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."The most valuable feature is the security."
"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."
"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"It has an efficient design flow."
"It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"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."
"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."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"The technical support is excellent."
"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."
"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."
"The product should improve its support."
"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 43rd in Data Integration with 15 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while SAS Data Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Tungsten RPA, Microsoft Purview, Palantir Foundry and IBM InfoSphere DataStage. See our IBM App Connect vs. SAS Data Management report.
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