SAS Business Intelligence

Pros: Excellent visualization tools such as heat maps, all in all is an easy software because it does not require long training sessions (for the front end is very intuitive), everyone can do dashboard autonomously (once the programmer has prepared the cloud data and standard fields). Excellent feature that allows users to share comments directly on the charts (on the Qlik suite is not possible for example)

Cons: It would be interesting to add the tool to create stories, or dynamic presentations (such as power point), obviously the price is high (like the most BI software), so it makes the software suitable only for large companies. The minimum requirements for accommodating the engine on the server are high

Overall: It is one of the most intuitive software I've ever tried, very user friendly and very efficient (both usability and ease)

Pros: It's Visual Data Exploration capabilities to visualize the data and find patterns quickly is amazing. The features such as heat maps helps us understand where most of the traffic for an advertiser is coming from and helps the advertiser to target the customers more effectively. Creating Dashboards doesn't require a lot of technical know how and anyone can start making dashboards. Also, these dashboards and reports simplifies collaboration as different people are able to share their comments by directly commenting on the visuals or charts.
Another feature which interests me is that it allows to integrate with other open source platforms like R.

Cons: Such a comprehensive set of features with a brand like SAS obviously comes with a price but I find the price to be over the top for the small and medium organizations. Only a few open source platforms are supported and lot of common ones used by a lot of smaller organizations have been left out. Further, user interface looks dated and needs a facelift to match other players like Tableau.

Pros: Easy to use, more features and auxiliary components than you could ever wish for, great customer service and technical support.

Cons: I cannot think of many cons for this product. The only thing that might be considered a con is the server architecture required.

Pros: - a real user friendly tool
- wide range of software and different types of installation
- great customer support

Cons: - Considering the costs, maybe not so accessible (quite high license price) compared to other statistical software but anyway the quality of the tools is really high.

Comments: A better deal in comparison to MS Excel. Also better than Tableau reader but somewhat lesser than Tableau full package.

Pros: It is easy to use and very handy. One can make stunning dashboards using it without much expertise. It is equally good for novice and pro. Data connection process is smooth. Overall 4/5

Cons: Support is not up to the mark. Installation is messy but that is only for single time. Interface doesn't look that good.

Comments: SAS has a wide range of products, making it kind of complex, but at the same time powerful and adaptive. now they're moving to the cloud, and that it's going to make things faster,and lighter. I 've worked with them for many years, and I wouldn't change. Also service support is more than great here in Spain.

Pros: Feature rich

Cons: Tough to learn

Overall: We have been using SAS since the 1980's
We like it, but find it pricy for a small firm such as ourselves

Recommendations to other buyers: Lower the price

Comments: It's really been awesome. As I can remember, I told a colleague sometime back, before I got into SAS that, his problem would have been better solved if i had a package with programming abilities, as he wanted me to do some analysis for him. I found out later when I got into SAS that, it was exactly the package I was talking about. I haven't regretted at all using SAS.

Comments: This software is excellent in relation to every segment of business intelligence. It covers every aspect of our business and provides the opportunity synergize.

Pros: easy

Cons: Nothing yet, but I will certainly be vocal, if I have a bad experience.

Overall: This product is the best there is. very user friendly. and very efficient. The ui is so easy to use. Love this product.

Recommendations to other buyers: simply incredible

Comments: I have not used it, but it's a great product. It will be less development time for organizations, and benefit to all users.

Comments: There are many visualization tools in the market far better than this product. they should make it more user-friendly. For instance, Tableau works best for visualization with easy drag and drop solutions.

Pros: Easy to use Sas data sets for visualizations

Cons: Not user friendly

Recommendations to other buyers: This product is good if you work on SAS programming only

Comments: SAS has the capacity to handle large amounts of data from disparate sources and process that data seamlessly. Data sets of one billion records can be handled routinely by SAS. Further, the power of SAS's statistical tools is invaluable for actuaries that require a Business Intelligence tool to go beyond the 'sales by region' data visualization to provide predictive modeling functionality.

Pros: The commitment to quality and innovation by the SAS organization that stands behind the product.

Recommendations to other buyers: When considering SAS, it will be beneficial to perform a 'test drive' with as large a data set as possible. The goal of the testing should be to not only process the data set but to use the functionality within SAS to visualize the "story" behind the data.

Comments: SAS visual analytics is a great tool. The quality of analytics is way better than the competitors like power bi, qlikview and others, along with decent visualizations.

Pros: Amazing Analytics

Cons: Can have better visualizations.

Comments: SAS has many software tools for many different purposes.With so many products available beyond base SAS, the match between their product line experience is great.

Pros: Ease of learning. Provides easy learning mechanisms for people with knowledge of SQL.

Cons: SAS has decent functional graphical capabilities. However, it is just functional. Any customization on plots are difficult and requires you to understand intricacies of SAS Graph package.

Recommendations to other buyers: Globally, SAS is still the market leader in available corporate jobs. Most of the big organizations still work on SAS

Comments: I use SAS visual analytics tool and it is really handy. It offers a lot of functionalities like analytics which is limited in other BI Tools.

Pros: Great for analytics

Cons: There can be improvements on the analytics front.

Recommendations to other buyers: See what is it that you want to accomplish by using the visual analytics tool before deciding which one you want to buy.

Comments: SAS is a great statistical software tool, but really lacks compared to other software out there. I find R and Python to be just as easy to use and are available for free. Looking at cost, R is superior to SAS.

Pros: The analytical power of the multiple options linked to different modules

Cons: It is expensive and the product itself is far from the top ones on its category. the graphics look like created in excel and the interface is not the most user friendly.

Recommendations to other buyers: Think about the gains of using low quality graphs while connecting it to the analytical power tools offered by SAS.