





Data exploration






Supported Operating System(s):
Mac OS, Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 8, Windows 10About SAS Visual Analytics
SAS Visual Analytics is a cloud-based Business Intelligence solution designed for businesses of all sizes across various industries. Accounting and CPA firms, advertising agencies, banking institutions, manufacturing companies, government entities, technology companies, and several others can tailor the solution to accommodate their needs. The solution can also be deployed on-premise.
Key features include dashboards and scorecards, ETL capabilities, online analytical processing, query and report writing, data mining and predictive analytics, and data warehousing. These applications can be offered as stand-alone features or within a fully-integrated suite. Users have access to interactive data discovery to visualize trends. Reporting and dashboards are also pr...
Data exploration
Supported Operating System(s):
Mac OS, Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 8, Windows 10Average User Ratings
Overall
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
3.5
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.5
Likelihood to Recommend
Not likely
Very likely
July 2018
Donald from Agriculture Financial Services Corporation
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
July 2018
Very powerful, flexible, and works with all third parties we need.
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.
January 2018
Tapan from Criteo
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Internet
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
January 2018
SAS BI - Scalable and Comprehensive BI Tool
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.
April 2017
Steven from KOM International
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Warehousing
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
2.0
Value for money
1.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
April 2017
Sas for business analytics
We have been using SAS since the 1980's We like it, but find it pricy for a small firm such as ourselves
Pros
Feature rich
Cons
Tough to learn
March 2019
Anonymous
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2019
Powerful but dated
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
June 2018
Piyush from Department of Revenue- Wisconsin Lottery
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
June 2018
SAS Business Intelligence Suite is an extra ordinary software to deal with everythng related to data
It is complete BI suite. You can do everything with Data.
Pros
I am using this since last 8 years and you can do everything with data using SAS BI. I have used it for ETL, reports and for modelling but we can created dashboards and so many other other things.
Cons
Biggest disadvantage is cost factor. SAS is quite costly and small organisations cannot really afford it. Now we have freewares in market like python and R replacing SAS.