We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI 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."It ingegrates nicely with Office 365."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"Microsoft BI is very easy to set up and use."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"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."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"The technical support services are good."
"When we have a big report with lots of data, the solution slows down quite a lot."
"Microsoft Power BI can be confusing, because it has two languages that you need to learn if you want to use it, and this makes it more difficult for nontechnical users."
"There needs to be improved guidance and documentation for the initial setup of Power BI as it currently remains complex."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."
"I would like to see more visualization options."
"It is easy enough. I don't see any real substantial improvements that are needed. It is great as it is, but its interface could be a bit modern."
"The setup took a lot of tinkering with InfoSec to allow us to do stuff."
"There are a few little things that are predefined and can be done out of the box immediately. There is no business intelligence application that is predefined, which is something some customers or prospects would love to have. Small and mid-sized companies would struggle with it because they prefer something standard that has been predefined by somebody else."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"A bit more flexibility in the temperatization will be helpful."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"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."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and IBM Cognos, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Dataiku and SAS Enterprise Miner. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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