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Amazon SageMaker vs SAS Visual Analytics comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.8
Organizations using Amazon SageMaker achieve ROI through cost reductions and increased revenue, especially in fraud detection and advertising.
Sentiment score
6.0
SAS Visual Analytics offers efficient analytics and revenue generation, though costs and ROI vary due to operational components.
The return on investment varies by use case and offers significant value in revenue increases and cost saving capabilities, especially in real time fraud detection and targeted advertisements.
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Amazon SageMaker definitely provides ROI.
Machine Learning Engineer at Macquarie Group
I have seen a return on investment with SAS Visual Analytics, as it includes AI capabilities and automatic functions with scheduling, allowing reports to be made from live data, which contributes to a new vertical for revenue generation.
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
The enterprise subscription offers more benefits, ensuring valuable outcomes.
Senior Manager: ICT Compliance at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
AWS documentation helps users, but support experiences vary, with premium users usually receiving better assistance and quicker responses.
Sentiment score
6.6
Customer service experiences for SAS Visual Analytics vary widely, with strong technical support but mixed business query satisfaction levels.
The technical support from AWS is excellent.
Lead Consultant at Saama
The response time is generally swift, usually within seven to eight hours.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
The support is very good with well-trained engineers.
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
They provide callbacks to ensure clarity and resolution of any queries.
Senior Manager: ICT Compliance at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION
They assist us when we encounter issues and provide help while we complete tasks.
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Amazon SageMaker offers scalable solutions for businesses of all sizes, though resource allocation and costs require careful management.
Sentiment score
7.6
SAS Visual Analytics excels in scalability and handling data, though high costs and resource needs are noted.
It works very well with large data sets from one terabyte to fifty terabytes.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
The availability of GPU instances can be a challenge, requiring proper planning.
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Amazon SageMaker is scalable and works well from an infrastructure perspective.
Lead Consultant at Saama
SAS Visual Analytics scalability is very good and positive.
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Amazon SageMaker offers high stability with minimal glitches; proper configuration ensures consistent performance, despite occasional manageable challenges.
Sentiment score
7.2
SAS Visual Analytics is generally stable, though performance can vary with data volume, hardware, and user expertise.
There are issues, but they are easily detectable and fixable, with smooth error handling.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
The product has been stable and scalable.
Data Lake and MLOps Lead at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
I rate the stability of Amazon SageMaker between seven and eight.
Lead Consultant at Saama
SAS Visual Analytics is stable and manages data effectively without crashing.
Senior Manager: ICT Compliance at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon SageMaker users seek better integration, clearer documentation, improved scalability, enhanced features, and reduced deployment costs for greater accessibility.
SAS Visual Analytics struggles with performance, integration, user-friendliness, high costs, and lacks robust API, visualization, and support resources.
Having all documentation easily accessible on the front page of SageMaker would be a great improvement.
AWS & Azure Engineer at a media company with 11-50 employees
Both SageMaker and Lambda are powerful tools, and combining their capabilities could be beneficial.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
Integration of the latest machine learning models like the new Amazon LLM models could enhance its capabilities.
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Training on SAS Visual Analytics is required to help overcome these issues.
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
In terms of configuration, I would like to see AI capabilities since many applications are now integrating AI.
Senior Manager: ICT Compliance at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise users find Amazon SageMaker pricing reasonable but costly, competitive with Azure and Google Cloud, with expensive querying.
SAS Visual Analytics is costly, deterring smaller companies, with licenses and additional costs potentially exceeding $114,000 annually.
The pricing is high, around an eight.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
The cost for small to medium instances is not very high.
AWS & Azure Engineer at a media company with 11-50 employees
The pricing can be up to eight or nine out of ten, making it more expensive than some cloud alternatives yet more economical than on-premises setups.
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Amazon SageMaker offers key features like AutoML, seamless AWS integration, hyperparameter tuning, and easy model deployment for accessible machine learning.
SAS Visual Analytics offers a user-friendly interface with no-code features, enabling intuitive insights through advanced visualization and AI integration.
At a time we can develop simultaneously and work on different use cases in the same notebook itself.
Machine Learning Engineer at Macquarie Group
SageMaker supports building, training, and deploying AI models from scratch, which is crucial for my ML project.
AWS & Azure Engineer at a media company with 11-50 employees
SageMaker is fully managed, offers high availability, flexibility with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet, and comes with pre-trained algorithms for forecasting, anomaly detection, and more.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
After implementing SAS Visual Analytics, we have generated a new way to generate revenue by providing live data visuals to our clients and making our team aware of data in real time, which has had a significant positive impact.
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
The ability to query information from our Excel data into SAS to view specific data is invaluable.
Senior Manager: ICT Compliance at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon SageMaker
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (4th), AI Development Platforms (4th)
SAS Visual Analytics
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. Amazon SageMaker is designed for Data Science Platforms and holds a mindshare of 3.2%, down 6.0% compared to last year.
SAS Visual Analytics, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 1.6% mindshare, down 3.4% since last year.
Data Science Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon SageMaker3.2%
Databricks6.8%
Dataiku4.5%
Other85.5%
Data Science Platforms
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAS Visual Analytics1.6%
Tableau Enterprise9.3%
Qlik Sense4.7%
Other84.4%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

