SAS Visual Analytics Erfahrungen

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.

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'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.

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.

one of the things I liked the most is the ease of use of the tool. I was able to easily upload my data and create compelling, detailed visualizations with just a few clicks. Also, I was very impressed with the speed and performance of the tool, which allowed me to perform complex data analysis in real time.

It has a steep learning curve. At first, it took me a while to understand how the tool worked and how to use all of its data analysis and visualization capabilities. I also found that the integration with other systems and third-party tools was not as easy as I had hoped.

The software itself is very versatile and is extremely equipped for Cloud Based setup and use.

We are a women and minority owned small business who were extremely excited to become SAS software users in 2021. In spite of the high upfront cost to our small business (we paid $14,000+ for a year or use), we received a notification our software would be expiring less than five months after we had been connected to our technical setup representatives and had the software for less than six months.

This was after we had let the sales representative [SENSITIVE CONTENT] know that we were not ready to sign on until Q4. However, [SENSITIVE CONTENT] and his colleague [SENSITIVE CONTENT] stated we would lose our discounts and pressured us to sign stating we would be really helping out SAS' Q3 Closing sales.

We started early in good faith only to find out the people to help us get ready for setup weren't even provided to us until just before December. The SAS team stated our original technical onboarding person had an illness or emergency and then we didn't hear back with a new contact [SENSITIVE CONTENT] until about a month later. 

Sending an early licensing termination to us for software that the SAS company failed to provide a technical setup contact for until well past the first 60 days is fraudulent. 

In spite of our good faith sign up in Q3 based on the SAS sales teams statements, we were left post signing with no support from a technical setup representatives provided to us until two months later.

I worked as a Data wrangler and data scientist in my current organization. I like the ecosystem and customer support of SAS. It is easy to learn if you have basics SQL knowledge. It is faster than python/R. Preferred over open source if data privacy is a concern.

The user community is not so great as compared with another open-source. SAS is pretty expensive so companies are now switching to open sources like python and R.

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.

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

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.

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.

I like the ability to quickly pick up the software and gain insights about our data, as well as its ability to plug seamlessly with the SAS products used by our institution. The dashboard canvas is easy to navigate in a minimal amount of time and easy-to-find tutorials teach advanced functions.

I dislike the adaptive canvas sometimes. In other BI tools, the canvas resizes reasonable to the end-users resolution but there are times that SAS VA makes images used on these canvas' either too small or too large.

It has lots of out-of-box packages. Before open-source era it was some kind of industry standart. It plays well with big data.

Open source platforms are becoming popular. It's still too expensive. Post-sales support is not good.

Great for building process flows. Easy to use for people with no programming background.

For as nice as it is for people without a programming background, it can also be a hindrance for those of us who do. Sometimes the flexibility to do things is not there.

SAS Visual Analytics è da considerarsi come uno strumenti di BI e visualizzazione avanzata di dati. SAS Visual Analytics è in grado di alimentarsi attingendo a fonti dati differenti e , mediante le funzioni di data wrangling, consente agli utenti di pulire i dati prima procedere con le analisi e la visualizzazione, le cui opzioni sono molteplici e personalizzabili. Viene offerta, inoltre, la possibilità di combinare dati un dashboard o in un report interattivo. Ciò facilità la visione d'insieme e semplifica la condivisione all'interno dell'azienda.

Software progetto per lavorare con gradi quantità di dati, ma non senza difficoltà. La reattività del software risulta inversamente proporzionale al numero di dati utilizzato.

SAS Visual Analytics è un ottimo software per la visualizzazione di dati. Il software consente di organizzare i dati con molteplici strumenti, quali, ad esempio, vari tipi di grafici, altamente personalizzabili e dalla creazione semplice grazie ad un sistema di drag & drop. Il software, inoltre, permette un elevata interazione con i dati, il singolo utente, infatti, può ordinare oppure filtrare i dati come ritiene necessario ed approfondire, ad esempio, i dati elementari sottostanti ad un determinato grafico oppure cluster rappresentato in maniera grafica. I report creati possono essere esportato in vari formati e questo accelera il processo di condivisione. Il software, inoltre, grazie all’integrazione con altre piattaforme della famiglia SAS permette di eseguire e rappresentare analisi predittive dei dati.

