Compare Informatica PowerCenter vs. SAS Access
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"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." "Technical support is great. It's one of the reasons we really like them. When you compare support from IBM and support from Informatica, Informatica is much better." "The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage." "In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution." "The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand." "Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical." "The most complex task, in this case, was to read and transform BLOB data, and Java transformation in Informatica Power Center was a great solution." "The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed." | "The most valuable part of SAS/ACCESS is what it is made for: connecting to remote systems that are not part of your physical SAS environment." |
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"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease." "Now they are migrating to a new version, and they have something that is called Informatica Developer. Previously, they just had PowerCenter. Now, when they move everything to Informatica Developer it's not as good or stable like it was when it was PowerCenter, though it has some nice features. This Developer tool could be better." "As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good." "Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution." "I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption." "The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica." "Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections." "I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes." | "The pricing model needs to be reconsidered and adjusted." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"Price-wise, it's more expensive than SSIS, but it's a better tool, so it has more features. Licensing is on a yearly basis." "Its maintenance is expensive." "It's much more expensive, almost three times more expensive than most other solutions." "We are satisfied with the pricing." "I consider this to be an expensive product." | "The pricing model is complex and is based on modular packages as well as the size of the applicable environment." |
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Questions from the Community | |
Top Answer: Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System. Top Answer: Its maintenance is expensive. Top Answer: Integration between different applications, such as Hospital Information Systems built on AS400 and in-house legacy. It is old data structure file based as opposed to relational. Therefore, it was… more » | Top Answer: The most valuable part of SAS/ACCESS is what it is made for: connecting to remote systems that are not part of your physical SAS environment. Top Answer: The cost for this SAS product depends heavily on the environment. It is a staged pricing model and it varies quite a bit. You have to pay for each type of platform that you want to connect to. So if I… more » Top Answer: The primary way that this product can be improved is by adjusting their pricing model. Their product is a little expensive. It is sometimes hard for people to justify it. It does give you access to… more » |
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Views 40,460 Comparisons 32,402 Reviews 14 Average Words per Review 367 Rating 8.2 | Views 631 Comparisons 538 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 2,916 Rating 10.0 |
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Also Known As | |
| PowerCenter | SAS/Access |
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| Informatica | SAS |
Overview | |
Enterprise data integration platform to help organizations access, transform, and integrate data from a variety of systems. | SAS/ACCESS is an out-of-the-box solution for integrating SAS and third-party databases. You can read, write and update data regardless of the database or platform. Because the data appears native to SAS, there is no need to learn Structured Query Language (SQL) or any other database-specific query languages. |
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Sample Customers | |
| University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, LexisNexis, Rabobank | Los Angeles County, West Midlands Police, Credit Guarantee Corporation, Canada Post, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm18% Retailer14% Healthcare Company9% Energy/Utilities Company9% Computer Software Company38% Comms Service Provider13% Insurance Company6% Financial Services Firm6% | No Data Available |
Company Size | |
Small Business14% Midsize Enterprise10% Large Enterprise76% Small Business2% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise86% | No Data Available |
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 1st in Data Integration Tools with 16 reviews while SAS Access is ranked 17th in Data Integration Tools with 1 review. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.2, while SAS Access is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Assists us with integration as we migrate from on-premise to cloud, but it needs a performance analyzer". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Access writes "Connect databases and create access to simplify complex processes with this powerful tool". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Informatica PowerExchange, whereas SAS Access is most compared with Toad Data Point, Talend Open Studio, Mule Anypoint Platform, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and SSIS.
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