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SAP Information Steward

bySAP
in
4.1
Market Presence: Metadata Management Solutions, Augmented Data Quality Solutions

Overview

Product Information on SAP Information Steward

Updated 13th October 2025

What is SAP Information Steward?

SAP Information Steward is a software that provides tools for managing and improving data quality and metadata management within enterprise environments. It enables organizations to analyze, monitor, and report on the quality of their data and track lineage and relationships between different data assets. The software features data profiling, validation, cleansing, and metadata cataloging capabilities, supporting compliance and governance requirements. It addresses business challenges related to inconsistent, incomplete, or inaccurate data by offering comprehensive views into data quality issues and facilitating collaboration between business and IT users to ensure reliable information for operational and analytical use.

SAP Information Steward Pricing

SAP Information Steward software uses a licensing-based pricing model, with costs typically determined by factors such as the number of users, data volume, or specific feature requirements. The software may also involve recurring maintenance and support fees in addition to the initial license cost. Detailed pricing structures can vary depending on organizational needs and deployment options.

Overall experience with SAP Information Steward

Research And Development Associate
500M - 1B USD, Services (non-Government)
FAVORABLE

“Efficient, Accurate and Insights-driven Data Management Platform”

4.0
Feb 8, 2026
Continuous monitoring of data quality reduces errors and enables smoother organizational workflow. Faster and smarter output can be produced by more robust AI integration
IT Strategist
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Energy and Utilities
CRITICAL

“Metadata capabilities in SAP Information Steward stagnated”

3.0
Jan 9, 2020
The metadata capabilities within SAP Information Steward were once on par toolsets in the market. Product now contains basic minimum capabilities. Despite multiple upgrades in the past 18 months, a gap in the capabilities desired compared with those offered remain. Reporting metadata information is still a key gap and the general usability has been found wanting. Other gaps including no ability to value information nor integrator to capture APIs (other than Excel file), and issues with some integrators on a UNIX server. Items raised on ideas space unaddressed. SAP is responsive to support incidents and resolve issues. Roadmap provides little direction with parallel development in SAP Data Hub suggestive that metadata capabilities will be transitioned in the medium term.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 13th August 2025

SAP was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. The company employs over 105,000 people globally and develops software solutions for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and related business functions. SAP’s early products, SAP R/2 and SAP R/3, were widely adopted for managing core business processes. Its current ERP platform, SAP S/4HANA, uses in-memory computing to support data-intensive operations and integrates capabilities such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. SAP offers a portfolio of software applications that support various business functions across industries. These applications are designed to operate on a unified digital platform. As of 2025, SAP reports over 230 million cloud users and provides more than 100 solutions. The company’s offerings are used by organizations to manage finance, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and other operational areas.

Company Details

Updated 13th August 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1972
Head office location
Walldorf, Germany
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
http://www.sap.com

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SAP Information Steward Likes & Dislikes

Like

Automated profiling, data checks, user-friendly dashboards and integration with existing SAP services and user platforms

Like

SAP Information Steward ticks almost all of the boxes in the critical capabilities in a single toolset.

Like

- Easy to implement. - Support for many different file formats - Easy to use by business users (Data Stewards).

Dislike

Data quality checks can be more real-time instead of batch processing

Dislike

The capabilities are basic with minimal workflows that are not associated no overarching governance framework. Extracting information to report on changes and updates requires custom reporting through the repository. Uncertain roadmap and future of toolset is concerning.

Dislike

The user interface could be more modern. Performance can be better.

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Peer Discussions

SAP Information Steward Reviews and Ratings

4.1

(90 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
26%
4 Star
58%
3 Star
16%
2 Star
1%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

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Integration & Deployment

4.2

Service & Support

4.0

Product Capabilities

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  • Research And Development Associate
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Efficient, Accurate and Insights-driven Data Management Platform

    4.0
    Feb 8, 2026
    Continuous monitoring of data quality reduces errors and enables smoother organizational workflow. Faster and smarter output can be produced by more robust AI integration
  • DATA ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Profiling and Data Verification Tool Supports Migration with Ease of Use

    4.0
    Jul 3, 2025
    It is a good tool for profiling, data quality and data verification in data conversion scenarios. They helped us during the migration to S4Hana to kep the proper quality standards.
  • SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT
    10B+ USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    SAP Information Steward- A review

    4.0
    Dec 23, 2023
    This application has been a driving force of improvement for us. Their audit trail management ensuring due diligence of data quality is exceptional. It is extremely useful to monitor large volumes of data with high attention to detail. It helps by providing insights on data issues related to master data
  • SPECIALIST
    1B-10B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Top Notch Software!

    5.0
    Nov 27, 2023
    SAP Information steward is among the best tool out there for data quality solutions. We are able to control and identify risks with respect to data. It gives us a confidence as it provides information system layer for due diligence. It helps us in monitoring large amount of data in the organization.
  • Consultant
    1B-10B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Tool that maintains data quality end-to-end

    4.0
    Jan 20, 2022
    SAP Info Steward shows the user any dataset with multiple data-cuts that can help user to identify any potential shortcoming in the data queries for improving quality of the solutions.
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