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SAS Visual Analytics

SAS Visual Analytics

What Is SAS Visual Analytics?

SAS Visual Analytics support sharing and collaboration of insights to decision makers as they make collective decisions as part of their tasks or process or jobs, including in embedded insights using APIs and SDKs.

Add creative visualization with 3rd-party JavaScript libraries, open source development resources for developers and REST APIs for any client language to access SAS analytics, data and services.

Anyone can take decisive action and stay agile as business needs demand quick response.

Who Uses SAS Visual Analytics?

The entire organization can discover insights and inspire action including data scientists, business analysts, analytical explorers and insights consumers like CXOs.

SAS Visual Analytics Software - Dynamic Visuals
SAS Visual Analytics Software - Explore and Visualize Data
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Reviews of SAS Visual Analytics

Average score

Overall
4.3
Ease of Use
4.2
Customer Service
4.0
Features
4.5
Value for Money
3.8

Reviews by company size (employees)

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  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001

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5
43%
4
48%
3
7%
1
2%
Martha
Martha
CEO in Canada
Verified LinkedIn User
Media Production, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

SAS Review

5.0 7 months ago

Comments: When I was first sent for SAS training, I had no idea of the Power of SAS. The training for all the how many courses I had to take.... the training was ran by extremely wonderful teachers. This is the other thing about SAS Institute. Their teachers are amazing. You walk out of each workshop / course breathing SAS.

Pros:

SAS is one of the most wonderful Software ever. I have only been using it for 29yrs. I am not joking. SAS is that good.

Cons:

Anyone who has used SAS, seriously used it, would have a hard time finding negatives.

Christhian
Data Scientist in France
Information Technology & Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great Statistical tools

4.0 last year

Comments: Good experience using SAS!!Recommend it!

Pros:

SAS is a great and powerful tools for analytic.

Cons:

Although it is oriented for Analytics there's a lack of flexibility on the features.

Sai
Executive Director in US
Management Consulting, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source
Source: SoftwareAdvice

Alternatives Considered:

SAS Misrepresentative Sales Team

3.0 3 years ago

Comments: We love the software, however our experience with the sales team and return on our price point has been very negative.

Pros:

The software itself is very versatile and is extremely equipped for Cloud Based setup and use.

Cons:

We are a women and minority owned small business who were extremely excited to become SAS software users in 2021. In spite of the high upfront cost to our small business (we paid $14,000+ for a year or use), we received a notification our software would be expiring less than five months after we had been connected to our technical setup representatives and had the software for less than six months. This was after we had let the sales representative [SENSITIVE CONTENT] know that we were not ready to sign on until Q4. However, [SENSITIVE CONTENT] and his colleague [SENSITIVE CONTENT] stated we would lose our discounts and pressured us to sign stating we would be really helping out SAS' Q3 Closing sales. We started early in good faith only to find out the people to help us get ready for setup weren't even provided to us until just before December. The SAS team stated our original technical onboarding person had an illness or emergency and then we didn't hear back with a new contact [SENSITIVE CONTENT] until about a month later.  Sending an early licensing termination to us for software that the SAS company failed to provide a technical setup contact for until well past the first 60 days is fraudulent.  In spite of our good faith sign up in Q3 based on the SAS sales teams statements, we were left post signing with no support from a technical setup representatives provided to us until two months later.

SAS Institute Response

2 years ago

Thank you so much for taking the time to share a business review; your feedback is important to us. We're so sorry you weren't satisfied with your SAS experience and want to follow up if you'd like to email [email protected] to ensure you receive the support you need. We appreciate you taking the time to help us improve our customer experience and look forward to assisting you.

Rono
Rono
Web Developer in Kenya
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

SAS Visual Analytics is powerful and uncomplicated. These are the key recipes for a great software!

4.0 last year

Comments: Overall I love SAS Visual Analytic's intuitive and explicit nature.

Pros:

I like most the fact that even obvious features have been elaborated and made user friendly.

Cons:

I do not like how SAS Visual Analytics becomes slow when I try to analyse a large dataset.

Brad
Brad
Business Intelligence / Data Analyst in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Higher Education, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

SAS Visual Analytics Review

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

I like the ability to quickly pick up the software and gain insights about our data, as well as its ability to plug seamlessly with the SAS products used by our institution. The dashboard canvas is easy to navigate in a minimal amount of time and easy-to-find tutorials teach advanced functions.

Cons:

I dislike the adaptive canvas sometimes. In other BI tools, the canvas resizes reasonable to the end-users resolution but there are times that SAS VA makes images used on these canvas' either too small or too large.

