January 19, 2019
Review: "SAS Business Intelligence is good at many things, but be prepared to wait for your models to run"
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SASSAS Business Intelligence is good at many things, but be prepared to wait for your models to run2019-01-19T18:34:44.508ZSAS Business Intelligence is used in the department for creating user-friendly, nice-looking graphics that are easy to follow and automatically update or require minimal effort to update. SAS Business Intelligence solves the problem of offering simple real-time analytics and data visualization for users that are not technically oriented.,SAS Business Intelligence is very easy to set up and automate. Very easy.
SAS Business Intelligence graphics are above average, and the user interactivity is generally better than others in the industry.
SAS Business Intelligence makes doing advanced calculations much easier than other tools. That may be because the software uses SAS programming behind the scenes, and users that know SAS programming will find it easier to create business intelligence charts.,SAS Business Intelligence is generally slower than other business intelligence platforms. This surprised me because I've been a SAS user for 15 years and have found base SAS to be the most responsive and fastest processing tools around. Not sure why the SAS Business Intelligence is behind the other tools for processing speed.
Although SAS Business Intelligence offers many default graphics, rearranging things is not as easy as other business intelligence tools.
SAS Business Intelligence needs to work on improving the drill-down capability of the business intelligence charts. The software is behind other business intelligence tools that have been in the market for much longer.,8,Amazon CloudSearch, ArcGIS, Arcadia Data, Qlik Sense, Qlik Sense Cloud, QlikView, Azure SQL Database, Azure Stream Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Acrobat DC, Bitrix24, Oracle API Manager, Adobe Business Catalyst, Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, Apache OpenOffice, Hadoop, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Data Studio, Google Drive, Google Correlate, Google Domains, Google Forms, Amazon Cloud Drive, Oracle Advanced Analytics, Amazon Kinesis, Microsoft Access, Microsoft 365 Business, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft BI, Tableau Public and SAS/Access,9,10,Tableau Online, Qlik Sense Cloud, QlikView, Google Analytics Premium, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Kinesis Analytics, IBM SPSS, IBM SPSS Modeler, Apache HiveThomas YoungSAS BI - Analytics made easy2018-01-31T17:48:23.388ZSAS BI is being used by Local and Central Analytics teams to generate custom insights for advertisers, vertical level insights and to create various predictive models. SAS BI is used mostly by the Analytics teams. Since we are in AdTech industry, we deal with billions of rows of digital impression data which is mined to make sense using SAS BI. SAS BI directly connects to Vertica (SQL Database) and help us summarize the data and gather some insights on how to optimize the campaigns.,SAS BI makes it very easy to create interactive dashboards even for someone who is not from an IT background. For some specific requirements, basic knowledge of SQL is good enough.
A lot of functions have been predefined which makes it very convenient to create dashboards and reports. One doesn't need to be from an IT or a programming background to understand and create dashboards.
It supports other programming languages like R and also has a seamless API integration with various data management platforms.,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.,8,Tableau Desktop,7,7,Tableau Desktop, Oracle Advanced AnalyticsTapan JainA great product2018-02-22T17:54:23.219ZSAS Business Intelligence is being used primarily in our Research and Analytics departments to evaluate program changes that we might make going forward. It really is only used by a few departments by company employees who are considered subject matter experts. Other departments use the outputs that we generate to make their business decisions. Another major use is for math intensive tasks.,I use SAS daily to not only analyze data, producing reports and other outputs, but also to replicate our entire financial system to verify/duplicate calculations.
Using SAS we are able to duplicate all business logic and system calculations on our local desktop.
When there is odd behavior (a bug) in our financial calculations my SAS programs, which are entirely external to our core system, are often used to help identify what/where the problems occurred.,The cost for SAS Business Intelligence con prove to be a little bit prohibitive.
The training for SAS Business Intelligence is often difficult to arrange and has often been canceled due to not enough people enrolled.
Support at Universities used to be limited but I hear that this is changing.,10,10,10,Microsoft BI, MS SharePoint, Microsoft Access, SAP CRM, Cherwell Service ManagementDonald WildeboerBusiness Intelligence for your reporting needs!2018-02-28T22:37:35.157ZSAS Business Intelligence provides a valuable and powerful way to allow our end-users to query our data on an ad-hoc basis. Business Intelligence allows us to present the data to our users with pre-defined joins and available data elements assisting the users in designing and executing queries without requiring additional technical assistance. This provides both a cost and time savings to our technical teams.,Presentation of complex data in an easy-to-understand layout
Self-service querying of data on both mobile and desktop devices
Business Objects allows users to save report layouts for use in future queries,Business Objects should provide a more consistent mobile/desktop interface so operation between the two is seamless
Business Objects needs to make it easier to query across disparate data sets such as Oracle to SQL to Mongo DB
Our installation of Business Objects does not natively allow the export of XLSX documents, only XLS,9,,10,10,TIBCO Jaspersoft, Microsoft Office 365, Oracle Access ManagementVerified UserSAS BI is the best product ever offered2014-10-06T18:34:03.661ZSAS Business Intelligence is being used for health care economics and outcomes research and is used across the organization. It allows to develop optimal strategies of health care to treat patients and predict the cost of different options and protocols. SAS/STAT is an important part of statistical evaluation in most of the studies.,User friendly
Efficient
Comprehensive,More usage guides,9,,9,about 100 users, about 10 departments,10,9,8Alex RubinTrusted since ages by data analysts in Higher Ed to help decision makers make smart decisions for student success2016-05-14T17:51:08.147ZIt is majorly used to explore our data and discover new patterns. It aids in answering any curious mind's research questions. And most importantly it helps share the answers and the insights to relevant stakeholders in all the ways they can understand. It makes the data analyst's job easier and decision maker's decisions smarter.,Robust software
Amazing Microsoft Office Integration
Always increasing number of features,It can be sometimes be little clunky
Need for seamless integration with more external softwares like R
Installation, maintenance and user management can be made more simpler,10,Tableau Public, Tableau Desktop and Tableau Online,9,10,200,12,more interactive dashboards
more smarter visualizations layering more data over each other to see relations and patterns
data modeling for accurate predictions,daily reporting of data for operational use of decision makers
interactive dashboards that help executive leadership explore the impacts of their policy decisions
develop strong data drive insights on budgets and constraintsVerified User
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SAS Business Intelligence
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