Anaconda vs SAS Visual Analytics

Likelihood to Recommend

Anaconda is great for academic and private organizations that cannot afford more expensive Python/R package managers. Also, it is more appropriate for intermediate to advanced Python users--Anaconda can be somewhat frustrating for beginners, as it takes some practice to get comfortable with the workflow. I find it particularly useful for working in teams, because if everyone uses the same package manager, it is easier to troubleshoot issues and makes for reproducible research. For wealthier organizations, a premium package management system (with tech support) would be ideal. Anaconda is also great for people working independently on code development.

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Maike Holthuijzen

Ph.D student

University of VermontHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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It is particularly well suited to big data collections that have good structure. It is not really designed for unstructured datasets (documents, etc). Its strength is the processing speed (particularly when implemented on Hadoop). It is not cheap but it is worth it!

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Ian Macintosh

Manager ICT Operations

Australian Institute of Health and WelfareGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Connect to Multiple Data Sources

Extend Existing Data Sources

Automatic Data Format Detection

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Visualization

Interactive Data Analysis

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment

Data Transformations

Data Encryption

Built-in Processors

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools

Automated Machine Learning

Single platform for multiple model development

Self-Service Model Delivery

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Flexible Model Publishing Options

Security, Governance, and Cost Controls

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Clear install story. There are a lot of ways to install python. There's only one way to install anaconda. This makes teaching and standardizing much easier.
Batteries included. It's easy to install things in python, but anaconda ships with most of what you need out of the box. This helps with standardization and reproducibility.
Good integrations with Jupyter and other visual tools. Jupyter is really convenient when learning various python packages. Anaconda makes these tools easy to launch and to use.

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Matthew Deakyne

Academic Services Manager

The University of KansasHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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Our staff are familiar with it as it is a common tool. Our training and implementation was short.
Installation was easy. Our staff was able to deploy to the receiving department relatively quickly. Though the download was a pretty good size.
Seems to crunch through large volumes of data (millions of records) pretty quickly as I've received no complaints on this front from staff.

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Mike Narumiya

Director, Data and Information Systems

North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory CouncilHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Although some other users mentioned the installation is "simple", we did encounter some challenge in a highly controlled environment (due to security reasons).
Jupyter Notebook is extremely slow when the client/server side of the network's speed/bandwidth is not balanced.
Bootstrapping Anaconda takes too long, sometimes I even started doubting it would respond any more.
If there are extra python packages you need but are not by default installed by Anaconda, then some efforts will be required to figure out how to put them in the right place.

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Verified User

Strategist in Information Technology

Package/Freight Delivery Company, 10,001+ employees

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Customizing a report as per the user requirement.
Adding more color and font styles. Presenting data in a more colorful way.
The website has a lot of tutorials which is more inclined to the technical side. Maybe add more to the presentation side as well.

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Banbhalang Kharpuri

Area Manager

EYInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Anaconda 7.0

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It's really good at data processing, but needs to grow more in publishing in a way that a non-programmer can interact with. It also introduces confusion for programmers that are familiar with normal Python processes which are slightly different in Anaconda such as virtualenvs.

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Matthew Deakyne

Academic Services Manager

The University of KansasHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Anaconda 8.0

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It's really good at installing and getting started. It's less usable and configurable after that. If you stay in the ecosystem, and don't know how to Python any other way - it works really well.

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Matthew Deakyne

Academic Services Manager

The University of KansasHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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Support

Anaconda 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Prompt response.

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Verified User

Contributor in Engineering

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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SAS Visual Analytics 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Excellent and fast support

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suva sahu

Project Lead

Tech MahindraInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

ANACONDA VS Alteryx Analytics: Even though I find Alteryx to be an excellent tool for managing extremely massive data, Anaconda is much better and easy for analytics.Anaconda VS. MicroStrategy Analytics: Compared with Anaconda, MicroStrategy Analytics is very difficult to use and counter-intuitiveAnaconda VS. Power BI For Office 365: One of the main advantages of BI for Office 364 is its capacity to data connectivity. However, it's very hard to edit data connections, once BI for Office is deployed in other platforms

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Mauricio Quiroga-Pascal Ortega

Senior Cognitive Solutions Consultant

Cognitiva IBM Watson Strategic PartnerComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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SAS Visual Analytics stuck against IBM SPSS Modeler and Tableau in the sense that, it is far more accurate and reliable in the aspect of data and statistical analyses than others. Also, it is not just globally recognized as the leader in the field of statistical and data analysis, but also the most used statistical software worldwide. In addition, it combines the functionality of both IBM SPSS Modeler and Tableau which implies, it is comprehensive and has the widest coverage.

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Verified User

Analyst in Research & Development

Insurance Company, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

We can get any new employee set-up on Python for Machine learning in minutes, without any assistance from IT. That's real $ savings.
We started to experiment with Machine Learning a lot more, which leads to creating new projects which can have a tremendous impact on the business.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees

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SAS Visual Analytics licensing cost should be reduced to enable users to use it in mass scale.
More statistical and mathematical equations and theories should be converted into SAS functions for reusing.
Because of enriched ETL and reporting capabilities SAS Visual Analytics is most preferred by business users.

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suva sahu

Project Lead

Tech MahindraInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Recommend

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Feature Rating Comparison

Connect to Multiple Data Sources

Extend Existing Data Sources

Automatic Data Format Detection

Visualization

Interactive Data Analysis

Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment

Data Transformations

Data Encryption

Built-in Processors

Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools

Automated Machine Learning

Single platform for multiple model development

Self-Service Model Delivery

Flexible Model Publishing Options

Security, Governance, and Cost Controls

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Cons

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Likelihood to Renew

Anaconda

SAS Visual Analytics

Usability

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SAS Visual Analytics

Support

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SAS Visual Analytics

Alternatives Considered

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SAS Visual Analytics

Return on Investment

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SAS Visual Analytics

Screenshots

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SAS Visual Analytics

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Anaconda Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details