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IBM Smart Analytics vs SAS Analytics comparison

 

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IBM Smart Analytics
Ranking in Data Mining
12th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAS Analytics
Ranking in Data Mining
5th
Average Rating
9.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Data Mining category, the mindshare of IBM Smart Analytics is 0.9%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Analytics is 6.1%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Mining
 

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Adding LA on top of a well deployed & working Tivoli Framework opens up a flood of native logged data points. The visual presentation layer of LA is less than cutting edge.
The IBM monitoring software products (Tivoli) are not easy to instrument and require many separate pieces of the total framework to be operationally functional and useable. That said, adding LA on top of a well deployed & working Tivoli Framework opens up a flood of native logged data points for unstructured search & query. My team had a special need to implement custom alerting on 10s of thousands of MQ channels in a short amount of time, and the traditional approach (also w a Tivoli product) would have been very costly (labor) and time consuming (requiring individual app review). As an alternative, we had a new event stream create to track all MQ channels to generate logs and then used LA to visualize the behavior trends for review, reporting and eventually alerting. The effort took longer than I hoped ~6 months, but the traditional approach would have taken 2+ yrs to review and implement app by app.
AltanAtabarut - PeerSpot reviewer
Good interactive reports and dashboards but expensive to run
You need to constantly jump from data prep to visualization, then back to data for fixing quality, enriching, and visualizing again. Then you start modeling and need to switch back and forth again. Eventually, you have to democratize the results so that anyone can look and interactively question the underlying insights. For all of these purposes - data to BI or data to AI to BI - it is never a linear one way relationship; it's rather a closed loop for continuous analysis monitoring and sharing. If used this way, SAS Visual analytics can enable continuous improvement and innovation in a corporation.
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Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
11%
Educational Organization
8%
University
8%
 

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What do you like most about SAS Analytics?
I like that it is quickly embedding interactive reports and dashboards into a website, Outlook Mail, or even a mobile app.
What needs improvement with SAS Analytics?
The natural language querying and automated preparation of dashboards should be improved. The cost and accessibility should be improved. For a $900 USD/user/annual license you have to set up a $12,...
What is your primary use case for SAS Analytics?
This is an application I use for data prep, data exploration, BI reporting, and some basic automated analytics.
 

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Sample Customers

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