- Correlation
- Forecasting
- Autocharting
- Geomaps
Senior Software Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
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."
What is most valuable?
How has it helped 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.
What needs improvement?
Many things missing, including -
- Infomaps
- Facebook connection
- Better objects
- Forecasting, auto-charting, and correlation are only available in exploration but should be available in reports
- Server issues - it is difficult to connect to the public LASR server at times, then requesting SAS support and waiting for them to answer
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for the past year.
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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
At times it hangs with some objects like gauges, and throws up errors like "ask your system administrator." After logging in, the issue is resolved automatically.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
There are times when it's not responsive.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
No issues encountered.
How are customer service and support?
Customer Service:
5/10.
Technical Support:5/10.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
No previous solution was used.
How was the initial setup?
It's not straightforward, and proper guidance or a manual is required which is not provided by the SAS support team.
What about the implementation team?
We implemented it in-house.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
No other options were evaluated.
What other advice do I have?
It's good to go.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Business partners
Head of Databases at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Great for data analysis and reports once we got it up and running. Recommended
Valuable Features:
• Includes great tools for performing data analysis, executing queries and developing reports.
• We can develop all types of reports by using its web based interactive interface. It enables us to build, load, organize, view and save reports based on OLAP cubes and/or relational data from one or more data sources.
• It offers us a central platform and support for maintaining consistent metadata, managing huge databases, business rules, data and security definitions.
• Ensures our data credibility and consistency, so we can easily manage all of our data integration projects.
Room for Improvement:
• It is expensive. This is BI at the the high end.
• Installation is complex. We required expensive professional services for installation. Would be nice to be able to do the install ourselves!
• We had compatibility issues while integrating SAS.
Other Advice:
We are using SAS because it provides us a complete set of BI capabilities. We use its role based portal to define the access level of each member of our team. I love the wizard-based report creation function which helps us in creating reports with enhanced graphs and skins. I also really like that we can print reports in PDF format and export data in any format to Excel as per our requirements. SAS in my opinion is an excellent BI solution if you have the money.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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SAS Visual Analytics Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has taken out the step of preparing the reports so it shortened our turnaround time.
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 an updated report is needed, you just need to upload an updated data mart.
Room for Improvement:
There are a lot of technicalities in setting up the product.
Use of Solution:
Setting it up will probably take a while.
Deployment Issues:
Setting it up will probably take a while.
Stability Issues:
There have been no issues with its stability.
Scalability Issues:
There have been no issues scaling it.
Other Advice:
Coordinate with your IT department so they'll know the specific requirements of the product.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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