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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAS Visual Analytics

    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    SAS Visual Analytics provides a complete platform for analytics visualization, enabling users to identify patterns and relationships in data that weren't initially evident. Interactive, self-service BI and reporting capabilities are combined with out-of-the-box advanced analytics so everyone can discover insights from any size and type of data, including text.N/A

    TIBCO Data Virtualization

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATIBCO Data Virtualization is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources and delivers the datasets and IT-curated data services foundation for nearly any solution.N/A
    Pricing
    SAS Visual AnalyticsTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Editions & Modules
    SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Cloud
    $0
    Annual By Users: 5, 10, 20
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAS Visual AnalyticsTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSAS Visual Statistics and SAS Office Analytics are also available as add-ons.—
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    Community Pulse
    SAS Visual AnalyticsTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Considered Both Products
    SAS
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    Cloud Software Group
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    78%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    Features
    SAS Visual AnalyticsTIBCO Data Virtualization
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAS Visual Analytics and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SAS Visual Analytics
    8.3
    11 Ratings
    2% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAS Visual Analytics and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SAS Visual Analytics
    8.8
    12 Ratings
    9% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAS Visual Analytics and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SAS Visual Analytics
    9.2
    12 Ratings
    11% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAS Visual Analytics and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SAS Visual Analytics
    9.7
    10 Ratings
    19% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAS Visual Analytics and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SAS Visual Analytics
    8.3
    11 Ratings
    2% below category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAS Visual Analytics and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SAS Visual Analytics
    8.7
    9 Ratings
    11% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAS Visual Analytics and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SAS Visual Analytics
    9.2
    5 Ratings
    17% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    REST API10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SAS Visual AnalyticsTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    SAS Visual AnalyticsTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    7.1
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (3 ratings)
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.4
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.9
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.6
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.8
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAS Visual AnalyticsTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAS
    I was in a meeting with the client and there I have to show them some analytic data to them. But I was confused about how I will manage to show big data to clients with accuracy. But then the SAS Visual Analytics software helps me in presenting accurate data at the moment and it was very presentable and through that, I got the deal for that business.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO Data Virtualization is well suited for customers who are challenged to deal with extracting data from dozens of different sources and systems, and do not have the time and liberty to hire data engineers and/or ETL developers to write dozens or hundreds of complex ETLs. However, there are situations where TIBCO Data Virtualization severely underperforms, and those are where we are dealing with large volumes of data, in tera bytes or peta byte scale system. For example, a messaging queue which sends 200 million messages every hour will choke TIBCO Data Virtualization if the technology is chosen to route the data.
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    Pros
    SAS
    • Provides the flexibility to the end user to slice and dice the data.
    • Anyone can make predictive models with the help of in-built algorithms without the need to write a single line of code or knowledge of what's under the hood of algorithms.
    • The feature to simply ask a question related to data and getting a response in form of text, chart or graph is amazing.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Connecting to different data silos and presenting the data as a singled unified layer of data.
    • Exposing data to Technical and non technical users through Web UI or reporting tools
    • Secured exposure of data as web services.
    • Row level and column level data security
    • Multi tenancy data security.
    • Real time data by connecting to the operational databases
    • Historical data generation
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    Cons
    SAS
    • SAS is relatively expensive when compared to other BI tools and requires a large amount of upfront fee which becomes an issue for smaller organizations.
    • UI for the dashboards looks a little date in comparison to competitors like Tableau and Microstrategy.
    • Integration with other open source software like Python needs to be built in.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Performance of TDV Studio (its own IDE) is poor.
    • Performance of TDV repository database is rather poor for larger numbers of objects .(Note: We have approx. 9tsd objects introspected in TDV and approx. 20tsd objects generated in upper DV layers.)
    • Propagation of privileges to parent/child dependencies does not work when applying recursively on a folder. (It's a huge setback when working with large number of objects organized semantically into subfolders.)
    • Lack of command line client interface for scripting at the time of version 8.4 (I had to write my own CLI.)
    • TDV Studio does an absolutely horrible job with its own code editors when indentation is in place. Also, the editor is brutally slow and feature-poor.
