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SAS Data Management pros and cons

Vendor: SAS

4.3 out of 5

18 reviews
88% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

SAS Data Management is acclaimed for its powerful analysis capabilities and diverse user entry points, yet requires purchasing an external driver for Salesforce data extraction. Its robust data governance ensures regulatory compliance, offering exceptional technical support, though documentation and Brazilian support can improve. Import, export, sorting, and customization features are highly valued. Despite reliability, pricing should be more affordable. Data access issues necessitate SAS application usage, challenging integration with other tools.

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PROS

SAS Data Management is an established platform with powerful data analysis capabilities and varied user entry points.

The platform offers excellent technical support and is very stable without issues of glitches or bugs.

Importing and exporting features, along with data sorting, categorizing, and summarizing, are highly valued.

It provides robustness as a full-fledged suite, including data warehouse models and data quality management tools.

SAS Data Management possesses robust data governance capabilities ensuring strong regulatory compliance.

CONS

Purchasing an external driver and configuring tables for Salesforce data extraction is complex.

Pricing should be made more affordable for users.

Data created in SAS cannot be accessed by other tools, requiring only SAS-specific applications.

Documentation needs improvement for ease of use and accessibility.

Better integration and cloud migration capabilities are needed.

SAS Data Management Pros review quotes

Head of Databases at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 5, 2013

DataFlux in my opinion is an excellent high end solution for enterprise wide data management.

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Architect at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 28, 2014

The ROI can be very high in terms of improving the reliability and accuracy of data used in forecasting and marketing models (ex: customer data, sales data).

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Business Intelligence Consultant with 51-200 employees

Sep 29, 2014

Previously our business users would have to write complex SQL or issue requests to the technical team in order to get the information needed, and they find it much easier using the Dataflux product to access the information stored in the database for the type of analyses they have to do on a day to day basis.

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Principal & Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Sep 28, 2014

National Quality Knoledge Base Matching features QPI (Quality Performance Indicator) analysis approach

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Manager MDM with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 20, 2015

Their software pricing offers the best value for money on the market.

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Director at PurpleOak Investments

Aug 1, 2019

This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points.

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RL

Senior Manager at Indiabulls Financial Services Ltd

Oct 12, 2020

The technical support is excellent.

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Head of BI at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 3, 2020

If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick.

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Tech Lead at Complete Enterprise Solutions

Mar 5, 2020

The solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes.

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Pritam Vidulkar

Senior Associate at Cognizant Technology pvt. Ltd.

Dec 23, 2020

In terms of which features I have found most valuable, I would say the importing and exporting features. Additionally, the data sorting, categorizing and summarizing features, especially how it can summarize based on categories. These are the key features.

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SAS Data Management Cons review quotes

Head of Databases at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 5, 2013

Costly. Not great for non-ETL use cases.

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Architect at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 28, 2014

Customer Service: When DataFlux was a standalone company, the customer service deserved an A+ rating. Now that it is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS, and just one piece of a giant software conglomerate, I would give them a C+.

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Business Intelligence Consultant with 51-200 employees

Sep 29, 2014

For the amount of features that we use, the licensing is expensive.

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Principal & Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Sep 28, 2014

Complex, as usual with SAS

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Manager MDM with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 20, 2015

Native SAP integration or more efficient SAP is needed.

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Director at PurpleOak Investments

Aug 1, 2019

Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics.

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RL

Senior Manager at Indiabulls Financial Services Ltd

Oct 12, 2020

With SAS Data Management, you have to purchase an external driver, configure all of the tables for all of the data that you will extract from Salesforce. It's not a straightforward process.

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Head of BI at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 3, 2020

We find we often have to go back and re-train users when there are changes made to the solution because the changes are not intuitive.

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Tech Lead at Complete Enterprise Solutions

Mar 5, 2020

The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable.

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Pritam Vidulkar

Senior Associate at Cognizant Technology pvt. Ltd.

Dec 23, 2020

One problem is accessing the data using a solution other than SAS. The SAS data, which we create in the SAS, cannot be accessed by other tools. We can't open those data in other applications. So we need to have that application in place.

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