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3.8 out of 5
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What is SAS Enterprise Miner?

SAS Enterprise Miner is a solution to create accurate predictive and descriptive models on large volumes of data across different sources in the organization. SAS Enterprise Miner offers many features and functionalities for the business analysts to model their data. Some of the business applications are for detecting fraud, minimizing risk, resource demands, reducing asset downtime, campaigns and reduce customer attrition.
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SAS Enterprise Miner is the #7 ranked solution in top Data Mining solutions and #18 ranked solution in top Data Science Platforms. PeerSpot users give SAS Enterprise Miner an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. SAS Enterprise Miner is most commonly compared to KNIME: SAS Enterprise Miner vs KNIME. SAS Enterprise Miner is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 25% of all views.
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SAS Enterprise Miner mindshare

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As of April 2025, the mindshare of SAS Enterprise Miner in the Data Mining category stands at 4.3%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

  • "I like the way the product visually shows the data pipeline."
  • "I found the ease of use of the solution the most valuable. Additionally, other valuable features include: the user interface, power to extract data, compatibility with other technologies (specifically with PS400), and automation of several tasks."
  • "The technical support is very good."

Room for Improvement

  • "The product must provide better integration with cloud-native technologies."
  • "The initial setup is challenging if doing it for the first time."
  • "The solution is much more complex than other options."

Pricing

SAS Enterprise Miner is perceived as a highly expensive solution with complex licensing models, including annual renewals at approximately 35% of the initial cost. Users highlight the necessity of purchasing licenses for each component, which increases overall expense. While costly for individuals, enterprises may find value in bulk licenses. Users suggest improvements in licensing flexibility to better access functionalities. Alternative solutions like R, particularly Microsoft R, are often considered for their cost-effectiveness and flexibility.
  • "The solution must improve its licensing models."
  • "The solution is expensive for an individual, but for an enterprise/institution (purchasing bulk licenses), it is not a high price for the use that will come from it."
  • "This solution is for large corporations because not everybody can afford it."

Popular Use Cases

SAS Enterprise Miner is primarily utilized for tasks such as data mining, machine learning, modeling, and predictive analytics. Users employ it for text mining, business processes, forecasting models, and data management. It is applied across various domains including banking, insurance, and healthcare for purposes like ad hoc analysis, client consolidation, structured and unstructured data mining, and fraud modeling techniques. Users often focus on the analytical tools section for clustering and classification.

Scalability

SAS Enterprise Miner is scalable, though performance may decline with raw data over 50GB. Costs rise with scaling, and some require multi-socket server licensing. Users appreciate its scalability, but costs and organization size may affect opinions. Users generally report no issues scaling, with varying needs and usage patterns within organizations. The tool helps scale analytical projects, and its scalability is rated favorably, though knowledge and experience levels differ among users.

Stability

SAS Enterprise Miner is noted for strong stability, particularly version 14.3. Users find it stable and reliable, without major glitches or crashes. Compatibility issues with Java can arise, requiring monthly system restarts. Some report variances in accuracy, impacting AI forecasting. It's praised for flexibility in parameters compared to other professional programs. Stability can be machine-dependent, especially with low RAM handling extensive data. Most users do not encounter significant stability challenges and rate it highly.
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Review data by company size

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
University
12%
Educational Organization
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
Healthcare Company
5%
Real Estate/Law Firm
4%
Pharma/Biotech Company
3%
Government
3%
Performing Arts
2%
Retailer
2%
Media Company
2%
Energy/Utilities Company
2%
Construction Company
2%
Outsourcing Company
2%
Hospitality Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Comms Service Provider
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Newspaper
1%
Non Profit
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Transportation Company
1%
Venture Capital & Private Equity Firm
1%
Agriculture
1%

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SAS Enterprise Miner was previously known as Enterprise Miner.

SAS Enterprise Miner customers

Generali Hellas, Gitanjali Group, Gloucestershire Constabulary, GS Home Shopping, HealthPartners, IAG New Zealand, iJET, Invacare

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Executive Head of analytics at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
Verified user of SAS Enterprise Miner
Sep 5, 2023
A stable product that is easy to deploy and can be used for structured and unstructured data mining

Pros

"I like the way the product visually shows the data pipeline."

