We performed a comparison between SAP Data Services and SAS Data Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"The feature of SAP Data Services has enhanced our company's business processes because we are able to run around 800 jobs in areas like data extraction and transaction objects."
"The user interface is ok."
"I have worked with Data Services for a long time, and currently, I find the dashboarding and reporting part to be the most valuable function."
"The product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."
"The most valuable features of SAP Data Services lie in its ability to effectively observe and interpret the information within data related to people or facts, stands out."
"In terms of which features I have found most valuable, I would say the importing and exporting features. Additionally, the data sorting, categorizing and summarizing features, especially how it can summarize based on categories. These are the key features."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"The technical support is excellent."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"Its robustness is valuable. It is a full-fledged suite. We have a data warehouse model, and there are also a lot of data quality management tools. The repository and all other tools are there. So, it is a full package in terms of reporting tools."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"The solution should offer more machine learning and automation."
"Newer feature integration is lagging behind the company acquisitions and the product could do more to service a broader range of devices."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."
"Some of the jobs that are built within Data Services require local files, and during initial deployment, those local files cannot be transported between machines simply because of security issues."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"The pricing of the solution should be improved."
"With SAS Data Management, you have to purchase an external driver, configure all of the tables for all of the data that you will extract from Salesforce. It's not a straightforward process."
"The solution could use better documentation."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
"One problem is accessing the data using a solution other than SAS. The SAS data, which we create in the SAS, cannot be accessed by other tools. We can't open those data in other applications. So we need to have that application in place."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"We find we often have to go back and re-train users when there are changes made to the solution because the changes are not intuitive."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 43rd in Data Integration with 15 reviews. SAP Data Services is rated 8.0, while SAS Data Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Palantir Foundry, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Tungsten RPA, Microsoft Purview, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Palantir Foundry.
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