SAS/ACCESS Reviews & Product Details

Having SAS Access included in the base Viya License is a godsend.SAS Access has allowed me to extract value from legacy data that is being migrated before the migration is complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well, i was going to,say the license fees, but see the other commemt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s very important that no data is compromised when we switch interfaces, SAS just do the job well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no as such dislikes about SAS/ACCESS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ability to seamlessly access oracle and snowflake Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sometimes queries a re inefficient and slow, especially when using formats Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The program enables to connect to different database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

additional verification and token are harder to implement when sharing the program within the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAS/ACCESS not only act as a medium to connect to the Database and other filesystem and perform Data analysis for better decisions. It can transfer the data between different filesystem faster.

SAS has only two datatype Char and Num. But when loading the data to the DB SAS/ACCESS handles the data conversion smothly.

SAS customer support is always faster in responding to any query.

Easy to configure, connect and access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Connection to some unpopular database might sometimes be difficult as Data connection settings can vary of DB to DB and filesystem and need to learn filesystem specific settings to enable them in SAS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data Integration : SAS/ACCESS provides seamless integration with Oracle, MS SQL and Hadoop

Ease of Use : With SAS/ACCESS, users can use familiar SAS procedures and functions to access and manipulate data, regardless of where the data is stored.

Data Consistency: SAS/ACCESS ensures that data is consistent and reliable, regardless of the data source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The implementation to integrate with MongoDB and Hadoop is not straight forward. It puts dependency on SAS Admin and normal developers cannot integrate it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy access to any DBMS and no need to worry about thrid party drivers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the latest access engines (Eg: SAS/Access to Google BigQuery) are immature and do NOT support some functionlaties that other OBDC driver provides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's generally easy to learn how to use SAS without extensive knowledge of how to use other types of data management software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the interface could be more visually appealing to make it even easier for beginners to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAS Access provides option for processing of multiple file format.

It has very useful procedure/ functions e.g. SASSQL, Macro etc which makes programming easy & efficient.

It has multiple procedure for statistics and extensive reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High License cost and unavailability of the community version of the software.

Not very efficient while working with huge file size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use. Macros and SQL coding, export function and importing any kind of data sets helps to use SAS over broad platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When data is large, and formatted data creates the problem in opening. So for this I have to make sure format is applied to data set. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.