IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. SAP Data Services

You can use infosphere: -If you have multiple targets and source systems and they are different than each other. -If your infostructure is so big and unplaned well so you can't find what you want to see. -If your databases not so strong to process your data

Incentivized

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.)

Incentivized

• It is very strong to make transformations/data derivations
• It is very easy to connect to various external data sources. It has an interface (stages) for each connection that simplifies the task
• It is a stable platform. And that parallelism helps make it fast for loading, if the process is well designed

• Extracting data from various types of data sources
• Transforming data using joins, functions, look ups, etc.
• Loading data into different kinds of targets

Incentivized

• Lack of a strong web development environment.
• Metadata propagation in Jobs is somewhat complex.
• The possibility to develop jobs in Parallel and/or Server Engines is confusing.

• New connectivity options for cloud solutions must be added.
• Avoid dependency from flash in Information Steward scorecard.
• More connectivity options for hadoop distributions.

Incentivized

• Scale of implementation
• IBM techsupport

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

I particularly believe that Information Server, especially DataStage, is superior in many aspects to the Oracle Data Integrator tool. Several market analysts such as Gartner and / or Forrester better position DataStage on the Oracle solution.

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.

Incentivized

• Information Server can positively impact the costs of companies by increasing the productivity of development and therefore reduce their time and costs. It is estimated that DataStage can increase a developer's productivity by 40% on average.
• Better data governance
• Improve data quality and reduce bad data impacts

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized