We performed a comparison between Qlik Sense and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It allows you to create a new column using split on a current column, which we find very useful."
"It has allowed us to manage our staff more effectively and frees up time for our analysts to analyze new problems and opportunities."
"It is extremely clean to view, easy to use, and intuitive to develop with. There are a host of online resources to provide assistance to new users."
"The product is very stable."
"The flexibility of Qlik Sense and the addition of 3rd party extensions allow us to extend the use of Qlik Sense beyond analytics and bring the platform to the core of our digital workplace, augmenting analytics with workflow, and team collaboration."
"It has high performance when interacting with dashboards and reports."
"From siloed reports, we went to a centralized knowledge hub, combining cross-functional data, and helping decision-makers see the data as a whole, therefore making more informed decisions."
"On the fly questions can be answered with the "Qlik" of a button and drive forward discussions about policy, mission, and goals."
"It provided the capability to visualize a bunch of data in an organized way."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"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."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"Quick deployment to dashboards and analytics features (using SAS Visual Statistics and Enterprise Guide). Easy to create a simple forecast and discover business insights using segmentation tools."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"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."
"Dates. My goodness, working with dates in set analysis can be a nightmare! Much room for improvement."
"Error handling is an area that needs to be improved."
"Branding is not the product's strongest point. More control over the presentation colors would be great. A basic printing function would also be good. Easy connection to external tools like R Server would be nice."
"If a team wants to keep track of source code changes, there is not an out-of-the-box solution for it."
"Integrated maps should become part of the Qlik Sense, as opposed to buying an additional module just to power the BI, which has it built-in natively within the application."
"The management console appearance needs improvement to its look."
"The one thing I would probably try to add is some kind of tutorial since the tool has a lot of options to work with, and for someone who is just starting and does not have any prior experience, it can be a little overwhelming."
"Currently, we are not very happy with the iPad or iPhone app because it is not working as we want."
"SAS Visual Analytics could improve by making it more accessible for users outside the organization."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"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."
"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."
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
"The solution should improve its graphics."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 36 reviews. Qlik Sense is rated 8.6, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset and Microsoft Power BI, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and IBM Cognos. See our Qlik Sense vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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