Tapan
Tapan
Data Analyst in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Internet, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

SAS BI - Scalable and Comprehensive BI Tool

4.0 7 years ago

Pros:

It's Visual Data Exploration capabilities to visualize the data and find patterns quickly is amazing. The features such as heat maps helps us understand where most of the traffic for an advertiser is coming from and helps the advertiser to target the customers more effectively. Creating Dashboards doesn't require a lot of technical know how and anyone can start making dashboards. Also, these dashboards and reports simplifies collaboration as different people are able to share their comments by directly commenting on the visuals or charts. Another feature which interests me is that it allows to integrate with other open source platforms like R.

Cons:

Such a comprehensive set of features with a brand like SAS obviously comes with a price but I find the price to be over the top for the small and medium organizations. Only a few open source platforms are supported and lot of common ones used by a lot of smaller organizations have been left out. Further, user interface looks dated and needs a facelift to match other players like Tableau.

Donald
Donald
Information Analyst in Canada
Verified LinkedIn User
Financial Services, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Very powerful, flexible, and works with all third parties we need.

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: The ability to connect with all third parties (that we use) and merge their data together in one system then analyze the structured information in a consistent and reliable way makes SAS Business Intelligence a very powerful system. The ability to run code that we made 10 years ago is also very nice.

Pros:

The ability to connect with all third parties (that we use) and merge their data together in one system then analyze the structured information in a consistent and reliable way makes SAS Business Intelligence a very powerful system. The ability to run code that we made 10 years ago is also very nice.

Cons:

The complexity and inconstancy of the product is not always the most desirable. Often times doing similar things requires very different approaches. SAS Business Intelligence has been around for such a long time that different "procs", as they are called in their system, often have extreme variance in syntax.

Piyush
Business Intelligence Engineer in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

SAS Business Intelligence Suite is an extra ordinary software to deal with everythng related to data

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: It is complete BI suite. You can do everything with Data.

Pros:

I am using this since last 8 years and you can do everything with data using SAS BI. I have used it for ETL, reports and for modelling but we can created dashboards and so many other other things.

Cons:

Biggest disadvantage is cost factor. SAS is quite costly and small organisations cannot really afford it. Now we have freewares in market like python and R replacing SAS.

Jason
Jason
Hospitality Intelligence Consultant in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Hospitality, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

SAS Enterprise Guide

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: Great for building process flows for projects and managing data.

Pros:

Great for building process flows. Easy to use for people with no programming background.

Cons:

For as nice as it is for people without a programming background, it can also be a hindrance for those of us who do. Sometimes the flexibility to do things is not there.

Onur
Customer Value Manager in Türkiye
Verified LinkedIn User
Media Production, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

SAS : Kind of heavy analytical tool

3.0 7 years ago

Pros:

It has lots of out-of-box packages. Before open-source era it was some kind of industry standart. It plays well with big data.

Cons:

Open source platforms are becoming popular. It's still too expensive. Post-sales support is not good.

eric
Risk Management Supervisor in US
Financial Services, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great for Dashboards meant for sharing data with end users

5.0 last year

Comments: Great!

Pros:

You can manage all users and create any real time reports for all end users in the company.

Cons:

Data connection can be hard if all servers are on another operating system from Cloud Analytical Server

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Biotechnology, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Great tool for analyzing big datasets!

5.0 last year

Pros:

The software is intuitive in all areas to use for both statisticians and non-statisticians. It's a point and click software with it's own scripting language.

Cons:

How expensive it is to use and maintain. SAS products are generally expensive.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Automotive, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Must try!!!

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

Impactful, simple yet powerful.Easy to install as well

Cons:

Requires additional ram size for effective functioning,file sharing is not possible

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Banking, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

SAS for data wrangling

4.0 5 years ago

Comments: I am working as a full-time SAS developer in my current organization. SAS is easy to use and good for data wrangling purposes. If your primary goal if to work on model development I would prefer other languages like python and R which has numerous libraries and free to use.

Pros:

I worked as a Data wrangler and data scientist in my current organization. I like the ecosystem and customer support of SAS. It is easy to learn if you have basics SQL knowledge. It is faster than python/R. Preferred over open source if data privacy is a concern.

