We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter 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."Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage."
"We have found the PowerCenter and B2B data transformation most valuable."
"The most valuable features are the metadata repository and the data warehouse application console."
"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."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"The solution is very stable."
"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."
"While Informatica is great for data-integration, it does not have any analytics features. Thus, organizations have to always look for another product for their BI needs."
"The only problem with this product is the level of complexity with the number of levels of transformation that you have to go through."
"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."
"Support could be better."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
"While on-premises is a better product, we really need to move to the cloud and need the cloud to be as robust as this product."
"Its licensing can be improved. It should be features-wise and not bundle-wise. A bundle will definitely be costly. In addition, we might use one or two features. That's why the pricing model should be based on the features. The model should be flexible enough based on the features. Their support should also be more responsive to premium customers."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"The initial setup of SAS Data Integration Server was complex."
"So I would like to see improved integration with other software."
"The transform tool has limited access. They should make it more flexible."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while SAS Data Integration Server is ranked 34th in Data Integration with 3 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SAS Data Integration Server is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". 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 PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas SAS Data Integration Server is most compared with Palantir Foundry, SSIS, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Azure Data Factory and AWS Glue.
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