# SAS Federation Server Reviews **Vendor:** SAS Institute Inc. **Category:** [Data Virtualization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-virtualization) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About SAS Federation Server Data federation tools from SAS give you the agility, accessibility and flexibility you need as part of your data virtualization strategy. ## SAS Federation Server Reviews ### 1. Sas Fed Server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeevith A. | Advisory Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** It's best data analytics tool. Used by most of the banking sectors or banking domain companies. We can create, insert, delete the tables, columns and rows. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** Nothing at this point. But this tool is used by only most of banking companies. Apart from that i have never experienced other domains using this tool. **Recommendations to others considering SAS Federation Server:** Can't assure. But it's completely depends on their business needs. **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Majorly we are using to connect the server and later we are using to create a tables, insert a records delete the records and to fetch the records. ### 2. It good server in the current market with happy prices **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Govind K. | Consultant Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** It's cost for middle level customer or company , flixble for all the types of users .some in-house tool use this software to run it . It gives good bandwid in the market. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** Running multiple software can some time required adhoc resource . It's cool period can be minimize. Auto load balancer can be more smoother . Elasticity can be improved **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** SAS server is widely used in terms of getting very frequent data flow with very low latency . So real time dashboards are running over there for fast computation ### 3. Quick and optimised way to view reports of raw data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mamta G. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** It is quite easy and quick to generate reports as it requires simple click to generate reports which is really time saving and optimised way with correct data to generat le reports. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** I didn't feel anything. It is one of the best product to generate reports and get the view and analysis of the virtual data within no time. **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the team was using it to generate reports using raw data given by MySQL database which were sent to clients using email facility based on subscriptions. ### 4. Powerful Data Solution Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anjali J. | Lead Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** Ease of access. Powerful data management capabilities. Integration with other SQL Dbs is a beautiful feature. Also, it's easy to be deployed—an interactive tool. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** Nothing as such. Found it a bit expensive. Also, it would be better if the supporting data sources could be expanded so that more and more people could use them. UI can improve **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** We handle large datasets from multiple sources(relational DB) in a secured environment. It provides the capability to connect with different origins, whether on-premise or cloud. ### 5. Love Technology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thiyagu S. | Software Engineer III, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** I loved because easy to maintain a centralised repository.and way of visualising the data is very good and when it comes to safety it proves it will not handover to wrong persons. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** The overall experience on data fetching and transfer can be better. Request the platform to be upgraded with built in tools and other features.flexibility on space could have been better. **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fetching the data has been slow on sometime on loading the large number of data ### 6. SAS review for my Data Science projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anas K. | Software engineer - I, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** All the utilities inside SAS are so nicely designed and friendly to use. The user interface and the performance are great in comparison to other applications. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** The logging could be better which will help the community to debug there apps better. **Recommendations to others considering SAS Federation Server:** Go through the official website for learning modules **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** For me, it was difficult to work in multiple databases in a single environment which SAS server has resolved very effectively. ### 7. This provides with secure data querying capabilities and improved data source management. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aishwarya A. | SDE-1, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** It was easy to use and much affordable as well as a secure place for querying . **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** There are some problems with the speed of the program. Maybe, at some point, it has memory issues. The range of applications is not very big. **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** This s a very secure place I find for my work. ### 8. Review for SAS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raymond L. | Fintech engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** SAS have been in data analytics markets for a long time, apart from analytics products, there are solution based products targetting various domains. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** The licensing fee can be substantial. Also yearly based. **Recommendations to others considering SAS Federation Server:** Yes **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Various pre build analytics solutions, gets directly to solving and output stage. ### 9. SAS server feedback **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** I like the way we used to easily manipulate data using technology. we can load Raw data files from lib any easily join datasets and create a new dataset for analysis. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** There is not much to dislike, i like the product. Just one thing there should be easy installation process otrwise everything is good. everything is good and i like it. **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** we can easily manipulate data, join 2 dataset and create a new dataset with the help of programming. we can easily do pivot and unpivote data using transformation. ### 10. SAS : User friendly tool to avoid coding your own **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Kumar R. | Senior Data Scientist (Technical Architect), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** Drag and drop facility is very good. Customized functions are also beneficial. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** Number of algorithms should be increased like GBM based models. **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Banking data analytics problem ### 11. This would really help for Business solution. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vengamma P. | Data Engineer II, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** I liked the Querying capability it offers a d various features of accessing data from various sources **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** No Dislikes I don't find any missing things **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Querying data from source ### 12. Great user experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** It is a very user friendly to access and manage data on the server. It is flexible and provides xomplete control on data processing, visualisation and analysis. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** All the built in tools should be upgraded for every platform use and ease of use. The flexibility of the tools can also be expanded further to encompass other areas. **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping in data data rocessing and planning for business sales ### 13. My Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** Honestly, i like the basic idea of the SAS Federation Server. It is indeed a one stop solution for integrating data from various data sources and also acts as a concrete data accessing and querying platform. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** There are some performance issues with SAS federation server in terms of speed and memory consumption. These things can be optimised further in the future **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Below is a list which i believe can qualify for the benefits - 1. Easy integration with other data sources such as Teradata, Oracle, Greenplum etc. 2. Excellent platform for querying your data 3. Allows you to share SAS data ### 14. A great tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** Flexibility, scale-up and distributed property is among few which I like most. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** Some times it required more complex configuration but will be easy once you have some experience. **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being a data engineer, we faced a lot of issue while integrating data from multiple source. But with SaaS we have overcome this kind of issues. ### 15. Sas federation server for big data virtualization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manjunatha C. | Senior Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** The federation server acts as an interface to access the most common and popular databases, easy to manage different databases. **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** No pons at the moment. The tool does its job precisely and accurately. **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to create virtual databases and configure them to the data analysis team needs. ### 16. The experience was good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about SAS Federation Server?** The data visualization tool and query capability **What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server?** Data integrity, running of long programs with high runtime **What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using for data visualization and model building ## SAS Federation Server Discussions - [What is SAS Federation Server used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sas-federation-server-used-for) - [How will the user be notified when there is a new version?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-will-the-user-be-notified-when-there-is-a-new-version) - 1 upvote - [View SAS Federation Server pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/sas-federation-server/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+09%3A46%3A37+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b1399f1a-06c7-4bc0-922b-986c52d16e26&secure%5Btoken%5D=bc78b091ba3834d3125d746e580e5f3b806179c1d9425580c70cdb13357b3d52&format=llm_user) ## SAS Federation Server Features **Administration** - Database Management - Access Control - Data Security **Federation** - Architecture - Provisioning - Orchestration - API / Integrations **Transformation** - Data Visualization - Application Performance - Data Modeling ## Top SAS Federation Server Alternatives - [SAP HANA Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-hana-cloud-2025-10-01/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (513 reviews) - [Spotfire Analytics](https://www.g2.com/products/spotfire-analytics/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (328 reviews) - [AWS Glue](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-glue/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (191 reviews)