Name: SAS Data Management
Brand: SAS
Rating: 4.3 (18 reviews)

it_user4518

Head of Databases at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 5, 2013

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Access data from across the enterprise with this high end solution

What is most valuable?

• In my previous employer we used the DataFlux suite of data quality, data integration and data governance solutions. It provided us cross-functional data management. • Great for ETL, CDC, data federation, RT data flow. Works with cloud and big data environments. • It enabled us to access and use data sources from across our enterprise in order to maintain a consistent set of policies for managing our data. • We had a single and unified view of our enterprise data by using its MDM component.

What needs improvement?

Costly. Not great for non-ETL use cases. Licensing model is not very flexible.

What other advice do I have?

I like the fact that with DataFlux you can standardize and merge multiple records in a database such as people's names and locations. DataFlux in my opinion is an excellent high end solution for enterprise wide data management.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

reviewer1268517

Head of BI at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 27, 2022

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Quick, reliable, powerful data management

Pros and Cons

"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."

"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."

What is our primary use case?

I am an IT specialist manager and we work within the SAS Data Management on a daily basis.

What is most valuable?

The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful.

What needs improvement?

The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for 25 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The platform is stable.

How are customer service and support?

I think that they offer good support and have a good knowledge about the platform - especially second level reps. I have been working with them for over twenty years and am on a first name basis with some of the reps.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is quite complex. We had one person set this up and manage it. Initial deployment can take up to five or more days depending on the level of complexity (i.e. is grid computing involved?).

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The tool is a bit expensive.

What other advice do I have?

Customers should have knowledge about SAS language - the basic for the platform - and SQL - in order to export the data to read from an external rational database.