A great product but licenses are costly
June 04, 2019
A great product but licenses are costly
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server
SAS has been used by many users in our organization, mainly business and retail users for running various modeling using SAS optimizer. It allows the user a wider range of capabilities to cleanse and manipulate the data.
- Manipulation of data
- Interact directly with visualizations that refine analyses
- Wide range of delivery reports
- Licenses are very costly
- Its not easy to move SAS users to other open source products because of the easy programming in SAS.
- We looked at how this tool could not only help us now but what it can do to expand our business intelligence in the future.SAS is great because they have so many different modules and products that a company can simply add capabilities as they grow their internal business intelligence division.
SAS integration is not easy because there are various PAM related modules which require additional vendor involvement. Overall once all integrations are set up, it's a great tool and provides multiple options to users for running their model.
SAS Data Management Feature Ratings
Using SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server
170 - Retail, Business, Finance users
3 - SAS Administration is a must along with Unix experience.
- Data modelling
- Data governance
- Data optimizer
- Evaluate other alternatives to avoid license cost
SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server Support
Pros | Cons |
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Quick Resolution Knowledgeable team Immediate help available Support cares about my success | Poor followup Problems left unsolved Escalation required Need to explain problems multiple times Slow Initial Response |
They have funded the SAS upgrade project last year.
Using SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Easy to use Well integrated Quick to learn Feel confident using | Unnecessarily complex Requires technical support Cumbersome Lots to learn |
- SAS programming
- API calls
- Integration with warehouse and big data
- Encryption
- Data governance