We performed a comparison between SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Knime, Weka, IBM and others in Data Mining."The most valuable feature is the decision tree creation."
"The solution is able to handle quite large amounts of data beautifully."
"he solution is scalable."
"Most of the features, especially on the data analysis tool pack, are really good. The way they do clustering and output is great. You can do fairly elaborate outputs. The results, the ensembles, all of these, are fantastic."
"Good data management and analytics."
"The solution is very good for data mining or any mining issues."
"I like the way the product visually shows the data pipeline."
"The setup is straightforward. Deployment doesn't take more than 30 minutes."
"What I really love about the software is that I have never struggled in implementing it for complex business requirements. It is good for highly sophisticated and specialized statistics in the areas that some people tend to call artificial intelligence. It is used for everything that involves visual presentation and analysis of highly sophisticated statistics for forecasting and other purposes."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"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 flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"The solution is much more complex than other options."
"The product must provide better integration with cloud-native technologies."
"Virtualization could be much better."
"The ease of use can be improved. When you are new it seems a bit complex."
"The solution is very stable, but we do have some problems with discrepancies involving SAS not matching with the latest Java versions. It's not stable in cases where SAS tries to run on a different version because SAS doesn't connect with the latest Java update. Once a month we need to restart systems from scratch."
"The user interface of the solution needs improvement. It needs to be more visual."
"While I don't personally need tutorials, I can't say that it wouldn't be helpful for others to have some to help them navigate and operate the system."
"The solution needs an easier interface for the user. The user experience isn't so easy for our clients."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"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."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"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."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"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."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
SAS Enterprise Miner is ranked 6th in Data Mining with 13 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. SAS Enterprise Miner is rated 7.6, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAS Enterprise Miner writes "A stable product that is easy to deploy and can be used for structured and unstructured data mining". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". SAS Enterprise Miner is most compared with IBM SPSS Modeler, RapidMiner, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, SAS Analytics and KNIME, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and IBM Cognos.
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