We performed a comparison between IBM Watson Studio and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."It is a stable, reliable product."
"The main benefit is the ease of use. We see a lot of engineers in our site and customers that really like the way the tools are able to work with the people."
"IBM Watson Studio consistently automates across channels."
"Watson Studio is very stable."
"For me, the valuable feature of the solution is the one that I used, which was Jupyter notebooks."
"The system's ability to take a look at data, segment it and then use that data very differently."
"It has a lot of data connectors, which is extremely helpful."
"The scalability of IBM Watson Studio is great."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"It integrates well with SAS, making it simple and quick for developers."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"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."
"I think maybe the support is an area where it lacks."
"Some of the solutions are really good solutions but they can be a little too costly for many."
"More features in data virtualization would be helpful. The solution could use an interactive dashboard that could make exploration easier."
"The solution's interface is very slow at times."
"We would like to see it more web-based with more functionality."
"The decision making in their decision making feature is less good than other options."
"We would like to see it less as one big, massive product, but more based on smaller services that we can then roll out to consumers."
"Watson Studio would be improved with a clearer path for the deployment of docker images."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
"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 are a few little things that are predefined and can be done out of the box immediately. There is no business intelligence application that is predefined, which is something some customers or prospects would love to have. Small and mid-sized companies would struggle with it because they prefer something standard that has been predefined by somebody else."
"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 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."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"A bit more flexibility in the temperatization will be helpful."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
IBM Watson Studio is ranked 11th in Data Science Platforms with 13 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 7th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. IBM Watson Studio is rated 8.2, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Watson Studio writes "A highly robust and well-documented platform that simplifies the complex world of AI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". IBM Watson Studio is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI and SAP Predictive Analytics, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio.
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