Phocas Business Intelligence vs. SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server

If you would like your data in one place with easy access, this is the software for you. You can have data from multiple systems and bring it into one view so that you have a quick and easily visible dashboard for the data you wish to see.

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It is suited for taking data from multiple sources simultaneously like for example the streaming data of transactions in retail stores. It processes the data at a pretty high pace and gives high results every time. It is less appropriate sometimes because it hangs sometimes and does not have a large user community available over the internet.

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• Custom reports are simple to create.
• The ability to manage users and their dashboards is solid.
• Easy to navigate web interface makes the software accessible from anywhere.

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• Integrability with different data sources. The provision of native connectors is complete and there is the possibility of implementing new ones.
• Flexibility in power sources, thanks to the connectors with the main DB and the integration of all types of formats (XML, CSV, JSON, etc.)
• End-to-end process with the SAS suite. Products such as SAS Visual Analytics allows the visualization of the data produced, or Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning which allows you to perform advanced analysis.

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• Phocas needs to make it easier to connect to different types of databases.
• The data in Phocas needs to be updated faster in some cases.
• It needs to provide functions to create better charts and graphs.

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• Licenses are very costly
• Its not easy to move SAS users to other open source products because of the easy programming in SAS.

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Its overall support, product and cost

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It is a very user-friendly product and is easy to understand. You can get your data from just a quick click and the dashboard loads. You can take the data and drill down easy to find what you are looking for.

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The main negative point is the use of a non-standard language for customizations, as well as the poor integration with non-SAS systems. However, there is no doubt that it is a high-performance and powerful product capable of responding optimally to certain requirements.

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It worked as expected.

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Support is responsive. You log a call and they will respond quickly and resolve your issues. We have only had great experiences with the support team.

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Overall I am satisfied with this product as it meets my all requirements and made my life easy for analyzing the data and especially the streaming data.

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Phocas is easy to use for end users and can be used on desktops, laptops, and phones.

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Because of ease of using SAS DI and data processing speed. There were lots of issues with AWS Redshift on cloud environment in terms of making connections with the data sources and while fetching the data we need to write complex queries.

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• It has given our business a view on data
• We can access it from anywhere
• You can have multiple dashboards for different information

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• Implementation time to be expected due to the expertise on SAS tools and its language.
• Complete and very powerful tool, especially combined with other SAS products.
• Modern product always in step with the times and needs, certainly not cheap.

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