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."It's easy to create reports and it's easy to download the data from the corresponding report."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"The drag and drop facility to easily change the data correctly is the most valuable feature. I am happy to see visualizations. It's easier to talk about and make people understand what is going on."
"In my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"What I have found valuable about Microsoft BI is its performance and ease of use. The interface is very simple and it is accessible to everyone. If someone is new to this type of solution it is straightforward to understand."
"With the out-of-the-box Data Platform and Business Intelligence ecosystem, you get the entire platform with a single license."
"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."
"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."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"The most solution's notable aspect, in my view, is the ability to integrate various data sources and harness advanced technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. This helps with quality assurance processes."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"It would be better if they had some video tutorials. Most people from an Excel background may struggle with measures in Microsoft BI."
"I have a little problem with Synapse Analytics because it's very new. It's a product that has many capabilities, but it is not very well developed. I have to see the list of permissions from one object. I can't do this in Synapse. I have to search on the web for a solution because I don't have the tool for it."
"The solution could improve the extraction and transformation of data. For example, you transform the data and then send it to Microsoft BI without having to use your own API. We are only providing the API to Power BI, and then Power BI is doing the job."
"It is not the right tool to do deeper analysis or predictions. When you have some data and you want to do some deep analysis, there is no feature to help you with this."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"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."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
"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."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 22 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 7th in Data Visualization with 9 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "User friendly, easy to set up and great for analyzing data". 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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