We performed a comparison between Alteryx Designer 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."Alteryx Designer's best features are that it's easy to use and performs well."
"The most valuable features are the integrated properties and integrated connectivity."
"We use Alteryx Designer for analytics. It's quite helpful because once we set it up, we don't have to manually update or process data repeatedly. It saves time, especially for financial reporting, which is typically done monthly or quarterly. Once we set it up initially, we only need to make occasional updates if necessary."
"The functionality of drag and drop is the most valuable. It is a very user-friendly tool that can be understood easily. My teams also work with other solutions, such as Integration Services, and these solutions are very difficult for people who don't have technical knowledge."
"Alteryx Designer is a tool that is pretty much easy to install."
"Alteryx Designer is stable."
"I like Alteryx Designer's drag-and-drop feature, where you drag a component, configure it and quickly run it."
"When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"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."
"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 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."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"Improving the key-based sign-on process and making it more user-friendly would be a benefit."
"Alteryx could move faster to create a cloud equivalent of the desktop version of Designer."
"It would be simpler if they provided a component where you could simply enter some parameters and see the results."
"Alteryx Designer's pricing and support could be improved."
"We need more documentation."
"The only thing is sometimes it can be a bit slow."
"Its cost can sometimes be a drawback."
"Alteryx's data science and machine learning capabilities are where it loses out to DataIQ."
"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."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"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 could use better documentation."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
"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."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
Alteryx Designer is ranked 9th in Data Integration with 27 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 43rd in Data Integration with 15 reviews. Alteryx Designer is rated 8.0, while SAS Data Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alteryx Designer writes "An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". Alteryx Designer is most compared with Azure Data Factory, FME, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS and Palantir Foundry, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Tungsten RPA, Microsoft Purview Data Governance, SSIS and IBM InfoSphere DataStage.
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