SAS Analytics,a data analytics tool for your needs
June 20, 2017

SAS Analytics,a data analytics tool for your needs

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SAS Visual Analytics

SAS Visual Analytics was used to identify data type, and for filtering data fields as per requirements. For me, it appeared like SPSS combined with R language. This interface is very helpful and made it easy for me to use the software. To get the desired result and output, it is very easy to relate. For regular R users, writing algorithms is very easy and visuals appear side by side.
  • Stock market analysis.
  • Resource utilization and optimization.
  • Pivot table analysis.
  • Customizing a report as per the user requirement.
  • Adding more color and font styles. Presenting data in a more colorful way.
  • The website has a lot of tutorials which is more inclined to the technical side. Maybe add more to the presentation side as well.
I have used SAP Lumira as well. The reason for me to use both software is to see the user experience. With Lumira, it was easy for me to visualize data and data storytelling and with SAS it was easy for me to create an algorithm as I wanted them to be. SAS software allows me to create conditions, analyze data as I want it which is a limitation in Lumira. This was the main reason why I chose to use SAS Analytics.
For the industry I was working it, it was very well suited. We conducted regular analytics of the number of orders completed a week. It gave us insight on how we grew week to week. While it was easy to work on quantifiable data, it was difficult to work on qualitative data. One suggestion I would add is that if SAS could provide options that would allow qualitative data to be quantified.

SAS Visual Analytics Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
6
Report Formatting Templates
6
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Report sharing and collaboration
2
Publish to Web
5
Publish to PDF
6
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Delivery to Remote Servers
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
10
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9