Works at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
2025-01-23T12:00:00Z
Jan 23, 2025
One area for improvement is the installation process. Another point could be the syntax, as it sometimes involves using syntax names that are not intuitive. For example, to calculate the difference between two dates, the general syntax in SAS is called the data difference or data net function. However, another name is used, such as NF and INK. Without knowledge of SAS programming, it becomes unclear what these functions mean. It is not good to define function names this way.
Chief Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
2023-08-02T07:39:53Z
Aug 2, 2023
Visualization is an area with a few shortcomings in the product. Some new and amazing visualization capabilities have been added to the product, but I haven't used them enough to be able to comment on them. In SAS VA, which is a different product, there is a need to add more visualization capabilities because other companies have started providing better visualization. The initial setup phase of SAS Data Integration Server should be made easier since it is currently a complex process.
Experienced Test Manager at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2020-01-12T07:22:00Z
Jan 12, 2020
Something that could improve is writing SQL to integration studio because it is not that straightforward. There should be better integration with other software. I believe the process is where the problem lies. It's a niche technology that does not interact with many DB connectors. For example, if you need to connect the CD tool, you need to have a specific connector. We've been facing some issues with that for some time and we always had to go to the SAS partners to ask for their hotfix. So I would like to see that being improved.
Manager - Technology at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2019-12-09T10:58:00Z
Dec 9, 2019
The transform tool has limited access. They should make it more flexible. If there is any way for the system to analyze and also implement indexing on the data, that would be great.
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One area for improvement is the installation process. Another point could be the syntax, as it sometimes involves using syntax names that are not intuitive. For example, to calculate the difference between two dates, the general syntax in SAS is called the data difference or data net function. However, another name is used, such as NF and INK. Without knowledge of SAS programming, it becomes unclear what these functions mean. It is not good to define function names this way.
Visualization is an area with a few shortcomings in the product. Some new and amazing visualization capabilities have been added to the product, but I haven't used them enough to be able to comment on them. In SAS VA, which is a different product, there is a need to add more visualization capabilities because other companies have started providing better visualization. The initial setup phase of SAS Data Integration Server should be made easier since it is currently a complex process.
Something that could improve is writing SQL to integration studio because it is not that straightforward. There should be better integration with other software. I believe the process is where the problem lies. It's a niche technology that does not interact with many DB connectors. For example, if you need to connect the CD tool, you need to have a specific connector. We've been facing some issues with that for some time and we always had to go to the SAS partners to ask for their hotfix. So I would like to see that being improved.
The transform tool has limited access. They should make it more flexible. If there is any way for the system to analyze and also implement indexing on the data, that would be great.