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SAS Visual Analytics vs Targit Decision Suite 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 Visual Analytics
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (15th)
Targit Decision Suite
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Reporting (36th), Embedded BI (23rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. SAS Visual Analytics is designed for Data Visualization and holds a mindshare of 1.6%, down 3.9% compared to last year.
Targit Decision Suite, on the other hand, focuses on Reporting, holds 1.1% mindshare, up 0.4% since last year.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAS Visual Analytics1.6%
Tableau Enterprise9.7%
Qlik Sense4.8%
Other83.9%
Data Visualization
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Targit Decision Suite1.1%
Tableau Enterprise14.1%
Microsoft Power BI13.2%
Other71.6%
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

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.
it_user289458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Intern at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I can now create more meaningful charts--radar, donut, pareto, scatter, range, point, boxplot, etc., but it doesn't support Linux or commodity hardware.
* The tool is very easy to use, we got on-premise training from Panorama, within days we were proficient enough to play with the tool. * The customer service is very responsive, they answered our queries. * I saw lot of people complaining about the lack of community forum, but they do have a forum which is quite active. * The tool is extremely easy to use, with a click you can import data and create the visualizations. * The things I like most is it supports variety of charts, I was quite bored with my previous BI tool which mostly supported bar, line and pie charts. I can now create more meaningful charts radar, donut, pareto, scatter, range, point, boxplot, etc.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"It's an easy to use solution, it's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"We have detected a high margin group of customers with very little work."
"The tool's most valuable features are its ease of use and advanced data visualization capabilities."
"SAS in my opinion is an excellent BI solution if you have the money."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"Everything we want out of this solution we get in terms of the user requirements and features."
"Since it is simply drag and drop it makes data inspection easy."
"The tool is extremely easy to use, with a click you can import data and create the visualizations."
 

Cons

"It takes a lot of effort to stabilize. We need to change some hardware and configurations to stabilize the solution."
"If there could be 100% feasibility of forecasting feature available then we could be more accurate as it's currently 95%."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"Regarding performance, they have some issues. They have always had some issues there."
"The graphics capabilities of SAS focus on SAS / BASE and SAS / Enterprise Guide and, without considering SAS / Visual Analytics is licensed part, they are pretty fair."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"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."
"No support for Linux or commodity hardware. Limited support for big data analytics."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It was licensed for corporate use, and its licensing was on a yearly basis."
"The cost of the solution can be expensive. There is an additional cost for users."
"The product is quite expensive."
"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."
"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."
"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
15%
Government
10%
Construction Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise19
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Questions from the Community

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...
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Also Known As

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