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."Its ease of use is most valuable."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data."
"The product is user-friendly."
"They should add mobile access."
"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."
"Data integration enabled my organization to easily pool data from our varied system into one data warehouse."
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"Visual Analytics is very easy to use. I use Visual Analytics for all the typical use cases except text mining. I used it to analyze data and monitor statistics, not text mining. I also use it for data visualization as well as creating interactive dashboards and infographics."
"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 technical support services are good."
"It provided the capability to visualize a bunch of data in an organized way."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"The solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"The solution could use a faster speed on certain interactions and a refresh of the dashboards."
"The solution could be quicker at rendering data."
"When we have a big report with lots of data, the solution slows down quite a lot."
"The only concern I have faced with Microsoft BI is the time it takes to find out an issue and rectify it."
"The reporting needs to be improved."
"Compared to other applications, like Tableau, Microsoft BI doesn't have as many functions that allow you to do more in-depth analysis and represent the findings."
"The solution doesn't integrate well with third-party tools."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"Colours used on report objects"
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
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 Data Science Studio and SAS Enterprise Miner. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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