Cons:

The user community is not so great as compared with another open-source. SAS is pretty expensive so companies are now switching to open sources like python and R.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

My job is to test the best BI software and make sales advice,this program is suitable for the market

4.0 7 years ago

Comments: It is one of the most intuitive software I've ever tried, very user friendly and very efficient (both usability and ease)

Pros:

Excellent visualization tools such as heat maps, all in all is an easy software because it does not require long training sessions (for the front end is very intuitive), everyone can do dashboard autonomously (once the programmer has prepared the cloud data and standard fields). Excellent feature that allows users to share comments directly on the charts (on the Qlik suite is not possible for example)

Cons:

It would be interesting to add the tool to create stories, or dynamic presentations (such as power point), obviously the price is high (like the most BI software), so it makes the software suitable only for large companies. The minimum requirements for accommodating the engine on the server are high

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Financial Services, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Powerful but dated

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: Good stuff. Dated but works.
Nothing to brag about, but checks all the right boxes

Pros:

SAS is what started the party. It's so much faster than the legacy of Cobol and mainframe based packages. Love the advanced features and the power.

Cons:

Licences are expensive. If you are using SQL you miss Moss of the raw power. SAS procs arenot the most I tuitive. And most importantly, newer packages re after 10x or more quicker. Eg. IBM aginity netezza

kala mallik
graduate research assistant in US
Fishery, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

user friendly software

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: i came from non-coding back ground so it was very tough for me. when i learnt R, I was worried more and then shifted to SAS. The SAS is very easy to use and user friendly, no need to type every line unlike R software. Easy to analyze the large data, easy to recognize the mistakes and it took very less time to learn compared to R. I would recommend SAS for software analysis and data visualization. This is the best software in terms of analyzing the data expeditiously.

Pros:

No need to type every code like R software. sas is helpful in predicting the codes and very easy to operate when compared to R software. Also its very easy to identify the mistake in case if we g wrong.

Cons:

there is no cons, easy to start, follow the instructions, user friendly.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

powerful tool for data analytics and data visualization

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: I have a great experience with this tool as this is very easy to use and EDA(Exploratory Data Analysis) through charts are very much effective and attractive

Pros:

Coding is pretty much easy and visualization is best. Also, customer support is high and It can fetch billions of records for processing and processing speed is very high.

Cons:

Only one factor which makes negative about this product is the price, which is really very high. For which Tableau and R can work together for giving the same results.

David
Research scientist in US
Hospital & Health Care, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Wuss drm

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: Very positive

Pros:

Very intuative interface and functionality makes sense

Cons:

Costly my not be getting good value for pirice

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

SAS VA is very easy to use. Drag and drop interface to create charts and tables.

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: Better decision making. Getting more from our data. Do not need to think about all the possibilities before publishing charts and tables: let the user decide.

Pros:

Very easy to use. All necessary charts are there, and more. It is very simple to add data and then to add more calculated fields. Since data is in memory, everything is fast. You make a change to a filter and your new chart is there. You can start with the Visual Analytics module, and grow from there.

Cons:

The security features, which seems more than adequate, are sometimes harder to use. It is not easy to see what amount of storage your are currently using with all the stocked data.

Larry
Assistant Director of Institutional Research and Information Management
Primary/Secondary Education, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source
Source: SoftwareAdvice

The best of the best

5.0 7 years ago

Pros:

Easy to use, more features and auxiliary components than you could ever wish for, great customer service and technical support.

Cons:

I cannot think of many cons for this product. The only thing that might be considered a con is the server architecture required.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Financial Services, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Its Usable

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: its has various functions, however, its is not easy to use

Pros:

- SAS provides advanced analytics of data in an organization - It can also provide predictive analytics of data - It can be used to monitor money laundering in a financial system - Users can setup alerts when suspicious transactions are identified

Cons:

- It is not easy to use. Too complicated for new users to understand without help - Integration to an organisations system takes time

prathibha
sys admin in US
Education Management, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

review

4.0 4 years ago

Comments: It was okay tool. The data queries built using data builder will break in UI, if you update the underlinig code.

Pros:

Free customer support. Reports load fast using Visual analytics, because the data is readily available in the memory

Cons:

Installation or configuration can never be fully automated, as it always involves manual steps. Sometimes hotfixes/patches might not come in timely manner

Ahmed
Biostatistician in US
Biotechnology, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Amazing software!

5.0 3 years ago

Pros:

Ease of use makes it top of the list in the industry

Cons:

Not as optimized as preferred, hopefully it gets more efficient

Steven
Secretary Treasurer in US
Warehousing, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Sas for business analytics

1.0 8 years ago

Comments: We have been using SAS since the 1980's
We like it, but find it pricy for a small firm such as ourselves

Pros:

Feature rich

Cons:

Tough to learn