IBM InfoSphere QualityStage vs. SAP Data Services

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM InfoSphere QualityStage
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
IBM InfoSphere QualityStage is a data quality offering from IBM.N/A
SAP Data Services
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
SAP Data Services is an offering from SAP to improve data quality.N/A
Pricing
IBM InfoSphere QualityStageSAP Data Services
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM InfoSphere QualityStageSAP Data Services
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
IBM InfoSphere QualityStageSAP Data Services
Features
IBM InfoSphere QualityStageSAP Data Services
Data Quality
Comparison of Data Quality features of Product A and Product B
IBM InfoSphere QualityStage
9.0
Ratings
3% above category average
SAP Data Services
6.1
Ratings
35% below category average
Data source connectivity9.00 Ratings5.30 Ratings
Data profiling9.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Master data management (MDM) integration9.00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Data element standardization9.00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Match and merge9.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Address verification9.00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
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Score 7.7 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Score 8.0 out of 10
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
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Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Score 8.0 out of 10
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
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Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM InfoSphere QualityStageSAP Data Services
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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6.1
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Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
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User Testimonials
IBM InfoSphere QualityStageSAP Data Services
Likelihood to Recommend
Good for issues with data quality, and instances where you need to add controls and rules to load the data. Also if you have a large amount of data.
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SAP Data Services is a data integration and transformation software application. It allows users to develop and execute workflows that take data from predefined sources called data stores (applications, Web services, flat-files, databases, etc.)
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Pros
  • Create rules
  • Standardization and normalization of data
  • Integration with DataStage
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  • Extracting data from various types of data sources
  • Transforming data using joins, functions, look ups, etc.
  • Loading data into different kinds of targets
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Cons
  • Should include all the data profiling functionality
  • Better features to tune matching capability
  • Include AI to automatically recommend actions to improve processes
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  • New connectivity options for cloud solutions must be added.
  • Avoid dependency from flash in Information Steward scorecard.
  • More connectivity options for hadoop distributions.
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Support Rating
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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
QualityStage is positioned as a world leader as a data cleaning tool, and competes face to face with PowerCenter. Particularly in Latin America we consider that QualityStage is better customized in terms of data cleaning rules for the region.
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SAP Data Services is better at integration with other SAP products and data sources with native HANA connectors. There are also accelerators to consider when looking at it as a data migration tool for SAP implementations.
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Return on Investment
  • Improving Data Quality
  • Reducing costs due to better Data Quality
  • Single view of customer / product
  • Better data governance
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  • DS has had a very positive impact by reducing deployment times for SAP and has provided ability to deploy multiple sites at the same time.
  • Ongoing master data creation/migration benefits significantly from DS, and it's easy to stand up a new business unit.
  • Data accuracy improved and manual inspections are minimal.
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