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."The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are its intuitiveness and ease to use."
"PowerBi is used to import our production data and generate dashboards, then integrates other Excel sheets to provide managers dashboards. This helps them get insights to make better OEE improvement decisions, mainly where to focus resources. We became able to see indicators from any time frame (day, week, month, or year), then could make better decisions."
"Tech support is very helpful."
"The best feature of this solution is the way you can plan, communicate, and visualize all the knowledge you extract from the data for the customers. I like the way you can show or visualize the information a client needs to answer a business question."
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"MS SQL & SQL Server Analysis Services."
"The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"They should add mobile access."
"Visual Analytics is very easy to use. I use Visual Analytics for all the typical use cases except text mining. I used it to analyze data and monitor statistics, not text mining. I also use it for data visualization as well as creating interactive dashboards and infographics."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"The technical support services are good."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
"It integrates well with SAS, making it simple and quick for developers."
"It provided the capability to visualize a bunch of data in an organized way."
"The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."
"The interface could be improved."
"We need more integration capabilities."
"From an improvement perspective, I think if the Power BI developers of that platform would really focus on being more detailed and specific on the error messages, it would help a lot of developers troubleshoot and maintain the report ECT or the dashboard ECT."
"The admin view could be improved by making it more simplified to manage a users' activity and other things."
"The default parameters of the prompt could be improved by including a dynamic option."
"Their technical support can be better. They normally take too long to escalate and resolve a case."
"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."
"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."
"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."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"The visualization should be better in SAS Visual Analytics. It is easy to use but when compared to other solutions it is lacking and the support is not very good."
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 36 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.2. 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 and SAS Enterprise Miner. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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