A suite of integrated BI and Analytics solutions from SAS
4.3/5 (31 reviews)SAS Business Intelligence & Analytics is an Enterprise BI platform encompassing six key products. Including SAS Enterprise BI Server, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Office Analytics, SAS Visual Statistics and crucially, SAS Visual Analytics – the seamlessly integrated suite provides “limitless” BI tool and feature sets. SAS Visual Analytics resides at its core, facilitating visual data exploration, identifying business data patterns, relationships and rapid insights from interactive visualizations. Find metrics vital to forecasting and predicting trends, utilising dashboard-based environments to generate distribution-ready reports all from one place. With SAS Visual Statistics, a rich drag-and-drop interface enables the creation of descriptive and predictive models, with platform support for Hadoop, Teradata, Greenplum, SAP HANA and Oracle databases.
SAS Office Analytics aids collaboration by surfacing results and analytics insights into Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook and Excel – valuable for sharing ideas between workflows and teams. This emphasis on easy, fast data access and reporting then extends beyond the office to keep Business Intelligence informed and refreshed while on the move. As part of the SAS Visual Analytics solution, SAS Mobile BI is a companion app available for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Access reports and dashboards at anytime while leveraging multi-touch gesture support to navigate data, reports and report elements such as graphs, tables, KPIs and data grids.
Pros
It's Visual Data Exploration capabilities to visualize the data and find patterns quickly is amazing. The features such as heat maps helps us understand where most of the traffic for an advertiser is coming from and helps the advertiser to target the customers more effectively. Creating Dashboards doesn't require a lot of technical know how and anyone can start making dashboards. Also, these dashboards and reports simplifies collaboration as different people are able to share their comments by directly commenting on the visuals or charts.
Another feature which interests me is that it allows to integrate with other open source platforms like R.
Cons
Such a comprehensive set of features with a brand like SAS obviously comes with a price but I find the price to be over the top for the small and medium organizations. Only a few open source platforms are supported and lot of common ones used by a lot of smaller organizations have been left out. Further, user interface looks dated and needs a facelift to match other players like Tableau.
The ability to connect with all third parties (that we use) and merge their data together in one system then analyze the structured information in a consistent and reliable way makes SAS Business Intelligence a very powerful system. The ability to run code that we made 10 years ago is also very nice.
Pros
The ability to connect with all third parties (that we use) and merge their data together in one system then analyze the structured information in a consistent and reliable way makes SAS Business Intelligence a very powerful system. The ability to run code that we made 10 years ago is also very nice.
Cons
The complexity and inconstancy of the product is not always the most desirable. Often times doing similar things requires very different approaches. SAS Business Intelligence has been around for such a long time that different "procs", as they are called in their system, often have extreme variance in syntax.
It is one of the most intuitive software I've ever tried, very user friendly and very efficient (both usability and ease)
Pros
Excellent visualization tools such as heat maps, all in all is an easy software because it does not require long training sessions (for the front end is very intuitive), everyone can do dashboard autonomously (once the programmer has prepared the cloud data and standard fields). Excellent feature that allows users to share comments directly on the charts (on the Qlik suite is not possible for example)
Cons
It would be interesting to add the tool to create stories, or dynamic presentations (such as power point), obviously the price is high (like the most BI software), so it makes the software suitable only for large companies. The minimum requirements for accommodating the engine on the server are high
I have a great experience with this tool as this is very easy to use and EDA(Exploratory Data Analysis) through charts are very much effective and attractive
Pros
Coding is pretty much easy and visualization is best. Also, customer support is high and It can fetch billions of records for processing and processing speed is very high.
Cons
Only one factor which makes negative about this product is the price, which is really very high. For which Tableau and R can work together for giving the same results.
Good stuff. Dated but works.
Nothing to brag about, but checks all the right boxes
Pros
SAS is what started the party. It's so much faster than the legacy of Cobol and mainframe based packages.
Love the advanced features and the power.
Cons
Licences are expensive.
If you are using SQL you miss Moss of the raw power.
SAS procs arenot the most I tuitive.
And most importantly, newer packages re after 10x or more quicker.
Eg. IBM aginity netezza
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SAS BI & Analytics has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises
SAS BI & Analytics supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
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SAS BI & Analytics supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
SAS BI & Analytics integrates with the following applications:
DataTap
SAS BI & Analytics offers the following support options:
Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
