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Qlik Talend Cloud vs SAP Information Steward comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 22, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Qlik Talend Cloud
Ranking in Data Quality
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (7th), Data Scrubbing Software (1st), Master Data Management (MDM) Software (3rd), Cloud Data Integration (6th), Data Governance (9th), Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (3rd), Streaming Analytics (6th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (6th)
SAP Information Steward
Ranking in Data Quality
19th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Metadata Management (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Data Quality category, the mindshare of Qlik Talend Cloud is 6.6%, down from 7.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Information Steward is 2.8%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Quality Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qlik Talend Cloud6.6%
SAP Information Steward2.8%
Other90.6%
Data Quality
 

Featured Reviews

HJ
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Has automated recurring data flows and improved accuracy in reporting
The best features of Talend Data Integration are its rich set of components that let you connect to almost any data design intuitive and its strong automation and scheduling capabilities. The TMap component is especially valuable because it allows flexible transformation, joins, and filtering in a single place. I also rely a lot on context variables to manage different environments like Dev, Test, and production, without changing the code. The error handling and logging tools are very helpful for monitoring and troubleshooting, which makes the workflow more reliable. Talend Data Integration has helped our company by automating and standardizing data processes. Before, many of these tasks were done manually, which took more time and often led to errors. With Talend Data Integration, we built automated pipelines that extract, clean, and load data consistently. This not only saves hours of manual effort, but also improves the accuracy and reliability of data. As a result, business teams had faster access to trustworthy information for reporting and decision making, which directly improved efficiency and productivity. Talend Data Integration has had a measurable impact on our organization. By automating daily data loading processes, we reduced manual effort by around three or four hours per day, which saved roughly 60 to 80 hours per month. We also improved data accuracy. Error rates dropped by more than 70% because validation rules were built into the jobs. In addition, reporting teams now receive fresh data at least 50% faster, which means they can make decisions earlier and with more confidence. Overall, Talend Data Integration has increased both efficiency and reliability in our data workflows.
FranciscoSantos - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Pixel Studio PTY
Provides accurate data that is validated against a personalized reference tool
For most SAP customers, Information Steward is enough because it is able to build quality data rules to detect issues in the source systems like SAP HANA, Business Warehouse, or other systems. A business user can first organize their data into several data domains. For example, procurement, human resources, and logistics setup. The domains can build data quality dimensions where you can describe the kind of rule that you are going to use. The user then can immediately see if something is wrong with their data using traffic lights. Another great feature of SAP Information Steward is the accuracy that the content is followed by validating against the reference tool. With the solution, you are creating data quality dimensions. Within these dimensions, you are creating business data quality rules that are looking for specific fields. From these rules, you can create a scorecard. The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits. SAP tables have field names that are very cryptic, making them hard to understand the meaning of the fields. Metapedia helps describe these fields in business terms.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"What I like about the Talend MDM Platform is that it's a good vendor diagnostic tool."
"The most valuable features of the Talend Data Management Platform are the components."
"We are still in the process of evaluating them, but I love the way things look in Talend, and I'm all for Talend."
"I like idea of storing the results of Data Quality jobs in a DB and having the ability to run reports in the DB to show a dashboard of quality metrics."
"It meets our operational and analytical data integration needs by providing us with a high performing set of tools to access, transform and integrate data in real time."
"You move data from one source to another without problem and apply some business rules in data."
"The jobs are visual and this has improved collaboration between colleagues. It’s much easier to understand a visual job than a piece of Java code."
"The solution is connected to various phones. It retrieves the configuration from the system."
"Data insight is the most valuable feature."
"Setup is straightforward."
"Ability to collect information, monitor user access and to plan storage capacity."
"The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards."
"The solution is very fast, very stable, and very easy to use and straightforward."
"The solution is user-friendly even for those who are dealing with it for the first time."
"The Data Cleansing and the scorecard dashboard are very valuable. Additionally, the financial aspect of SAP Information Steward is very good. When a rule is incorrect then it will show how much is it costing the business. These features are very valuable."
"The ability to analyze the data even before we start the transformation of it, and generating the user-friendly interface, giving analytical reports, and helping create the transformation rules before we proceed with the data migration part was the most helpful part of the solution for our company."
 

