Likelihood to Recommend It's a great tool to merge actual data analysis (which Lumira doesn't do that well) with visualization (which Lumira does well) - so it can be seen as Lumira for data analysts. However, a lot of the 'predictive' side is hidden/black box which can be frustrating for those analysts, so you could argue it is too complex for casual users, but too 'black box' for analysts.
Read full review Saturn Cloud is a powerful data science platform that offers numerous benefits to organizations. It simplifies and streamlines the development, deployment, and scaling of data science and machine learning models. The platform addresses common business problems such as scalability, collaboration, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. With Saturn Cloud, organizations can easily handle large datasets and complex computations, collaborate effectively among data science teams, automate repetitive tasks, optimize workflows, and utilize flexible and cost-efficient cloud resources. By leveraging Saturn Cloud, organizations can accelerate their data science projects, improve productivity, and achieve better outcomes in areas such as predictive modeling, recommendation systems, fraud detection, and more.
Read full review Pros It doesn't require you to have a Ph.D. to build models! You can use it to address a very large and wide dataset without worrying about sampling. Automation is in the product DNA. You can prepare your data, ingest it into the "Kernel", then get insights about what was found, decide to publish it and schedule scoring tasks or model refresh in the same product. Read full review Parallel Computing: Saturn Cloud helps us do multiple tasks at the same time, making our work faster and more efficient. Easy Scalability: Saturn Cloud lets us adjust our computer power depending on our project's needs, without any hassle. GPU Support: Saturn Cloud helps us work better with powerful machines, especially when we need them for complex tasks. Read full review Cons Working with this software is very simple and enjoyable for me as [an] IT consultant and expert, but it is a bit complicated for novice users. Some big data takes more timeto load, which I think could be faster Read full review While Saturn Cloud offers a range of pre-built templates and workflows, there is currently limited support for customization. For example, users may not be able to modify the pre-configured environments that come with the templates, or may find it difficult to integrate their own custom libraries and tools. Offering more flexibility in this area could help users tailor the platform to their specific needs and workflows. While Saturn Cloud offers a variety of pre-built environments for data science and machine learning workloads, some users may prefer to use custom Docker images instead. However, the platform currently has limited support for Docker, which can be a limitation for users who need to work with specific dependencies or custom libraries. Adding more robust support for Docker could help to make the platform more versatile and adaptable to a wider range of use cases. Read full review Usability the UI is a bit dated and available as a desktop tool mostly.
Read full review Support Rating The documentation provides an explanation about what features are available but not necessarily what's happening behind the scenes. On the other side, the "community" has grown since the acquisition and most questions are properly addressed by SAP folks. Since the "product maintenance" mode announcement was made, there wasn't much new content published except on the Smart Predict side (which is built by the SAP Predictive Analytics team)
Read full review Alternatives Considered We have typically used Spotfire for data analysis but decided to move to SAP Business Objects due to its innate connection with SAP. I found Lumira to be good for visualizations but it is not meant for data analysis. Therefore, we have introduced Predictive Analytics to see if it can fill that gap. So far, it's been far less intuitive than Spotfire to get started, and as far as I am aware so far, it does not bring many additional capabilities. I do, however, like that it utilizes the Lumira look/feel and integrates very well.
Read full review Saturn Cloud provides an R server, that's super important. Even you can write R on
CoLab with different settings, but it is inconvenient and slow. Saturn Cloud can give me a different IDE environment that I'm more used to, even if I'm using Python. Whereas
CoLab is more dedicated to Jupyter notebook
Read full review Return on Investment Proper forecasting increases our credibility with partners and customers Forecasting determines the amount of investment in each sector and reduces the cost of additional costs Read full review Faster experimentation and model iteration: Saturn Cloud's scalability and user-friendly interface can help organizations to reduce the time required to set up and run experiments, as well as to iterate on models more quickly. This can help to speed up the development cycle and get products to market more quickly. Increased productivity and efficiency: Saturn Cloud's built-in tools and pre-built environments can help to streamline data science workflows and reduce the time required to set up and configure environments. This can help data scientists to focus on higher-value tasks and improve overall productivity. Read full review ScreenShots