SAS Data Management and Alation Data Catalog compete in the data management and cataloging category. While SAS excels in data integration and governance, Alation is preferred for its cloud integration and ease of data discovery.
Features: SAS data integration capabilities and effective governance offer a unified view of enterprise data, supporting a variety of environments for robust data quality management. Users also benefit from its comprehensive reporting tools. Alation facilitates active data governance with strong capabilities in cloud integration and metadata management, emphasizing collaborative features and automated metadata tagging despite some feature maturity limitations.
Room for Improvement: SAS faces licensing cost challenges, setup complexity, difficulties with database connectivity, and requires improved documentation and training. Alation needs enhancements in data governance features, end-to-end data lineage, integration with tools like Power BI, and advancements in technical user-friendliness.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAS Data Management is deployed on-premises and faces customer service challenges, with dependable deployment but requiring detailed support for technical issues. Alation offers diverse deployment options, including cloud services, and receives better customer service ratings with effective support for user feedback and technical issues.
Pricing and ROI: SAS is considered expensive with significant ROI, especially in sectors like pharmaceuticals, but its licensing model can be a barrier for smaller organizations. Alation's high price point and specific pricing models depend on user types. Users find understanding Alation's pricing offers better deals, with promising ROI similar to SAS, both having high potential in data reliability improvements.
Alation pioneered the data catalog market and is now leading its evolution into a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, lineage, stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation.
Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. With Alation, analysts are empowered to search, query and collaborate on their data to achieve faster, more accurate insights.
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Every decision, every business move, every successful customer interaction - they all come down to high-quality, well-integrated data. If you don't have it, you don't win. SAS Data Management is an industry-leading solution built on a data quality platform that helps you improve, integrate and govern your data.
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