Likelihood to Recommend After evaluating many of the leading data governance/management tools in the industry, Ataccama ONE quickly became a front-runner for our firm's needs and requirements. I particularly like how Ataccama focuses on investing a portion of its revenue on user-suggested enhancements - they truly want to grow with their clients, which is what we were looking for.
Read full review When data is in a system that needs a complex transformation to be usable for an average user. Such tasks as data residing in systems that have very different connection speeds. It can be integrated and used together after passing through the SAS Data Integration Studio removing timing issues from the users' worries. A part that is perhaps less appropriate is getting users who are not familiar with the source data to set up the load processes.
Read full review Pros It is one of the leading data quality tools in the industry, in our opinion. Offers free data profiling. Integrates with other tools for complete end-to-end lineage. Read full review SAS/Access is great for manipulating large and complex databases. SAS/Access makes it easy to format reports and graphics from your data. Data Management and data storage using the Hadoop environment in SAS/Access allows for rapid analysis and simple programming language for all your data needs. Read full review Cons Does not support as wide of a tech stack range as I would like. It would be nice if it came with a user hotkey function out of the box. Having concurrent user usage licenses would be ideal. Read full review Requires third-party drivers to connect to common data sources like SFDC, MS SQL, Postgres. Debugging errors from the logs is a complicated process. E-mail alert system is very primitive and needs customization to make it more modern, Cannot send SMS alerts for jobs. Read full review Likelihood to Renew We are happy with the software and its functionality. As a SAS-shop, DataFlux is a logical choice for complex data integration.
Read full review Usability One of the key factors in our choice to onboard Ataccama was its usability - general end users have everything at their fingertips, it is not difficult for IT developers to setup the tool, and it has been an overall pleasure.
Read full review The main negative point is the use of a non-standard language for customizations, as well as the poor integration with non-SAS systems. However, there is no doubt that it is a high-performance and powerful product capable of responding optimally to certain requirements.
Read full review Performance It worked as expected.
Read full review Support Rating Support has been excellent to date - very user friendly and knowledgeable to help support our needs and issues as they arise.
Read full review With SAS, you pay a license fee annually to use this product. Support is incredible. You get what you pay for, whether it's SAS forums on the SAS support site, technical support tickets via email or phone calls, or example documentation. It's not open source. It's documented thoroughly, and it works.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Ataccama ONE was a clear winner during our evaluation of many other products/vendors. Their offering was the best suited for our needs, and they are a company that we want to grow with over time.
Read full review Because of ease of using SAS DI and data processing speed. There were lots of issues with AWS Redshift on cloud environment in terms of making connections with the data sources and while fetching the data we need to write complex queries.
Read full review Return on Investment With Ataccama ONE our users can trust the data and learn more about it quickly and easily. Management can focus on other priorities knowing that the data is well-governed. Having transparency around the data has been a key benefit to our users. Read full review We have more users who can connect to the many different data sources. Our users do have existing SAS programming knowledge and that can carry over. Business functions are starting to rely on SAS Data Integration Studio work product shortly after introduction. Read full review ScreenShots