SAP Data Intelligence offers a lot of potential for SAP/Open Source data integration
November 29, 2020
SAP Data Intelligence offers a lot of potential for SAP/Open Source data integration

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SAP Data Intelligence
We have used [SAP] Data Intelligence for internal learning purposes in order to build up know-how within our team. For this purpose, we have re-implemented an existing showcase using [SAP] Data Intelligence.
- Provides lots of standard operators and default pipelines
- Good Python notebook integration for data discovery
- Graphical UI to develop pipelines reduce amount of code written
- Better documentation with examples of how to use connectors (i.e. what input/output must look like)
- Debugging functionality required to understand where pipelines fail and how data looks at that point
- SAP libraries (e.g. python hana_ml) should be STANDARD and pre-installed to avoid dockerfiles and other workarounds
- Dockerfile execution takes long times without giving a status where it is failing/held up
- HANA Read/Write Table operator throws TLS errors which are unlikely when HANA connection generally works
- Complete Data Integration
- Single Platform for Data Integration
- System Consolidation
- Ease of use for developers
I have worked with SAP Data Services for data integration, but think that it is not as strong as [SAP] Data Intelligence when it comes to data integration across landscapes and open source integration.
I have also worked with Spark to build pipelines, which cannot really be compared to DI.
I have also worked with Spark to build pipelines, which cannot really be compared to DI.
Do you think SAP Data Intelligence delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with SAP Data Intelligence's feature set?
Yes
Did SAP Data Intelligence live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of SAP Data Intelligence go as expected?
No
Would you buy SAP Data Intelligence again?
Yes