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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SharePlex

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASharePlex from Quest Software is a data replication software offering near real-time replication and supporting a wide variety of databases.N/A
    Pricing
    SAS Data ManagementSharePlex
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAS Data ManagementSharePlex
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SAS Data ManagementSharePlex
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    SAS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SAS Data ManagementSharePlex
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of SAS Data Management and SharePlex
    Feature
    SAS Data Management
    8.3
    10 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SharePlex
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    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources8.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL8.19 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of SAS Data Management and SharePlex
    Feature
    SAS Data Management
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    SharePlex
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    Ratings
    Simple transformations6.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of SAS Data Management and SharePlex
    Feature
    SAS Data Management
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    17% below category average
    SharePlex
    -
    Ratings
    Data model creation5.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management7.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow6.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging6.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of SAS Data Management and SharePlex
    Feature
    SAS Data Management
    7.9
    9 Ratings
    2% below category average
    SharePlex
    -
    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools7.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools8.27 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAS Data ManagementSharePlex
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAS Data ManagementSharePlex
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Quest Software
    SharePlex really shines when set alongside GoldenGate. The licensing costs of the two products would appear to place them in entirely different ballparks yet they perform nearly identically in practice. SharePlex is suitable for heterogenous replication of one database to another. The list of targets is ever increasing, with support for all major RDBMS vendors as well as support for popular NoSQL and JSON replication. SharePlex is effective when replicating from on-premise to cloud. Whether that's migrating data, creating a high-availability presence in a public or private cloud, or populating a data mart, it does the job quite well.
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    Pros
    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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    Quest Software
    • SharePlex is highly configurable and versatile. It can handle virtually any kind of data replication needs.
    • SharePlex is very robust. Its message queuing mechanism provides fast data transfer from the source to the target.
    • SharePlex software is very stable and mature, and it is highly scalable and reliable.
    • SharePlex support is exceptionally good. We are very satisfied with its support engineers.
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    Cons
    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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    Quest Software
    • When first introduced the Change Data Capture process was awkward. Each subsequent release has improved the process.
    • Sometimes the Shareplex monitoring service in Foglight gets overly aggressive in sending out error notifications and can end up spamming the admins with email alerts for one problem. We have had to tone that down.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Quest Software
    We depend on it to supply data to our various OLTP and Data Warehouse environments
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    Usability
    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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    Quest Software
    It is very usable once you get over the initial setup.
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    Performance
    SAS
    It worked as expected.
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    Quest Software
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    Support Rating
    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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    Quest Software
    Support is very responsive. They take ownership of the problems and see them through to the finish. When a bug is found they work towards developing testing and making the fix available to us to solve the problem.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Quest Software
    SharePlex support is an award-winning team, which is available for 24 hours, and any time they have solutions with perfect expertise. Besides, SharePlex has supported data migration, with multiple reporting features that ensure there are comprehensive database evaluations. The simplicity of SharePlex installation also gives it a higher mark, is very efficient, and allows companies to understand it easily.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Quest Software
    • Postive: easy to replicate data for non-prod use
    • Negative: we spent a lot time due to data out of sync
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