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Microsoft Fabric vs SAS Viya Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Fabric
Ranking in Data Management Platforms (DMP)
13th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAS Viya Platform
Ranking in Data Management Platforms (DMP)
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (46th), Data Quality (21st), Data Governance (27th)
 

Featured Reviews

PK
Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati
Unified data platform has enabled consistent analytics and rapid visualization for all teams
The most valuable and useful feature I have found in Microsoft Fabric is data consistency, which is the top thing. We use the cloud, so it is very fast because we do not use other servers such as Redshift or any other database servers. We just stage the data in Data Lake, which is their central cloud storage, and from there we pull; the retrieval speed and processing speed are very fast, which is an advantage. The integration with Power BI in Microsoft Fabric has influenced my data visualization by making it very simple; you just click on Power BI, select your Data Lake that is available, and from there, you can create your visualization. It would be very rapid compared to other sources or if you use the DirectQuery mode or import mode, which would be slower when compared to the Data Lake mode of pulling the data. I usually evaluate the effectiveness of Microsoft Fabric's data integration capabilities by comparing it to other services. When I do all the things on Microsoft Fabric, I feel it is better in integration because all different analysts or persons working on data simply come to Microsoft Fabric, get that license, and can do whatever they want; whether they want to do BI reporting, analyze, or create models, it would be on the same platform, making it really easy for them to perform their tasks. The integration across all applications is very comfortable for users.
reviewer2783847 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Lead, Ri Technical Solutions at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Integrated analytics have streamlined healthcare risk adjustment and improved visit targeting
The best features that SAS Viya Platform offers are the easy visualization of the results, which stands out for me, and also the ease of using the AI agents to describe the problem and come up with the solution. The visualization and AI agent features of SAS Viya Platform help me in my day-to-day work. For example, one aspect of the visualization is how by looking at the graphs, you can determine which area, such as the plan area in the healthcare insurance field, we need to focus on and where we are falling short. It is easily visualized, mostly for the marketing team in the provider area that needs to concentrate there. SAS Viya Platform has positively impacted my organization. Previously, the team had SAS developers and the data was fed into a different visualization tool such as Tableau or Power BI. This eliminates the need for that. Eliminating the need for separate visualization tools has greatly affected my team's workflow because it is just one integrated tool, one integrated platform. You do not have to worry about the connections to Tableau, generating the output, and if there is an issue with a live connection on Tableau, then the visualization does not show up, and that is the end of it. We would need to wait for a resolution from another team, and this eliminates the need for that.
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Microsoft Fabric?
I think the Copilot usage in Microsoft Fabric can be improved. Across all Microsoft Fabric platforms such as Power BI or data engineering and Azure Data Factory, they have integrated this Copilot, ...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Fabric?
My usual use cases for Microsoft Fabric involve using it as a unified platform where we perform all data engineering tasks, all data analysis tasks, and all data ML models on the same platform beca...
What advice do you have for others considering Microsoft Fabric?
In assessing Microsoft Fabric's security features, I think we never have a chance to manage the security features directly, but that would be taken care of by the Microsoft admins or the platform a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAS Viya Platform?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for SAS Viya Platform was smooth. I did not have any hiccups, and I do not have a say on the pricing.
What needs improvement with SAS Viya Platform?
I cannot think of any improvements for SAS Viya Platform from the top of my head, although users might have suggestions. I would add that some users need more training in SAS and SAS Viya Platform....
What is your primary use case for SAS Viya Platform?
My main use case for SAS Viya Platform is analytics on risk adjustment in the healthcare field. One of the specific examples of how I use SAS Viya Platform for risk adjustment analytics in healthca...
 

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