We performed a comparison between Informatica Cloud Data Integration and SAS Access 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."Their new licensing is very flexible. With Informatica Cloud, you have plenty of items under the same umbrella, such as services, offerings, data quality, and data masking. You have also got master data management and API management. What I really like about them is that you don't need to go to Informatica and say that you need a data integration module. You would say that you need iPaaS or Informatica Cloud. They'll then try to understand your needs and give you IPUs, which are the processing units. If I purchased a hundred IPUs from Informatica as a customer, I can use 70 IPUs for data integration. I would also need data quality, so I can use 10 IPUs for data quality. I can use the remaining 20 IPUs for API management. Down the line, if I see that my initial data integration needs for the development phase are met, then out of the 70 IPUs assigned for data integration, I can use 30 IPUs for data masking. I can shuffle these numbers in any way within the Informatica Cloud umbrella for the tenure for which I have subscribed to these IPUs. I can use all services the way I want. This flexibility is what I really love about Informatica. It also has got good connectors."
"It has become an easy way to exchange information through any cloud application."
"The mass ingestion functionality and the elasticity of the solution are great."
"It is one of the best tools available for data integration."
"It has a more UI-based tool, and the scripting is good."
"The solution has the best feature for parameterization."
"The serverless capability and the packaging application of the solution are valuable."
"The Mapping Configuration and PowerCenter wizards are valuable. We use them to run our business logic."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ease of access to the data in those 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 most valuable feature is you have native access to the external databases."
"The price modeling could be more flexible."
"With the solution, we had some issues, and we have every day, and we used to open a ticket. Sometimes, there are data issues and transformation issues."
"I have received feedback from certain teams and there is a steep learning curve to use this solution."
"Cost-wise, it could be better."
"I would also like to have profiling functionalities and quality transformations in the cloud."
"The cloud version of the Informatica, it's a very substandard product. They might say it's enterprise-ready but it's not at all ready. They need to add more features, such as improved data replication features. If you look at other tools, such as Matillion they are now cloud-native and flexible. Additionally, Informatica Cloud Data Integration should have a good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to Informatica Cloud Data Integration."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve the price by making it less expensive."
"Error reporting and debugging need improvement."
"The pricing model needs to be reconsidered and adjusted."
"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 solution can provide access to the newer databases that come out sooner."
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Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews while SAS Access is ranked 42nd in Data Integration with 3 reviews. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8, while SAS Access is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Access writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and flexible". Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Fivetran and Mule Anypoint Platform, whereas SAS Access is most compared with Delphix, SSIS, Zapier and Toad Data Point. See our Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. SAS Access report.
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