Updated October 07, 2014

SAS Business Intelligence Review: "SAS BI is the best product ever offered"

Alex Rubin

Sr. SAS Programmer (consultant)

AbbViePharmaceuticals, 1001-5000 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Software Version
9.2

Modules Used
Enterprise Guige, SAS/Base

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAS 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.

Pros and Cons

User friendly
Efficient
Comprehensive

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Alternatives Considered

Never used or evaluated other similar products

Likelihood to Renew

There is no match for SAS Business Intelligence.

Breadth of Deployment

about 100 users, about 10 departments

Data Integration

Range of data sources. Those include SAS data, Excel spreadsheets, etc. SAS procedures make it possible to convert different formats to SAS datasets for wide range of processing methods. Numerous SAS functions, formats, etc. allow flexibility in presenting output results. SAS macro tools is incredible resource for efficiency of the whole process.

Collaboration and Sharing

Report distribution. The newest version of ODS system provides a wide range of techniques to shape the output documents in the most user-friendly fashion. It includes formatting, style of presentation, layout. There is always a way to quickly and reliable edit the code to rerun the program for a better version of a document.

Data Visualization

Ease of customization. Graphs with new version of ODS get very easy to be changed to the specifications. 3-d options provide a very powerful tool for publications. Quality of graphics is the highest in the industry. It is easy to be learned and practiced. SAS manuals are incredible in quality and details.