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SAS Advanced Analytics is the company's suite of applications and modules for advanced statistical analysis and predictive modeling. Products from the suite are available a la carte or in bundles, such as SAS Analytics Pro, which offers an alternative to mixing and matching software by combining Base SAS, SAS/STAT, SAS Studio, and SAS/GRAPH into one desktop package.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/P5/P1/3Z5BP95GALZC.pngSASSAS Analytics Power2019-10-12T19:09:49.745ZCurrently, we are using it for a strategy engine that makes decisions on accounts and members' credit accountability and sends the decision to other collection systems. Various analytical and predictive models are built using SAS Advanced Analytics.,Well established predictive and statistical models
Easy to code using base SAS as it supports multiple analytical procedures and functions
Easy to execute and maintain,Enhanced reporting capabilities
Better visualization,9,Positive - customer satisfaction
Positive - able to incorporate most of our business requirements with ease,9,AginityVerified UserSAS Advanced Analytics is good, but generally slow2019-01-19T19:10:37.002ZSAS Advanced Analytics is used only in certain departments that do advanced analytics. The program is used for data mining, text analyses, support vector machines modeling, ensemble modeling, neural network modeling, and various other processes. The program is part of an automation movement for processes that get repeated frequently, although most of the usefulness of the program is in the new modeling projects during the development process.,The user interface of SAS Advanced Analytics is one of the easiest I have used. The software is easy enough for a professional to self-learn. With that said, a professional should probably have some experience in advanced analytics to get the most use out of the software.
The web interface of SAS Advanced Analytics makes it easier to produce analyses from any computer anywhere in the world.
The number of options available for simulations is world-class. Additionally, SAS makes it easier than most other software tools to see exactly what it is doing. Other software tools built for the professional analyst are less straight-forward.,SAS Advanced Analytics takes a while to get doing. SAS could improve the startup process. Because the software starts so slowly, I have to be completely committed to doing analytics for a good period of time before I will open the software.
The default color schemes on Advanced Analytics are not very nice to look at. It's almost as if SAS read Tableau's playbook and said, "hey, let's do the complete opposite." Bad decision.
SAS could make the process of learning the analytics steps of SAS Advanced Analytics simpler. Although it is generally more simple than other tools, that doesn't mean it's perfect.,9,SAS Advanced Analytics is not the cheapest software on the market. The overall cost was weighed against free, open-source software tools. The overall return, I think, was quite positive because SAS Advanced Analytics saves enormous amounts of time compared to the open-source software tools.
At first, adopting SAS Advanced Analytics was a negative return because it took time for individuals to change their analytics habits and adjust to superior tools available at their discretion.
SAS Advanced Analytics has replaced the need to hire less expensive R or Python programmers. So, although the software requires an initial expensive upfront investment, the ease of use makes it so that other areas of expenditure save money.,ArcGIS, Arcadia Data, Azure Search, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Business Catalyst, Bitrix24, Google Analytics, Google Analytics Premium, Google Data Studio, Google Drive, Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Apache Spark Streaming, Oracle NoSQL Database, Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Kinesis Analytics, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service, Tableau Public, Tableau Online and SAS Data Integration Studio,ArcGIS, Google Data Studio, Apache Spark, Tableau Public, Google Analytics, Google Analytics Premium, Apache Hive, Google Drive, Google Data Studio, Amazon Kinesis AnalyticsThomas YoungA good tool on advanced analytics2018-05-22T18:25:57.749ZCurrently, in our organization, SAS is used for highly statistical analysis of customer engagement data. We also use for forecasting the customer engagement pattern with SAS. In this capacity, we use a special tool called Forecasting Studio for Desktop as well which has built-in models available for statistical and events based forecasting.,SAS is can be used as query builder tool which can automate a lot of excel process.
There are variety of statistical options available that tie up good visual analytics.
There are inbuilt models available for different operations which doesn't require any coding and are easy to run.,Query builders have less functionality compared to some tools like alteryx.
Modifying and customizing outputs are still a cumbersome process.
Coding for special tasks is difficult and lengthy.,7,SAS has provided a good statistical analysis but tool training is required.
A good POC of tools is required as for our industry it did not become very much effective by not having great level of flexibility.,Alteryx Analytics,Alteryx Analytics, OneNoteRishi Bavishi, CSSGB, CAPMWhy I like SAS2018-02-19T20:53:36.274ZWas used by two departments to solve all analytical requirements. The software was used primarily to address data quality, summary analytics, predictive modelling, and insurance rate setting needs.,Extremely versatile combination of available functions
Includes all critical analytical capabilities
Includes and interface to R for the few, newer approaches, that haven't yet been incorporated,No needed improvements. Company continues to add more capabilities each year,10,Excellent ROI
Met all objectives,SPSS and Microsoft BIArthur TabachneckSAS Visual Analytics review2016-11-18T18:36:57.858ZIt is being used for data visualization with quick and highly responsive dashboards.,Good data preparation tools
Well written code with few critical errors
Responsive customer support,More focus on presentation aspects with additional graph objects like donut pie charts
More focus on production readiness including high availability and automatic monitoring of logs,8,Positive ROI and achievement of business objectives,Qlik Sense, Information Builders WebFOCUS and Tableau Desktop,AWD, MS SharePointSanjeev PulapakaSAS for Advanced Analytics2015-11-19T20:10:29.589ZMy organization uses SAS Analytics for advanced analytics. It is used in various departments, including human capital and information management. It is used for predictive modeling, data manipulation, clustering and optimization.,SAS Analytics is excellent for modeling. You can use a variety of modeling techniques and SAS Analytics produces robust reports on the model you are creating.
