Informatica Cloud Data Quality vs. SAP Data Services

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Informatica Cloud Data Quality
Score 6.6 out of 10
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The vendor states that Informatica Data Quality empowers companies to take a holistic approach to managing data quality across the entire organization, and that with Informatica Data Quality, users are able to ensure the success of data-driven digital transformation initiatives and projects across users, types, and scale, while also automating mission-critical tasks.N/A
SAP Data Services
Score 8.7 out of 10
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SAP Data Services is an offering from SAP to improve data quality.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Informatica Cloud Data QualitySAP Data Services
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Data Quality
Comparison of Data Quality features of Product A and Product B
Informatica Cloud Data Quality
8.2
4 Ratings
3% below category average
SAP Data Services
6.1
9 Ratings
32% below category average
Data source connectivity8.94 Ratings5.39 Ratings
Data profiling8.74 Ratings6.09 Ratings
Master data management (MDM) integration8.24 Ratings7.17 Ratings
Data element standardization7.14 Ratings6.99 Ratings
Match and merge7.94 Ratings5.19 Ratings
Address verification8.44 Ratings6.38 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Informatica Cloud Data QualitySAP Data Services
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(19 ratings)
6.1
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.6
(14 ratings)
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Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Availability
9.0
(2 ratings)
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Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
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8.7
(4 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Informatica Cloud Data QualitySAP Data Services
Likelihood to Recommend
Informatica
For effective data collaboration, systematic verification of customer information, and address, among others, Informatica Data Quality is a fruitful application to consider. Besides, Informatica Data Quality controls quality through a cleansing process, giving the company a professional outline of candid data profiling and reputable analytics. Finally, Informatica Data Quality allows the simplistic navigation of content, with a dashboard that supports predictability.
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SAP
It's definitely one of the leading ETL tools, and it's the best ETL tool to use with SAP integration. If you use SAP HANA, then you should think about Data Services as your primary ETL tool.
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Pros
Informatica
  • The matching algorithms in IDQ are very powerful if you understand the different types that they offer (e.g., Hamming Distance, Jaro, Bigram, etc..). We had to play around with it to see which best suit our own needs of identifying and eliminating duplicate customers. Setting up the whole process (e.g., creating the KeyGenerator Transformation, setting up the matching threshold, etc..) can be somewhat time consuming and a challenge if you don't first standardize your data.
  • The integration with PowerCenter is great if you have both. You can either import your mappings directly to PowerCenter or to an XML file. The only downside is that some of the transformations are unique to IDQ, so you are not really able to edit them once in PowerCenter.
  • The standardizer transformation was key in helping us standardize our customer data (e.g., names, addresses, etc..). It was helpful due to having create a reference table containing the standardized value and the associated unstandardized values. What was great was that if you used Informatica Analyst, a business analyst could login and correct any of the values.
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SAP
  • Integration with SAP ERP/ECC works really well.
  • A lot of flexibility in data creation, with different types of communication capabilities like BAPIs, IDocs, and Batch input.
  • Reliable and consistent results and easily enforceable data templates.
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Cons
Informatica
  • Several partnerships diminishing the value of technologies
  • Unable to get list of objects from Repository (like sources & targets) that don't have any dependency
  • Scheduling: The built-in scheduling tool has many constraints such as handling Unix/VB scripts etc. Most enterprises use third party tools for this.
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SAP
  • Debugging is not very easy. When one wants to see the flow of data from one Query to another, the process is not very smooth and efficient.
  • A lot of functions do not behave the way they should. I have faced problems with the count() function.
  • I have faced problems while loading Excel files. The same set of options will work in one case but not in the other.
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Likelihood to Renew
Informatica
As pointed out earlier, due all the robust features IDQ has, our use f the product is successful and stable. IDQ is being used in multiple sources (from CRM application and in batch mode). As this is an iterative process, we are looking to improve our system efficiency using IDQ.
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SAP
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Usability
Informatica
Easy to use not only for developers but also business users
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SAP
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Reliability and Availability
Informatica
The application works well except an occasional error out while using the system. It usually gets fixed when restarting the Infa server
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SAP
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Performance
Informatica
Performance works just fine. It was able to load 200+ business terms, 150+ DQ automation, etc. very well.
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SAP
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Support Rating
Informatica
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SAP
As other SAP products, there is excellent support by SAP on this tool. You can access the SAP Help portal in order to give support either from the huge community or directly from SAP.
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Alternatives Considered
Informatica
IDQ is used by a department at my organisation to ensure and enhance the data quality.
The usage was started with address standardization and now it had been brought to altogether a next level of quality check where it fixes duplicates, junk characters, standardize the names, streets, product descriptions.
In the past we had issues mainly with duplicate customers and products and this were affecting the sales projection and estimates.
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SAP
You cannot afford to run your business on questionable data. With SAP® Data Services software, you can access, transform, and connect data to fuel your critical business processes. Together, these enterprise-class solutions enable data integration and data quality, providing the right level of insight across your business so you can make better decisions and operate more effectively.SAP Data Services was previously known as SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator, BusinessObjects Data Integrator.
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Scalability
Informatica
Scalability works as expected and it is truly an enterprise system.
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SAP
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Return on Investment
Informatica
  • Integration with tools like PowerCenter helped faster delivery of product, and at the same time conversion
  • Reduce overall project cost due to bad data , bad quality, exceptions identified nearing go-live and post production
  • Employee efficiency is increased exponentially due to more automated, customized tool
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SAP
  • Very positive impact in jobs maintenance since support auto-documentation.
  • Great impact on learning curve.
  • Great results in our Data Quality Projects.
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