We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and SAS Data Integration Server 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."It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"Complex transformations can be easily achieved by using PowerCenter. The processing layer does transformations and other things. About 80% of my transformations can be achieved by using the middle layer. For the remaining 15% to 20% transformations, I can go in and create stored procedures in the respective databases. Mapplets is the feature through which we can reuse transformations across pipelines. Transformations and caching are the key features that we have been using frequently. Informatica PowerCenter is one of the best solutions or products in the data integration space. We have extensively used PowerCenter for integration purposes. We usually look at the best bridge solution in our architecture so that it can sustain for maybe a couple of years. Usually, we go with the solution that fits best and has proven and time-tested technology."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The most valuable features are the dynamic reading of the file metadata profile, and the ability to define business rules that are used to verify and validate the uploaded files."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"The solution offers very good data manipulation and loading."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its amazing capabilities in regard to data handling."
"The solution is very stable."
"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, considering the fact that the present licensing charges of the tool are expensive."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"The reputation of Informatica is that it is expensive."
"While Informatica is great for data-integration, it does not have any analytics features. Thus, organizations have to always look for another product for their BI needs."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"The only problem with this product is the level of complexity with the number of levels of transformation that you have to go through."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"What needs improvement in Informatica PowerCenter is the cloud experience because, nowadays, other companies, such as AWS, Azure, and Google, have more experience in the cloud. The pricing for Informatica PowerCenter on the cloud is also very expensive for customers, so some customers prefer open-source tools or lower-priced tools, such as Azure. From my point of view, Informatica must work on the pricing policy and review the policy on the cloud for Informatica PowerCenter or propose more tools with lower pricing. Clients want the automatic integration of Informatica PowerCenter with other tools. Currently, the integration process is manual, and you have to add other tools to facilitate the integration, especially with the DevOps methodology. You need scripts and tools for the integration, and you'll need to use other integration tools if you want automatic deployment for Informatica PowerCenter, so this is another area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for the integration with APIs to be simpler, because currently, the API integration feature of Informatica PowerCenter is very difficult. It's not intuitive. You have to facilitate API integration and the real-time streaming of messages in Kafka, for example, so that should be improved."
"The initial setup of SAS Data Integration Server was complex."
"So I would like to see improved integration with other software."
"The transform tool has limited access. They should make it more flexible."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while SAS Data Integration Server is ranked 34th in Data Integration with 3 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SAS Data Integration Server is rated 7.4. 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 Integration Server writes "A stable and scalable tool with data handling capabilities and an amazing technical support". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas SAS Data Integration Server is most compared with Palantir Foundry, SSIS, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Azure Data Factory and AWS Glue. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. SAS Data Integration Server report.
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