    • Tracking privileges on the level of table/view columns causes occasional problems when regranting.
    • TDV's stored programs ("SQL scripts" in their own terminology) compiler leaves out many syntactic and semantic checks, making them hugely prone to run-time errors.
    • TDV Server's REST API is a very poor (in terms of features) and flawed cousin to its SOAP API (at the time of version 8.4).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAS
    SAS really is the cutting edge in Business Intelligence. That is all they do! They are constantly coming out with new products, product upgrades, and their tech support is second to none. In addition, their support of Education has made our ability to acquire their product possible.
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    Cloud Software Group
    It is useful for us to see the data and do analysis. Also we use it to generate reports and see trends or gather insights
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    Usability
    SAS
    SAS BI is good for creating reports and dashboards and then sharing it with the users. It also has ability to manage access to the reports and dashboards but somehow with most of the world moving to open source languages R, Python and Julia, SAS BI feels to be archaic in terms of feature set and integrations it allow[s]. Also, comparing it with other Business Intelligence tools like Tableau and Microsoft BI, the functionality of SAS BI is very limited and doesn't justify the pricing.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TDV's interface is a bit dated and not entirely intuitive. Would recommend some UX design review as the interface leaves a bit to be better understood to be used by users without inherent knowledge of Tibco. Overall I'd suggest more improvement here to ensure usability by a lesser tech audience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    We have never encountered issues where it was unavailable when we needed it.
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    Performance
    SAS
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    Cloud Software Group
    This product's performance is very consistent. It is extremely rare for templates to fail. I've been using this software for 5 years and find it to be both simple and powerful. The impact within the company has been very positive as different processes in different areas, such as data analysis, development, and integrations, have been improved, and, best of all, it has not affected the users. Various systems with which it is connected in order to obtain information.
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    Support Rating
    SAS
    When you call tech support, you are immediately routed to a person who can answer your question. Often they can answer on the spot. However, if they cannot, you are given a track number and then followed up with. There have been times when I have had multiple track numbers open and they will actually TRACK YOU DOWN to ensure that your problem has been resolved. Issues do not fall into black holes with SAS. They are also willing to do a WebEx with you to diagnose the problem by seeing your environment, which is always helpful.
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    Cloud Software Group
    On a few occasions I have asked TIBCO technical support for help because I have adapted perfectly to their tools, but in those few that I have communicated with their technical team I have received personalized, attentive, responsible attention and I am always assisted by an expert staff the topic. A TIBCO technical support technician spent more than an hour helping me to solve a problem in the initial stage of implementation in my department and this is something that I always appreciate.
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    Online Training
    SAS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    The training was helpful. I was able to understand how to use TIBCO for the data load process that we implemented and how to perform various troubleshooting steps based on the training I received. The technician was thorough and took the time to answer any questions. Once we were shown how to use TIBCO in the test environment, we were able to configure the production environment ourselves.
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    Implementation Rating
    SAS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    Other vendors have clearer, more visual implementation documentation. We also did not have our data architect and and server administrator available full-time for implementation. In the future, we will secure the necessary internal resources.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SAS
    I have used Crystal Reports, Jaspersoft and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). I would recommended Business Intelligence over SSRS and Crystal Reports. SSRS is very SQL-centric and Crystal Reports is more of an end-user tool. I would recommend Jaspersoft over Business Intelligence for developing a seamless web-based reporting interface but I highly recommend Business Intelligence for end-user ad-hoc reporting.
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    Cloud Software Group
    We did not need to evaluate another technology in the same category for data virtualization, since we are 100% sure of the capabilities and benefits that we would have with TIBCO Data Virtualization, both for market positioning as well as success stories from other companies. great renown worldwide. From the first day of use, it meets our needs to provide the expected solutions.
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    Scalability
    SAS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    Good scaling
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    Return on Investment
    SAS
    • 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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    Cloud Software Group
    • We took spreadsheets that took hours a month to update and made them update automatically using TDV, saving hours a month of analyst time
    • The incremental cost of TDV relative to straight spotfire licensing made it a no-brainer due to the ease of data management
    • We continue to automate legacy business processes in TDV, saving time all over the organization.
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    ScreenShots

    SAS Visual Analytics Screenshots

    Screenshot of Explore your data using analytics and interactive data visualizations.

    TIBCO Data Virtualization Screenshots

    Screenshot of Data Flow EditorScreenshot of Data CatalogScreenshot of Transform Editor