SAS Analytics is excellent for data exploration. It has good etl capabilities, and once you have the data loaded you can preform a lot of statistics and other explorative measures.,SAS Analytics does not have very good graphic capabilities. Their advanced graphics packages are expensive, and still not very appealing or intuitive to customize.
SAS Analytics is not as up-to-date when it comes to advanced analytical techniques as R or other open-source analytics packages.,8,SAS analytics has helped our employee efficiency, as it provides analytics procedures that do not require as much background knowledge as other analytics tools.,R Studio,No,10,NoRemy WelchSAS Analytics - They are #1 for a reason.2014-03-25T22:38:59.356ZWe utilize SAS first and foremost to construct and implement multiple predictive models across our business units. Not only does it allow for quick and easy model construction, but the time it takes to cleanse the data between large or small datasets is relatively similar so dataset size is not an issue. In addition, we are also in the early stages of using SAS and SAS Office Analytics to create an intelligent reporting platform via Microsoft Office products and the SAS Web Portal. This allows our organization to traffic important data and information to non-SAS users through automated processes. SAS also has impeccable format style making the final drafts look very nice and easy to understand. SAS Enterprise Guide is our point and click interface that allows power users to access the full potential of SAS without needing to know coding off hand, but can also choose to do so if need be. We can also access any datasource using the ODBC connection that comes with SAS Office Analytics so accessing the data from any server or database is not an issue at all.,Predictive Analytics
Business Intelligence
Report Automation
Statistical Analysis,Expanded point and click options under the data tab.
Better resource information to help with circumstantial issues (i.e. graphing).,9,Better scoring, better work sloping, better ROI for every dollar spent.
Automation of information through Task Scheduler.
Increased professionalism of final reports.
Shorter time having to cleanse data.,,10,2,1,Predictive Analytics
Statistical Analysis
Reporting Automation,Utilize SAS Web Portal to automate tasks once done by hand.
The ability to send the information to the people that require it, rather than them seeking it out.,Utilize its permanent libraries to create multiple stored processes accessible to non-users via the Web Portal.
Allow clients to view their data via the Web Portal.,Yes,Product Features
Product Usability
Prior Experience with the Product
Vendor Reputation,I have worked previously with SAS, so we went right to them as an initial resource. Call it luck, but I didn't even realize their depth of capabilities. One thing I would change about the process is being more thorough. It is hard to translate your business needs to a SAS representative and things can get lost in translation. Be diligent in expressing your business needs since SAS has technical resources they can use to help navigate you to the right software.,Implemented in-house
Professional services company,No,Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled,The only issues we saw were on our side, getting to know the new functionality and migrating projects.
SAS products are fully integrated with each other so upgrading and adding new software is seemless.,9,Online training
Self-taught,9,8,Yes, I found it very easy to learn through Enterprise Guide. There are so many online resources like blogs and SAS tech support websites that the user has a neverending supply of examples and information to help them assess their issue. Education credits are also fairly cheap if users want to go one step further with their self-training.,10,We currently run SAS off of an internal server with the users accessing the server through SAS Enterprise Guide installed on their local machine. This allows the user to personal projects and save them where necessary, but also give the software the speed and power that comes with using a server.,No - we have not done any customization to the interface,Some - we have added small pieces of custom code,Not yet. SAS is such a vaste tool that it takes a long time to accumlate enough knowledge to be comfortable with customization. Not that it is hard to do, but simply because the user will be preoccupied with navigating the software to first figure out its capabilities before customizing those capabilities.,No,8,No,We had just upgraded to SAS Office Analytics and could not get my SAS tasks to run on my Windows Task Scheduler. I reached out to SAS for help and this amazing representative named Tiffany helped me via phone and WebEx to not only solve the issue, but change the settings in SAS to be more user friendly on my local machine. She absolutely went the extra mile.,Any data analysis using SAS Enterprise Guide is very easy as it is a point and click interface.
Basic Graphing is also very easy.
If a user needs predictive analytics, SAS made model building a drag and drop system.,Coding can be quite difficult if the end user has had no experience with it.
