Likelihood to Recommend It's definitely one of the leading ETL tools, and it's the best ETL tool to use with SAP integration. If you use
SAP HANA , then you should think about Data Services as your primary ETL tool.
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 Integration with SAP ERP/ECC works really well. A lot of flexibility in data creation, with different types of communication capabilities like BAPIs, IDocs, and Batch input. Reliable and consistent results and easily enforceable data templates. Kiran Bhat Application Development Manager/Solutions Architect
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 Debugging is not very easy. When one wants to see the flow of data from one Query to another, the process is not very smooth and efficient. A lot of functions do not behave the way they should. I have faced problems with the count() function. I have faced problems while loading Excel files. The same set of options will work in one case but not in the other. 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 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 As other SAP products, there is excellent support by SAP on this tool. You can access the SAP Help portal in order to give support either from the huge community or directly from SAP.
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 You cannot afford to run your business on questionable data. With SAPĀ® Data Services software, you can access, transform, and connect data to fuel your critical business processes. Together, these enterprise-class solutions enable data integration and data quality, providing the right level of insight across your business so you can make better decisions and operate more effectively.SAP Data Services was previously known as SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator, BusinessObjects Data Integrator.
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 Very positive impact in jobs maintenance since support auto-documentation. Great impact on learning curve. Great results in our Data Quality Projects. 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