We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power 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."Microsoft BI is scalable."
"One of the most valuable features of Power BI is the ease of use. It is comfortable and there is not a steep learning curve for this solution. If you have some idea of the data and basic visualization ideas, you can use this solution comfortably."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"The most valuable features in Microsoft BI are the analysis using the feature drag and drop function. It's very easy to load and use different data sources."
"There is continual improvement year-over-year."
"There are some great automation elements in the product."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"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."
"The technical support services are good."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"It integrates well with SAS, making it simple and quick for developers."
"Microsoft BI lacks integration capabilities, so it needs to consider increasing its integration capabilities."
"I'm looking for something that can make it much easier to incorporate Power BI visuals or dashboards into, let's say, Power Apps – custom Power Apps or anything like that. The most important thing would be to seamlessly embed reports in applications. For example, to have buttons that can be navigated through multiple solutions – from Power Apps to Power BI to SharePoint – via links or something like that."
"When I create measures, sometimes the error messages aren't clear. It makes me spend more time searching for solutions. I need the error messages to be more specific. So, I would like clearer error messages when creating measures."
"It should have more integrations."
"This solution needs integration with SAS and more deep analysis functionality."
"The maps in Power BI could be improved. You deal with many maps over the years, like maps of America and Saudi Arabia. The maps aren't detailed enough, and there aren't enough visualization tools. Whenever I want to use a map, I struggle with choosing the right visualization."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"Microsoft should offer additional features for visualization and have additional features for slicing and dicing that data."
"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."
"There are a few little things that are predefined and can be done out of the box immediately. There is no business intelligence application that is predefined, which is something some customers or prospects would love to have. Small and mid-sized companies would struggle with it because they prefer something standard that has been predefined by somebody else."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"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."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"A bit more flexibility in the temperatization will be helpful."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 7th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and IBM Cognos, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Dataiku Data Science Studio and SAS Enterprise Miner. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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