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IBM SPSS Modeler vs SAP Predictive Analytics vs SAS Visual Analytics comparison

 

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Mindshare comparison

Data Mining Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IBM SPSS Modeler20.6%
IBM SPSS Statistics20.0%
KNIME Business Hub18.7%
Other40.7%
Data Mining
Data Science Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
SAP Predictive Analytics0.5%
Databricks13.9%
KNIME Business Hub11.9%
Other73.7%
Data Science Platforms
Data Visualization Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
SAS Visual Analytics3.4%
Tableau Enterprise19.2%
Apache Superset9.2%
Other68.2%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

PeterHuo - PeerSpot reviewer
Good tool for extracting data from data warehouses, creating streams, and manipulating logic to extract final data
There are performance issues. Extracting data from many combined tables can take hours and occasionally crash the server due to memory leaks. This performance problem bothers people. The performance issue seems to be related to the server. We design streams on the client and submit them to the server, which generates a large SQL statement. There are two potential bottlenecks: one in the server and another in data extraction. I'm unsure about the exact mechanics of data splitting when fetching from the database. When streams become larger, performance bottlenecks may occur in the IBM SPSS Modeler server or the database. Sometimes the server crashes and needs to be restarted to release memory on both sides. I'm not sure exactly where the problem is caused, as I focus on stream design rather than server issues. The problem could be on the IBM SPSS Modeler server and database.
Gary Cook - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables us to forecast and pull trends and has an easy installation
My rating for SAP Predictive Analytics would be an eight out of ten. If I have to be bold, I'll probably say that we're building away hours, and we are actually putting a lot of the actual predicting stuff back into the warehouse. So running it very bi-directionally. So I'm not sure what its integration features are at the moment, but that's an area we're going to look into in the next month or so.
Renato Vazamin - PeerSpot reviewer
Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations
We had that solution installed previously in another solution, Selvaya, but I don't think we used it at the time. We are now using SAS Detect Investigation as a complementary solution, in which we have part of the process, use a gene, SAS collects information and identifies some business situations, and the business guys use Visual Analytics to explore the results of the process. We previously used the FICO platform, but we switched because FICO's pricing was not scalable. Bringing more data or workloads to the platform required a significant investment in order to scale. We needed to change because we have a lot of data to process every day. FICO was also a little more complicated than SAS Visual Analytics.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"You take two quarters and compare them and this tool is ideal because it gives you a lot of visibility on the before and after."
"Our business units' capabilities with SPSS Modeler is high. They no longer waste time on modeling and algorithms, meaning they are not coding any more. For example, segmentation projects now take one to three months, rather than six months to a year, as before."
"Stability is good."
"It scales. I have not run into any challenges where it will not perform.​"
"We have integration where you can write third-party apps. This sort of feature opens it up to being able to do anything you want."
"Some basic form of feature engineering for classification models. This really quickens the model development process."
"We are creating models and putting them into production much faster than we would if we had just gone with a strict, code-based solution, like R or Python."
"Our go live process has been slightly enhanced compared to the previous programmatic process. There is now a faster time to production from the business end."
"The most valuable features are the analytics and reporting."
"I think the features of the actual ability to forecast and pull trends and correlations has been really good."
"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."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"I would rate the overall solution a ten out of ten."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"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."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
 

Cons

"The standard package (personal) is not supported for database connection."
"The biggest issue with the visual modeling capability is that we can't extract the SQL code under the hood."
"Expensive to deploy solutions. You need to buy an extra deployment unit."
"I understand that it takes some time to incorporate some of the new algorithms that have come out in the last few months, in the literature. For example, there is an algorithm based on how ants search for food. And there are some algorithms that have now been developed to complement rules. So that's one of the things that we need to have incorporated into it."
"It is very good, but slow. The slowness may be because we have not finalized all the background information in SPSS. It still needs some tweaking."
"It would be good if IBM added help resources to the interface."
"​I would like better integration into the Weather Company solution. I have raised a couple of concerns about this integration and having more time series capabilities.​"
"I would like see more programming languages added, like MATLAB. That would be better."
"This solution works for acquired data but not live, real-time data."
"Colours used on report objects"
"A bit more flexibility in the temperatization will be helpful."
"The solution should improve its graphics."
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"There are certain shortcomings in the tool's support services, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"$5,000 annually."
"It got us a good amount of money with quick and efficient modeling."
"Its price is okay for a company, but for personal use, it is considered somewhat expensive."
"If you are in a university and the license is free then you can use the tool without any charges, which is good."
"The scalability was kind of limited by our ability to get other people licenses, and that was usually more of a financial constraint. It's expensive, but it's a good tool."
"The government has funds and a budget, it's hard to say if it's expensive or cheap. In Canada, they have a yearly budget. They used to encourage people to use the modeler for development. If ten users use the server with ten licenses, it runs faster. But if forty users use the same appliance, everything slows down. People then think it's not easy to do things and prefer using remote tools like Python to extract data from the database. It's not about being expensive or cheap, but about people's knowledge and experience in how to do the work."
"I am using the free version of IBM SPSS Modeler, it is the educational edition version."
"It is a huge increase to time savings."
"A free trial version is available for testing out this solution."
"The pricing is reasonable"
"$10,000 per annum for an enterprise license."
"The product is expensive."
"I work with the tool's free version...The tool's corporate version is very expensive and requires a monthly hire."
"Licensing is simple."
"The product is quite expensive."
"It's approximately $114,000 US dollars per year."
"Visual Analytics is expensive for a small company like mine. You also need to deploy it on a server or cloud, so you pay for the license as well as the cost of the cloud or the server that you will deploy on."
"The cost of the solution can be expensive. There is an additional cost for users."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
11%
Educational Organization
10%
University
8%
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Financial Services Firm
19%
Government
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise32
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise19
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM SPSS Modeler?
Compared to other tools, the product works much easier to analyze data without coding.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM SPSS Modeler?
The government has funds and a budget, it's hard to say if it's expensive or cheap. In Canada, they have a yearly bud...
What needs improvement with IBM SPSS Modeler?
The customer comes to you and says they want to deploy it and make a production out of this, which is very difficult ...
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What do you like most about SAS Visual Analytics?
The most solution's notable aspect, in my view, is the ability to integrate various data sources and harness advanced...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAS Visual Analytics?
It's about an average of five. It's easy to scale, but it comes with cost.
What needs improvement with SAS Visual Analytics?
In terms of configuration, I would like to see AI capabilities since many applications are now integrating AI. It may...
 

Also Known As

SPSS Modeler
SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics, BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics, BOPA
SAS BI
 

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