SAS Visual Analytics Reviews

• Correlation
• Forecasting
• Autocharting
• Geomaps

The correlation gives us a better understanding of new data. Also, with auto-charting, it helps in identifying the best chart for the categories and measures selected.

Many things missing, including -

• Infomaps
• Facebook connection
• Better objects
• Forecasting, auto-charting, and correlation are only available in exploration but should be available in reports
• Server issues - it is difficult to connect to the public LASR server at times, then requesting SAS support and waiting for them to answer
  

I have been using this solution for the past year.

At times it hangs with some objects like gauges, and throws up errors like "ask your system administrator." After logging in, the issue is resolved automatically.

There are times when it's not responsive.

No issues encountered.

Customer Service:

5/10.

Technical Support:

5/10.

No previous solution was used.

It's not straightforward, and proper guidance or a manual is required which is not provided by the SAS support team.

We implemented it in-house.

No other options were evaluated.

It's good to go.

• Includes great tools for performing data analysis, executing queries and developing reports. • We can develop all types of reports by using its web based interactive interface. It enables us to build, load, organize, view and save reports based on OLAP cubes and/or relational data from one or more data sources. • It offers us a central platform and support for maintaining consistent metadata, managing huge databases, business rules, data and security definitions. • Ensures our data credibility and consistency, so we can easily manage all of our data integration projects.

• It is expensive. This is BI at the the high end. • Installation is complex. We required expensive professional services for installation. Would be nice to be able to do the install ourselves! • We had compatibility issues while integrating SAS.

We are using SAS because it provides us a complete set of BI capabilities. We use its role based portal to define the access level of each member of our team. I love the wizard-based report creation function which helps us in creating reports with enhanced graphs and skins. I also really like that we can print reports in PDF format and export data in any format to Excel as per our requirements. SAS in my opinion is an excellent BI solution if you have the money.

The variety of graphs and charts make it easy to show the data in a way that's easy to interpret.

It has taken out the step of preparing the reports so it shortened our turnaround time. You only need to prepare the report once. Anytime an updated report is needed, you just need to upload an updated data mart.

There are a lot of technicalities in setting up the product. 

Setting it up will probably take a while.

Setting it up will probably take a while.

There have been no issues with its stability.

There have been no issues scaling it.

Coordinate with your IT department so they'll know the specific requirements of the product.