We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and SAS Data Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Enterprise-scale ETL solution that's very stable and is easy to scale. It integrates and connects with multiple new systems, both structured and semi-structured."
"The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter."
"It works with any multi-databases, so it works with Sybase, SQL Server. Also, the performance is really good and it is easy to use."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The most complex task, in this case, was to read and transform BLOB data, and Java transformation in Informatica Power Center was a great solution."
"The technical support for Informatica PowerCenter is good."
"Informatica PowerCenter is very good for integrating a huge amount of data in a very short duration, such as a minute. It is also very easy to use. After you provide the source and the target, mappings are automatically done, which makes it easy to use for the development team."
"The most valuable features are the metadata repository and the data warehouse application console."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"The technical support is excellent."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"Its robustness is valuable. It is a full-fledged suite. We have a data warehouse model, and there are also a lot of data quality management tools. The repository and all other tools are there. So, it is a full package in terms of reporting tools."
"In terms of which features I have found most valuable, I would say the importing and exporting features. Additionally, the data sorting, categorizing and summarizing features, especially how it can summarize based on categories. These are the key features."
"Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"The UI is outdated and old-fashioned, at least in our current version. Also, we have experienced some stability issues with the Workflow Monitor application."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve the data threshold for large sets of data. Additionally, they should add real-time integration."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"We find we often have to go back and re-train users when there are changes made to the solution because the changes are not intuitive."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
"One problem is accessing the data using a solution other than SAS. The SAS data, which we create in the SAS, cannot be accessed by other tools. We can't open those data in other applications. So we need to have that application in place."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"The solution could use better documentation."
"With SAS Data Management, you have to purchase an external driver, configure all of the tables for all of the data that you will extract from Salesforce. It's not a straightforward process."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 43rd in Data Integration with 15 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SAS Data Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Tungsten RPA, Microsoft Purview Data Governance, SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Collibra Governance. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. SAS Data Management report.
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