Creating stored processes require ample knowledge of SAS.,9,9,10,9,Windows 7 64-bit
Windows 7 32-bit,None,File import/export,8,If you are using basic Windows software and plan on using SAS for basic analysis and file creation you can assume that the integration will be absolutely seemless. However, if SAS will be used to integrate not only from but to databases more questions need to be asked to the SAS representative to make sure that capability is possible.,10,10,Most SAS subscriptions are comprised of an initial software purchase, and then yearly subscriptions thereafter that include unlimited support and software upgrades. The yearly subscriptions are never locked in and can rise due to inflation. However, the increases are never obscene and SAS is very flexible with small and medium businesses when it comes to purchase price.,Honestly, I do not besides to ask a lot of questions. Make sure you are comfortable with the products you are buying so the company does not buy too much software or limit themselves and buy too little. SAS is a great partner to work with and they fully understand the needs of a business.,Yes,SAS added a feature that allows you to select what dataset you want when coding.,Honestly, I do not know.,Yes,YesNathan OchTried and true, but hard to justify the cost2014-11-11T20:45:58.021ZMy team used SAS to integrate data from across our organization into an End Customer marketing and sales database for use in reporting and analysis.,Data transformations
Processing large datasets,No big complaints, pretty robust functionality,2,Increased understanding of how customers purchase
Ability to understand new product adoption
Ability to look at partner performance by factors other than top line revenue,,1Bethany KlebanovA Look At a New Way to Analyze Visual Data2017-09-12T19:41:53.419ZI currently use SAS Advanced Analytics to analyze data coming in from the state level Behavioral Health Risk Factor Surveillance System and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. I focus on tobacco data and SAS is extremely important when looking at this data. I use SAS STAT to analyse the data using survey procedures. Because BRFSS and YRBS are complex surveys I must use the survey procedures in SAS to get weighted frequencies, means and estimates. It is extremely easy to use SAS for these analyses, because the procedures are pretty repetitive. However, I do wish that the strata, weight, and cluster variables did not have to be typed with each procedure done. When using STATA or SPSS these variables are entered once, and the weighted results are automatically given when writing procedure. No need to enter them in for each. However, I am more comfortable with SAS coding and really like that it is user friendly. The online support for SAS is wonderful as well.,Complex Survey Analysis- SAS is a great resource if you need to analyze complex survey data. One can easily write code for this by inserting (survey) in front of the procedure with the weight, cluster, and strata variables. (ex: surveyfreq)
Modeling/ Graphing- SAS creates clean and easy to understand graphs and models which take visual data to the next level.
Support- There is a large SAS Advanced analytics online support in place. It is easy to find help on many procedures that you will use in this software.,SAS requires a lot of coding compared to other software like STATA or SPSS. However most of the code is repetitive , an easy copy/paste.
SAS Advanced Analytics is not always easily learned, most people would need some training before getting comfortable with the software.
The layout of the modeling system may get confusing when too many different windows are open, may need to look at different graphs and models one at a time.,9,SAS is pretty expensive, so a company would need to take that into consideration before purchasing a license.
A lot of companies are now starting to use SAS Advance Analytics, it is great for sharing data between departments.
Presentations come out better when using SAS, and estimates are more precise to the confidence interval.,IBM SPSS and IBM SPSS Modeler,IBM SPSS, ArcGISVerified UserSAS Analytics: Review2014-10-01T14:46:07.958ZSAS Analytics is being used by the marketing department in the organization. It is used for building a predictive model which eventually increases the return on investment on marketing campaigns.,Base SAS is very helpful for people who are proficient in SAS programming.
SAS Enterprise Miner is very helpful for people who are not so proficient in SAS programming.
Using SAS Enterprise Miner you can develop complex Machine Learning algorithms.,Accessing the data from the database directly.
Speed of response for SAS codes.,7,Increase return on investment on marketing campaigns.
Understand the customer segments in better way.,1,8,6Verified UserSAS Analytics review2014-12-20T21:21:07.381ZSAS is used to gather and analyze data at my company.,It allows user to view data using different graphs and charts.
it allows user to export and print data in several ways.
It allows user to import large amount of data easily.,Navigation needs to be easier.
It's expensive for a small company.,6,It made calculation and analysis easier.
It made viewing and sharing data easier.,5Verified UserThe Very Tool to BIG DATA2014-01-10T16:21:13.734ZSo far, SAS is the best tool for me to manipulate and analyze big data (I also use R and SPSS). It can handle enormous data files and the number of records is generally limited to the size of my hard disk.
It comes with PROC SQL procedure which allows me to perform SQL queries on the SAS data files. With only SAS, I can do whatever I need to my datasets.
Although sometimes writing SAS codes is a bit tedious, its Macro procedure allows me to simplify my work. I also can save the codes and run them periodically.,The learning curve is much steeper compared to the other analytics softwares. But it is such a powerful tool that once you learn it, you will love it.,With SAS, I was able to build statistical models from tremendous amounts of transactional data to identify key factors driving the company's business. SAS analysis also provided us great insights into customer segmentations as well.,9,9Verified User
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