SAP Data Services Reviews

The easy integration with SAP Systems and the possibility to create a dataflow which is executed directly in the SAP system source.

With the dataflows created in Dataservices, the customer could load and consolidate data from three different offices (USA, Europe and Argentina) using the same dataflows for every company.

We used a different repository for every consultant and it created problems to maintain the final version of each dataflow in every user. I think there should exist a common repository (as well as in BO reporting suite tools) and give the different accesses via authorization roles.

I used it for 10 months.

The biggest problem was the maintenance of difference repositories.

The stability problems were caused by hardware configuration. My doubt is if Dataservice is difficult to configure or there was a lack of knowledge in the Basis team.

No, we didn't. Actually the dataflows constructed were completely scalable.

No, in that project we only used BO Dataservices.

I think it is easy to use. When we started to use it we had never worked with Dataservices and we could adapt to it easily because the main functions are similar to other tools.

The implementation was with a vendor team. Actually I was the project manager of the vendor and the level of expertise in ETL projects was high but it was our first experience with DataServices.

We only had the net margin of the project construction and it was about 15%.

As the person in charge of the consultancy, we didn’t have costs.

Before working with Dataservices I had worked with other solutions, but in this project we had no choice of another tool. Anyway, I think that Dataservices was a good choice because every source was SAP.

From my point of view, Dataservices is a good ETL choice if there are SAP systems in the sources or the targets (it can help to make BW transformations much easier). In general I would say that it is very important to have a good source and destination definition before implementing anything, as well as in any other ETL tool.

- Its single infrastructure for Data Migration and Data Integration.

- Heterogeneous processing with broad database support.

- Parsing, Standardization and Cleansing the Data.

- Matching and consolidation of records.

- Multi-user support and security with central repository.

- Instant trace-ability with impact analysis and data lineage functionality.

It helps our organization and our clients achieve its goals and objectives by having the right information at the right time and at the right people.

We can standardize business information though data is disparate or came from many sources like flat files (CSVs, Textfiles, Excel files), RDBMS, Application Systems and etc.

With this product you can align your information with the business process and can provide Enterprise Data Warehouse that will suit to your reporting needs.

I think it has a little trouble handling more users running parallel batch jobs in one job server but minimal.

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services 3.1,3.2, 4.0 and 4.1 (SAP) for 5.3 years

Yes but minimal and can be resolve quickly.

None.

None.

4.5 out of 5.

4.5 out of 5.

Yes, because its more dynamic and has so many features.

Straightforward. You just have to follow the guides, check Product Availability Matrix (PAM) and if issues related to sources and targets arise do some research.

Both. 4.7 out of 5.

300%.

You can leverage this product in all your business needs regarding data or information or any business requirements in the systems but first you must find a dedicated consultant or developer for this product and they should also train the people from your organization.

We use this solution for the EPL, extraction form, and low data.

I appreciate having access to the SAP data.

It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production.

I have been using SAP for ten years.

The initial setup was straightforward and took about a day.

There is a one time purchase fee plus annual maintenance.

Once you have training on the solution, it is very important to explore the full potential of the product rather than jumping right into development.

This is a nine out of ten solution.