We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services 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."I like how SAP Data Services links reporting and data integration. That's what's most interesting. You also have the opportunity to leverage the power of the Data Services server."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"The fact that it's built on SQL, it makes it easy to write code. The database and the connection are quite smooth."
"The most valuable features of SAP Data Services lie in its ability to effectively observe and interpret the information within data related to people or facts, stands out."
"The most valuable feature is the logging capability."
"You can always manipulate a lot of things as long as you have the skill level."
"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"The technical support is excellent."
"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."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"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."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"We would like the different tools offered within this solution to be available as standalone entities, rather than having to purchase the entire package when we only require a few features."
"Newer feature integration is lagging behind the company acquisitions and the product could do more to service a broader range of devices."
"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"Scheduling of jobs in the sequence is not available. It's a very tedious process to do that particular task. If there was a tool to schedule in the sequence that would be extremely helpful."
"Some of the jobs that are built within Data Services require local files, and during initial deployment, those local files cannot be transported between machines simply because of security issues."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The solution could use better documentation."
"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."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"We implemented it a while ago, and we are trying to improve the data delivery performance. We are looking into how to get faster and automated reporting. We would need better designs and workflows."
"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."
"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."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 43rd in Data Integration with 15 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SAS Data Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Tungsten RPA, Microsoft Purview Data Governance, SSIS and IBM InfoSphere DataStage. See our SAP Data Services vs. SAS Data Management report.
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