We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos Dashboard and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool's valuable features are that it is easy to use and stable."
"The product helps us update the KPI automatically."
"The main feature that is useful is the on-demand report generation through the dashboard."
"It is a pretty stable solution."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"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."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
"They should include proper documentation to learn more about the product."
"The price point is one of the major areas to be improved."
"The scalability of the product's on-premises version is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Visualization is an area where the product lacks."
"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."
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
"The solution should improve its graphics."
"A bit more flexibility in the temperatization will be helpful."
IBM Cognos Dashboard is ranked 16th in Data Visualization with 4 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. IBM Cognos Dashboard is rated 8.6, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos Dashboard writes "An easy-to-use and stable tool useful for its functionalities like analytics and 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 Cognos Dashboard is most compared with Apache Superset, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dataiku. See our IBM Cognos Dashboard vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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