We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and SAS Data Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The BA reporting tools, such as Data Services, and ETL tool in SAP Data Services are the most valuable. When we had in-memory requirements, we used HANA. HANA is most preferably for most the customers for in-memory. SAP is the first company that created the in-memory concept."
"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"The product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"You can always manipulate a lot of things as long as you have the skill level."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"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."
"The technical support is excellent."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"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."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"The interface is not quite user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"The solution could improve the overall features. There is a lot that can be done in the solution, therefor there are areas where it can improve. Additionally, there is a need to make it easier for one to create connections to other non-SAP systems. The flexibility to connect to other non-SAP systems is needed."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
"The solution could use better documentation."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 40th 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, Palantir Foundry and SSIS, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Microsoft Purview, Tungsten RPA, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Collibra Governance.
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