We performed a comparison between SAS Data Management and SSIS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."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 solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes."
"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."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"We like that this solution includes a developer edition, free of charge, to allow for training."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"It is also easy to learn and user-friendly. Microsoft is also good in terms of technical support. They have built a large community all over the world."
"The reporting on the solution is perfect. I didn't expect to see reporting features, but they are great."
"I have used most of the standard SQL features, but the ones that stand out are the Data Flows and Bulk Import."
"We can connect with multiple data sources easily using an external connector in SSIS."
"It's saved time using visualization descriptions."
"It has the ability to be deployed into the cloud through Data Factory, and run completely as a software as a service in the cloud."
"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."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"The solution could use better documentation."
"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."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
"We implemented it a while ago, and we are trying to improve the data delivery performance. We are looking into how to get faster and automated reporting. We would need better designs and workflows."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
"Tuning using this solution requires extensive expertise to improve performance."
"I would like to see more features in terms of the integration with Azure Data Factory."
"Sometimes, there are compatibility issues with some features. From time to time, I also face issues when trying to migrate. If I misconfigure things when I use Snapshot, the migration will fail.It can take a long time to migrate huge amounts of data, so it would be nice if that could be faster."
"I would like to see better integration with Power BI."
"It should have other programming languages supported as well from a scripting perspective. Currently, only C# and VB.NET are supported, which limits it to .NET. It should have Java support as well."
"The solution should work on the GPU, graphical processing unit. There should also be piping integration available."
"The creation of the measure in the DAC's model could be improved."
"The security could be improved, as it is more important in our context."
SAS Data Management is ranked 40th in Data Integration with 15 reviews while SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 68 reviews. SAS Data Management is rated 8.4, while SSIS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Microsoft Purview, Tungsten RPA, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), IBM InfoSphere DataStage and AWS Glue.
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