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SAS

It enables forecasting without a background in statistics, but data preparation and management need work.

Project Manager - Business Intelligence at www.datademy.es

Valuable Features: Visual analytics Reporting Predictions features • Improvements to My Organization: We have detected a high margin group of customers with very little work. • Room for Improvement: Data preparation, and data management need work, as without Enterprise... more »

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SAS

Data preparation, exploratory analysis, and Report Designer make this visual BI tool an effective solution, but there are competitors that also provide similar features.

Project Manager - Business Intelligence at www.datademy.es

Originally posted in Spanish at http://sasybi.blogspot.com.es/2015/07/sas-visual-a... SAS Visual Analytics is a business analytics solution that allows you to visually explore all data in an easy-to-use platform that's accessible to users of all levels without statistical, technical, or... more »

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It was a little unintuitive and required some workarounds for tasks that should have been easy. It provides a robust way to wade through data and find the important points or trends.

SAS

Hunter Creech

Project Analyst - SAS at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees

Valuable Features: The features I found most valuable were the quick visualizations and the ease with which one could explore data sets. This gives the user a fast-moving and robust way to wade through data and find the important points or trends. • Improvements to My Organization: It... more »

Two of the most valuable features are its forecasting capabilities and the user-friendly report access and view control.

SAS

Somanka Maitra

Analyst at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: Reporting capability Rapid data processing Seamless User-friendly report access and view control Forecasting capabilities All these features blend in very well together. Users from the most non-technical backgrounds can use this tool to pull out valuable insights... more »

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reviewer296412Well written review :).. Forecasting is surely the strongest capability of... more »

Intuitive and you don’t need to know how to write code to use it.

Ed Dallal

Founder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & President (company of 1) at a software R&D company with 51-200 employees

Jan 18 2017

Valuable Features: Data Blending and Predictive Analytix: Alteryx is very intuitive and you don’t need to know how to write code to use Alteryx. • Improvements to My Organization: It helped us reduce time blending data from multiple sources into one file. Our analyst’s time was cut from... more »

Its drag and drop workflow creation capability is like drawing a flow chart.

Kenneth Li

Business Intelligence Consultant at a software R&D company with 51-200 employees

Valuable Features: The drag-and-drop capability to create a workflow works like drawing a flow chart. Each icon represents an action. You drag the action on the canvas and connect it to the data source, make configurations on the action, then run the workflow. When data goes through the... more »

Prometheus Tito Amoguis Ii

Associate Solutions Analyst at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

I can pipe external data onto a server in a temporary table. This frees my machine up while the server does all the heavy lifting.

Valuable Features: One of the most valuable features to me is its ability to take millions of rows of data, blend them with more millions of rows of data, then output the data set to a Tableau Data Extract (*.tde), which I would then use to build a dashboard in Tableau. Another of its most... more »

It has taken out the step of preparing the reports so it shortened our turnaround time.

SAS

Christopher Bhojwani

SAS Visual Analytics Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: The variety of graphs and charts make it easy to show the data in a way that's easy to interpret. • Improvements to My Organization: It has taken out the step of preparing the reports so it shortened our turnaround time. You only need to prepare the report once. Anytime... more »

It provides interactive reporting with various statistical graphs.

SAS

Thireindar Min

Junior Business Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Valuable Features: Interactive reporting with various statistical graphs. The company was able to see the 360 view of how the customers were consuming their services in terms of membership, events and educational purposes from a central data storage loaded in SAS which was very hard to achieve... more »

It provides self-service for analytics where other systems are not so intuitive.

SAS

PrincipalEng361

Principal Engineer Processing at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: Since it is simply drag and drop it makes data inspection easy. It is the most complete in its fulfilment of the "vision". Mostly used for creating structured reports that can be replicated. It provides self-service for analytics where other systems are not so intuitive. ... more »

Empowers our citizen data scientists to answer their own business questions regarding customer trends and to forecast future trends.

SAS

Gordon Baggott

Senior Manager, Group Analytics at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: Fast interactive dashboard designer Visual data explorer (network analysis, sankey, model segmentation) Inclusion of a really good predictive modelling visual interface • Improvements to My Organization: Exposure of full population transactional data to customer facing... more »

The most valuable features for us are forecasting, word clouds, and the distributed flavour.

SAS

Preetiranjan Pradhan

Data Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: Forecasting Word clouds Distributed flavour • Improvements to My Organization: After implementation of SAS Visual Analytics, we overcome the prediction of future business and we were able to plan the future business, who are our premium customers, where we can... more »

One of the advantages of this tool is that I can analyze data without date limitations.

SAS

Juraj Cichansky

Business Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: The way how data is shown in the tool – using predefined views (statistical methods) is very helpful for understanding data/patterns – with such help I’m able to focus only on a specific area within my data set much easier than in other tools. • Improvements to My... more »

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Tricia AanderudI think "not a reporting tool" is a little misleading. I have had multiple... more »

Bob WhiteheadI agree Tricia, I have found SAS Visual Analytics performs admirably against... more »

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Elisabete Miranda

Director of Information Manager Unit at BCI at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

It helps us obtain better campaign results, though the graphic capabilities could be improved.

Valuable Features: Quantity models for data mining Performance is excellent • Improvements to My Organization: Helps one of the banks where I've worked (CGD at Portugal) to have more knowledge of their clients Helps us obtain better campaign results (credit cards, etc). •... more »

SAS

When it comes to statistical analysis tools, SAS and R lead the way, but are different in important ways such that the pro's and con's of each should be considered.

Project Manager - Business Intelligence at www.datademy.es

Originally posted in Spanish at http://blog.mbitschool.com/2015/05/data-science-tools-sas-vs-r.html and http://sasybi.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/data-science-tools-sas-vs-r.html Some of the disciplines that have experienced the most development in recent years have all related to data... more »

Auto-charting helps identify the best chart for the categories and measures selected, but on deployment, it throws up errors like "ask your system administrator."

SAS

SnrSoftwareEng283

Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: Correlation Forecasting Autocharting Geomaps • Improvements to My Organization: The correlation gives us a better understanding of new data. Also, with auto-charting, it helps in identifying the best chart for the categories and measures selected. •... more »

KNIME

Knime

Paulo Gomes

CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The diversity of native algorithms could be improved but it is very easy to use

Valuable Features: It has an excellent interface Is very easy to use It really boosts productivity The performance is impressive, even in a normal laptop The diversity of tools for pre-processing is very handy The integration with R and Weka, make it the perfect Data Mining ... more »

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