We performed a comparison between Birst and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
"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."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"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."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"It integrates well with SAS, making it simple and quick for developers."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"A bit more flexibility in the temperatization will be helpful."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"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."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
"The solution should improve its graphics."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 7th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, ThoughtSpot and Alteryx, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dataiku Data Science Studio.
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