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    Cortana (discontinued)

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Cortana was a general purpose productivity assistant, that has been deprecated as a standalone product.N/A

    SAS Enterprise Guide

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ASAS Enterprise Guide is a menu-driven, Windows GUI tool for SAS.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Cortana (discontinued)SAS Enterprise Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    5.3
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    8.0
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    Usability
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    5.0
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    Support Rating
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    5.3
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    Implementation Rating
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cortana (discontinued)SAS Enterprise Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    It's easy for anyone who is expecting some simple AI problems like fetching the keywords, understanding the intent, language translation, etc. to be solved from an existing database and all they need is to connect to their APIs via a subscription model. But for complex use cases, there is still room for improvement like customization of underlying AI models for a specific use case like identifying some unique identifiers with respect to industry.
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    SAS
    SAS Enterprise Guide is good at taking various datasets and giving analyst/user ability to do some transformations without substantial amounts of code. Once the data is inside SAS, the memory of it is very efficient. Using SAS for data analysis can be helpful. It will give good statistics for you, and it has a robust set of functions that aid analysis.
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    Pros
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    • Being hosted in Azure solves a massive hosting problem
    • The language understanding system has the ability to revolutionize many vertical markets
    • Integrating with Cortana Analytics was really simple due to easy to understand documentation
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    SAS
    • Ability to load an AutoExec when opening a session ensuring everyone has the same global variables.
    • Formatting with Ctrl I. If you're reading someone else's code and it's not formatted correctly you can highlight the area and hit Ctrl I.
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    Cons
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    • More partnerships with colleges and schools to increase the workforce with technical knowledge (increase local workforce)
    • Have more online training and documentation in other languages
    • Have affordable prices for students
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    SAS
    • Process time of data is a bit long. It depends on the size of your data and complexity of your project tree.
    • There is not enough online free training videos.
    • While working with the project tree sometimes the links between the modules are broken or the order for running the modules get mixed up. You should know your project tree by heart.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    SAS
    On account of current user experience and the organization-wide acceptance.
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    Usability
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    SAS
    It's not all bad, but I don't believe that an enterprise purchase of SAS is worth the expense considering the widely available set of tools in the data analytics space at the moment. In my company, it's a good tool because others use it. Otherwise, I wouldn't purchase a new set of it because it doesn't have some of the better analytical functions in it.
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    Support Rating
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    SAS
    Although I use SAS support for information on functions, these are SAS related and haven't really come across anything that is specifically for SAS EG.
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    Implementation Rating
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    I've not worked hands-on with the implementation team, but there were no escalations barring a few hiccups in the deployment due to change in requirement & adoption to our company's remote servers.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    IBM Watson Assistant has been early into this market and has improved a lot over time compared to Azure AI Cortana. More documentation related to the services. But Ease of integration Azure AI ranks over IBM Watson Assistant. And again in terms of services offered under the ecosystem, Azure AI precedes IBM Watson Assitant.
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    SAS
    Why I prefer SAS EG: Data processing speed is much faster than that R Studio. It can load any amount of data and any type of data like structured or unstructured or semi-structured. Its output delivery system by which we have the output in PDF file makes it very comfortable to use and share that file to clients very easily. Inbuilt functions are very powerful and plentiful. Facility of writing macros makes it far away from its competitors.
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    Return on Investment
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    • Difficult to ascertain the ROI as we are a software house who have developed a module in our application using Cortana. However for companies that use our software I would say the use of sentiment analysis in our application could free up at least 1 full time resource to be used elsewhere in their organisation.
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    SAS
    • Positive (cost): SAS made a bundle that include unlimited usage of SAS/Enterprise Guide with a server solution. That by itself made the company save a lot of money by not having to pay individual licences anymore.
    • Positive (insight): Data analysts in business units often need to crunch data and they don't have access to ETL tools to do it. Having access to SAS/EG gives them that power.
    • Positive (time to market): Having the users develop components with SAS/EG allows for easier integration in a production environment (SAS batch job) as no code rework is required.
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