SAP Information Steward, I would like to see an easy way to deploy security because currently, it takes too much time.
The user experience of metapedia could be improved. I'd like to see integration with data inclusion.
We can just play around with the data and generate the reports on whatever data we have. However, we cannot modify anything in the data level itself and proceed accordingly. I would say SAP Data Intelligence is better in that sense. That provides the ability to modify the data and it has the same functionality as SAP Information Steward. We'd like to see some manipulation techniques included in SAP Information Steward. That would be helpful for anyone working on any migration object. It would be beneficial for those who have to generate some dashboards for the business perspective and all. When we work on the legacy data, we can do everything else in SAP BODS. However, in SAP Information Steward, whatever the possibilities are there to manipulate the data should also be in Information Steward. If we are asked to share the report or create a dashboard, we can just do it right from Information Steward. We would like some data manipulation tools for whatever the minimum transformations are. To do the extensive transformations we have other tools. We can use SAP Data Services also. However, these kinds of minimal transformational tasks, if they were available in SAP Information Steward, would be really great.
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.
An area for improvement would be for the product to be more powerful on its rules and how they link with tables or sources. In the next release, I would like to see a simple view of the data - currently, I have to do some work on the data myself before I can use Information Steward, which I would prefer the product did for me.
A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies. All data resulting from Information Steward remains there, which prevents us from utilizing it to do more deep analysis. We would like to see the export of the resulting data and this is something we have requested from SAP but, as of now, without effect. We wish to be able to extract the resultant information.
I would like to see the granularity of the configuration reduced from a global or an application level to the object level, together with the ability to archive data retention and make reporting and indexes faster. I'd also like the ability to get inside the individual information collections on a more specific level and to get information directly related to a topic. They currently have BIRT, a business information reporting tool and I'm forced to use that to extrapolate information unless I want to go through the command line which has very poorly documented access. They put out a syntax and then you have to experiment to figure out how it actually works. One area of improvement would be the documentation on the application, its third party dependencies, and the functionality of the command line features. I think improvements could be made in performance. I have some situations where I can throw more resources than the application can handle, and I will not get better performance. The issue is that indexing is single-threaded so I'll never be able to make one thread faster. If it could be done in parallel threads, it would all be more efficient. With a date timestamp I'm limited to a single thread, those are the limitations in the threading model of the application. The threading model creates bottlenecks all over the application.