Oracle Analytics Cloud vs SAS Visual Analytics

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Analytics Cloud is well suited for an environment where the data warehouse is well defined with star schema structures. It may not work if the data structure is not well defined in terms of complex reporting. OAC's Day By Day app is a clear win and a cool addition to executives whether it is integration with Slack or for identifying issues in realtime.

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Shifa Nazumudeen

BI Architect

Iteris IncTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 201-500 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

Oracle Analytics Cloud

SAS Visual Analytics

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Oracle Analytics Cloud

SAS Visual Analytics

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Oracle Analytics Cloud

SAS Visual Analytics

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Oracle Analytics Cloud

SAS Visual Analytics

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Oracle Analytics Cloud

SAS Visual Analytics

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Oracle Analytics Cloud

SAS Visual Analytics

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Oracle Analytics Cloud

SAS Visual Analytics

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

1: Data Integration: I love that at Whirlpool we have several different databases in the same place and we can extract and combine data easily.
2: Connection with multiple systems: A lot of companies use Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service, so it means that they are seeing a lot of different use cases and improving the tool constantly.
3: Data extraction: Extracting data is much easier than writing a SQL code. So many different types of users can take advantage of that.

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Gabriel Chiararia

Marketing Manager - Category Management

Whirlpool CorporationConsumer Electronics, 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

Performance of the tool: While Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (OBICS) can handle large volumes of data as well, it becomes quite unstable and slow when number of concurrent users is high.
Limited visualisation options for reporting.
Difficult to integrate with other non-Oracle tools. This is especially needed since visualisation options are limited.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services 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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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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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

The major advantage of Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service comes in when a user has an Oracle centric development environment. As mentioned earlier, Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is built keeping OBIEE and Cloud in mind. This is purely to provide Cloud advantages to their traditional on-premise Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition customers. As mentioned earlier, this tool provides 2 different hybrid solutions and one full cloud solution. Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service does not have a path for other tools to migrate. Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service has a Visual Analyzer which is a game changer. This provides all the Visualizations that all other tools combined can provide.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 5001-10,000 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

Essbase delivers well on the business objectives with executive reporting.
Essbase works well for financial close reporting purposes.
Essbase is good for providing a single source of data for company actuals, forecast and budget data.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Retail Company, 1001-5000 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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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Oracle Analytics Cloud Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

SAS Visual Analytics Editions & Modules

Edition

SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Cloud	¹

Annual By Users: 5, 10, 20

Additional Pricing Details

SAS Visual Statistics and SAS Office Analytics are also available as add-ons.

Rating Summary

Oracle Analytics Cloud

SAS Visual Analytics

Oracle Analytics Cloud

SAS Visual Analytics

Likelihood to Recommend