We performed a comparison between Microsoft BI 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."I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"The solution is stable with reasonable performance."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are the variety of possibilities to connect to various data sources. The visualizations are easily done, have useful rollover functions, and there are continuous updates being made to the system. You can benefit from the various improvements."
"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."
"Microsoft BI's initial setup is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"It provided the capability to visualize a bunch of data in an organized way."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"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."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"If you look at the new tool, even though they promised that you could do data modeling, that you could do everything from the Power BI side, if your data is really large in volume, sometimes it doesn't work on the Power BI. More feature testing from their side would certainly help users."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
"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."
Microsoft BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 100 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 14 reviews. Microsoft BI is rated 8.0, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft BI writes "User friendly, easy to set up and great for analyzing data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Easy to learn and use with good scalability potential". Microsoft BI is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, KNIME, Domo and Salesforce Einstein Analytics, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Databricks, SAS Enterprise Miner, Dataiku Data Science Studio and Qlik Sense. See our Microsoft BI vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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