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."The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to build reports, then customize for different groups instead of having to build multiple reports. Therefore, the ability to build customization in the reports for different groups."
"It is a reliable solution for our needs."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"Having the intelligence server sit in the middle is huge for us. It is going to save us a lot of time, make our work a lot simpler, make it easier for deployment, and getting the reports in the hands of our users sooner."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"It is easy to use and visually very appealing. One thing that sets it apart is that it has got a great ETL tool. As compared to some of the other solutions, it is much easier to process data from other applications in MicroStrategy. That's why we prefer using it."
"I have had a lot of projects where we had a lot of users, like thousands of users, and the data was in one report which could bring in six million records. MicroStrategy is doing a good job on scalability."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"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."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"We're starting to open it up to more and more people to give them the ability and start looking at these things themselves, but it's not the most intuitive system, Enterprise Manager that is, so it's tough. We're trying to bridge the gap between usability and who we let in the system, because you're not going to come in and just pick it up."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"It is actually pretty complicated to use. It is complicated enough that user adaptation is sometimes difficult. We developed more experts rather than people using it."
"We did have issues with stability, and that was because we were co-located with another business unit, and we outgrew them on the unit. So we had to get to a separate physical instance."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
"Colours used on report objects"
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"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."
"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."
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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