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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

    Snowflake

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
    Pricing
    SAS Data ManagementSnowflake
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAS Data ManagementSnowflake
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    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 ManagementSnowflake
    Considered Both Products
    SAS
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    Snowflake Computing
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    30 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
    SAS Data ManagementSnowflake
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of SAS Data Management and Snowflake
    Feature
    SAS Data Management
    8.3
    10 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Snowflake
    -
    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 Snowflake
    Feature
    SAS Data Management
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Simple transformations6.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of SAS Data Management and Snowflake
    Feature
    SAS Data Management
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Snowflake
    -
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    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 Snowflake
    Feature
    SAS Data Management
    7.9
    9 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools7.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools8.27 Ratings00 Ratings
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    SAS Data ManagementSnowflake
    Small Businesses
    Skyvia
    Score10 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score10 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAS Data ManagementSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAS Data ManagementSnowflake
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as 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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    Snowflake Computing
    • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
    • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
    • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
    • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
    • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
    • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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    Performance
    SAS
    It worked as expected.
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    Snowflake Computing
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
    • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
    • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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