Compare Informatica PowerCenter vs. SAS Data Integration Server
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 2nd in Data Integration Tools with 11 reviews while SAS Data Integration Server is ranked 29th in Data Integration Tools with 2 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.2, while SAS Data Integration Server is rated 7.0. 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 Data Integration Server writes "Enables us to maintain customer data, policy, and products but it should have better integration into other software". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Azure Data Factory and Informatica PowerExchange, whereas SAS Data Integration Server is most compared with SSIS, Talend Open Studio, Pentaho Data Integration, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Denodo. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. SAS Data Integration Server report.
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Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System. The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter. The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed. 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. 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 features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand. In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution. The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage. | The solution is very stable. The solution offers very good data manipulation and loading. |
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The multiple interfaces in Informatica PowerCenter are not great for the user experience. Because of this, I think it can cause confusion for any beginner developer. I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes. Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections. The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica. I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption. Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution. 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. 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. | So I would like to see improved integration with other software. The transform tool has limited access. They should make it more flexible. |
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Its maintenance is expensive. 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. | It is an expensive program. |
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Also Known As | |
| PowerCenter | SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server, Enterprise Data Integration Server |
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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 Data Integration Server is a powerful, configurable and comprehensive solution that can meet a wide variety of data integration requirements, from small tactical projects to strategic business initiatives. It can access virtually all data sources, support data warehousing, migration, synchronization, federation and provisioning initiatives. It can support both batch-oriented and real-time master data management solutions. It can create reusable data integration services in support of service-oriented architectures and data governance and extract, cleanse, transform, conform, aggregate, load and manage data. |
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Sample Customers | |
| University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, LexisNexis, Rabobank | Credit Guarantee Corporation, Cr_dito y Cauci‹n, Delaware State Police, Deutsche Lufthansa, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, DSM, Livzon Pharmaceutical Group, Los Angeles County, Miami Herald Media Company, Netherlands Enterprise Agency, New Zealand Ministry of Health, Nippon Paper, West Midlands Police, XS Inc., Zenith Insurance |
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Comms Service Provider11% Energy/Utilities Company11% Financial Services Firm11% Healthcare Company11% Computer Software Company45% Comms Service Provider11% Insurance Company7% Media Company5% | Computer Software Company21% Outsourcing Company14% Insurance Company12% Financial Services Firm9% |
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Small Business17% Midsize Enterprise11% Large Enterprise71% Small Business14% Midsize Enterprise8% Large Enterprise78% | No Data Available |
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