We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."
"Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly."
"Microsoft BI was very helpful for me because I had a huge variety of connections. It is very convenient to build reports, even if somebody has no experience using BI tools or data visualizations. Additionally, the performance is very good when generating reports."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"It integrates well with SAS, making it simple and quick for developers."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"The look and feel should be updated in terms of the types of dashboards and graphs that you can produce. They aren't as visual as some of its competitors."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"We need more integration capabilities."
"Sometimes while developing, the front end is not easily customizable and it has limitations. We cannot go and do any UI we want. We have to stick to the limitations of the product."
"SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is not user friendly."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."
"The UI is the main improvement that could be made. Specifically, there is something called DAX, in Power BI, which is complicated compared to calculated fields used in Tableau."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"The deployment isn't smooth. Deploying Visual Analytics on the cloud takes a lot of work, or you can use some providers that give you SAS as a service. For example, there is a provider called SaasNow. They host SAS Visual Analytics and the license. You can buy the license and deploy it there without the hassle of installation because deploying the software isn't easy."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
"The solution should improve its graphics."
"The charts and tables could use better sorting, primarily using other variables than the ones on the figure. If they could implement views like in the older version (previous to Viya), it would be very nice."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 36 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and IBM Cognos, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Dataiku and SAS Enterprise Miner. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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