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Trusted since ages by data analysts in Higher Ed to help decision makers make smart decisions for student success
May 14, 2016

Trusted since ages by data analysts in Higher Ed to help decision makers make smart decisions for student success

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAS Business Intelligence

It 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
We use both. But SAS is always the starting point to all analytics projects. It is a wider array of products and features. Gives robust results and reporting is easier. There is always this one or two things for which you turn to some other products to fill the holes.
Substantial discounts to plenty of industries, ample of users to support the ever growing community and industry specific solutions that work; all make it extremely appropriate for us.

SAS Visual Analytics Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.0
Pixel Perfect reports
6
Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
8
7.0
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
3
Report sharing and collaboration
9
8.0
Publish to Web
5
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
8
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
7.7
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

Using SAS Business Intelligence

200 - Developers of reports from organizational data and users of the data who make decisions
12 - Developers have varied skills including SAS Programming and data modelling skills. They also perform the IT functions of maintaining security and user access in the SAS BI system
  • 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 constraints
  • more interactive dashboards
  • more smarter visualizations layering more data over each other to see relations and patterns
  • data modeling for accurate predictions