SAS Enterprise Miner vs Weka comparison

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We performed a comparison between SAS Enterprise Miner and Weka based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Mining solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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SAS Enterprise Miner vs. Weka

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Categories and Ranking

SAS Enterprise Miner

Ranking in Data Mining

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Science Platforms (18th)

Weka

Ranking in Data Mining

2nd

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

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Anomaly Detection Tools (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Data Mining category, the mindshare of SAS Enterprise Miner is 4.4%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Weka is 21.1%, up from 20.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Mining

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reviewer1447110

Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Good technical support but too complex and not open-source

We're using Enterprise Guide simultaneously with Enterprise Miner. From my perspective, I believe that open-source analytics tools are closer to fitting our needs. We prefer open-source options like Anaconda. They offer good support and features. Anaconda also integrates well with Jupyter NET, which is important for us. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I'd rate the solution at a five. If there were better protocols and wasn't as complex as it is, I'd rate it a bit higher.

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AwaisAnwar

Treasury Management in Finance Department at National University of Pakistan

Open source, good for basic data mining use cases except for the visualization results

I haven't found it particularly useful. It lacks state-of-the-art algorithms and impressive outcomes. While it might offer insights for basic warehouse tasks, it falls short of deeper understanding and results. Moreover, a new user interface would be great, especially for beginners. Something that guides them through the available tools and helps them achieve their goals. I haven't seen anything like that myself, though maybe it's there and I missed it.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The setup is straightforward. Deployment doesn't take more than 30 minutes."

"he solution is scalable."

"The most valuable feature is that you can use multiple algorithms for creating models and then you can compare the results between them."

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"It is a stable product."

"The path of machine learning in classification and clustering is useful. The GUI can get you results. No programming is needed. No need to write down your script first or send to your model or input your data."

"There are many options where you can fill all of the data pre-processing options that you can implement when you're importing the data. You can also normalize the data and standardize it in an easier way."

"I mainly use this solution for the regression tree, and for its association rules. I run these two methodologies for Weka."

"It doesn’t cost anything to use the product."

"The interface is very good, and the algorithms are the very best."

"I like the machine algorithm for clustering systems. Weka has larger capabilities. There are multiple algorithms that can be used for clustering. It depends upon the user requirements. For clustering, I've used DBSCAN, whereas for supervised learning, I've used AVM and RFT."

"Weka's best features are its user-friendly graphic interface interpretation of data sets and the ease of analyzing data."

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Cons

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

"The user interface of the solution needs improvement. It needs to be more visual."

"Technical support could be improved."

"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."

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

"Virtualization could be much better."

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

"The solution needs an easier interface for the user. The user experience isn't so easy for our clients."

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"The visualization of Weka is subpar and could improve. Machine learning and visualization do not work well together. For example, we want to know how we can we delete empty cells or how can we fill in the empty cells without cleaning the data system and putting it together."

"If there are a lot more lines of code, then we should use another language."

"Weka could be more stable."

"Weka is a little complicated and not necessarily suited for users who aren't skilled and experienced in data science."

"A few people said it became slow after a while."

"If you have one missing value in your dataset and this missing value belongs to a specific attribute and the attribute is a numeric attribute and there is only one missing data, whenever you import this data, the problem is that Weka cannot understand that this is a numeric field. It converts everything into a string, and there is no way to convert the string into numerical math. It's really very complicated."

"In terms of scalability, I think Weka is not prepared to handle a large number of users."

"Within the basic Weka tool, I don't see many tools that are available where we can analyze and visualize the data that well."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution is for large corporations because not everybody can afford it."

"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."

"Currently, I am using an open-source version so I don't know much about the price of this solution."

"As far as I know, Weka is a freeware tool, and I am not aware if they have an online solution or if it is a commercial product."

"We use the free version now. My faculty is very small."

"The solution is free and open-source."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

26%

University

12%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

University

19%

Educational Organization

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SAS Enterprise Miner?

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

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAS Enterprise Miner?

The solution must improve its licensing models. It bundles all the products into smaller products. We can only have a subset of the functionality available according to our license. I rate the pric...

What needs improvement with SAS Enterprise Miner?

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

What do you like most about Weka?

It is a stable product.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Weka?

Weka is free and open-source software. That is why I used it over KNIME.

What needs improvement with Weka?

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Overview

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.

SAS

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java code. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new machine learning schemes.

Sample Customers

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

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SAS Enterprise Miner vs. Weka