--- title: SAS Federation Server Reviews meta\_title: 'SAS Federation Server Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 16 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SAS Federation Server works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 16 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # SAS Federation Server Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by SAS Federation Server but has limited features. Are you part of the SAS Federation Server team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Data federation tools from SAS give you the agility, accessibility and flexibility you need as part of your data virtualization strategy. * * * Seller [SAS Institute Inc.](https://www.g2.com/sellers/sas-institute-inc-df6dde22-a5e5-4913-8b21-4fa0c6c5c7c2) Discussions [SAS Federation Server Community](https://www.g2.com/products/sas-federation-server/discuss) Overview by Crystal Sullivan (Customer Engagement Analyst at SAS) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![SAP HANA Cloud](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAP HANA Cloud") SAP HANA Cloud 4.3/5(621) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-hana-cloud-2025-10-01/reviews) [ ![Spotfire Analytics](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Spotfire Analytics") Spotfire Analytics 4.2/5(362) ](https://www.g2.com/products/spotfire-analytics/reviews) [ ![AWS Glue](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AWS Glue") AWS Glue 4.3/5(202) ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-glue/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/sas-federation-server/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 16 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Jeevith A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jeevith A.") JA Jeevith A. Advisory Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/23/2021 "Sas Fed Server" 4.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAS Federation Server: Can't assure. But it's completely depends on their business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/22/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Govind K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Govind K.") GK Govind K. Consultant Engineer Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/9/2022 "It good server in the current market with happy prices" 4.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mamta G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mamta G.") MG Mamta G. Senior Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/10/2022 "Quick and optimised way to view reports of raw data" 4.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anjali J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anjali J.") AJ Anjali J. Lead Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/14/2022 "Powerful Data Solution Tool" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Thiyagu S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Thiyagu S.") TS Thiyagu S. Software Engineer III Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/10/2022 "Love Technology" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anas K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anas K.") AK Anas K. Software engineer - I Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/14/2022 "SAS review for my Data Science projects" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server? The logging could be better which will help the community to debug there apps better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAS Federation Server: Go through the official website for learning modules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Aishwarya A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aishwarya A.") AA Aishwarya A. SDE-1 Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/13/2022 "This provides with secure data querying capabilities and improved data source management." 5/5 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 . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you? This s a very secure place I find for my work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Raymond L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Raymond L.") RL Raymond L. Fintech engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/16/2021 "Review for SAS" 3.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server? The licensing fee can be substantial. Also yearly based. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAS Federation Server: Yes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") UH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/3/2022 "SAS server feedback" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Dr. Kumar R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dr. Kumar R.") DR Dr. Kumar R. Senior Data Scientist (Technical Architect) Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/16/2022 "SAS : User friendly tool to avoid coding your own" 4/5 What do you like best about SAS Federation Server? Drag and drop facility is very good. Customized functions are also beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAS Federation Server? Number of algorithms should be increased like GBM based models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAS Federation Server solving and how is that benefiting you? Banking data analytics problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about SAS Federation Server? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about SAS Federation Server ](https://www.g2.com/products/sas-federation-server/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is SAS Federation Server used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sas-federation-server-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/sas-federation-server/discuss) ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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