We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and SAS Data Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"The solution scales well."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"Offers data lineage feature"
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its amazing capabilities in regard to data handling."
"The solution offers very good data manipulation and loading."
"The solution is very stable."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities."
"The scalability is tough."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"So I would like to see improved integration with other software."
"The transform tool has limited access. They should make it more flexible."
"The initial setup of SAS Data Integration Server was complex."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 14 reviews while SAS Data Integration Server is ranked 32nd in Data Integration with 3 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while SAS Data Integration Server is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "They listen to their customers, so if something is missing or not working, they will put it on their roadmap". 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 Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo, 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 Enterprise Data Catalog vs. SAS Data Integration Server report.
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