IBM App Connect vs SAS Data Management comparison

IBM and SAS are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of SAS users who would recommend it.

IBM App Connect

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100% willing to recommend

SAS Data Management

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and SAS Data Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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IBM App Connect vs. SAS Data Management

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

7.3

IBM App Connect enhances ROI by reducing resource needs and managing complex operations, requiring skilled practitioners for optimal results.

Sentiment score

5.8

SAS Data Management boosts data accuracy, reduces storage costs, and is vital in banking, finance, and pharmaceutical sectors.

IBM App Connect definitely saves significant time, approximately 50 to 60%.

Nirav Patel

Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.7

IBM App Connect's 24/7 support offers timely help, though complex issues need escalation and response times could improve.

Sentiment score

7.1

Customer service satisfaction with SAS Data Management is high, despite regional differences and limited online resources, thanks to responsive support.

When opening a ticket with the global team, problems are resolved promptly and effectively.

Emirhan Guven

Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

The customer support is available 24/7.

Nirav Patel

Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The technical support from IBM is good.

AvinashArepaka1

Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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The support for SAS in Brazil is not the best one, but the support in Sweden is really good, as they visit the company and work to solve the issues.

Fernanda Knopki

Data Scientist & Scrum Master at Volvo Group

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

IBM App Connect excels in cloud scalability, notably in Kubernetes, though costs and larger payloads can challenge Hypervisor Edition.

Sentiment score

6.8

SAS Data Management is highly scalable, supporting enterprise tasks with robust servers, comparable to Oracle and Microsoft solutions.

I would rate the scalability of IBM App Connect as nine out of ten.

AvinashArepaka1

Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

IBM App Connect demonstrates good scalability.

Emirhan Guven

Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

IBM App Connect is very scalable and a flexible tool.

Nirav Patel

Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

IBM App Connect is praised for stability, with issues mostly in complex cases and quick responses to reported problems.

Sentiment score

7.2

SAS Data Management is highly stable, especially on Linux, but might need client-side configurations for optimal performance.

IBM App Connect occasionally crashes for various reasons, requiring problem-solving intervention.

Emirhan Guven

Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

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Room For Improvement

IBM App Connect needs improvements in logging, interface, integrations, setup, cost, security, debugging, observability, and reliability.

SAS Data Management needs improved usability, licensing, integration, cloud features, scalability, stability, and enhanced automated reporting and documentation.

Better debugging and observability would help us track any single transaction end-to-end across steps and connectors.

Nirav Patel

Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Version 13 includes around 200 features with cloud platform compatibility.

Emirhan Guven

Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

I find it particularly good for on-premises and now cloud use.

AvinashArepaka1

Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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There is significant room for improvement, especially with regard to using a hybrid approach that involves both CAS and persistent storage.

SantoshTiwari

Associate Director at Woodpecker Analytics & Services

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Setup Cost

IBM App Connect is costly but valued by enterprises for quality; licensing complexities require expertise and allow for discounts.

SAS Data Management is powerful but costly, with affordability challenges for businesses, though educational trials and market-based pricing options exist.

For insurance companies with simple JDBC connections, the process is straightforward.

Emirhan Guven

Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

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From my experience, SAS Data Management is an expensive tool.

SantoshTiwari

Associate Director at Woodpecker Analytics & Services

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Valuable Features

IBM App Connect offers easy integration with minimal coding, pre-built adapters, security, scalability, rapid deployment, and flexible integration.

SAS Data Management provides user-friendly, comprehensive data handling with strong integration, quality, governance, and flexible connectivity features.

Overall, 50 to 60% of the time is saved when using IBM App Connect.

Nirav Patel

Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The transformation capabilities in IBM App Connect are particularly beneficial.

Emirhan Guven

Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

The features I find most valuable are message routing, message transformation, and protocol translation.

AvinashArepaka1

Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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SAS Data Management stands out because of its data standardization, transformation, and verification capabilities.

SantoshTiwari

Associate Director at Woodpecker Analytics & Services

The metadata management feature of SAS Data Management helps a lot; creating your data marts or data lake with good naming conventions, library conventions, and so on is very important because it allows easy queries to find the whole structure, though I think metadata governance also depends on first definitions, not only on the tool.

