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."Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Tech support is very helpful."
"Helped identify bad data, enabling the corrections needed to the data for management."
"We have a lot of servers and applications from which we want reports, and it allows us to create reports from an SQL source or some other source."
"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."
"Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."
"The way data is presented is very valuable. The amount of information that we can get at a glance is also valuable. You can then drill-down and see data from many different angles in the same chart by selecting certain things. Based on the selection, everything changes automatically. If we have four parameters in a particular item, when you select a parameter, the remaining charts on that page automatically change for that particular parameter."
"Being able to transfer data with the Power Query feature is great for teaching with about one to two hundred rows of data. I am also able to see the relationship between multiple tables and create various sheets and dashboards."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"Quick deployment to dashboards and analytics features (using SAS Visual Statistics and Enterprise Guide). Easy to create a simple forecast and discover business insights using segmentation tools."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"I believe that the possibilities for exploring data and formulating visual results are quite good because it allows the business analyst to have different perspectives on the data."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"It provided the capability to visualize a bunch of data in an organized way."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"The admin view could be improved by making it more simplified to manage a users' activity and other things."
"It needs an AI which can choose the appropriate connection strings and provide options for connections."
"I would like to see integration with Excel."
"I would like to see better, undisturbed stability without any interruptions."
"Actionable insights could be better."
"It seems that the solution could use more analytics to help users draw more contextual business insights. Right now, you need other solutions for that."
"The visualization should be better in SAS Visual Analytics. It is easy to use but when compared to other solutions it is lacking and the support is not very good."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
"Colours used on report objects"
"There are scalability issues. It depends on the data volume and number of end-users. VA requires a lot of hardware resources to move volumes of data."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"The solution should improve its graphics."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
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 35 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. 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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