SAP Data Intelligence

Score8.6 out of 10

99 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Data Intelligence?

SAP Data Intelligence is presented by the vendor as a single solution to innovate with data. It provides data-driven innovation in the cloud, on premise, and through BYOL deployments. It is described by the vendor as the new evolution of the company's data orchestration and management solution running on Kubernetes, released by SAP in 2017 to deal with big data and complex data orchestration working across distributed landscapes and processing engine.

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Kishore Challa

SAP Technical Manager in Information Technology at Syntax (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SAP Data Intelligence for Sending the Financials & Material inventory data from S/4H to Azure Data lake Should have the knowledge on the terminators and connectors.

Pros

Sending the data to Non-SAP Systems
Cleansing the data
Data Governance

Cons

Performance & scalability issues
Complexity
Documentation & tutorials
Limited connectors

Return on Investment

Increased efficiency & automation (Positive impact)
Data Management(Positive Impact)
Complexity in setting up governance frameworks(Negative Impact)
Resource-intensive setup and ongoing operational costs(Negative Impact)

Alternatives Considered

SAP Datasphere

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Other Software Used

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Datasphere

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Data Intelligence is helping us solve the following business problems.

1. Handle huge volumes of data coming from a variety of sources.

2. Orchestrate data pipelines with optimum governance around them

3. Helping in data management activities with its strong feature set on data profiling, data cataloging, etc.

4. Helping us prepare data for our AI/ML processes

Pros

Data pipeline orchestration capabilities
Data governance
Scalability

Cons

Like every SAP product, it is rigid with product strategy and hard to keep pace with advancements in technology
Integration with open-source technologies and the future road map is always a point of contention
Costs

Return on Investment

Improved governance around data acquisition and data management
Almost 20 to 25% savings in managing the data pipelines from operations point of view
More focus on bringing additional external sets of data into the landscape for AI / ML processes

Alternatives Considered

Informatica API Manager

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Other Software Used

SAP BW/4HANA, Snowflake, Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Dan Rodriguez

Programmer Analyst in Information Technology at SDI Presence (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my experience, SAP Data Intelligence simplifies the process of bolstering data-sharing, pipelineing, and governance in a networked environment. I think the supply chain and logistics industries may benefit form SAP Data Intelligence. It has enormous potential for waste minimization.

Pros

Lessen the total processing time.
Compatible with a wide variety of add-ons.

Cons

Failures in a Kubernetes cluster might be difficult to diagnose.
I think it's easy for mistakes to be made during installation.

Return on Investment

Improvements in efficiency and new ideas.
Complex business processes are simple to analyze and forecast.

Usability

Other Software Used

SAP Access Control

Srini Ganapathiraju

Engineering Manager in Finance and Accounting at INGKA Services LLP (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This product is mainly used for Event processing and requires additional capabilities on how this product helps on Event Mesh and Data Mesh solutions, especially how this is useful to enable Data Product.

Pros

Event Processing

Cons

Standardization of transformation solution

Return on Investment

Licensing cost is too much which does not make sense from ROI

Alternatives Considered

StreamSets DataOps Platform

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Sabit Shaiholla

Head Research Assistant in Engineering at Nazarbayev University JSC (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This SAP's Data Intelligence software tool is used for the implementation of for data integration (based on ETL and ELT processes) with defined scope of functionalities and capabilities provided. Moreover, it provides great integration with other SAP products such as SAP 4HANA. We utilize it in conjunction with AWS and Microsoft Azure tools.

Pros

Good integration and data migration functionalities (from one DB cluster to another)
provision and support of different level of data access (tabular format level, ETL layer level, ODP level)
Reasonable pricing (pay-as-you-use strategy, without overhead cost implemented)

Cons

High entry level of usage - for some users like me it is hard to get things performed without referring to the tech support and their documentation
the management and control of the source code imposes the difficulties in terms of ease of usage - with complex projects this issue is critical and becomes a bottleneck for the further development processes implemented
as easy it is to manipulate and perform operations on tabular data, as hard it is to work with non-relational database entities such as semi-structured documents and files

Return on Investment

This tool has provided great functionality on migrating DB cluster, therefore having directly positive impact on ROI by reducing the operating costs with the support of Oracle DB
It has provided decreased time-to-market delivery, as we have expected to finish the whole project in 6 months instead of 3. This had a enormous impact on the overall performance of the project, with great advantage in terms of ROI.
With the decrease of operating costs, we have optimized the overall budget devoted to the support of our DB clusters, thereby improving the cost budgeting
Overall, very reasonable pricing strategy provided (pay-as-you-go)

Alternatives Considered

StreamSets DataOps Platform and Azure Data Factory

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Other Software Used

Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Managed Grafana, Azure Migrate

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