Fernanda Knopki

Data Scientist & Scrum Master at Volvo Group

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Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Integration (13th)

SAS Data Management

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (28th), Data Quality (7th), Data Governance (22nd)

Featured Reviews

Emirhan Guven

Team Leader, Software Development at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

Transforms data efficiently and navigates licensing challenges with ease

The transition between version 12 and version 13 presents some challenges. While version 12 had approximately 10 features, version 13 includes around 200 features with cloud platform compatibility. The learning curve for developers moving from version 12 to 13 could be smoother. When using new components, better context explanations would be beneficial. In version 13, accessing new features requires connecting through a web browser, which can be challenging to understand. The explanation of new features could be more user-friendly.

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Fernanda Knopki

Data Scientist & Scrum Master at Volvo Group

Has supported centralized data access and improved governance through unified administration

The best features I appreciate about SAS Data Management tool are that it's easy to create the flows and schedule data, and the tables are not too big, making it easy to control the ETL process, including user access which is also easy to manage in SAS. The data integration tools with SAS Data Management were quite good because they allowed me to do all lineage, to manage and see all the variables, find the libraries where the data is, and understand the data in just one tool. Offering another development environment combining code and predefined objects, where I could just drag and drop to achieve what I needed, although some objects were not too good, but some were effective. The metadata management feature of SAS Data Management helps a lot; creating your data marts or data lake with good naming conventions, library conventions, and so on is very important because it allows easy queries to find the whole structure, though I think metadata governance also depends on first definitions, not only on the tool. SAS Data Management is very good for data governance; for me, it was the best tool I worked with in data management, although I don't have too much experience with others, and it truly helped a lot.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

28%

Government

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	21

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM App Connect?

I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's like...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM App Connect?

Configuration time varies by implementation. For insurance companies with simple JDBC connections, the process is straightforward. However, companies requiring multiple configurations for ODBC, JDB...

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What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?

I am a developer specializing in IBM App Connect. We have a customer interested in comparing ESB tools, such as webMethods, which was previously owned by Software AG company before IBM acquired the...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAS Data Management?

From my experience, SAS Data Management is an expensive tool.

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What needs improvement with SAS Data Management?

There is significant room for improvement, especially with regard to using a hybrid approach that involves both CAS and persistent storage.

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What is your primary use case for SAS Data Management?

The main idea for using SAS Data Management was to bring all data inside SAS. I brought the finance area and the sales area in the company that I have worked, along with some market planning data, ...

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Also Known As

IBM Cast Iron

SAS Data Management Platform, Data Management Platform, DataFlux

Overview

Rapidly connect public clouds, private clouds and on-premises application

App Connect Professional is IBM’s cloud integration offering which delivers an integration solution
• With ease-of-use, flexibility and increased responsiveness to the evolving business needs, while removing the daunting complexities of integration.
• Provides the powerful combination of a ‘simple integration experience’ for business users looking to automate how their applications talk to each other; coupled with a ‘configuration based integration’ approach for IT.
• App Connect Professional is for the teams and integration developers who need to solve more complex problems and need powerful tooling for integration scenarios

IBM

Every decision, every business move, every successful customer interaction - they all come down to high-quality, well-integrated data. If you don't have it, you don't win. SAS Data Management is an industry-leading solution built on a data quality platform that helps you improve, integrate and govern your data.

SAS

Sample Customers

United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.

Data Management, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Absa, Aegon, Allianz Global Corporate & SpecialtyAusgrid, Bank of Queensland, Bell, BMC Software, Canada Post, Ceska pojistovna, Chantecler, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, Credit Guarantee Corporation, Cr_dito y Cauci‹n, Delaware State Police, Deutsche Lufthansa, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, DSM, Enerjisa, ERGO Insurance Group, Florida Department of Corrections, Generali Hellas, Gitanjali Group, Gloucestershire Constabulary, GS Home Shopping, HealthPartners, IAG New Zealand, iJET, Invacare, Livzon Pharmaceutical Group, Los Angeles County, Miami Herald Media Company, Netherlands Enterprise Agency, New Zealand Ministry of Health, Nippon Paper, North Carolina Office of Information Technology Services, Orlando Magic, OTP Group, PITT OHIO, Plano Independent School District, RWE Poland, Spanish Air Force, Stockholm County Council, Telus, The Travel Corporation, Transitions Optical, Triad Analytic Solutions, UNIQA, US Census Bureau, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, West Midlands Police, XS Inc., Zenith Insurance

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IBM App Connect vs. SAS Data Management

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