We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SAS Data Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The solution is stable."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"I am impressed with the tool's ETL tracing."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"The most valuable feature for our data processing needs is IBM InfoSphere DataStage's capability to handle ETL tasks with large record volumes."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its amazing capabilities in regard to data handling."
"The solution offers very good data manipulation and loading."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"It takes a lot of time to actually trigger your job and then go into the logs and other stuff. So all of this is really time-consuming."
"The interface needs improvement. It is really too technical. That is the main problem."
"DataStage is quite expensive. It is too hard to find a consultant using DataStage in Turkey."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"The initial setup of SAS Data Integration Server was complex."
"The transform tool has limited access. They should make it more flexible."
"So I would like to see improved integration with other software."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while SAS Data Integration Server is ranked 34th in Data Integration with 3 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while SAS Data Integration Server is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere DataStage writes "User-friendly with a lot of functions for transmission rules, but has slow performance and not suitable for a huge volume of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Data Integration Server writes "A stable and scalable tool with data handling capabilities and an amazing technical support". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas SAS Data Integration Server is most compared with Palantir Foundry, SSIS, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Azure Data Factory.
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