We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange and SAS Data Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"The scalability is excellent."
"It is a scalable and versatile solution."
"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 data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its amazing capabilities in regard to data handling."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution offers very good data manipulation and loading."
"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."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized."
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"The one place where it could be improved is definitely pricing. That's a very big problem. It depends product to product, but pricing is an issue."
"So I would like to see improved integration with other software."
"The transform tool has limited access. They should make it more flexible."
"The initial setup of SAS Data Integration Server was complex."
Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while SAS Data Integration Server is ranked 34th in Data Integration with 3 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while SAS Data Integration Server is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Comprehensive, capable of handling large volumes, and helpful for fast-paced movement 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". Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory and Informatica Cloud Data Integration, whereas SAS Data Integration Server is most compared with Palantir Foundry, SSIS, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), AWS Glue and Azure Data Factory. See our Informatica PowerExchange vs. SAS Data Integration Server report.
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