BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued) vs. SAP Datasphere

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
BusinessObjects Data Integrator was an ETL tool, acquired by BusinessObjects from the company Acta, where the tool was known as ActaWorks. After SAP's acquisition of BusinessObjects, the tool was discontinued.N/A
SAP Datasphere
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
SAP Datasphere, the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, is a comprehensive data service that enables data professionals to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. It provides a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. SAP Datasphere enables users to distribute mission-critical business data — with business context and logic preserved — across the data…N/A
Pricing
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)SAP Datasphere
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)SAP Datasphere
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSAP Datasphere is available as a subscription or consumption-based model. The SAP Datasphere capacity unit (CU) offers an adaptable approach to pricing that enables any workload on any hyperscaler. The number of CUs required is determined by the unique workload, with the ability to tailor the combination of required services within SAP Datasphere utilizing a flexible tenant configuration. The services that contribute to CU consumption are the core application (compute and storage), data lake, BW bridge, data integration, and data catalog (crawling and storage).
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Community Pulse
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Features
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)SAP Datasphere
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
10.0
1 Ratings
19% above category average
SAP Datasphere
-
Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
10.0
1 Ratings
22% above category average
SAP Datasphere
-
Ratings
Simple transformations10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Complex transformations10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
7.6
1 Ratings
3% below category average
SAP Datasphere
-
Ratings
Data model creation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Metadata management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing and debugging8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
8.0
1 Ratings
1% above category average
SAP Datasphere
-
Ratings
Integration with data quality tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)SAP Datasphere
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(103 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.7
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.2
(47 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(21 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(8 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)SAP Datasphere
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Great tool for ETL with the ability to integrate with SAP products seamlessly. Supports Big data integration.
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SAP
SAP Datasphere is well suited for scalable cloud based data integration scenarios which also opens up the doors for AI driven insights which are much harder to achieve with on-prem data warehouses. Considering the licensing model of SAP Datasphere being based on consumption driven capacity units cost can be a big consideration for organizations with large volumes of data that can be a pre-requisite for data mining and AI use cases. So this can be a bottleneck or not so well adopted scenario for SAP Datasphere.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Processing business validations on the input data set.
  • Scheduling and notification using the Admin console tool.
  • Code management across group of developers.
  • Simple deployment process across environment.
  • Ability to deploy stand alone jobs to automate task. Integration with OS and support for variety of data bases.
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SAP
  • SAP Data Warehouse Cloud offers free trial for 90 days with free 128 GB of storage and 64 GB memory.
  • Availability of self-service data modeling and analytics on SAP Data Warehouse Cloud enables users to access and analyze data without getting support from the IT team.
  • Without zero coding while collecting, connecting, analyzing and modeling data, it saves us time and operational costs of partnering with external IT support experts.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Writing custom components is a complex process.
  • Along with ETL BODI should have some data quality integration.
  • Ready documentation of the code and inbuilt commenting on components.
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SAP
  • Need to have a good understanding of the SAP ecosystem to implement and use it.
  • From a cost perspective it can be little bit on the expensive side for enterprises.
  • The platform is still new and hence more subjected to bugs. But support for it is always good from the SAP team.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
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SAP
We are moving into using SAP datasphere heavily and replacing all of the SAP HANA native calc view logic to the sap datasphere graphical view which will reduce the legacy SAP BW data warehouse. Also need some more features such as debugging, sql preview and prompts enhancements so that we can generate the reports.
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Usability
Discontinued Products
It is a good ETL tool to use if you are SAP shop and looking for a simple and elegant solution for automation.
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SAP
It is one of the best tools and a boon to Logistics teams across the globe. One tends to actually process warehousing data so smoothly and the way demonstration is made while in programs it makes it user friendly. The Inventory touch points that one identify is simply awesome and is best part.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
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SAP
I would greatly acknowledge the services of Sap Data [warehouse Cloud] because we were struggling before its arrival where we used to get manual data connections and this used to consume a lot of time but after its use, we now are able to connect data easily saving a lot of time and finances.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
It is a good package tool with SAP BO set of product line
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SAP
Each of these listed software has its own unique strength and capacity that scales well. SAP Datasphere on its end up against them with more suitability for large establishments with complex data ecosystems with scalability support. Also, it avails a pay-as-you-go pricing for users, and it is widely up for data quality, data governance, and data discovery.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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SAP
Despite the pricing model being expensive for small businesses, it provides decent features and capabilities for organizations of different sizes and it's an appropriate investment in today's business environment where there is constant pressure to build a scalable and flexible analytics service
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Professional Services
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SAP
Ever since we implemented SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, we have been able to reduce the additional costs of hiring third-party service providers by incorporating professional services offered by the vendor.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • It was a packaged purchase of BO toolset including BOXI and BODI.
  • Optimized performance for integrating different data sources.
  • Simple and easy setup and maintenance cost.
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SAP
  • Preserving data quality has enhanced governance on data by having a single source that is accessible to every business user via self-service capabilities.
  • Operational cost is lowered by connecting data in one integrated solution hence making it easy to access information without having to keeping logging to other applications. Additionally, no external IT support is needed since SAP Data Warehouse Cloud has no-coding modeling tools.
  • SAP Data Warehouse Cloud has enabled every business user to understand different data by transforming data to real insights.
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