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    Improvado

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AImprovado is a marketing intelligence platform designed for medium to large enterprises and agencies. Improvado integrates, simplifies, governs, and attributes complex data from various sources, delivering a unified view of marketing ROI and performance.N/A

    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
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    ImprovadoSAS Data Management
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    ImprovadoSAS Data Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    ImprovadoSAS Data Management
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    ImprovadoSAS Data Management
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Improvado and SAS Data Management
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    Improvado
    -
    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 Improvado and SAS Data Management
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    Improvado
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    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 Improvado and SAS Data Management
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    Improvado
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    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 Improvado and SAS Data Management
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    Improvado
    -
    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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    User Ratings
    ImprovadoSAS Data Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.6
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.0
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    Usability
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    6.0
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    Performance
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
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    7.7
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    User Testimonials
    ImprovadoSAS Data Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Improvado
    This solution helped us when we were stuck trying to explore data deeper and didn’t have enough resources to prepare data for further analysis. The software solves data integrity problems bringing more granularity to all insights. Integration with data visualization tools and well-arranged insights shows how each of the company’s marketing channels performs in real-time. Improvado is also useful for risk mitigation when launching or adjusting marketing strategies. It may also become a valuable tool for businesses, who are aiming at automation and the elimination of routine processes. ETL processes automation unleashes marketing analysts’ potential granting them more time for research of marketing reports.
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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
    Improvado
    • ETL processes. Once adjusted, Improvado never fails to streamline data from our advertisement platforms to the data warehouse.
    • Variety of data sources. Improvado extracts data from over 200 sources, including both well-established platforms and the ones that are rapidly gaining momentum.
    • Full-cycle support. Improvado provided us with a dedicated manager available 24/7. Any issues that arose during the product integration were settled in a matter of minutes.
    • Flexibility and client-focused approach. After the integration, we adjusted our marketing campaign and needed new ad platforms to be integrated. The vendor allocated the development team ASAP to add new connectors to our existing network.
    • Professional services package. The company doesn't provide dashboard views by default. However, we had no time to figure out how to do it ourselves, so we hired a team of Improvado's analysts that set everything up for us.
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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
    Improvado
    • Improvado didn’t have all the integrations that we needed. However, they offered full coverage and quickly found ways to extract data from the sources we required.
    • The user interface for BI tools may be confusing to inexperienced users. Personally, I didn't have any problems. However, some of the junior marketing specialists from my department needed more time to adapt to the UI. Otherwise, the interface is great.
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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
    Improvado
    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
    Improvado
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    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
    Improvado
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    SAS
    It worked as expected.
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    Support Rating
    Improvado
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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
    Improvado
    We chose Improvado for the following reasons:
    • Their data transformation framework cleans, normalizes and prepares data for loading into our data visualization tool;
    • We connected our CRM to our analytics tool and as ad account;
    • Extensive social media reports - the marketing team can view our ads, posts, comments right from the dashboard.
    • Scheduled reports and immediate data sync options help us to get the reports with the most accurate data at the time we need them;
    • Google Ads auto-connect new ad accounts.
    Our marketing team evaluated Funnel.io and has opted for Improvado because of the following drawbacks:
    • With Funnel we’d have to set up an extraction process for each campaign and account manually;
    • The more accounts you need to connect or integrations to use, the more you’ll pay;
    • Limited data storage options;
    • Complicated account export. We had to filter accounts to export through the custom filter rules.
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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
    Improvado
    • Increased ROI
    • Improved cost of acquisition analysis
    • Improved CPA, CPI, CPL report drawing process
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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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    Improvado Screenshots

    Screenshot of an extensive list of data sources to pull the dataScreenshot of connectionsScreenshot of the DataPrep tool to transform the data efficiently