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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ER/Studio

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AER/Studio is a database development and management tool from Embarcadero Technologies (acquired by Idera) in California.

    $2,687

    per year per user

    SAS Data Management

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AA suite of solutions for data connectivity, enhanced transformations and robust governance. Solutions provide a unified view of data with access to data across databases, data warehouses and data lakes. Connects with cloud platforms, on-premises systems and multicloud data sources.N/A
    Pricing
    ER/StudioSAS Data Management
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $2,687
    per year per user
    Professional
    $3,693
    per year per user
    Enterprise
    Custom
    per year per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ER/StudioSAS Data Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing for new customers only, first year maintenance included. Maintenance includes access to technical support and product updates for the defined period of the agreement.—
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    Community Pulse
    ER/StudioSAS Data Management
    Considered Both Products
    Idera, Inc.
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    SAS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ER/StudioSAS Data Management
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of ER/Studio and SAS Data Management
    Feature
    ER/Studio
    -
    Ratings
    SAS Data Management
    8.3
    10 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings8.610 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of ER/Studio and SAS Data Management
    Feature
    ER/Studio
    -
    Ratings
    SAS Data Management
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings7.48 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of ER/Studio and SAS Data Management
    Feature
    ER/Studio
    -
    Ratings
    SAS Data Management
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings5.56 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings7.47 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings6.67 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings6.17 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of ER/Studio and SAS Data Management
    Feature
    ER/Studio
    -
    Ratings
    SAS Data Management
    7.9
    9 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings7.69 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
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    ER/StudioSAS Data Management
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    Enterprises
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ER/StudioSAS Data Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.6
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ER/StudioSAS Data Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Idera, Inc.
    Data Architect is well suited at organizations of all sizes. It is never too early or unnecessary to enforce proper modelling and design standards on data solutions, and this tool will help that greatly by providing an industry leading data modelling tool, ability to import ETL mappings for data lineage, enforcing and managing naming conventions through the naming convention tool, and publishing of data dictionaries through the report publisher. I was successfully able to build models, provide traceability, and document source to target with lineage throughout for both the business (by providing business definitions in the descriptions), and technical teams (by documenting ETL instructions in text fields) along with field level mapping (by creating "Attachments" representing data sources, tables, and fields) providing easy search capabilities using business friendly terms
    Incentivized
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    SAS
    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.
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    Pros
    Idera, Inc.
    • ER/Studio has the ability to provide consistent field names and data types through domains, which are templates. This provides a way to have consistent naming of common fields, like CreatedBy and the data types for the fields. They also have the ability to change all the fields that use that domain to a different data type.
    • ER/Studio provides the ability to create custom macros. These macros can be used to apply everything from standard fields based on domains to naming all constraints and indexes. I've also used a macro that comes with ER/Studio to spell check field and table names.
    • My favorite feature is the ability to compare your data model to databases for deployments of changes, and to other data models.
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    SAS
    • 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.
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    Cons
    Idera, Inc.
    • ER\Studio licensing can be cumbersome and upgrading from one version to another usually takes several phone calls and emails to the licensing group to get the update installed and running.
    • The repository can be slow when the model count gets larger. By large I mean 20 to 30 models.
    • A nice feature that I would like to see is table comments be displayed on the model along with the attributes. Currently you have to choose between the two.
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    SAS
    • 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.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    SAS
    We are happy with the software and its functionality. As a SAS-shop, DataFlux is a logical choice for complex data integration.
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    Usability
    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    SAS
    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.
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    Performance
    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    SAS
    It worked as expected.
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    Support Rating
    Idera, Inc.
    I can call or email support and both get quick turn around. The only issue is they are on the west coast (US) and have a west coast work schedule and I'm on the East coast.
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    SAS
    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Idera, Inc.
    ER/Studio is the most mature, reach in features and quality and therefore useful. Unfortunately, it lacks compatibility with AWS Redshift.
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    SAS
    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Idera, Inc.
    • ER/Studio has had a positive impact on my project as we can develop the data model and have a clear understanding of business needs before we continue with the development phase.
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    SAS
    • 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.
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    ScreenShots

    ER/Studio Screenshots

    Screenshot of logical data models in ER/Studio Data Architect.Screenshot of data catalog in ER/Studio Data Architect.Screenshot of data glossaries in ER/Studio Data Architect.