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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP Information Steward

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMonitor, analyze, and improve data integrity with SAP Information Steward software. Combine data profiling and metadata management tools for continuous insight into the quality of enterprise information to optimize processes, and enhance operational, analytical, and data governance initiatives.N/A

    Toad Data Point

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AToad Data Point is a cross-platform, self-service, data-integration tool that simplifies data access, preparation and provisioning. It provides data connectivity and desktop data integration, and with the Workbook interface for business users, it provides simple-to-use visual query building and workflow automation.

    $365

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    SAP Information StewardToad Data Point
    Editions & Modules
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    Base Edition
    $365
    Pro Edition
    $528
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Information StewardToad Data Point
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSAP Information Steward is sold by CPU core volume to provide the processing power required to meet enterprise data integration and quality needs.—
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    User Ratings
    SAP Information StewardToad Data Point
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    Usability
    10.0
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    Support Rating
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    8.0
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    Data Sharing and Collaboration
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    Data Sources
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    User Testimonials
    SAP Information StewardToad Data Point
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    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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    Quest Software
    Appropriate for general querying and some DBA work. It's the universal least-offensive solution for most environments - not best of breed, but not subject to unusual/extensive requirements. It just works. On the other hand, some functionality (e.g. data import/export, snippets) are perfunctory and minimal and seem to be either difficult or impossible to automate. If you need to streamline those operations, you'll be forced to rely on third-party solutions that mostly work on top of (instead of with) TOAD.
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    Pros
    SAP
    • 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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    Quest Software
    • Export data into excel.
    • Export data into excel using a pivot table functionality.
    • Navigation between windows is intuitive and easy to understand.
    • Good for SQL novices and experts alike.
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    Cons
    SAP
    • 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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    Quest Software
    • The workflow is a relatively new feature. Quest is adding additional functionality and the workflows are useful now.
    • Would be nice if the 'Automate' feature was a bit easier to use.
    • Would be nice if some of the SQL Editor features in the traditional interface worked better in the new workflow interface (although, these are being fixed with each release).
    • Would be nice if there were fewer releases.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    Out of the box solution
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    Usability
    SAP
    It provides out of box solution for information management at organisation level
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    Quest Software
    I find Toad Data Point easy to use for both the novice and the experienced business analyst. If all you desire is to access data and create spreadsheets...this is a snap. Toad Data Point actually has cool data analysis features built into it. The newer workflow interface makes automating steps a snap
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    Support Rating
    SAP
    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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    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    Both are great products and I highly recommend both
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    Quest Software
    Although Toad and UltraEdit are both great products, from an SQL standpoint Toad is a much better editor and troubleshooter.
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    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • Improvement on Organization Data Quality
    • Real time Data Quality Issues discovery
    • Data Policies effective management
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    Quest Software
    • It is the least common denominator - not particularly optimized for our environment or workflows.
    • Hangs or slowdowns add anywhere from 5% - 7% for projects utilizing large/complicated data setts. (This could be due to other IT-imposed constraints and not entirely due to TOAD.)
    • Trying to perform some operations requires reading documentation and experimenting in order to figure out the TOAD-specific approaches and commands.
    • It just works (when we understand it). Updates don't break things and things don't suddenly start behaving differently. Best of all, we don't mysteriously lose functionality.
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    ScreenShots

    SAP Information Steward Screenshots

    Screenshot of Get a complete view of data quality reports by using dashboards and scorecards.Screenshot of Data impact that shows how the data is used so you can access the full impact on any data changes.Screenshot of Data profiling supports governance processes that define data ownership in accordance with business needs, roles, and policies.Screenshot of Data profiling details assess data in terms of accuracy, completeness, conformity, integrity.