We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory 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."An excellent tool for pipeline orchestration."
"For developers that are very accustomed to the Microsoft development studio, it's very easy for them to complete end-to-end data integration."
"The function of the solution is great."
"It's extremely consistent."
"I can do everything I want with SSIS and Azure Data Factory."
"The most valuable aspect is the copy capability."
"I think it makes it very easy to understand what data flow is and so on. You can leverage the user interface to do the different data flows, and it's great. I like it a lot."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and the readily available adapters for connecting with various sources."
"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 support and the documentation can be improved."
"The solution needs to be more connectable to its own services."
"Data Factory could be improved in terms of data transformations by adding more metadata extractions."
"I would like to be informed about the changes ahead of time, so we are aware of what's coming."
"In the next release, it's important that some sort of scheduler for running tasks is added."
"Occasionally, there are problems within Microsoft itself that impacts the Data Factory and causes it to fail."
"The solution should offer better integration with Azure machine learning. We should be able to embed the cognitive services from Microsoft, for example as a web API. It should allow us to embed Azure machine learning in a more user-friendly way."
"When the record fails, it's tough to identify and log."
"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."
"The pricing model needs to be reconsidered and adjusted."
"The solution can provide access to the newer databases that come out sooner."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while SAS Access is ranked 42nd in Data Integration with 3 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while SAS Access is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Access writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and flexible". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas SAS Access is most compared with Delphix, SSIS, Zapier and Toad Data Point.
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