Alex Solutions vs. SAP Information Steward

If you have information systems with lots of information but need a solution that ties together the data Alex Solution is really a great tool for this. We're a large international company, so this was our case. But if you are a smaller local company with not that much data available it could be you should look for other solutions for a start.

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SAP Information Steward is well suited for companies looking for profiling data, monitoring data quality and managing policies. It provides dashboards and features to create the awareness on Data Quality dimensions. SAP IS is not suited to manage huge amount of data due to performance issues. It is not designed to correct data by its own. However, It can remediate data through integration with SAP Master Data Governance or SAP Data Services.

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• Easy and fast data sharing across platforms
• Single platforms solution
• Able to handle cloud and on premise

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• Audit trail management of Metadata to ensure due diligence with respect to the quality of data
• Control features and identification of risk wrt data
• Ready recknor in form of advance bi reports for procurement and costing kpi
• Flexible comparison and filter functio ality across cross organisation data

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• Alex Solutions has lots of features and you need to invest time to understand how to do best deal with the solution in your own business case
• Australian-based solution with no local support in Denmark. Not the biggest issue for us, but potentially is a place with room for improvement.
• Making it easier for users to adjust visuals and colours.

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• More real-time integration scenarios needed.
• Needs more generic standard content for metadata management.
• The user interface can be more intuitive based on AI.

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Out of the box solution

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It provides out of box solution for information management at organisation level

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I believe many features from SAP Information Steward are available in other SAP products as well hence it is more confusing for business or customers to do the right selection. Moreover SAP strategy is not very clear for this particular product hence often we are confused while exploring more related scenarios

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Ready recknoer tools that act as reference are missing that can help to formulate ;Decision Driven Framework' for various strategic decesions

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I have seen companies with Alex and Collibra, and if I should choose one of these tools based on my knowledge and feedback from the users, I would definitely choose Alex Solutions. From a user perspective Alex Solutions is easier to use - it really is just more intuitive and for most users that can make the difference between using and not using the solution

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Both are great products and I highly recommend both

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• It's always difficult to predict the future, but the feedback from our organization is clear. Data-driven decisions are better decisions for sure.
• No service or solution is free, but seen in the bigger picture the better decision making surely outweigh the costs of Alex Solutions
• Our organization has way more focus on data and ensuring correct data collection. This is probably the best impact we have had seen from a data manager's perspective

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• Improvement on Organization Data Quality
• Real time Data Quality Issues discovery
• Data Policies effective management

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