Cons

"The product must provide better integration with cloud-native technologies."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for predictive analytics to do structured and unstructured data mining.

What is most valuable?

I like the way the product visually shows the data pipeline.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of SAS Enterprise Miner
Nov 10, 2020
Good technical support but too complex and not open-source

Pros

"The technical support is very good."

Cons

"The solution is much more complex than other options."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily just use the analytical tool section of the solution.

What is most valuable?

The stability is okay.

The technical support is very good.

*Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Analytics Lead at Pegasus
Verified user of SAS Enterprise Miner
Dec 23, 2019
Product version discussed: 14.2
Good stability, very good data analysis tool pack and excellent documentation

Pros

"Most of the features, especially on the data analysis tool pack, are really good. The way they do clustering and output is great. You can do fairly elaborate outputs. The results, the ensembles, all of these, are fantastic."

Cons

"Virtualization could be much better."

What is our primary use case?

The solution can be used in any domain, including banking, insurance, health care, partitions, classifications, etc. It's basically a complete solution, that helps with data client consolidation.

How has it helped my organization?

It's a VSL service provider, so improvement to an organization depends on how the client designs the implementation for the plan. Clients would be better reviewers of how the solution has improved their organizations.

*Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Executive Head of analytics at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
Verified user of SAS Enterprise Miner
Jan 1, 2023
Excellent integration and the data management and analytics are key features

Pros

"Good data management and analytics. "

Cons

"Technical support could be improved. "

What is our primary use case?

I'm a user of this solution and our use case is mostly for data management and analytics. The solution is on a server with access to client applications. We have about 20 people who are direct users of this product. I'm the head of data engineering and we're customers of SAS Miner.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of the solution is  data management and analytics. They also have very good integration. 

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Professor at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of SAS Enterprise Miner
Jul 27, 2020
Good GUI, an easy initial setup, and very flexible

Pros

"The solution is able to handle quite large amounts of data beautifully."

Cons

"While I don't personally need tutorials, I can't say that it wouldn't be helpful for others to have some to help them navigate and operate the system."

What is our primary use case?

I'm working on a research project and we're trying to create clusters of homogeneous residents with respect to their ability or their risk of generating pressure ulcers.

What is most valuable?

The solution is able to handle quite large amounts of data beautifully.

The modeling and the cluster analysis and the market-based analysis are the solution's most valuable aspects.

I like the flexibility in that I can put SAS code into Enterprise Miner nodes. I'm able to do everything I need to do, even if it's not part of Enterprise Miner. I can implement it using SAS code.

The GUI is good.

The initial setup is fairly easy to accomplish.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Data Analyst at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Verified user of SAS Enterprise Miner
Jan 31, 2020
Decision tree creation helps with modeling and analysis, and it has a nice user interface

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the decision tree creation."

Cons

"The ease of use can be improved. When you are new it seems a bit complex."

What is our primary use case?

At this time the primary use case of this solution for ad hoc analysis.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the decision tree creation.

I like the interface, I think that it's ok. It's useful and helps you complete the things that you need to with the modeling and the analysis.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Senior Business Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of SAS Enterprise Miner
Dec 11, 2019
Good for modeling and data mining but needs to show development history

Pros

"The solution is very good for data mining or any mining issues."

Cons

"The solution is very stable, but we do have some problems with discrepancies involving SAS not matching with the latest Java versions. It's not stable in cases where SAS tries to run on a different version because SAS doesn't connect with the latest Java update. Once a month we need to restart systems from scratch."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution for modeling and a lot of business processes with lots of data.

What is most valuable?

The solution is very good for data mining or any mining issues.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Head Of Risk Management at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Verified user of SAS Enterprise Miner
Mar 18, 2021
A comprehensive data analytics tool with several valuable features, satisfactory technical support, and a stable build

Pros

"I found the ease of use of the solution the most valuable. Additionally, other valuable features include: the user interface, power to extract data, compatibility with other technologies (specifically with PS400), and automation of several tasks."

Cons

"The initial setup is challenging if doing it for the first time."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case of the solution was to perform fraud modeling techniques for a financial institution.

What is most valuable?

I found the ease of use of the solution the most valuable. Additionally, other valuable features include: the user interface, power to extract data, compatibility with other technologies (specifically with PS400), and automation of several tasks.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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