Cons

"Including either XML or JSON in the next release would definitely be a good transformation. I'm not sure if Talend has that feature, but it's one of those requirements that we are working around and have to do some parsing of XML so this could make it easier."
"What's missing in the Talend MDM Platform is that it's not maintaining technology references. For example, my company needs a reference case if the platform has been implemented for a configuration that's similar to the client's required configuration. Currently, the client is still reluctant to roll out the Talend MDM Platform at a wider level because there's still no reference received from the Talend team."
"Finding assistance with issues can be spotty. With Python, there are literally millions of open source answers which are recent and apply to the version that we are using."
"Once you get past the basic tools, it gets pretty complicated."
"I think the memory issues we faced when using the 3GB RAM compared to the 4GB RAM computers caused lot of issues."
"The stability for Talend Data Quality can be rated around an 8; it is quite stable."
"When we upgraded to Version 6.4.1, we tried using a GIT repository instead of a SVN repository. After a few incidents where things disappeared and changes were not saved, we decided to go back to a SVN repository."
"I would say that some of the support elements need improvement."
"SAP is a bit pricey, and better tools are available for a lower price."
"The user experience of metapedia could be improved."
"A problem with the solution is that it does not allow us to review the results of Information Stewards for other analogies."
"Needs to be more powerful on rules."
"The support team is not very responsive."
"Performance could be improved."
"From a performance perspective, sometimes it behaves weirdly. When we are connecting with the file-based system, it doesn't give us the correct results, or it somehow shows us there is this issue with the data or the file connectivity."
"The solution could improve by incorporating other applications, such as Power BI to show more visualization. More interaction with other solutions would be a good benefit."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a subscription-based platform, we renew it every year."
"The licensing cost for the Talend MDM Platform is paid yearly, but I'm unable to give you the figure. I would rate its price as four out of five because it's on the cheaper side. I'm not aware of any extra costs in addition to the standard licensing fees for the Talend MDM Platform."
"The price is on a per-user basis. It's a little more expensive than other tools. There aren't any additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."
"License renewal is on a yearly basis."
"The solution's pricing is very reasonable and half the cost of Informatica."
"The licensing cost is about 40,000 Euros a year."
"The product pricing is considered very good, especially compared to other data integration tools in the market."
"The price of the Talend Data Management Platform is reasonable. The other competing solutions are priced high. Gartner Magic Quadrant identified other solutions, such as Informatica, that are far more expensive."
"A bit pricey, and better tools are available for a lower price."
"SAP Information Steward is an expensive solution compared to others."
"Smaller-sized organizations may not be able to invest in SAP Information Steward because of the cost."
"I do not know if there were additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise20
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Talend Data Quality?
I don't use the automated rule management feature in Talend Data Quality that much, so I cannot provide much feedback. I may not know what Talend Data Quality can improve for data quality. I'm not ...
What is your primary use case for Talend Data Quality?
It is for consistency, mainly; data consistency and data quality are our main use cases for the product. Data consistency is the primary purpose we use it for, as we have written rules in Talend Da...
What advice do you have for others considering Talend Data Quality?
Currently, I'm working with batch jobs and don't perform real-time data quality monitoring because of the large data volume. For real-time, we use a different product. I cannot provide details abou...
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Also Known As

Talend Data Quality, Talend Data Management Platform, Talend MDM Platform, Talend Data Streams, Talend Data Integration, Talend Data Integrity and Data Governance
Information Steward, SAP Data Insight
 

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Sample Customers

Aliaxis, Electrocomponents, M¾NCHENER VEREIN, The Sunset Group
American Water, Graphic Packaging International, OSRAM Licht AG, Maxim Integrated
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