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JMP Pro is nice - the Profiler Component Makes the Software a Must-Have
January 25, 2019

JMP Pro is nice - the Profiler Component Makes the Software a Must-Have

Thomas Young | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Overall Satisfaction with JMP Pro

JMP Pro is used by a select group of individuals across certain departments. JMP Pro solves problems of making creating SAS graphics more professional and making doing certain advanced analytics more straight-forward. Perhaps the more useful business problem JMP Pro offers is "Profiler" option, which makes sharing JMP Pro analyses interactive by using interactive HTML5. I'm not aware of any similar offering from other tools.
  • I think the most awesome thing about JMP Pro is the Profiler component. The Profiler component makes sharing analyses interactive on the web using interactive HTML5. The Profiler makes showing the impact of interaction effects so easy. It's the best statistical software feature I think I've ever come across.
  • JMP Pro does dashboards well. It is relatively straight-forward to create four pane dashboards that automatically update. I think it's nice.
  • I think JMP Pro graphics are a massive improvement when compared to the graphics produced by its parent company - SAS. JMP Pro's features are vast, and easy to use and understand.
  • The JMP Pro user base is nowhere near as big as the big software tools. So, when a question comes up, it sometimes takes a lot of research to find an answer.
  • JMP Pro sometimes does a poor job at automatically figuring out whether a variable is numerical or some other type. I once spent four hours figuring out why JMP Pro would not produce a geographic figure. It had to do with a space in front of the name of the country. Other software tools had no problem with the data set.
  • JMP Pro works incredibly well with SAS and most other tools. With that said, the JMP Pro Excel add-in takes more time than what I think it should take to get things figured out and reproducible.
  • The overall ROI for JMP Pro was positive because of the Profiler option. This makes communicating the results of regressions as easy and complex as needed. It's such an awesome feature, I wonder why it wasn't offered before.
  • If JMP Pro didn't have the Profiler feature, I think I would still recommend using JMP Pro, but the recommendation is not a slam dunk. The software has its own programming language, which is not well-known and requires effort to debug.
  • JMP Pro's dashboards are well-built, and provide a positive ROI from the perspective of creating real-time, interactive reporting. It's very nice for this feature.
The regression results produced by JMP Pro are second to none. SAS' hand is certainly visible. JMP Pro's Profiler component is better than any attempt from these software tools at communicating results in an interactive manner. JMP Pro, of course, does not produce as nice visually appealing graphics as such tools as MatLab and RStudio. JMP Pro's non-interactive graphics are also not as good as the publication quality output produced by say SPSS.
JMP Pro is perfect for the analyst who want to create interactive web regressions using its Profiler option. I think that component makes it worth purchasing the software all by itself. JMP Pro doesn't seem to do a very good job at producing accurate time-series forecasts and data mining. It's just ok. JMP Pro is also not appropriate for big data, at least not the big data sets that I have used. JMP Pro works well for manufacturers and other engineering disciplines.