Al fine di creare report che possono soddisfare le necessità di ogni stakeholder, dall’ analista al C-level, è necessario padroneggiare funzioni avanti del software che richiedono un tempo notevole per essere apprese.

Sas Visual Analytics è un software di business intelligence, con il quale è possibile creare report e dashboard personalizzate o eseguire semplici analisi dei dati che consentano di monitorare i KPI e supportare il management nelle decisioni aziendali. Il software permette di visualizzare in modo aggregato e personalizzato, icon relativa semplicità (utilizzando, ad esempio il drag and drop), i dati all’interno di report o dashboard interattive. I report possono essere semplicemente esportati, in vari formati, e condivisi con i soggetti interessati. È possibile monitorare i KPI ed impostare avvisi al raggiungimento di soglie critiche per avere aggiornamenti sulle performance in tempo reale.

Le analisi statistiche eseguibili all’interno del software risultano limitate. È necessario, per eseguire analisi avanzate disporre di altri programmi, preferibilmente della famiglia SAS per una questione di integrazione, tipo SAS Studio.

SAS Visual Analytics è un software di analisi dei dati fortemente votato alla componente di visualizzazione degli stessi. I dati forniti a Visual Analytics possono essere visualizzati mendicanti tabelle interattivi e molteplici tipologie di grafici, il tutto con un elevato grado di personalizzazione. Questo consento di creare report di presentazione di dati oppure di presentazione delle analisi condotte sugli stessi in modo tailor made rispetto alle proprie necessitava. SAS Visual Analytics, oltre agli strumenti di visualizzazione dei dati, presenta strumenti di analisi di base, che consentono un buon livello preliminare di esplorazione dei dati con eventuale esecuzione di pulizia degli stessi.

Non trovo particolari difetti in SAS Visual Analytics, il software rispetta le aspettative e risulta intuitivo nell'uso, specialmente per i soggetti da pratici con i temi di analisi di dati.

No need to type every code like R software. sas is helpful in predicting the codes and very easy to operate when compared to R software. Also its very easy to identify the mistake in case if we g wrong.

there is no cons, easy to start, follow the instructions, user friendly.

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)

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

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.

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.

Very easy to use. All necessary charts are there, and more. It is very simple to add data and then to add more calculated fields. Since data is in memory, everything is fast. You make a change to a filter and your new chart is there. You can start with the Visual Analytics module, and grow from there.

The security features, which seems more than adequate, are sometimes harder to use. It is not easy to see what amount of storage your are currently using with all the stocked data.

- SAS provides advanced analytics of data in an organization
- It can also provide predictive analytics of data
- It can be used to monitor money laundering in a financial system
- Users can setup alerts when suspicious transactions are identified

- It is not easy to use. Too complicated for new users to understand without help
- Integration to an organisations system takes time

Easy to use, more features and auxiliary components than you could ever wish for, great customer service and technical support.

I cannot think of many cons for this product. The only thing that might be considered a con is the server architecture required.

Feature rich

Tough to learn

Free customer support. Reports load fast using Visual analytics, because the data is readily available in the memory

Installation or configuration can never be fully automated, as it always involves manual steps. Sometimes hotfixes/patches might not come in timely manner

It is easy to use and very handy. One can make stunning dashboards using it without much expertise. It is equally good for novice and pro. Data connection process is smooth. Overall 4/5

Support is not up to the mark. Installation is messy but that is only for single time. Interface doesn't look that good.

easy

Nothing yet, but I will certainly be vocal, if I have a bad experience.

Ease of use makes it top of the list in the industry

Not as optimized as preferred, hopefully it gets more efficient