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SAS Enterprise Miner vs SAS Visual Analytics comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

SAS Enterprise Miner
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Data Mining (7th), Data Science Platforms (23rd)
SAS Visual Analytics
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (15th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. SAS Enterprise Miner is designed for Data Mining and holds a mindshare of 7.8%, up 4.5% compared to last year.
SAS Visual Analytics, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 1.6% mindshare, down 3.9% since last year.
Data Mining Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAS Enterprise Miner7.8%
IBM SPSS Statistics16.2%
IBM SPSS Modeler16.0%
Other60.0%
Data Mining
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAS Visual Analytics1.6%
Tableau Enterprise9.7%
Qlik Sense4.8%
Other83.9%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1352853 - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Head of analytics at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
A stable product that is easy to deploy and can be used for structured and unstructured data mining
We use the solution for predictive analytics to do structured and unstructured data mining I like the way the product visually shows the data pipeline. The product must provide better integration with cloud-native technologies. I have been using the solution for 20 years. The product is very…
Namanjbaraiya Baru - PeerSpot reviewer
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
Interactive dashboards have transformed clinical reporting and now support real time decisions
The best features of SAS Visual Analytics include performing data manipulation. I would characterize this as making data ready, transforming data, and making new variables through code while utilizing low-code and no-code facilities. In my experience, low-code features in SAS Visual Analytics help when I need to create a new variable. For instance, I can extract a date through the data roll step, and with no-code features, I can perform report creation by simply using drag and drop functionality. After implementing SAS Visual Analytics, we have generated a new way to generate revenue by providing live data visuals to our clients and making our team aware of data in real time, which has had a significant positive impact.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Overall it is a good solution."
"he solution is scalable."
"SAS internal support is very qualified and if we have any issues, we contact them and trust that they can help."
"The most valuable feature is that you can use multiple algorithms for creating models and then you can compare the results between them."
"The most valuable feature is the decision tree creation."
"Performance is excellent."
"Technical support has been good, and when I called them at the start of using the product with some issues they were very helpful."
"The solution is able to handle quite large amounts of data beautifully."
"I believe that the possibilities for exploring data and formulating visual results are quite good because it allows the business analyst to have different perspectives on the data."
"What I really love about the software is that I have never struggled in implementing it for complex business requirements. It is good for highly sophisticated and specialized statistics in the areas that some people tend to call artificial intelligence. It is used for everything that involves visual presentation and analysis of highly sophisticated statistics for forecasting and other purposes."
"What I really love about the software is that I have never struggled in implementing it for complex business requirements."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"SAS Visual Analytics is an excellent platform; the user interface is good, it has a good look and feel, it is simple to use, it integrates well with SAS making it simple and quick for developers, does not require a high level of skill but rather a medium level, and it is very easy and fast to learn so that people who don't know the product can work in a very autonomous manner after one week."
"It is a very stable solution."
"SAS in my opinion is an excellent BI solution if you have the money."
 

Cons

"The ease of use can be improved. When you are new it seems a bit complex."
"Virtualization could be much better."
"Plus it is prohibitively expensive and is not available with perpetual licensing."
"The solution needs an easier interface for the user. The user experience isn't so easy for our clients."
"The stability isn't perfect. We have issues with accuracy in some AI forecasting areas, and the accuracy is not as good as the clients need it to be."
"While I don't personally need tutorials, I can't say that it wouldn't be helpful for others to have some to help them navigate and operate the system."
"We really don't like the protocols the solution offers. The solution is much more complex than other options."
"The visualization of the models is not very attractive, so the graphics should be improved."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"There are certain shortcomings in the tool's support services, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"There are a few little things that are predefined and can be done out of the box immediately. There is no business intelligence application that is predefined, which is something some customers or prospects would love to have. Small and mid-sized companies would struggle with it because they prefer something standard that has been predefined by somebody else."
"Data preparation and data management need work, as without Enterprise Guide, if you use SAS/VA alone (not SAS/VA pro), it will be hard to do the data preparation."
"SAS Visual Analytics offers many options, and new users unfamiliar with SAS might face some difficulties."
"The visualization should be better in SAS Visual Analytics. It is easy to use but when compared to other solutions it is lacking and the support is not very good."
"If there could be 100% feasibility of forecasting feature available then we could be more accurate as it's currently 95%."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution is for large corporations because not everybody can afford it."
"The solution must improve its licensing models."
"The solution is expensive for an individual, but for an enterprise/institution (purchasing bulk licenses), it is not a high price for the use that will come from it."
"It's approximately $114,000 US dollars per year."
"I work with the tool's free version...The tool's corporate version is very expensive and requires a monthly hire."
"The cost of the solution can be expensive. There is an additional cost for users."
"Licensing is simple."
"Visual Analytics is expensive for a small company like mine. You also need to deploy it on a server or cloud, so you pay for the license as well as the cost of the cloud or the server that you will deploy on."
"It was licensed for corporate use, and its licensing was on a yearly basis."
"$10,000 per annum for an enterprise license."
"SAS Visual Analytics is expensive, as is the rest of the platform."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Construction Company
13%
Educational Organization
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
10%
Construction Company
10%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise19
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAS Visual Analytics?
It's about an average of five. It's easy to scale, but it comes with cost.
What needs improvement with SAS Visual Analytics?
In terms of configuration, I would like to see AI capabilities since many applications are now integrating AI. It may be that our current subscription does not include AI-enabled features, but I wo...
What is your primary use case for SAS Visual Analytics?
I started to work with SAS Visual Analytics ( /products/sas-visual-analytics-reviews ) in 2015. We use it for analysis on ICT expenditure information and ICT personnel information. The analytics ar...
 

Also Known As

Enterprise Miner
SAS BI
 

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Sample Customers

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