Informatica

Vs.
SAP Business Objects Data Services
Tool
Features

Informatica Power Center

Complex
Transformati
ons

SP, Java or any other language code

can be integrated with Informatica with
the help of custom transformation

The SAP Data Services Adapter SDK

provides a Java platform for rapid
development of adapters to other
applications and middleware products

GUI Interface

Informatica GUI is built with good

features and it is divided in three client
tools, so you can divide and work
accordingly

In BODS we have a single platform for

mapping (dataflow), workflow and
monitoring

Built-in
Scheduler
Real time
Processing
Capability

Less options for Job scheduling

BODS Job scheduling provides more

option to schedule Jobs
BODS runtime jobs can be created
within Designer interface but Data
latency for DS is larger ( minutes
rather than seconds)

Data
Masking
Debugging

Data masking can be done in

Informatica
We can discard or load data while
debugging in Informatica
Informatica is working on this feature

No Direct method

Informatica has Metadata manager

which is a key feature for data lineage.
User would require separate license to
avail the feature

BODS has feature to analyze end-to

end impact and lineage for DI tables
and columns, and BO objects such as
universes, business views and reports

Operational
Dashboard

Impact and
Lineage
Analysis

Informatica needs Power Exchange

(needs licenses) for real-time
processing

SAP BusinessObjects Data

Services

We can't discard or load data while

debugging in BODS
BODS provides dashboards of DI
execution statistics to see at a glance
the status and performance of the Job
execution for one or more repositories
over a given time period

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Documentati
on

Informatica uses B2B Data

Transformation Studio to create
documentation

BODs provides functionality to View,

analyze, and print graphical
representations of all objects as
depicted in the Data Services Designer
including their relationships,
properties, tables used and more. Also
you can see the logic implemented on
Column level