We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and SAS Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."
"We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level."
"Technical support from SAP is awesome. If we have an issue, they give a good solution."
"Its integration capabilities and the data migration capabilities are the most valuable. It is very good for SAP and non-SAP tools. It has very good integration with SAP, but it also has the capabilities to connect to other systems. We find it very helpful and stable."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"It's easy to understand and deploy. It's easy to create new applications, and depending on the complexity of the application, it is easy to deploy the new requirements."
"You can always manipulate a lot of things as long as you have the skill level."
"The HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ease of access to the data in those databases."
"The most valuable feature is you have native access to the external databases."
"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."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
"The description of error messages isn't extensive, although they point to the problem. With other solutions, like Talend, I was able to use the debugger to get directly to the problem, but with SAP Data Services the debugger is not working. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the version specifically, but I'm using it in an enterprise environment and I can't do an upgrade."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The solution should offer more machine learning and automation."
"An area for improvement in SAP Data Services could involve making the product more accessible to non-technical end-users."
"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."
"The pricing of the solution should be improved."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"The solution can provide access to the newer databases that come out sooner."
"The pricing model needs to be reconsidered and adjusted."
"I can't really recall any missing feature or general improvement that is needed. We don't really add too many new kinds of databases and therefore our needs are already met."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while SAS Access is ranked 42nd in Data Integration with 3 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SAS Access is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Access writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and flexible". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry, whereas SAS Access is most compared with Delphix, SSIS, Zapier and Toad Data Point.
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