SAS Business Intelligence is good at many things, but be prepared to wait for your models to run
Updated December 09, 2020
SAS Business Intelligence is good at many things, but be prepared to wait for your models to run
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SAS Business Intelligence
SAS 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.
- 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
SAS Business Intelligence is not the cream of the crop for business intelligence applications, but it is not far behind. The software is generally easier to apply than most other business intelligence software. Additionally, SAS Business Intelligence runs smoothly in the background when making real-time updates. With that said, the software is not as efficient of many of the other business intelligence software applications that have been on the market for longer than this one.