Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud (DIPC) vs. SAS Data Integration Studio

For daily transactional information and customer data needs it has been an extremely fast and reliable system. Several thousand users are able to connect many third party tools and run a large number of extracts while still experiencing great performance. For smaller systems in use with limited user accounts this system is less appropriate due to maintenance resources required.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• ODI uses ELT architecture, which enhances the load performance and is very scalable.
• ODI is platform independent. It supports all platforms, hardware and operating systems.
• It comes with pre-built integration, allowing immediate data replication, transformation, and data governance while ensuring data quality.

Incentivized

• With SAS Data Integration Studio it doesn't matter to users where the data is originally from it all is presented in a consistent manner.
• The SAS Data Integration Studio is fairly reliable it usually works well.
• The visual design of reports our users even describe as fun.

Incentivized

• Training and ramping up to learn all the Oracle specific intricacies.
• Security concerns with administering some of the tools to end users.

Incentivized

• Sometimes parts of the data are not available, although this is generally because it is connected to so many different systems.
• Price, it's not the cheapest software, however the value for dollars spent does seem to be good.
• Sometimes all the different systems and platforms and folders and so forth get a bit overwhelming for new users.

Incentivized

We are longtime ODI on-premise users. So, it was easy for us to migrate to the ODI cloud rather than implementing another solution.

Incentivized

Because SAS Data Integration Studio is the third party it seems to work equally well with all our systems. That is to say that it doesn't really work better with Microsoft or Oracle but really just seems to work equally well with all of them. It has a very powerful back-end that allows us to transform and load our data quickly and efficiently programmer time wise.

Incentivized

• Ability to setup reliable disaster recovery.
• Upgrades and performance monitoring tools are readily available.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized