We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange 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."The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"The product's initial setup phase was not complex. The tool is easy to install onto any of the servers, and you can integrate it."
"Mainstream integration and real-time integration are the best features."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right."
"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 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."
"Real-time has not been enhanced that much over the past few years. There has not been as many features added like they did before."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"The major shortcoming of PowerExchange is high availability and failover. None of the versions we've used to date have had the out-of-the-box ability to enable failover and high-availability requirements. This is a significant challenge and risk."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working."
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"The solution can provide access to the newer databases that come out sooner."
"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."
Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while SAS Access is ranked 42nd in Data Integration with 3 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while SAS Access is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Access writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and flexible". Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate, whereas SAS Access is most compared with Delphix, SSIS, Zapier and Toad Data Point.
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