We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SAS Data Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to transfer information via notes."
"The best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities."
"We are mostly using transmission rules. It has a lot of functions and logic related to transmission. It is a user-friendly tool with in-built functions."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"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 would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
"It doesn't have any big data connections. It would be good to have them because most of the systems are moving towards big data. There should also be a user-friendly way to interact with the cloud. Its loading process is very slow. It takes a lot of time for around 5 or 6 million records, and we are not able to provide real-time data to the vendors due to this delay. Its performance needs to be improved. It is also like a legacy system. It is not updated much. In higher versions, they only do small changes. We would like to have new features and new technologies."
"It takes a lot of time to actually trigger your job and then go into the logs and other stuff. So all of this is really time-consuming."
"I really like this tool, but the administration should be on the same client application because a lot of administration features are not on the client-side, and they usually need to have administrative access. It's quite complicated to force IT teams to have separate administrative access from the developers."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"The transform tool has limited access. They should make it more flexible."
"So I would like to see improved integration with other software."
"The initial setup of SAS Data Integration Server was complex."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while SAS Data Integration Server is ranked 34th in Data Integration with 3 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while SAS Data Integration Server is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere DataStage writes "User-friendly with a lot of functions for transmission rules, but has slow performance and not suitable for a huge volume of data". 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". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas SAS Data Integration Server is most compared with Palantir Foundry, SSIS, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Azure Data Factory.
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