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SAS Visual Analytics vs Verix Limelight comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

SAS Visual Analytics
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (15th)
Verix Limelight
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
9.4
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (38th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. SAS Visual Analytics is designed for Data Visualization and holds a mindshare of 1.6%, down 3.9% compared to last year.
Verix Limelight, on the other hand, focuses on BI (Business Intelligence) Tools, holds 0.7% mindshare, up 0.1% since last year.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAS Visual Analytics1.6%
Tableau Enterprise9.7%
Qlik Sense4.8%
Other83.9%
Data Visualization
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Verix Limelight0.7%
Microsoft Power BI7.5%
Tableau Enterprise5.8%
Other86.0%
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

AN
Senior Manager: ICT Compliance at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION
Enables effective data management and reporting with a straightforward setup
SAS Visual Analytics is helpful as it allows us to perform any queries we need. The ability to query information from our Excel data into SAS to view specific data is invaluable. In terms of reporting, it is easy to extract quick reports and provides graphical representations of the data, which is a great feature.
it_user104361 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, BI with 5,001-10,000 employees
Business Analytics enables us to better understand our business and compare ourselves meaningfully to our competitors.
The solution has a number of distinct features that are noteworthy. First, it is an incredibly flexible and fast, yet comprehensive analytical solution. Verix has found a way to deploy the solution quickly, in under 3 months, while providing a product that is robust and uniquely tailored to the sales model within the industry. Second, in response to specific business needs that are constantly arising, Verix is consistently able to address our needs in a quick and thoughtful manner. Additionally, since Verix is cloud-based, these changes happen almost immediately, usually within hours or days. Finally, Verix’s intelligent business alerts (i.e. hotspots) provide outstanding value by putting easy-to-use analytics in the hands of the user.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It was helpful for creating KPI dashboards to report the status of the operations of the entire company to the management."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"The visualization capabilities and the email functionality are most beneficial."
"SAS in my opinion is an excellent BI solution if you have the money."
"The most solution's notable aspect, in my view, is the ability to integrate various data sources and harness advanced technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. This helps with quality assurance processes."
"It provided the capability to visualize a bunch of data in an organized way."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"Exposure of full population transactional data to customer facing roles with ability to analyse trends and patterns empowers our citizen data scientists to answer their own business questions regarding customer trends and to forecast future trends."
"Verix’s intelligent business alerts (i.e. hotspots) provide outstanding value by putting easy-to-use analytics in the hands of the user."
"Previously we were using a solution called Business Information Warehouse, and another called Tableau; neither was as easy to use or as advanced as the Verix solution."
"The ability to identify in real time changes in behavior that are in contrast to expected and past behavior applies to any constituent’s behavior – customers, prescribers, competitors, payers, and even your own sales reps, and the product is also extremely user friendly."
"Verix has improved our processes since the entire sales force now functions on this standardized platform, which allows for smoother channels of communication throughout the team."
 

Cons

"It will be better if SAS can accommodate survey data as some organisations would like to load their survey results and analyse in SAS."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"The integration aspects of the solution could be improved."
"Many things are missing, including Infomaps, Facebook connection, and better objects, and forecasting, auto-charting, and correlation are only available in exploration but should be available in reports."
"SAS Visual Analytics was often prone to crashing. Modules with barely 20 to 30 GB datasets took a lot of time to load even after satisfying necessary software specifications (RAM, etc.)."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"The product as used was a little unintuitive and required some workarounds for tasks that should have been easy e.g. automating a query for populating a data table."
"There are tools in the market that have very slick graphical interface features."
"Currently there are 10 applications in the solution such as product launch and funnel. In the future I would like to see Verix add additional analytical applications so that an even greater range of the business aspects is covered."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing is simple."
"$10,000 per annum for an enterprise license."
"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."
"I work with the tool's free version...The tool's corporate version is very expensive and requires a monthly hire."
"The product is quite expensive."
"It's approximately $114,000 US dollars per year."
"SAS Visual Analytics is expensive, as is the rest of the platform."
"It was licensed for corporate use, and its licensing was on a yearly basis."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
10%
Construction Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise19
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

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 be that our current subscription does not include AI-enabled features, but I wo...
What is your primary use case for SAS Visual Analytics?
I started to work with SAS Visual Analytics ( /products/sas-visual-analytics-reviews ) in 2015. We use it for analysis on ICT expenditure information and ICT personnel information. The analytics ar...
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Sample Customers

Staples, Ausgrid, Scotiabank, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Xcel Energy, and Triad Analytics Solutions.
P&G, Accenture, Roche Diagnostics, KV Pharmaceutical, The Nielsen Company, HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
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