We performed a comparison between SAS Visual Analytics and Tableau 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."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."
"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."
"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."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"We frequently utilize visualizations using maps and different objects, all with rich coloring options. And tooltips are absolutely essential for us. Tooltips, like the pop-up descriptions when you hover over some object or graph. Those tooltips in Tableau are great features."
"It allows us to basically understand and evaluate our numbers in an expedient manner."
"The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI."
"The solution is being delivered to our customer, who appreciates the insights generated from the reports. It is easy for them to drill into the details and use interactive charts."
"The most valuable feature is the user experience."
"The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts."
"It has been the best tool to work with from a self-service point of view."
"It is easy to adapt visualizers to have interactive conversations among decision-makers."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"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."
"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."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"SAS Visual Analytics could improve by making it more accessible for users outside the organization."
"Requires a lot of user training."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"The charts need to be improved. The drawings and the visualization need to be more accurate."
"When we put more information on a single screen, it gets compressed and superimposed in many places while scrolling."
"Licensing and pricing options could be made better so that more users would be able to use it."
"I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables."
"I think Tableau could be improved with cheaper or more flexible licensing, though this is a generic improvement and applies for any product. It would be better if they had more flexible payment and licensing plans so that they could suit small- and mid-sized organizations."
"The customization requires a lot of effort and should be simplified. The performance could be better."
SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 36 reviews while Tableau is ranked 1st in Data Visualization with 293 reviews. SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.2, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Dataiku and SAS Enterprise Miner, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, Databricks and SAP Analytics Cloud. See our SAS Visual Analytics vs. Tableau report.
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It totally depends on what SAS licensing are in place. Tableau provides integration with R as far as I know.
These products all do more or less the same things but often in a very different way. The differences that I am able to report are mainly:
-Look and feel and here Tableau is definitely superior.
-Usability, both on the user and developer side and here the products are not very far apart, I would say Tableau a little better.
-Managed data volumes and here SAS is unmatched (in Unicredit I have seen an installation that serves about 11000 users).
Tableau is a great tool for visual analytics but when it comes to statistical analysis, it has limited features. You can find basic descriptive statistics like mean, median, mode, SD, Skewness, Kurtosis, etc but for advanced statistical analysis, you can have machine learning models too along with advanced forecasting. If your work does not involve advanced statistical analysis then Tableau is a great tool for basic statistical analysis. In case you have further doubts, please feel free to ask.