We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy 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."Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"The product is very mature. It's quite robust and an excellent enterprise-level solution."
"It has landing pages, and that makes life easy for exhibiting things."
"The solution has excellent features available on mobile."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI."
"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."
"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 flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"It integrates well with SAS, making it simple and quick for developers."
"What I really love about the software is that I have never struggled in implementing it for complex business requirements. It is good for highly sophisticated and specialized statistics in the areas that some people tend to call artificial intelligence. It is used for everything that involves visual presentation and analysis of highly sophisticated statistics for forecasting and other purposes."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"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."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"The solution has a very non-logical user usage part. It has a library mode where users can access all the data, reports, and dashboards, but they also can be accessed from a platform. They have to log into the platform. The user experience is confusing for the users. MicroStrategy needs to define which one they will use. Some functionality isn’t available in library mode but is available in the portal. There should be Office integration. For example, if I do a presentation, then I should be able to add a chart to my presentation."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"I would like to see more integration."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"Colours used on report objects"
"The charts and tables could use better sorting, primarily using other variables than the ones on the figure. If they could implement views like in the older version (previous to Viya), it would be very nice."
"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."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dataiku. See our MicroStrategy vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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