We performed a comparison between Board 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."The tool seems to have a lot of ways to handle scaling."
"I liked the way that I felt as a user and administrator of it. There were a lot of clicks, drops, drags, etc. versus writing code."
"The ability to do write back and visualization, with minimal IT development orientation."
"It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."
"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."
"Where it used to take me three days at the beginning of the year to create the new financial statement, now it is a matter of minutes because all the data is in the system."
"A lot of flexibility from the data modeling standpoint. It can add specific line items into our budget, for example, or if we want to make changes to the data model itself, we have that flexibility."
"With the combination of 24/7 global support and their community, there was great customer service, tech support, and community support."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
"I believe that the possibilities for exploring data and formulating visual results are quite good because it allows the business analyst to have different perspectives on the data."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"It would be nice to be able to host your site and actually have BOARD be the driver of your site. So you could have anybody in your organization go to www.myorg.com, for example, and then go through what you allow them to go through. So rather than having to go through the application, to be able to go to actually host it to a website."
"The engine of the Board should be made powerful like the engine of IBM planning which is more powerful in terms of performance. The consolidated finance area also needs improvement."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"It would be nice to see truly transferable processes from model to model, as well as a method of building repetitive processes."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"It can have more functionality for narrative reporting. They should also improve their training courses, which are currently very lightweight. When you get into more complex things, it is quite difficult to figure out what you're supposed to do, and you have to look at a lot of videos before you actually understand, which is a bit frustrating. Their training can be more comprehensive."
"What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful."
"Colours used on report objects"
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"A bit more flexibility in the temperatization will be helpful."
"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."
"The solution should improve its graphics."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"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."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dataiku Data Science Studio. See our Board vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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