NeerajPokala - PeerSpot reviewer
Machine Learning Engineer at Macquarie Group
Automation has transformed document review and reduces manual effort in financial workflows
There will be many features in Amazon SageMaker itself, but we don't know whether the feature is there or not, particularly the documentation part. Whatever the new releases will be, they will not post very fast. It is very easy to deploy Amazon SageMaker. The documentation is also very good. It is good because we are able to collaborate with our notebooks. At a time we can develop simultaneously and work on different use cases in the same notebook itself.
Namanjbaraiya Baru - PeerSpot reviewer
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
Interactive dashboards have transformed clinical reporting and now support real time decisions
The best features of SAS Visual Analytics include performing data manipulation. I would characterize this as making data ready, transforming data, and making new variables through code while utilizing low-code and no-code facilities. In my experience, low-code features in SAS Visual Analytics help when I need to create a new variable. For instance, I can extract a date through the data roll step, and with no-code features, I can perform report creation by simply using drag and drop functionality. After implementing SAS Visual Analytics, we have generated a new way to generate revenue by providing live data visuals to our clients and making our team aware of data in real time, which has had a significant positive impact.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
10%
Government
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise19
 

Questions from the Community

How would you compare Databricks vs Amazon SageMaker?
We researched AWS SageMaker, but in the end, we chose Databricks. Databricks is a Unified Analytics Platform designed to accelerate innovation projects. It is based on Spark so it is very fast. It...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon SageMaker?
If you manage it effectively, their pricing is reasonable. It's similar to anything in the cloud; if you don't manage it properly, it can be expensive, but if you do, it's fine.
What needs improvement with Amazon SageMaker?
It takes some work. We need to refer to the documentation. The documentation is good regarding what other providers we are able to connect with. Out of five, I can say 3.5.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAS Visual Analytics?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was positive, and I am happy with it.
What needs improvement with SAS Visual Analytics?
SAS Visual Analytics offers many options, and new users unfamiliar with SAS might face some difficulties. Training on SAS Visual Analytics is required to help overcome these issues.
What is your primary use case for SAS Visual Analytics?
My main use case for SAS Visual Analytics is making visual reports such as graphs, gauge plots, outlier plots, geomaps, and presenting my clinical data into a report or an interactive dashboard whi...
 

Also Known As

AWS SageMaker, SageMaker
SAS BI
 

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Sample Customers

DigitalGlobe, Thomson Reuters Center for AI and Cognitive Computing, Hotels.com, GE Healthcare, Tinder, Intuit
Staples, Ausgrid, Scotiabank, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Xcel Energy, and Triad Analytics Solutions.
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